• Drawing in Hortus Indicus Malabaricus depicting the Cocos nucifera L. at different stages of its growth

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    No. 82

    Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century “European” Botanical Classic

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    Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (But It’s All Interconnected)

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    What Can Artisanal Production Teach Us About Knowledge and Ownership?

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  • Photo,   On-site measuring of a sediment core at the GSSP candidate site Crawford Lake, Canada.

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    The Anthropocene’s Signal: What the Geology of the Present Beckons for the Future of Research

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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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IT Management position

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Nuno Castel-Branco awarded AH Oliveira Marques Prize for Best Article

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The Making of Calculable Territory in Song Dynasty China, 1000–1250

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One Myrtle Proves Nothing: On Experimental Designs and the Study of Biological Systems

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Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice

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Migration, Mobility, and Expertise

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