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MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
Nov 12, 2021Changxue Shu
Chang-Xue Shu joined the digital humanities program of Chinese Local Gazetteers in Department II...
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Animals and Entangled Epistemologies in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Epistemological change in early modern Europe has long been told as an internalist story. Even with the Iberian and global “turns” in the history of s
True Heat
Artist filmmaker Lucy Beech joins the working group “Out of Place, Out of Time” as an artist fellow (2020–22). During this time MPIWG is supporting he
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
When is Evidence Enough? The Pangea Controversy and the Drift of Evidence
In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a German climatologist and geophysicist, made public his theory about Pangea. He suggested that in a remote past there was a
Interpretation of the Cambridge Cockpit Experiments
During the 1940s, members of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge worked closely with the Royal Air Force on problems connected
John Michael Steele
John Steele was awarded his PhD from the University of Durham in 1998. He is currently Professor...
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Sensible Taxonomies: Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
The theory that animals belonging to different species perceive in different but equally legitimate ways, depending on their specific vital needs, is
Optical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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