Completed Projects sorted by Research Units

Department 1: Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge

Department 2: Ideals and Practices of Rationality

• Knowledge and Belief
• History of Scientific Objectivity, 18th-19th cs.
• Scientific Standards and Ideological Preferences in Historical Writing: Their Relationsship and Conflict
• Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Onieric Transport in Early Modern Europe
• Astronomical and cosmological Diagrams in Latin Manuscripts of the 11th to 13th Centuries
• The Imagination and Miracles as Epistemic Things
• Geschichtsphilosophische Erkenntnisstrategien im Spannungsfeld von ‚Knowledge and Belief‘
• Dream and knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1500-ca. 1750
• Dreams and Knowledge in Early Modern Societies
• Visualizing Knowledge: Prints and Paintings by Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1453-1531)
• The Study of Amulets in Early Modern Europe
• Raising the Standard of Living. History of a Concept, ca. 1750–1900
• Fossils during the Middle Ages, 1200-1500
• From Knowledge and Faith to Science and Religion: The Jesuit Way to Modernity
• The Common Languages of Art and Science
• Protomodern Observers and the Camera Lucida 1806-1850
• Cut and Paste Around 1900
• History and Representation of Skin in 18th- and 19th- Century France
• The Modern Grotesque
• The Moral Authority of Nature
• Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin.
• Twentieth century medical technology, brain death and somatic limits of the self
• The inattentive individual – Contributions to the history of attention
• History and Philosophy of Traceability (18th – 21th Century)
• Anthropometric Data Banks and the Making of the Dimensional Body
• Working Group: Documenting the World
• The excess of the photographic archive
• Archiving the doomed. Fashioning a public science of conservation
• The Collecting and Study of Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1830s-1910s
• Bringing Nature into the Court. The Vatican and Reales Sitios as ‘Places of Science’ (1555-1605)
• Peat Bogs as Biological Archives: Lennart von Post and the Development of Pollen Statistics during World War I
• Overcoming the division of labor in global tectonics: Eduard Suess‘ The Face of the Earth
• Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
• Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Archives
• Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
• Mining the Sky: British Bird Observatories and Radar Ornithology, 1935-1965
• Thinking about Rows and Columns: On Tables, Writing Formats and the Making and Preserving of Knowledge in Western Astronomy
• Historical Research at the Imperial Academy of Science in Vienna: Programs and Procedures between 1847 and 1902
• Underdetermination, Decompositon, and the A Priori
• Tears in Time: The Archival Imaginary of Post-War French Cinema
• Dysmorphology's Archives: Collecting and Processing Data on Inborn Anomalies
• Photography and Astronomy
• Archival Reasoning: Astronomy, Chronology, History
• The Epistemic Effect of Display Practices on the Development of Pre-Linnean Taxonomy: Arraying Sir Hans Sloane's Collections During his Lifetime
• Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe: New approaches to an old topic
• Comets and Wondrous Signs in the Sky: Natural History and Religious Polemic in Early Modern France and Germany
• Poe's American Experiments
• Circa. Circulations of Knowledge in the History of Climate Modeling
• Knowing. Learning. Ruling. The Development of a Special Language in 12th Century Pipe Rolls
• The Light of Things Hoped For…
• Print Seriality and Epistemologies of Search during the Nineteenth Century
• Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving and Representing Geographical Knowledge
• Theorizing the Surveillance Society: Bodies of Data and “Data Bodies” in the 1970s
• The History of Scientific Observation, 2005–10
• Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the American West
• The description of the loca sancta in medieval travel accounts
• Space, Performance, and the Body in German Architecture, 1870-1914
• Observing and Making The Effects of Pollution Explicit
• Observer and Observed in Soviet State Design Institutes 1960s-1990s
• Perceptual Illusions and their Role in Epistemology
• Working Group: History of Scientific Observation
• Scientific Observation in Medieval Europe
• Drawing As Observing
• Picturing the inaccessible: Gazing under the earth’s surface (18th to 20th c.)
• Of Telescopes and Footprints – Indicators, Statistical Observation and Political Perception
