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Jochen Büttner

Research Scholar (2022–2024)

Jochen Büttner currently investigates processes of innovation in the ancient world. A particular focus lies on the question which role knowledge played in these processes and, how in turn, innovation influenced the formation of theoretical bodies of knowledge. In April 2024, Jochen Büttner transitioned to the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology.

He retains his longstanding interest in early modern mechanics. His main research theme in this area regards the role of so-called "challenging objects" as mediators between practical and theoretical knowledge in the early modern period.

Jochen Büttner has long been concerned with the use, theoretically as well as practically, of new electronic media in the history of science and, more generally, in the humanities. In this context, he has collaborated in, designed and directed a number of projects.

Projekte

A Book on al-Khazini’s Book on the Balance of Wisdom

MEHR

BIFOLD - BZML

MEHR

Opening up Data for Re-use: Semantic Modeling and Sustainability

MEHR

Research Websites as Research Data

MEHR

Spatio-Temporal Analysis using Data Visualization

MEHR

Albert Einstein—Chief Engineer of the Universe (Exhibition 2005)

MEHR

Atlas of Innovations

MEHR

Knowledge of Astronomy and the Invention of the Telescope: International Year of Astronomy 2009

MEHR

Pratolino: The History of Science in a Garden

MEHR

The Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics

MEHR

Weighing as an Early Global Innovation

MEHR

Selected Publications

Eberle, Oliver, Jochen Büttner, Hassan El-Hajj, Grégoire Montavon, Klaus-Robert Müller, and Matteo Valleriani (2024). “Historical Insights at Scale: A Corpus-wide Machine Learning Analysis of Early Modern Astronomic Tables.” Science Advances 10 (43 …

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Eberle, Oliver, Jochen Büttner, Hassan el-Hajj, Grégoire Montavon, Klaus-Robert Müller, and Matteo Valleriani (2024). “Historical insights at scale: a corpus-wide machine learning analysis of early modern astronomic tables.” Science Advances 10 (43)…

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Büttner, Jochen (2024). “Vor dem Wiegen: Überlegungen zur Entstehung der Gewichtsmessung.” Die Kunde 2020 (71): 1–34.

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Büttner, Jochen (2024). “„Nicht völlig ins Leere gegangen.“: eine Replik auf die Kommentare von Oliver Dietrich, Bianka Nessel, Nicola Ialongo, Lorenz Rahmstorf und Rebecca Peake.” Die Kunde 2020 (71): 69–75.

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Media

Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities

Astronomisches Wissen im Wandel: Von der Nebra Himmelsscheibe zum kopernikanischen System

TU Berlin

Die Entstehung einer Wissenschaft: Vom altägyptischen Transportschlitten zur Newtonschen Mechanik

TU Berlin

Astronomical Knowledge; From the Nebra Sky Disk to the Copernican System

IU Bloomington