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

A study of the dark figure on the lunar surface; Demetrios Triklinios’s Selenography. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, graecus 2381, f. 78v, last quarter of the fourteenth century.
Lunar Diagrams in Byzantine and Slavonic Manuscripts
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Engraving of possum
  • 2021
  • Marcia (Marcy) Norton
Animals and Entangled Epistemologies
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Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
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Dalmatic of Pope Benedict XI, consists of “panni tartarici”, 14th century. Photo: Convento di San Domenico, Perugia.
Tension of the Fashion
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Silver statuette of the goddess Tutela
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World
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Analyzing Visual Language in Early Modern Astronomy
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Epistemologies of Craft
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Yao manuscript
  • 2021
  • Chia-Yun Wu
Geographical Maps and Religious Charts
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The Eurasian Life of a Botanical Classic
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