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Material is the Mother of Innovation. The Formulations of Shape- and Weight-based Economies in the Bronze Age
From about 2500 BCE, people started to combine copper and tin on a regular basis, making metal known as bronze. I aim to show how the qualities of bro
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Industrial Catalysis and its Impact on the Human-Earth-System in the Anthropocene
Most definitions of the Anthropocene connect the new geological era to the industrial use of fossil resources. However, in the twentieth century, crud
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Surface of a catalyst in ammonia synthesis | high pressure reactor | use of synthetic ammunition in World War I; Micro-, meso- and macroscopic scenes
Sau-yi Fong
Sau-yi Fong is a PhD candidate in Chinese History at Columbia University. Her dissertation proje...
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Visual and Material Cultures of Astrology and Astronomy in China and Inner Asia, ca. 10th to 14th Centuries
Medieval Eurasia witnessed widespread circulation of knowledge and beliefs about the visible heavens, the character and consequences of which are in m
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Networks: Science at the Confluence of Practice and Sociability
My doctoral dissertation analyses the various networks in which the seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Leibniz was involved and that he himself se
“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.
Sanctorius Sanctorius: The Beginning of Self-Quantification
No 56
In her project Predoctoral Fellow Teresa Hollerbach considers the work of the physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636), who developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. The project examines Sanctorius’ work as part of the emergence and establishment of quantification methods in the iatromechanical sciences.