Journal for the History of Knowledge

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Published: 2024-12-06

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Introduction Decentering the History of Knowledge

Sven Dupré, Geert Somsen
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Who Knows?

Kenji Ito
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Vernacularizing, Braiding, and Plurigenericism An Expanding Toolkit for Histories of Knowledge in Non-Settler Postcolonies

Projit Mukharji
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For a Multiple Decentering of the History of Knowledge

Michiel Leezenberg
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Contact Zones for a Global History of Knowledge

Andres Vélez-Posada
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Notes from Global Asia How to Write a Global History of Knowledge

Eugenia Lean
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From Universal to Global Real Challenges and Utopian Hopes for the Global History of Knowledge

Harun Küçük
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Ignoring the Obvious About the World Four Kinds of Not Knowing in African Studies

Helen Tilley
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Traveling Mermaids, Traveling Materials Museum Objects and the Decentering of the Histories of Knowledge

Irina Podgorny
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Response

Anna Grasskamp
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Research Articles

(Re)producing the English Printed Past Antiquarian Knowledge-Making Practices in Joseph Ames’s Typographical Antiquities (1749)

André de Melo Araújo
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Distance Education During a Paper Shortage Wartime Economics, Efficiency, and the Nazi Humanities at the Front

Lotte Schüßler
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A Lantern View from The Ruwenzori Mountain Range Between Science Communication, Travel Story, and Colonial Propaganda in an Illustrated Lecture Performance from 1932

Marte Van Hassel, Nele Wynants, Karel Vanhaesebrouck
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The Optics of St Francis’s Stigmatization Iconography and Theories of Seeing

Genevieve E. Caulfield
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Special Issue

Introduction Mapping Uncertain Knowledge

Djoeke van Netten
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Some Methods for Indicating Cartographic Uncertainty, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

Chet Van Duzer
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A New New World Unmapping Africa in the Age of Reason

Petter Hellström
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Interesting and Uninteresting Unknowns Mapping Southern Africa in the Seventeenth Century

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
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Gerhard Mercator as Sacred Geographer Paradise at the North Pole

Danielle Gravon
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Deep mapping Uncertain Historical Sources Visualizing Business Knowledge of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam

Weixuan Li
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To Map, To Ascertain Reflections on the Practice of Mapping (Un)certain Knowledge from a Digital Humanities Perspective

Rombert Stapel
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Epilogue Mapping Uncertainties

Marlies Vermeulen
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