• Swirls of Colours

    Colloquium

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

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  • science social podcast logo green pink microphone

    Podcast

    Science Social

    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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

    Podcast

    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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  • Photograph of Tilli Tansey, Lesley Rees, Howard Morris, and John Hughes at the Witness Seminar “Endogenous Opiates” held by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group

    Feature Story

    No. 85

    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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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.

 

About the Institute

News & Press

In pictures: the MPIWG launches its new Research Group “Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia” (ASTRA)

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Positions in research, digital humanities, and communication

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FAZ highlights Lorraine Daston's contributions to the history of objectivity

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Events

Between Wonder and Evidence: The International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film

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Transcultural Cartographies: The Japanese Buddhist World Map and the Birth of Asian Studies in Europe

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The March: A Prayer from Mining Mountains

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China in Global Science: An Interim Stocktaking

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Publications

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