ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

DH in the History of Premodern Sciences 1

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

• Sonja Brentjes, University Wuppertal

Individual Presentations

• Toward Computational Methods for the History of Science - Osama Eshera, University of Maryland

• Digitizing Geographical Data in Tabular Form: Examples from Abū al-Fidāʾ’s Taqwīm al-buldān - Fateme Savadi

• Using Dabīrān in Analyzing Medieval Astronomical Tables: The Case of Zīj-i Īlkhānī - Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan