Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Tagged: history of science
Floating Food/Filming Knowledge: Creating Food Knowledge above the Clouds
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination
Reflects on how to use virtues as a lens in historical research, i.e., to ask what virtues underpin scholarly and political discourses and practices.
‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science
Shows how the history of “race” science can be transformed into a history of knowledge by focusing on the “collecting” process, concentrating on the endeavors of the anatomists Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), and Paul Broca (1824–1880).
Styles of Reasoning and the History of Knowledge
The author presents his book, which constitutes an analytical account of Ian Hacking’s styles of reasoning project and explores its philosophical implications.
Exploring Histories of Risk and Knowledge
Discusses history of risk as an emerging field and the ways it overlaps with the history of knowledge. Uses transnational perspectives on fire-fighting technologies as an example.
Why Should You Trust Geometry? The Mathematics of Mining in Early Modern Germany
My book Underground Mathematics tells the story of a discipline that has been forgotten today, subterranean geometry. Known as “the art of setting limits” (Markscheidekunst) in German and geometria subterranea in Latin
Owning the (Deep) Past: Paleontological Knowledge and the Political Afterlives of Fossils
Who do fossils belong to? The question is far from new: in various guises, it has preoccupied paleoscientists, museum curators, and occasionally officials for many years, although ongoing debates about the decolonization of science and natural history collections have renewed its significance.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
