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Scherer, Heinrich, Critica quadri partita, in qua plura recens inventa, et emendata circa geographiae artificium, historiam, technicam, et astrologiam scitu dignissima explicantur, 1710
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Dept. I
Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge
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Researchers 2019-20
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (5 Aug 2019-4 Feb 2020)
Roger Bacon’s Medical Alchemy: Occult Remedies and the Quest to Prolong Life
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2020)
PhD
(1) The Transmission of Cosmological Conceptions in the Paduan Sacrobosco Tradition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century (2) The Status of Motion in Geometry in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean tradition
Visiting Scholar (17 Jun 2019-16 Jun 2021)
A Cultural History of the End of Fossil Fuels
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Climatic Effects: Architecture, Media, and the Planetary Imaginary
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2020-31 Dec 2022)
PhD
Leonardo da Vinci’s Forster Codices and Their Interpreters. Historical and Palaeographical Issues
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2019-30 Sep 2019)
PhD candidate, University of Oxford
Gottfried Leibniz's Networks: Science at the Confluence of Practice and Sociability
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
The Hebrew Translation of Euclid's Data
Research Scholar (1 May 2016-30 Apr 2020)
PhD
The Earth in the Sky is like the Yolk of the Egg in the Egg White. Natural Philosophy in the Polemics of the Muslims of Medieval Iberia
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2020)
PhD
The Anthropocene in Public Health
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Faculty in Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Camera Obscura Interactive Database and Timeline
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2018-31 Dec 2019)
CR1 Senior Research Fellow (tenured), CNRS–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University Diderot, Paris, France
The Development of the Euclidean Mathematical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Translation, Transmission and Transformation of the Text of the Elements
Research Scholar (1 Jul 2016-30 Jun 2020)
PhD
Transmission and History of Antique Scientific Texts such as Ptolemy’s Geography, using Computational Humanities
Visiting Scholar (16 Sep 2019-18 Oct 2019)
Thema: Cartesian Cosmology in the Early Modern Period
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2018-31 Jan 2020)
Prof. Dr. Observatoire de Paris 77, Paris
The History of Black Holes
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2006-31 Jan 2021)
Dr.
Gespaltene Vernunft (Teil 2), Buchprojekt
Visiting Scholar (18 Sep 2019-30 Sep 2020)
Director, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University,
Titel: Disciplinarization of the Sciences. Pre-classical Mechanics between the Sovereign State and the Reformed Catholic Religion: 1550-1650
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (6 Nov 2017-31 Dec 2020)
MA, Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin
Edition Elkana and Krois: Rethinking the Political Epistemology of Enlightenment. Dialogues with Ernst Cassirer
Visiting Scholar (10 Sep 2019-7 Dec 2019)
PhD, Professor, Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
From Kepler’s Optics to Spinoza’s Politics: The New Science and the Naturalization of the Mind
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (19 Aug 2019-18 Aug 2020)
PhD
Arguing About the Stars. Copernicanism, Galileism, and Institutional and Political Dimensions of Early Modern “Science” in the Debate Between Pierre Gassendi and Jean-Baptiste Morin (1642-1655)
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2020)
PhD, Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London
Ancient Jewish Medicine
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2020)
PhD, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic
Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)
Dr.
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD Candidate, UCLA
Climate Knowledge and the Politics of Predictive Governance: Case Studies in the Conversion of Knowledge about Climate Change into Actionable Information for Administrative Systems and Economic Agents
Visiting Scholar (24 Feb 2016-31 Dec 2020)
Prof. Dr. emeritus
Mitarbeit im Forschungsprofil moderne Physik der Abteilung sowie das von der PTB finanzierte Projekt "Geschichte der PTR im Dritten Reich"
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-30 Jun 2020)
Zukunft als Wiederholung und Sprachbilder der Zeit
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2020)
MA, Doctoral Student, Technische Universität Berlin
Quantitative Physiological Reasoning at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: The Work of Sanctorius Sanctorius
Visiting Scholar (1 Dec 2016-31 Dec 2021)
Dr. phil., Professor Emeritus, Roskilde University
Portraying, Connecting, and Confronting Early Cultures of Organized Knowledge—and Drawing Consequences
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-30 Jun 2020)
„In anderen Zeiten“: Joint Project of the MPIWG and the Cumenius Gardens, Berlin
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2018-30 Jun 2023)
PhD
Writing Histories of Greek Philosophy in the Islamicate World
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2019-31 Oct 2019)
Disaster Preparedness in Japan and Global Transfer of Knowledge, 1900-1965
Visiting Scholar (1 Dec 2019-30 Nov 2022)
Publication Project: How Einstein Found His Field Equations: A Source Book.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2016-31 May 2020)
PhD
Cometary Pamphlets and the Way they Present, Create, and Diffuse Natural Philosophic Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (24 Nov 2019-30 Jun 2020)
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
Thema: A short History and Future of Power-to-Gas
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2011-31 Dec 2019)
Dr.
