A Cultural History of Mathematics
Six-volume reference work | General editor David E. Rowe
History of Mathematics: A Global Cultural Approach
Open-access Oberwolfach workshop report
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
Edited reference work | Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall
The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook
Sourcebook | Edited by Victor J. Katz
Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World
Research project
A Global History of Architecture
Online course | MITx and edX
A Global History of Architecture
Book | Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash
Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative
Open teaching platform and scholarly network
Circulations in the Global History of Art
Edited book | Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin and Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel
The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World
Edited book | Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello
Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project
Edited book | Reinhard Strohm
Global History of Music Study Group
International Musicological Society study group
The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
Book | Anna Maria Busse Berger
Book | David Damrosch
An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day
Book | Alexander Beecroft
Edited book | Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman and Ku-ming Kevin Chang
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India
Book | Sheldon Pollock
Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean
Book | Karla Mallette
A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
Edited book | Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation
Book | Rebecca C. Johnson
The Institute for World Literature
International summer institute, seminars and lectures | Harvard University
Peer-reviewed journal | Brill
Another Global History of Science: Making Space for India and China, by Asif Siddiqi
Open-access article.
The Networks of Early Quantum Theory
Research project and publication series.
Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy, edited by Helaine Selin and Sun Xiaochun
Edited reference work.
Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches, edited by Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington
Edited book.
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, by George Saliba
Book.
The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt, by Daniel A. Stolz
Book.
Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia
Research group, colloquia and public lectures.
Digital edition and research project.
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Open scholarly database.
Exploring Global History through the Lens of History of Chemistry: Materials, Identities and Governance, by Lissa Roberts
Article.
AlchemEast: Alchemy in the Making
Research project and online resource.
Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China, by Fabrizio Pregadio
Book.
Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts, by Dagmar Wujastyk
Book.
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840, edited by Lissa Roberts and Simon Werrett
Open-access edited book.
Research and teaching project with an open digital edition.
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Scholarly society, journal, meetings and seminars.
Science History Institute Digital Collections
Open digital archive.
The Mixed Mathematical Sciences: Optics and Mechanics in the Islamic Middle Ages, by Elaheh Kheirandish
Scholarly overview.
The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam, by A. I. Sabra
Open-access article.
Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam: Comparative Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Giovanna Lelli
Edited book.
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, edited by Roshdi Rashed and Régis Morelon
Three-volume scholarly reference work.
Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science, by Jon McGinnis
Open-access scholarly introduction.
The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, Books I-III: On Direct Vision, translated with introduction and commentary by A. I. Sabra
Open-access primary source and critical translation.
Optics, Astronomy and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy, by A. I. Sabra
Collected studies.
From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics, by A. Mark Smith
Book.
The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics, edited and translated by Elaheh Kheirandish
Critical edition, translation and historical study.
The Elements of Avicenna's Physics: Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations, by Andreas Lammer
Book.
Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World, by Paul Lettinck
Book and critical textual study.
The Physical Theory of Kalām: Atoms, Space, and Void in Basrian Muʿtazilī Cosmology, by Alnoor Dhanani
Book.
Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy, by Ruth Glasner
Book.
Greek Mechanics in Arabic Context: Thābit ibn Qurra, al-Isfizārī and the Arabic Traditions of Aristotelian and Euclidean Mechanics, by Mohammed Abattouy
Research article.
Al-Qūhī versus Aristotle: On Motion, by Roshdi Rashed
Research article.
Life Science and Medicine
Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950
Book | Marwa Elshakry
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Book | Harold J. Cook
Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
Book | Londa Schiebinger
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads, by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Book.
Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000, edited by Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus
Edited book.
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, edited by Vivienne Lo, Dolly Yang and Michael Stanley-Baker
Open-access reference work.
Medieval Islamic Medicine, by Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith
Book.
Galen in Arabic: More Than a Translation
Completed research project.
Completed research project and digital manuscript resource.
A Literary History of Medicine, by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah
Open scholarly edition and translation.
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500, by Nancy G. Siraisi
Book.
Avicenna among Medieval Jews: The Reception of Avicenna's Philosophical, Scientific and Medical Writings in Jewish Cultures, East and West, by Gad Freudenthal and Mauro Zonta
Research article.
Arabic Medicine in China: Tradition, Innovation, and Change, by Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson
Book.
Indian Medicine and Ayurveda, by Philipp A. Maas
Scholarly overview.
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud, by Fabrizio Speziale
Book.
Persian Treatises on Āyurveda: The Shaping of a Genre, by Fabrizio Speziale
Open-access article.
Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia, by Fabrizio Speziale
Open-access article.
Perso-Indica: The Persianisation of Indian Learning
Completed research and publishing project.
Unani Medicine in the Making: Practices and Representations in 21st-Century India, by Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth
Book.
Rethinking the History of Medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine, by Joseph S. Alter
Research article.
Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen
Edited book and source study.
The Politics of Chinese Medicine under Mongol Rule, by Reiko Shinno
Book.
A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era as Seen in Hu Sihui's Yinshan Zhengyao, by Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson
Translation and historical study.
Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, by Janet Gyatso
Book.
Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age, edited by Harold J. Cook
Edited book.
Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe, by Marta Hanson and Gianna Pomata
Research article.
Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity, by Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
Book.
Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century, by Pratik Chakrabarti
Book
Book.
True Rhubarb? Trading Eurasian Botanical and Medical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century, by Matthew P. Romaniello
Research article.
Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
Open digital catalogue and scholarly introduction.