Che-Chia Chang
Che-Chia Chang
The Western world has a profound historical engagement with medicinal resources originating from China. Following the Opium War, missionaries were granted access to China and established residence there. Motivated by clinical necessities an...
A Promising Tropical Medicinal Plant: Taiwan as the Production Hub of Japan's Coca Empire [0.03%]
台湾：日本可乐帝国的热带药用植物生产基地？
Shao-Li Lu
Shao-Li Lu
Before World War II, Taiwan became the second-largest coca leaf production base in Asia, second only to Java, contributing to Japan's position as the world's largest exporter of cocaine. While Japan's opium empire has been the subject of ex...
Western Anthelmintics in Early Twentieth-Century China Colonial Practices and Knowledge on "Tropical Diseases" of the In/between [0.03%]
20世纪上半叶中国西方驱虫药与殖民实践及“热带病”知识体系的形塑
Dominik Merdes
Dominik Merdes
Protestant (medical) missionaries were the main proponents of Western medicine in China after the Opium Wars. Several studies have highlighted how they used spectacular surgery as a means of gaining public trust. As well as surgery, they al...
Hsiu-Fen Chen
Hsiu-Fen Chen
This study explores materiality and material cultures of human placenta in Ming China (1368-1644), for it perfectly displays Chinese ambiguous attitudes towards the human body parts between living and non-living. For a long time, the Chines...
Science in Community: Anatomy, Academy, and Argument in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire [0.03%]
社区中的科学：十八世纪神圣罗马帝国的解剖学、学术与论辩
Julia Carina Böttcher
Julia Carina Böttcher
Understanding physicians as actors who implemented the early modern ideal of collective empiricism into their practices within the local contexts of everyday life, the paper explores two cases from imperial cities in southern Germany in the...
„History is touchy“ Die History‐of‐Programming‐Languages‐Konferenz, 1978 [0.03%]
“历史是微妙的”——1978年的编程语言会议史研讨會
Amelie Mittlmeier
Amelie Mittlmeier
Andrea Strazzoni
Andrea Strazzoni
This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of D...
Roland Wittje
Roland Wittje
By unravelling the complexities and dynamics of a collaboration between scientists in India and West Germany to establish a cryogenic network, this paper intends to contribute to our understanding of the transnational movement of research t...
Julia Bloemer
Julia Bloemer
Monasteries were famous for their extensive libraries and richly decorated churches. Less well known are their observatories and their mathematical-physical collections with telescopes, air pumps, and friction machines. But how did the way ...
Alexander Pinwinkler
Alexander Pinwinkler