Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Tamar Novick explores the use of bodily waste in scientific practice, considering when worthless matter becomes valuable and how this fosters new relationships between distant places, institutions, people, and animals.
Read moreIn his research project, historian of science Lino Camprubí analyzes how anti-submarine surveillance reunited geopolitics and ocean science during the Cold War, enabling new global visions of the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreIn her ongoing research project, Tina Asmussen explores the sociomaterial dimensions of early modern mining through addressing mutual processes of appropriation, attribution, and valuation.
Read moreAn ongoing research project investigating note-taking in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mining.
Read moreIn his ongoing book project, Joeri Bruyninckx studies how scientists collaborated with musicians and broadcasters to record birdsong.
Read moreFounded in 1994, the MPIWG in Berlin is one of the more than eighty research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue an historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged. More
Research at the MPIWG is carried out in individual and collaborative projects. To browse through the projects, use the keyword index of the institute. More
The MPIWG is an advocate of open access to scholarly knowledge and is committed to making sources in the history of science available online. More
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Omodeo, P. D. (2017). Laukhards Dissertation über Giordano Bruno im Kontext der frühneuzeitlichen Bruno-Rezeption. In G. Naschert (
