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Creative Niche Scientists: Women Educators in North American Museums, 1880-1930
Educational opportunities for women in the second half of the nineteenth century expanded their aspirations even as changing professional developments
Publications
Kohlstedt, S., Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930, Centaurus (52, 2013), 153–174
A Global History of Human Teeth
Much has been written on the history of dentistry but not as much has been written on the history of the human teeth. The first aim of this project wi
Early Vernacular Medical Books: Making, Users and Uses, Impact
It is well known that early vernacular medical texts exercised a huge appeal on lay readers in the early age of print. But we still know very little a
Charting the Weather: Graphical Representations in Late Eighteenth-Century Meteorology
This project examines the use of barometric charts by late eighteenth-century meteorologists, such as Nikolaus von Béguelin (Berlin) and Marc-Auguste
Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England
When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, nestled amongst the possessions she carried to her new home in Yorkshire was a leather-bound notebo
Publication
Leong, E., Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household, Centauru
Historicizing the Applied Humanities
The term “applied humanities” first appeared in the 1950s, when cybernetics and then the postwar reform of school and university education prompted th
Personal webpage, Anke te Heesen, Chair for the History of Science
Uncertainty of the Mind: Institutionalizing and Individualizing Psychology, early 20th-Century China
In the late nineteenth century, when Western knowledge was systematically introduced to China, the majority of disciplines were already well-defined i
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When the Qing and Republican governments installed psychology as a pedagogical part of middle school curricula and adopted it as a legitimate field in
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Soliloquies on Tape: Some Thoughts on Media Application
MoreReimagining Sinographic Archives
This project explores the processes through which specific modes of knowledge-making constituted “China” as an object of study for early modern Europe