History of Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (esp. Atomic Physics and Institutional and Social Aspects)
Research Scholar (1 Feb 2020-30 Apr 2020)
The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
Visiting Scholar (15 May 2018-31 Dec 2021)
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Nottingham
The History of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash) in East and West Germany during the Cold War
Visiting Scholar (6 Sep 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Printing Sacrobosco Before 1501: Commercial Strategies and University Markets
Journalist in Residence (1 May 2019-31 Dec 2019)
The Discovery of the Plastisphere
Visiting Scholar (16 May 2018-31 Dec 2020)
Extended Evolution Theory of Knowledge and Computational History
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2006-28 Feb 2021)
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Machine Drawings
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2017-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Cosmochemistry and Astroparticle Research in the Max Planck Society
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2022)
PhD, Dept. of History University College London
Technologies of Health c. 1450-1750
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (20 Jan 2020-19 Mar 2020)
The Charlatan between Literature, Philosophy and Medicine in the Renaissance
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2018-31 Dec 2020)
PhD
Umbrella Project: Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (18 Oct 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Francesco di Giorgio and the Architectural Profession in Renaissance Italy
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (13 Mar 2017-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, Laboratoire SPHERE, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Numerical Literacy in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-30 Sep 2019)
PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Visiting Scholar (7 Apr 2020-6 Jun 2020)
The Emotional Reconditions for Scientific Subjectivity
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2020)
Transmission of Islamic Astronomy to Europe: Influence or Similarity of Structures?
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-31 Dec 2020)
PhD
Die post-kopernikanische astronomische Debatte im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert: kosmologische, mathematische, physische, ontologische, ethische und theologische Aspekte
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (6 Apr 2020-31 Mar 2021)
The Printing-press and the European Academic Milieu: 1470–1650 Defining Modes of Interaction and Scientific Exchange in the World of Printed Words
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2019-30 Sep 2020)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Jan 2019-31 Oct 2019)
PhD candidate, University of Urbino
Mathematical Humanism in Urbino
Visiting Scholar (16 Sep 2019-15 Mar 2020)
Guest Professor, TU Berlin
Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-30 Sep 2020)
Symbiotic World: The Past, Present and Future of a Concept
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)
PhD
The History of Black Holes
Research Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Dec 2022)
Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2020-31 Oct 2020)
Conceptions of astrology among Parisian scholars (1600-1680)
Research Scholar, Group Leader (Since Jul 2003)
Dr.
Long-term Development of Spatial Cognition; History of Early Modern Mechanics; History of Modern Physics and Astronomy; History of Chinese Science
Research Scholar (1 Apr 2019-14 May 2021)
Dr.
History of Biomedical and Clinical Research at the Max Planck Society
Research Program Coordinator, Senior Research Scholar (1 Jul 2015-31 Dec 2022)
Dr.
History of the Max Planck Society
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2019-30 Sep 2020)
The Water City. The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (9 Mar 2020-5 Apr 2020)
Digital Textual Analysis of Biographies of Scholars, ca. 1550–1750
Research Scholar (9 Nov 2015-31 Mar 2020)
PhD
Convivencia Project, Reformist Objects
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2016-30 Apr 2020)
Lehre und Forschung des Göttinger Physikers Robert Wichard Pohl (1884-1976)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2019-31 Dec 2022)
Dr. phil.
Fossil Modernity
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2019)
Geschichte der Quantengravitation
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2016-30 Nov 2016)
MA, Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Research Scholar (15 Jan 2018-25 Nov 2026)
PhD
The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition
Research Group Leader (Since Oct 1998)
Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor by Special Appointment at the Tel Aviv University
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-30 Jun 2020)
Dipl. sc. pol.
Ausstellung im Comenius-Garten: Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Kinder und das Nichts.
Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Jul 2016-14 Apr 2021)
Dr. rer. nat.
Methoden zur Analyse eines Textkorpus
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2024)
Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2019-31 Jul 2020)
Kant's Early Views on Force and the Communication of Motion
Research Scholar (2 Oct 2017-31 Jan 2020)
Dr.
Coal: A Global Object of Knowledge; Métissage: A Problem of European History
Visiting Scholar (24 Jan 2020-23 Feb 2020)
Theories, Models, and Phenomena: The Structure of Exact Natural Science in Greece, 400 BC – 200 AD