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The Material Culture of Temples in North China, 1400–1900
This study of the material culture embodied in Chinese temples and their paraphernalia in the late imperial era attempted to demonstrate how the North
"Understanding is Within One’s Grasp” (遼 然 在 握 Liaoran zai wo): Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of Memory
When Chinese authors included diagrams of hands with characters inscribed on them in their books, they used the hand as a tu 圖—a diagram, map, illustr
Roberto Lalli wird auf der Berlin Science Week einen key-note-Vortrag halten (4. November 2019)
Roberto Lalli wird auf der Berlin Science Week einen key-note-Vortrag halten
Oct 4, 2019 Mehr LesenResearch Scholar Roberto Lalli to Deliver Keynote Lecture at Berlin Science Week (November 4, 2019)
Research Scholar Roberto Lalli to deliver keynote lecture at Berlin Science Week (November 4, 2019)
Oct 4, 2019 Learn MoreEmpires of Useful Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World (1750–1930)
A global history of knowledge in the age of empire requires attention be paid not just to the role of technology as a driver of colonial expansion but
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This project makes three main contributions. First, it advances a new analytical framework that helps unpack the historical diversity of knowledge pro
Epistemologies of Heritable Disease Classifications in the Early 1950s
This project asked how genetic researchers reconfigured disease categories during the 1950s, when human genetics was being consolidated as a scientifi
Silk and Innovation in Pre-Modern China and Europe
MoreVisions and Experiments of Radiophonic Composing in the Weimar Republic
When radio made it possible to transmit sounds across chronological and spatial distance, new listening situations and new approaches to the interacti
Artists’ Optical Knowledge
The artist’s ability to construct a convincing illusion of three-dimensional space on the basis of geometry was a powerful weapon in the battle for a
Publications, Dupré, Sven: The Historiography of Perspective and Reflexy-Const in Netherlandish Art. in: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 61, 2011, Related Digital Sources, ECHO: Art and Optics
Art, Optics, and Practical Mathematics. Networks of Art and Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands
Art historians have paid much attention to the use of perspective in seventeenth century Netherlandish painting. Their geometrical knowledge and the p
Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)