• The Arts of Memory
• The Politics of Nature in Late 19th Century Germany
• Strategies of Visualization in German Archaeology, 19th-20th c.
• How Did a Centaur Get to Early Modern London? Observation and Reading in the European Study of Nature, ca. 1550-1750
• How surveys expressed the USA: A study of government statistics during the interwar period
• The subjective I and the objective eye in the study of animal behavior
• Fabricating reliable phenomena in industrial laboratories circa 1925
• Rationalizing Listening: Musicology, Emotions, and the Concert Hall, 1900-1930
• Clinical Observation and the Making of Cultural-Historical Psychology
• Animal Models of Human Behavior: Cultures of Observation
• De rebus naturae: Objects and Observers in Hellenistic Science
• The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch, the Honeybee Dances, and 20th-century Sciences of Communication
• Models and the Middle Way
• Atomic Food for Peace? – Materializing a radiant idea in a transnational network of research and development
• The Science of Walking
• The Cosmoscope and Its Users: The Role of Maps in 19th-Century Plant Geography
• Styles of Observation and Experience in Renaissance Aristotelianism
• Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
• Preserving the Forgotten – William Henry Fox Talbot, Photography and the Antique
• Aging research in 19th century biology
• The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Phonetics and the Invention of Free Verse and All-Sound Performance
• The Observational Regimes of pre-Lavoisian Chemistry in the 18th Century
• Color Beginnings
• Magic Pragmatism. Inner Observation and the Quest for Inner Perfection
• The Virtues of Observational Practice in Italian Scientific Culture, ca. 1660-1700
• The Scientific Traveler’s Notebook
• The Photographic Survey Movement
• Natural Law and Laws of Nature
• The Scientific Personae
• Historia: Explorations in the History of Early Modern Empiricism
• The Cerebral Subject: Brain, Self, and Body in Contemporary Culture
• The Impact of neurosciences in the psychosomatic field
• Neurophilosophers, Neuroscientists, and the Dreaming Brain
• Being Brains
• Neuromythology: a pamphlet against the interpretative authority of brain research
• Character Drives: Vitality and the Victorian Novel
• European Conceptions of the “New Man”, 1880-1930
• The Social Origins of Life Science Disciplines in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• Bringing Chymistry into Shape: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
• Sensing Data: Rethinking Embodied Knowledge
• All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929-1989
• Edging into the Wild
• Communicating Subjective Vision
• Epistemologies of the Living between 1900 and 1960
• How Physicians Knew: Medical Knowledge and Paper Technology, 1550-1950
• Modeling reality: Geometry and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
• The ‘Birth’ of Biopower in Eighteenth-Century Germany
• Asynchronicity – The Soviet Audiovision (1925-1934)
• The History of the Distinction between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification
• International Food Safety Standards 1955-1975
• Theories and Practices of the Original in contemporary Art
• The Psalter - Visual grid and performative rhythm for data
• Mental Ability and the Birth of Medical Jurisprudence
• Controversies On Crisis In Psychology (1897-1933)
• The Scientific Imagination: Art, Science, and Fiction 1863-1969
• Philosophy of Psychology: Psyche and Nous, Life and Mind
• Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970
• Tracing the Origins of Rational Choice Theory
• Writing the Textbook Case: Epistemic Genre and Practices in Psychiatry (1870-1920)
• History of Scientific Objects
• The Berlin Jewish Salon as „informal academy“ and place for emancipation ?
• History of Mathematics and Science in the 19th and 20th Centuries, esp. in Germany; Gender Studies
• Science, Gender, Internationalism: A Transnational History of Female Academic Networking, 1917-1955
• Early Enlightenment in Istanbul

Department 3: Experimental Systems and Spaces of Knowledge

Independent Research Group (D. Schäfer): Concepts and Modalities: Practical Knowledge Transmission

Independent Research Group (V. Lipphardt): Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation

TOPOI Junior Research Group: Historical Epistemology of Space: Experience and Theoretical Reflection in the Historical Development of Spatial Knowledge

Emmy Noether Research Group: Philosophy and History of Listening

Research Network: History of Scientific Objects