MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

relief on stone
Arhcaeology of the Astral
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Video Still showing materials used for tests by Sasha Bergstrom-Katz in 2022
On Intelligence Tests
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Structure of the nervous system. M. Martínez, Anatomía Completa del Hombre (1728), 574
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Camillo Golgo, “Image of a dog’s olfactory bulb,” Plate 7 in Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervosa (1885), in the public domain.
  • Several Scholars
Knowing Nerves
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front and back of a gold coin. one side has the head of Constantine the Great wearing a laurel, the other shows Empirar Constantine receiving a globe
Astral Knowledge on Ancient and Medieval Coins
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Detail of dust jacket for Endre Gal and Isabel Gal, Human Congenital Malformations: The Design of a Computer-Aided Study. London: Butterworths, 1975. The image, of punched tape protectively wrapping around a fetus, was designed by the authors' daughter, Kathy Gal.
Communities of Reproductive Knowledge
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“Cosmic board” from a Western-Han tomb excavated in Yizheng, Jiangsu
The Visuality of Chinese Cosmology
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pages showing astral allocations
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  • Yulei Yang
Fenye Knowledge in General Maps
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child's coat made of fish skin with floral motifs
Arctic Indigenous Fish Skin
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No 82
Print of Tenga from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century “European” Botanical Classic

In the 1650s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) developed a series of initiatives to better learn the truths of Asian nature. Their extensive information network—merchants, ships’ captains, sa...

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