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Science in Circulation: The Exchange of Knowledge, Ninth–Seventeenth Centuries
Commodities, ideas, facts, instruments, texts, techniques, and people all travel—but selectively. Knowledge, both implicit and explicit, does not spre
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
In 1947, the Cornell psychiatrist Keeve Brodman and a handful of colleagues began developing what would become one of the most widely used health ques
Good Science: Epistemic Values and Scholarly Reputations in Europe, 1770–1830
The present project is aimed at confronting the processes of institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of knowledge with the hypot
Empire of Ice: Science, Nature, and the Commerce of Cold
This project investigates imperial articulations of cold as a basic condition of the natural world. Taking the British Empire at its global maximum, “
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Encounters with Indigo: The Circulation of Natural Knowledge Among French Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
In 1750 Michel Adanson, a young French naturalist attached to the Compagnie des Indes at its outpost in Senegal, sent several small swatches of cotton
What do Historians want from "Materiality"? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s
MorePublic Outreach | Jun 9, 2018 | 16:00 to 23:00
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften at the Max Delbrück Center
MoreWorkshop | Jun 25-Jun 26, 2018 | 10:00 to 16:50
The Safavid Multi-Text-Manuscript 1984.463 (Harvard University, Sackler Museum)—its Content and Context
MoreArtisan Naturalists
This project draws together new research with previously published articles to explore how scientific knowledge often requires interaction between dis
Knowledge in Transit
We often think about knowledge being made in specific places, and then passed on to others, so that the making and communicating of knowledge are sepa