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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.

 

 

2007
book cover: Jürgen Renn et al: The genesis of general relativity (2007)
Working Group Volume

The Genesis of General Relativity

The most in-depth study of the major scientific revolution of the 20th century

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Special Issue (Working Group Volume)

Believing Nature, Knowing God

  • Bernhard KleebergFernando Vidal

The title of this issue of Science in Context – “Believing Nature, Knowing God” – is intended to suggest the moral, emotional, and cognitive conditions in which the historical alliance of “nature” and “God” operated, and to make a more general point about knowing and believing.

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book cover: Ursula Klein/ Wolfgang Lefèvre: Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science (2007)
Working Group Volume

Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology

A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed.

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book cover: Erna Fiorentini: Observing Nature - Representing Experience. The Osmotic Dynamics of Romanticism (2007)
Working Group Volume

Observing Nature - Representing Experience : The Osmotic Dynamics of Romanticism 1800-1850

  • Erna Fiorentini

In the early nineteenth century, the translation of nature observations into quantified records often intended to convey both epistemologically and aesthetically determined forms of experience. The book investigates the intriguing complexity of this 'osmotic dynamics', in which various positions on the significance of inner and outer world were continuously exchanged.

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2006
book cover: Hagner/ Laubichler: Der Hochsitz des Wissens. Das Allgemeine als wissenschaftlicher Wert (2006)
Working Group Volume

Der Hochsitz des Wissens: das Allgemeine als wissenschaftlicher Wert

  • Michael HagnerManfred Laubichler

In dem Band geht es um die Wiedereingliederung von konzeptuellen und theoretischen Aspekten in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte nach dem »practical turn«.

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book cover: Christoph Engel/ Lorraine Daston: Is there Value in Inconsistency? (2006)
Working Group Volume

Is there Value in Inconsistency?

Isn't consistency simply another word for intellectual integrity? The fact that actions are inconsistent may be due to the imperfection of the actors. The internal contradictions may also be the work of opportunistic individuals, seeking their own advantage.

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2004
book cover: Lorraine Daston: Things that talk. Object Lessons from Art and Science (2002)
Working Group Volume

Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality.

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