• Maier Atalanta Fugiens, 1618.

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    A Vital Force? Exploring Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1550-1730

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  • Albert Einstein at Princeton, standing in front of a blackboard

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    No. 78

    Dreams of Unification: The Role of Mathematics in Final Theory Programs

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  • Person holding a negative Covid-19 antigen test

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    Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences

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    Science Social: Conversations on History, Science, and Society

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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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Alexander Blum takes a look into the notebooks of John Wheeler in article for Advanced Science News

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Lara Keuck spoke to Pharmazeutische Zeitung about truth and knowledge in science

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Visiting Scholarships: "Visualizations and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa"

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Events

Putting Knowledge to Practice: "Reading" Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine

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Fenye in Local Gazetteers Workshop

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The Ninth-Century Transmission of Greek Philosophy into the Arabic-Speaking World and the Emergence of Baghdadian Rationalism: Coming to a Proper Judgement of the Place of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (CE 808-877)

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Why Did People in Medieval Europe Think that Virgil Made Robots? Science Fiction, Astral Magic, and Literary Theory

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