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    Event Series

    Institute's Colloquium 2022–23

    Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War

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  • Satellite view of Rotterdam

    Feature Story

    No. 80

    Anthropocene Formations: Process Landscapes of Petromodernity

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  • Maier Atalanta Fugiens, 1618.

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    N. 79

    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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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

Article in Süddeutsche Zeitung quotes Director Jürgen Renn on new MPI of Geoanthropology

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"Approximation Methods in the Sciences" (Deadline: Dec. 31, 2023)

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rbb releases a podcast with Birgit Kolboske on women and gender in the Max Planck Society

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Events

Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch

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Doorkeepers: A Case Study in the Ability and Authority of Lowly Intermediaries in Ming China (1368–1644)

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The Pyramid of Knowledge: Tracing the Roots of the Intellectual Background of the Florentine "Accademia Del Cimento"

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Science and Supersession

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