• Indian board game Pretwa. Source: Sandra Prengel, 2024.

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    No. 88

    Stories of Celestial Bodies: Transmitting, Translocating, and Transcreating Astral Knowledge across Asia

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  • Image 1: “Pure BASF Indigo Powder” label for the Chinese market, circa 1903; Image 2: Container for “Japanese Refined Camphor,” possibly 1910–1940; Image 3: A fertilizer advertisement by the largest agrochemical company in Palestine

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    No. 87

    From Natural to Synthetic? Rethinking Narratives of Chemical “Replacement” in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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  • Swirls of Colours

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    Institute's Colloquium 2024-25: History of Science in Public

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  • pink and blue logo of the Into the Kn/Own podcast

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 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 a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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In nd, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reflects on his German translation of Of Grammatology, 50 years ago.

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Alexander Blum on radioeins (rbb) podcast on the existence of God and its relationship to science

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Lorraine Daston awarded Centennial Medal by Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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Events

Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine

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Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards

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Small-Scale Online Radio Stations: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Experimental Infrastructures

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From National Knowledge Systems to Global Knowledge Value Chains? How Metrics, Markets, and Geopolitics Shape Social Sciences in Germany, Canada, and China

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