ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

DH in the History of Premodern Sciences 2

Session Submission Type: Organized Session

English Abstract

This symposium wishes to showcase projects and challenges in the development and applications of DH technologies in the history of premodern sciences, relying in particular on the work of early-career scholars with regard to editorial platforms for Semitic languages, a widely underrepresented area in DH work within the history of science, and the usage of such platforms as well as further DH techniques in the analysis of Semitic and Indoeuropean corpora of primarily astronomical and mathematical texts as well as numerical data organized in tabular format. A second important field of research and development during the last decade was the study of diagrams and, to a lesser degree, other forms of visualized knowledge with the help of DH instruments across these two major linguistic fields. The success and challenges in these investigations form a second focus of this symposium.

Sub Unit

• Organized Session

Chair

• Fateme Savadi

Individual Presentations

• The Multiplicity of Medieval Editions: Digital Approaches to the “Middle Books” of Astronomy - Christine M. Roughan, Princeton University

• Building a computer vision pipeline for historical sources: the EIDA project and the automation of astral diagram edition - Somkeo Norindr, CNRS-Observatoire de Paris

• By creating digital humanities tools for researchers in history of science, the EIDA project - Edgar Lejeune

• Twenty Years of Recovering Ancient Texts Long Considered Lost - Damianos Kasotakis, EMEL; Michael Phelps, EMEL

Session Organizer

• Sonja Brentjes, University Wuppertal