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Bücher

Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des MPIWG veröffentlichen zahlreiche Bücher, darunter Monografien, Gruppenarbeiten und Sammelbände. Unsere Arbeitsgruppenbücher, eine institutsspezifische Publikationsform, sind von zwei oder mehr Autorinnen und Autoren verfasste Bände, die aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit entstehen.

2024
Book

La evolución del conocimiento: repensando la ciencia para el antropoceno

Este libro presenta una nueva forma de pensar sobre la historia de la ciencia y la tecnología, ofreciendo una metanarrativa de la historia de la humanidad en la que el conocimiento constituye un factor decisivo en la evolución cultural.

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人类知识演化史 Ren lei zhi shi yan hua shi [The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene]

This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution.

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Edited Book

Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Wissenschafts- und Zeitgeschichte 1945–2005

Dieser Band stellt die Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft von der Gründung bis ins erste Jahrzehnt unseres Jahrhunderts umfassend dar, im Ergebnis mehrjähriger Forschungen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsteams.

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The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs

The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein’s work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein’s miracle year of 1905 and continuing through his development of the theory of general relativity, Einstein spurred a revolution that continues to reverberate in modern-day physics.

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The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives

This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge.

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Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies: Practices, Concepts, Questions

This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline.

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2023
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Bruno Touschek 100 Years: Memorial Symposium 2021

This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia.

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Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu Qing (1644–1912).

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The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule

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Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving

A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.

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Internationalisierung im Fokus: Innenansichten aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftssystem

Das Wissenschaftssystem in Deutschland erlebt eine Phase rasanter Internationalisierung: Globale Vernetzung gilt als Voraussetzung, Merkmal oder Garant wissenschaftlicher Spitzenforschung. Forschung ohne internationalen Einfluss und Anschluss wirkt heute undenkbar und rückständig.

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Edited Book

Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic.

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Regeln. Eine kurze Geschichte

In ihrem reich bebilderten Buch zeichnet die Historikerin Lorraine Daston nach, wie sich Regeln in der westlichen Tradition seit der Antike entwickelt haben.

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Edited Book

The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered

The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing—such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument—become a gendered object?

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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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In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions

Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period.

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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century

This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.

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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it work?

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Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002: eine politische Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Mitchell G. Ash analysiert die Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung als Beispiel des Zusammenspiels von Wissenschaft und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander in politischen Umbruchzeiten.

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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.

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