Call for applications for an Assistant Professor – History of early modern geology

The FARE research project (Grant of the Italian Ministry of University and Research), “Positioned Cosmology in Early Modernity: The Geo-Praxis of Water-and-Land Management in Venice”, together with the ERC research endeavor (CoG, Horizon 2020, GA 725883), “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice… Continue reading Call for applications for an Assistant Professor – History of early modern geology

Maria Paula Diogo awarded the Leonardo Da vinci Medal 2020

We are pleased to announce that the historian of technology Maria Paula Diogo, institutional member of ESHS Scientific Board was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal 2020. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is “the highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology (…) presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution… Continue reading Maria Paula Diogo awarded the Leonardo Da vinci Medal 2020

Forensic Cultures

Organisers Willemijn Ruberg, Utrecht University Rational 26-28 August 2021Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University In recent years research into the history of forensic science has expanded. In addition to institutional developments and advances in technology, increasingly the entanglements between legal frameworks, forensic institutes, technology and culture have been explored by historians and scholars… Continue reading Forensic Cultures

HoST 14.1 (Jun. 2020) Special Issue – STANDARDS: TAMING KNOWLEDGE?

Author(s) Javier Ordóñez, Antonio Sánchez Publisher De Gruyter/Sciendo Presentation text Special issue “Standards: Taming Knowledge?”, with an introduction by the guest editors Javier Ordóñez and Antonio Sánchez to the four articles that it contains. They are case studies dealing with the setting of standards’ epistemological and institutional issues in the modern period, with approaches ranging… Continue reading HoST 14.1 (Jun. 2020) Special Issue – STANDARDS: TAMING KNOWLEDGE?

Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry

Author(s) Idit Chikurel Publisher De Gruyter Presentation text How can we invent new certain knowledge in a methodical manner? This question stands at the heart of Salomon Maimon’s theory of invention. Chikurel argues that Maimon’s contribution to the ars inveniendi tradition lies in the methods of invention which he prescribes for mathematics. Influenced by Proclus’… Continue reading Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry

Stokes at 200 (Parts 1 &2)

Author(s) Silvana Cardoso, Julyan Cartwright, Herbert Hupper Publisher Royal Society Publishing Presentation text Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special double issue of Philosophical Transactions A entitled Stokes at 200 (Parts 1 &2) – compiled and edited by Silvana Cardoso, Julyan Cartwright, Herbert Huppert and Christopher Ness and the articles can be accessed at… Continue reading Stokes at 200 (Parts 1 &2)

Karine Chemla awarded the 2020 Neugebauer Prize

The Otto Neugebauer Prize is awarded every four years by the European Mathematical Society “for highly original and influential work in the field of history of mathematics that enhances our understanding of either the development of mathematics or a particular mathematical subject in any period and in any geographical region.” The Otto Neugebauer Prize Fund… Continue reading Karine Chemla awarded the 2020 Neugebauer Prize

Enlightening the plates of the Encyclopédie Perspectives and research on the Recueil de planches (1762-1772)

Organisers Alexandre Guilbaud, Sorbonne Université Alain Cernuschi, Université de Lausanne Malou Haine, Université Libre de Bruxelles Rational Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie represented a very significant moment in the history of the transmission of knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge, in the European Enlightenment, notably because of the brand new importance it gave to illustrations, engraved and commented… Continue reading Enlightening the plates of the Encyclopédie Perspectives and research on the Recueil de planches (1762-1772)

Leadership of a Max Planck Research Group (at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

Institution Max Planck Society in Cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin Presentation text The candidate will lead a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and is expected to teach and conduct research in the History of Science and the History of Knowledge at the Freie Universität Berlin.… Continue reading Leadership of a Max Planck Research Group (at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Author(s) Benjamin Breen Title The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Presentation text Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an… Continue reading The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade