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From Sound to Knowledge
No 39
A new Max Planck Research Group explores the emergence of knowledge through and about acoustics.
Aus Schall wird Wissen
No 39
Eine neue Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe erforscht, wie Wissen über und durch die Akustik entstand.
“Sound & Science: Digital Histories”: A Database of Materials in the History of Acoustics
No 57
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) has launched its database “Sound & Science: Digital Histories,” an initiative of the Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics.” The resource provides unprecedented access to sources in the history of acoustics, including a multimedia archive of primary source material, documentation of surviving technology, and historical reenactments of experiments in acoustics.
„Sound & Science. Digital Histories“ – Eine Datenbank mit Materialien der Akustikgeschichte
No 57
Die Forschungsgruppe „Epistemes of Modern Acoustics“ („Episteme der modernen Akustik“) am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) geht mit ihrer Datenbank „Sound & Science. Digital Histories“ („Schall & Wissenschaft. Digitale Geschichte“) online. Die Datenbank bietet einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Quellen der Akustikgeschichte, unter anderem ein Multimediaarchiv mit Primärquellenmaterial, eine Dokumentation erhaltener Technik und historische Reenactments akustischer Experimente.
Sound, Time, and the Apocalypse in the Chinese Period of Division
In this project, I will be exploring the complex ways in which time came to be understood, interpreted, and debated in China during the period of late
Music and Transience in the Historiography of Six Dynasties China
Ephemerality and politics lie at the heart of this group project on early medieval China. We intend to analyze how elites coped with the destructive q
Between Worlds: Music, Sound, and Interspecies Communication
“The anthropological machine of humanism is an ironic apparatus that verifies the absence of a nature proper to Homo, holding him suspended between a
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
This project focuses on the changing role of experience, techniques of observation, and the use of material instruments in seventeenth-century acousti
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In my PhD project, I argue that a particular shift in musical and acoustical techniques of observations took place in the early modern perio
Changes and Continuities in Concepts of Sound in Early Medieval China, (4–6 Century CE.)
Between China’s third century BCE and third century CE, scholar-officials thought of sound as a cosmic phenomenon to be measured, calcu
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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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