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Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos
In 2019 the world will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, celebrating one of the greatest minds of humanity: an arti
Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)
Astral practices left their imprint on material culture in many ways: instruments were used and knowledge was inscribed on diverse mediums such as bui
Current Visting Scholars, Sunil Gupta, Previous Visiting Scholars, Ilaria Bultrighini (2021-2022), Previous Group Members, Sonja Brentjes (2017-2023, working group leader 2017-2021)
Visualizations of the Heavens Lecture Series, 2022, May 19, Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Reading Group, After our successful lecture series, we begin in September a reading group to discuss some of the recent key works in line with the next phase of the , Links, Sep 15, 2022: "Between Greece and Babylonia, Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective"
Jochen Büttner
Jochen Büttner currently investigates processes of innovation in the ancient world. A p...
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Science Social 05: The Discovery of Black Holes
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MoreThe “Cosmic Board” and the Visuality of Early and Medieval Chinese Cosmology
By focusing on reinterpreting the astronomical and divinatory device often known as the “cosmic board” or shi pan, this project aims to shed new light
Er war ein Aushängeschild für die Wissenschaft
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MoreMegan Rhian Briers
Women in Nineteenth-Century British and American Astronomical Fieldwork
Megan Briers’s proj...
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Anuj Misra
Anuj Misra is a historian and philosopher of mathematics specializing in the study of pre-modern...
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