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History of science often engages with technical and practical material. Although there are multiple ways of dealing with sources, one crucial one--sometimes neglected in more recent work--is understanding these aspects in a critical way, thinking or practicing with historical actors. This graduate seminar explores reasons and methods for doing so, includes in-depth readings of technical material from various periods and experimental reconstructions, and reviews how such an approach can deepen our historical understanding.