Source-Based Initiatives: Digital Infrastructures as a Method
Images:
1. Image source: LoGaRT.
2. An exemplary table of contents page from the 1583 Shuntian Prefectural Gazetteer; Image source: Zhongguo Fangzhi Ku Database (Beijing Erudition).
3. Illustrations from 9 titles of daily-use encyclopedias, projected on a 3-dimensional plane based on image similarity. Image produced by Calvin Yeh.
4. An exemplary page in the Heavenly Patterns section in 1641 "Newly Carved, Fastidiously Selected from Mr. Ai's Library, for Easy Browsing, the Complete Book of Myriad Treasures". Image source: National Archives of Japan.
Metals, Minerals, and the Lifecycle
1. Plate from work on the minerals of Mecca by Abdürrahim Hilmi Bey, in Manuscript World Encyclopedia,1918. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 .
Provided by: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, https://www.davidrumsey.com/.
2. “Bronze Ewer with a Cock-Shaped Spout from 8th-early 9th century Syria,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941, Obj. 41.65.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/450386
3. Fragments of a water jar embedded in the floor surfaces of a rammed-mud house excavated at Maski (Karnataka, India). This house was occupied during the 12th–14th centuries CE. Photograph: Mannat Johal
Predoctoral Scholars
1. Photograph by Dwirahmi Suryandari. Notebook in private collection of Wilhelmus Fangaroo Daeli.
2. Shigong Chen, Waike zhengzong (Chongchuan, Chen Family, 1617). https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666473/.
3. Anon. The Prophet Bih-Āfarīd preaching to a farmer holding a spade, fol. 111r in an Ilkhānid Copy of Bīrūnī’s Chronology of Ancient Nations, University of Edinburgh, Or.Ms.161 (n.d.).
4. A dye label of BASF synthetic indigo packaging for the Chinese market (© BASF Corporate Archives.)
5. Image from the chapter “Various Foreign Things,” featuring fantastical beasts and foreign and mythical peoples, in "The Newly Carved, Mr. Chen Meigong’s Complete Compilation of the Strange/Noteworthy from Ten-Thousand Scrolls 新刻眉公陳先生編輯諸書備採萬卷搜奇全書" (1628), digitized by the Harvard Yenching Library – National Taiwan University Library.
6. A mother (left) teaches her child abacus calculation, part of traditional Chinese education in the six arts. Yu Xiangdou, Chūgoku Nichiyō Ruisho Shūsei [1599], ed. Sakai, Tadao, Sakade, Yoshihiro, and Ogawa Yōichi Tanaka (1999–2004), 345.