How Recipes Created Knowledge in Early Modern Households

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Dagmar Schäfer, professor for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester, will be the new director of Department III at the MPIWG from August 1, 2013. Download

Klaus Taschwer, science journalist for Der Standard (Vienna), is the first journalist-in-residence at the MPIWG. Download

Valleriani, M. (2013). Review of: Peterson, Mark A.: Galileo's Muse: Renaissance mathematics and the arts. Cambridge [u.a.]: Harvard University Press 2011. Isis, 103(4). More

Omodeo, P. D. (2013). L’iter europeo del matematico e medico scozzese Duncan Liddel. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. More