“There are hot spots of wrecks in places I did not expect”

What can shipwrecks of the 19th century in the Indian Ocean tell us about the climate of the past? And what can the records of these wrecks tell us about climate knowledge production? Debjani Bhattacharyya, Professor for the History of the Anthropocene at UZH, explores these questions.

Cholera 1855 in Basel: Between History, Epidemiology and Geographic Visualisation

In 1854, Dr. John Snow creates a map of cholera cases in London’s Soho district. He can thus show that the disease is transmitted through contaminated water. In her Master’s thesis, Inga Birkhölzer investigated what can be extracted today from the cholera figures of 1855 in Basel using geographical visualisation.

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