Category: Academia
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On Air-Pumps and Truth
It is one of the hardest tasks for historians of any period or field to “think away” what appears to be self-evident. Yet it is also this ability which differentiates very good scholarly work from the mere expression of personal opinion on the one hand and the simple reproduction of given facts and figures on…
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Fortuna Favours the Bold
“Merit alone is not enough!” Those are words I have heard quite often over the last few years from very different people and in very different cultural contexts. But what fascinates me is that I cannot remember having heard them before completing my PhD. In fact, as far as I can remember, it was my…