This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
The majority of consumer technologies come from the same few countries and companies that dominate the international technology market. Device Atlas, a leading provider of …
This dissertation provides the first in-depth account of the reception of the Commedia by Dante Alighieri between 1600 and 1800 in Italian editorial and visual …
In this dissertation, I argue that the novel was the laboratory in which emerging theories of embodied cognition developed sensible forms for nineteenth-century American audiences. …
This dissertation analyzes the British pharmaceutical trade to argue that the manufacture and exchange of medicines accelerated global integration and settler-colonialism during the long eighteenth …
My dissertation explores the intellectual project of the Peruvian scientist and antiquarian Mariano de Rivero (1798-1857), focusing on a pioneering concept of technology that emerges …
This dissertation explores early English colonial and American science. Although early modern European and American scholars have largely dismissed the seventeenth century as a period …
In this transdisciplinary dissertation, the author takes up the concept of anatomy theatre, exceeding its physical and historical location and applying it as/in the science …
This dissertation presents the history of the bills of mortality and women searchers of the dead from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in England. …
Phrenology, the nineteenth-century practice of reading a person’s character from the shape of their skull, exemplifies “participatory knowledge,” a democratized mode of scientific exchange. As …
This study offers a new perspective on the origins of intellectual property in the French sciences. It does so by investigating the distinctive procedures, protocols, …
This thesis suggests a re-evaluation of Francis Bacon’s major writings based on biographical and historical evidence. I argue that Bacon’s lack of training in philosophy …
This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century Americans built the preconditions needed for a mathematical economy to emerge in the early twentieth century. When Americans debated what …
Quantum Mechanics does well in its description the phenomena of small particles but suffers from some significant flaws. Most importantly, Quantum Mechanics struggles to determine …
What is photography? This deceptively simple question was foundational to the creation of photographic theory in the early 1970s, and has remained central to scholars …
