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Geschichte der Quantenphysik
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Ziel des Projekts ist es, ein tieferes Verständnis der Entstehung und Entwicklung der Quantenphysik zu erreichen.
History of Quantum Physics
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This project aspires to a deeper understanding of the genesis and development of quantum physics.
Colour Context
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Eine Datenbank über Praktiken mit und Wissen zu Farben.
Colour Context
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A Database on Colour Practice and Knowledge.
Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving, and Representing Geographical Knowledge
In the history of cartography, the object “atlas” has always encountered difficulty in being accepted as a genuine scientific form. Indeed, until rece
A Matter of Time: Transforming Timekeeping in Nineteenth-century Japan
The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Yet glancing at mechanical clocks designed in a culture
Publications, Frumer, Y. (2014). Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan. Technology and Culture 55(4), 785-820.
Turkey Red Wheat: The American Breadbasket and the Organization of Global Plant Genetic Resources
Climate change and the late twentieth-century globalization of the food supply have provoked renewed concern about the ability or inability of local,
Innovations in Indian Mathematical Astronomy
The aim of this project was to clarify the approaches employed by Indian mathematician-astronomers to develop innovations in their traditional models
The Logic of Oblivion: Leibniz and Hartsinck in the Harz
Leibniz worked incessantly between 1679 and 1686 to establish his wind machines in the mines of the Harz Mountains. This was the experience that infor
Publications, Wakefield, A. (2014). Butterfield’s Nightmare: The History of Science as Disney History, History and Technology. History and Technology, 1-20., Funding Institutions, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Social Scientific Gaze: The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden, 1830-1920
The aim of Per Wisselgren's project was to analyze the discursive formation of Swedish social science in the historical context of the ”social questio
Funding Institutions, Umeå University, Sweden