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TOPOI veranstaltet eine internationale Tagung zum Thema „Antike Identitäten und moderne Identifikationen“
PRESS RELEASE (PDF)TOPOI Organizes an International Conference on “Antike Identitäten und moderne Identifikationen”
PRESS RELEASE (PDF)Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Onieric Transport in Early Modern Europe
The history of theorizing about the meaning of dreams is an ancient one, and many of its problematics remain the same as they were for Aristotle in hi
Publications, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1999); paperback, Spring 2004.
Astronomical and Cosmological Diagrams in Latin Manuscripts of the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Throughout the Latin Middle Ages, knowledge in the fields of astronomy and cosmology was based on texts and images, namely diagrams. The latter were c
Funding Institutions, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
Dreams and Knowledge in Early Modern Societies
This study dealt with scientific, scholarly, and philosophical opinions about dreaming and the uses of dreams. Albert Schirrmeister led his resea
Publications, Traum und Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Erste Annäherungen, in: Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 5 (2001), S. 297-310. Rationalität und Geschichte. Zum Status von geträumter Wahrnehmung in spezifischen kulturellen Kontexten der Frühen Neuzeit, in: Zugänge zur Rationalität der Zukunft, hg. v. Nicole C. Karafyllis u. Jan C. Schmidt, Stuttgart / Weimar 2002, S. 95-111
Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin
Evolutionary biology is currently enjoying a period of high public prestige. At the moment, nature’s authority is being asserted over the nature of ou
Publications, “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Biodiversity, Saving Biodiversity: Expert Practices and Public Engagements in Conservation Biology
Conservation biology is an unusual science in that it was founded on explicitly ethical objectives. Global biodiversity is considered to be a good in
Albert Einstein - Ingenieur des Universums
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Eine interaktive Ausstellung über Albert Einsteins Leben, die Geschichte der Relativitätstheorie und der Quantenphysik sowie die Entwicklung der Kernphysik im 20. Jahrhundert.
Albert Einstein—Chief Engineer of the Universe
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An interactive exhibition on Einstein's life, the history of the theory of relativity, the history of quantum theory, and the development of nuclear physics in the twentieth century.
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.