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

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

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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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MPG-CAS Summer School “Astral Science, Cosmology, and Common Knowledge of Historical China and Beyond”

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The Institute welcomes Journalist in Residence Thomas Lewton

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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in Der Spiegel on China and its rise in the global system of science

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Events

Film as Cure

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CANCELED: Unfamiliar Uncertainties: Grappling with Climate Change Adaptation in China

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The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism (With a Focus on New Readings and Restorations of the Back Cover Inscription)

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"The Origin of All Seeds": Explaining the Causes of Diversity in Ilkhanid Agriculture

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