Allegory of the reconceptualization of knowledge in various fields as a consequence of the globalization of knowledge in the seventeenth century. Frontispiece of the Jesuit Heinrich Scherer's work on the four-fold crisis in geography. Allegory of the reconceptualization of knowledge in various fields as a consequence of the globalization of knowledge in the seventeenth century. Frontispiece of the Jesuit Heinrich Scherer's work on the four-fold crisis in geography, 1710. Original source owned by MPIWG Libra
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The Scientific Advisory Board is a permanently established body that evaluates the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and critically assesses its standing to ensure that research is performed at the highest possible international level. The Institute is advised and evaluated every two to three years.

 

Board Members

Fabio Bevilacqua (Head) Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,” Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Markus Asper Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Angela N.H. Creager Department of History, Princeton University, USA
Mareile Flitsch Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Beatrice Gruendler Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Shigehisa Kuriyama Department of East Asian Languages, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Martin Mulsow Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt, Germany
Peter C. Perdue Department of History, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA
Dominik Perler Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Ana Simões Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Karin Zachmann School of Education, Technische Universität München, Germany

 

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