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

    Feature Story

    No. 88

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

    More
  • 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

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

    Podcast

    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

    More

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.

 

About the Institute

News & Press

Vacancies in research, administration, communications, and technical support

More

Max Planck Society's MaxMag features MPIWG Journalist-in-Residence program and alumna Sahana Ghosh

More

Erik Baark on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act" and the implicit consequences for China in ThinkChina

More

Events

Diagrammatic Knowledge: Past Forms, Future Tools

MORE

Reframing the Needham Question

MORE

Games across Asia: The Primary Sources of Play

MORE

Blood Supply and Biopolitics in Ghana

MORE

Publications

Multimedia & Digital Resources