• Swirls of Colours

    Colloquium

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

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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

    Feature Story

    No. 87

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

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    Podcast

    Science Social

    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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

    Podcast

    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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News & Press

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger interviewed in Jungle World on Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie

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MPIWG on social media: leaving X/Twitter

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Anuj Misra interviewed by Berliner Antike Blog on his career path and research

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Events

The Anxiety of Academic Freedom in Illiberal Times

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Thematic Mapping in Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century Germany

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Exploring the Use of AI and Large Language Models at the Institute: A Roundtable

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Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World

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