Digital repository of historical sources for the Excellence Cluster TOPOI "The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations" in ECHO

The project "Historical Epistemology of Space" aims at a long-term history of basic structures of spatial thinking, ranging from prehistory to the most recent and ongoing scientific revolutions. It focuses on the question of how the emergence and the development of spatial concepts is shaped by experience and how, in turn, these concepts influence the acquisition of further experiential knowledge. In this project, experience is understood in a broad sense, ranging from the interaction of biological organisms with their environment to the systematic production of knowledge by means of the complex experimental systems of modern science. The collection of historical sources on spatial concepts is made available by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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more than 560 authors represented by ECHO collections 70 seed collections in several disciplines and thematic fields, in particular history of science more than 206,600 catalogued documents more than 650,000 high resolution images of historical and cultural source documents and artefacts more than 240 film sequences of scientific source material more than 57,500 full-text page transcriptions in several languages more than 150 institutions from 24 countries worldwide as active knowledge weavers in ECHO

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Interested institutions and projects, who share the vision of ECHO are invited to join the initiative and to bring in cultural heritage, research source material and scholarly metadata related to the material.
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