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Working Group Volumes

Working Group volumes are a specialty of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG): volumes written by two or more authors which are the result of intensive collaboration, involving multiple working sessions in which drafts of the individual chapters are presented, discussed, and revised. Many MPIWG research projects publish their principal results in this form, in addition to books and articles by individual participating scholars. These Working Group volumes are especially well suited to opening up new fields of research and to covering topics from a comparative perspective, both challenges that invite collective rather than individual scholarship.

 

 

2024
Working Group Volume

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history.

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2023
Special Issue (Working Group Volume)

Science Diplomacy on Display: Mobile Atomic Exhibitions in the Cold War

Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy – a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill.

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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property

A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society

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Making Animal Materials in Time

This special issue, “Making Animal Materials in Time,” delves into the history of animal materials used in craft and scientific endeavors since the eighteenth century.

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Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues

Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism.

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Moving Crops and the Scales of History

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop

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Hybridization in the History of Ideas; Historical Geoanthropology

Special issue 1: Hybridization in the History of Ideas ; Special issue 2: Geoanthropology.

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Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions

This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period.

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Scientific Visual Representations in History

This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities.

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2022
Special Issue (Working Group Volume)

The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China

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Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers

The editorial board are pleased to present volume 3 of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, which opens with a special section on “Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers”.

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Making History: Technologies of Production and the Estate of Knowledge in East Asia

How did production, the making of things, come to be regarded as an inferior part of the process from the conceptualization of a commodity to its consumption? And how did East Asia, which has long been a place of production, come concurrently to be dismissed by other global actors on account of that fact and denied the potential for innovation?

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Working Group Volume

Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.

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Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology...

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2021
Special Issue (Working Group Volume)

The Material Culture and Politics of Artifacts in Nuclear Diplomacy

This special issue stresses the importance of material culture in diplomatic studies of science and technology.

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Seeing Clearly Through COVID-19

The essays appearing in the Topical Collection initiative "Seeing Clearly Through COVID-19" follow a short-form essay format.

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Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China

Contributions to the International Workshop “Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China”. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, 29 June to 1 July 2020

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Vom Künstlichen Stein zum durchsichtigen Massenprodukt: Innovationen in der Glastechnik und ihre sozialen Folgen zwischen Bronzezeit und Antike

Glas ist das erste von Menschen hergestellte Material, das nicht in der Natur vorkommt. Als Endprodukt eines komplexen Herstellungsprozesses hat Glas auch keine Ähnlichkeit mit den Ausgangsmaterialien. Glas wird in der Bronzezeit im östlichen Mittelmeerraum erfunden und als künstlicher Edelstein u.a. für prachtvolle Schmuckgegenstände, Architekturelemente und Gefäße genutzt.

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The Mississippi Papers (Part 1 & 2)

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Contextualising Ancient Technology: From Archaeological Case Studies Towards a Social Theory of Ancient Innovation Processes

The diffusion of innovations from the Near East into the ‘static’ surrounding peripheries has become a well-known archaeological paradigm, often summed up as Ex Oriente Lux.

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