Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

The Institute's Research Activities (sorted by name of scholars at the institute)

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Renn, Jürgen
A New Paradigm: the "Digital Scrapbook"
Aristotelization of the World
Beyond the Myth of Universal Space and Impenetrable Matter: The Overlapping Worlds of General Relativity and Quantum Theory
Concepts, methods, and the history of historical epistemology
Continuity and epistemic developments of astronomical knowledge in the longue durée: The Sphaera-tradition
Epistemology and Scientific Institutions
Expansion of Theoretical Mechanics in the Early Modern Period
Globalization Processes of Knowledge
History of Science in Action: Alternative Forms of Dissemination
History of Scientific Objects
Long-Term Development of Mechanical Knowledge
Long-term development of knowledge
Open Access Research Infrastructure: ECHO – Cultural Heritage Online
Outreach activities
Reorganizing Knowledge in the Life Sciences
Reorganizing physical knowledge through philosophical reflection
Source repositiories, virtual Research Environments and new forms of dissemination
Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge
The Globalization of Science in the Modern World
The History of Quantum Gravity Research
The Mediterranean World in Post-Antiquity
The Transformation of Ancient Spatial Knowledge in its Intercultural Transfer: The Early Modern Translation of Euclid’s Elements into Chinese
The split of rationality
Theories of rationality in the history of science
Weight, Energy and Force: Conceptual Structural Changes in Ancient Knowledge as a Result of its Transmission (Cooperative Research Center 644 – "Transformations of Antiquity")
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Werner, Klaus
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