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Experiment, Gestural Knowledge, and Scientific Change in the Age of Precision
Scientific change is not necessarily a revolutionary moment; more often it emerges incrementally. Experimentation, therefore, plays a central role bec
Gottfried Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (1672–1679)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German polymath, mathematician, linguist, courtier, diplomat, theologian, jurist, and, most famously perha
Epistemic Writings
In an examination of the epistemic effects and functions of writing in the scientific practice, this project focused on two types of materials. The fi
Funding Institutions, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung
Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer über das Wissen chinesischer Bauern über das Kranzbergsche fünfte Gesetz
Zum ArtikelDagmar Schäfer writes for Society for the History of Technology on Kranzberg's fifth law of technology
Read ArticleEngineering the Earth: An History of Planning Large-Scale Environmental Plans
This project situates large-scale engineering projects to "terraform the Earth" in the last 200 years in context, in order to better understand the sp
The Oeconomy of Muscle
Current economic thinking holds that technology has replaced “muscle power” as a driving force of modern economies. Technological innovation is imagin
The Commentaries on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera by Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi and Bartolomeo Vespucci (1531)
This book project (to be published by Edition Open Access, in the Edition Open Sources book series of the MPIWG and the University of Oklahoma) a
Another Green World: Tropical Trees and American Jungle
Science and the state both have roles in creating and controlling environmental change. This project examines the complex dynamics within the research
Lorraine Daston im Deutschlandfunk, wie Algorithmen demokratische Entscheidungsfindung ersetzt haben
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