Microscopic Records

Making Colours, Sensing Microscopic Records: Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen on Senses and Skills in Historical Remaking

by Stefan Hanss | Jun 29, 2020 | Uncategorised

Microscopic Records About Masterclass Symposium Blog Contact Credits Stefan Hanß: Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University and an associate of the European Research Council project ARTECHNE Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise,...

From Observation to Inspection: Florike Egmond on Microscopic Records in Early Modern Visual Albums of Nature

by Stefan Hanss | Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorised

Microscopic Records About Masterclass Symposium Blog Contact Credits Stefan Hanß: Florike Egmond is a cultural historian of early modern sciences at the University of Leiden and a leading expert on sixteenth-century natural history. After presenting research on...

The Microscopic Records of Alchemists in Colonial Jamestown: Umberto Veronesi on Metallurgy, Archaeological Sciences, and Early Modern New World Laboratories

by Stefan Hanss | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorised

Microscopic Records About Masterclass Symposium Blog Contact Credits Stefan Hanß: Umberto Veronesi is a final-year PhD student at the University College London Institute of Archaeology. In his PhD project, Umberto Veronesi uses his expertise in archaeological sciences...

The Multispecies Material World of Early Modern Microscopic Records: Sasha Handley on Ghosts, Bed-Sheets, Posset, and Soporifics

by Stefan Hanss | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorised

Microscopic Records About Masterclass Symposium Blog Contact Credits Stefan Hanß: In one of our previous blog entries on “microscopic records”, we discussed the importance of collaborative research environments: open office doors open up new questions and lead to...

The Subtlety of Early Modern Microscopic Records: Tillmann Taape on Distillation, Materiality, and the Body in Sixteenth-Century Germany

by Stefan Hanss | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorised

Microscopic Records About Masterclass Symposium Blog Contact Credits Stefan Hanß: Dr Tillmann Taape is one of the few historians who have a combined background in humanities and the sciences. He did his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and genetics at the...