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Projects

Current & Completed

The Institute’s research projects span all eras of human history, as well as all cultures north, south, east, and west. The Institute’s projects canvass an array of scientific areas, ranging from the origins of continuity systems in Mesopotamia to present-day neuroscience, Renaissance natural history, and the origins of quantum mechanics.

The Institute's researchers explore the changing meaning of fundamental scientific concepts (for example number, force, heredity, space) as well as how cultural developments shape fundamental scientific practices (for example argument, proof, experiment, classification). They examine how bodies of knowledge originally devised to address specific local problems became universalized.

The work of the Institute's scholars forms the basis of a theoretically oriented history of science which considers scientific thinking from a variety of methodological and interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute draws on the reflective potential of the history of science to address current challenges in scientific scholarship.

Project List

Ability and Authority
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Accounting for Uncertainty
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Acoustic Knowledge, Sound Technologies, and Music in Early Twentieth-Century India
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Acoustic Surveillance in Brazil
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Affective Technologies
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African Chemistry
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After Mapping the Avant-Garde
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Naval Technology and Late Qing China
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Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
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Agriculture and Water
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Agriculture and the Making of Sciences
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Agricultural Literature in the Song Dynasty
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Agriculture in the Mamluk Period
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Agricultural Knowledge and Skills in the Tassili n’Ajjer
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Agricultural Knowledge in Persian, 1200–1600
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Agricultural Modernization and Biodiversity Conservation in the Twentieth Century
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Agriculture, Soil, and Concepts of Nature
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Agricultural Uses of Alchemy
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Einstein Exhibition
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Albert the Great on the Human Being
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Alchemy and a Vernacular Color Code
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Alchemy as the Art of Dyeing
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Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
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Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time
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Alhacen volgare
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Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
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Allegoresis and Etymology in the Greco-Latin Scholarly Traditions
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Alum—A Material at the Crossroads of the Arts, Crafts, and Learned Inquiry
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Amateurs by Choice
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African History of Knowledge
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