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    The Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930

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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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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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Job opportunities at the MPIWG in administration, digital humanities, and editing

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Anika Merklein wins Peter Haber prize for AI in historical sciences

 

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Thyssen Grant awarded to Qiao Yang for "The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, Architecture 1227–1502"

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The Scholarly Experience: Wisdom in the Premodern Syriac World

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The Making of a Cage Bird Class: African Grey Parrots in Early Modern Europe

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Internal Rotation/s. Sociomaterial practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim’s Experiments on Birth Mechanics

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Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry

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