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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 2020-21
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2021)
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 2019-30 Jun 2022)
A Cultural History of the End of Fossil Fuels
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2020-31 Dec 2022)
PhD
Leonardo da Vinci’s Forster Codices and Their Interpreters. Historical and Palaeographical Issues
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2019-31 Jul 2023)
Dr.
Zooming in on the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2016-30 Apr 2022)
PhD
Natural Philosophy in the Polemics of the Muslims of Medieval Iberia
Research Technology Officer (1 Apr 2021-31 Dec 2022)
Sphaera Project
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2006-31 Jan 2024)
Dr.
Wissenschaftliche Philosophie und öffentliche Vernunft
Visiting Scholar (18 Sep 2019-30 Sep 2020)
Director, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University,
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 2022)
Doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari Università Venezia in the ERC-project Early Modern Cosmology Editorial Manager for Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology (EOA book series).
Political Epistemology—Theory and Editorial Project
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (19 Aug 2019-31 Aug 2021)
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 2022)
PhD, Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London
Ancient Jewish Medicine
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2022)
PhD, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2012-1 Jan 2025)
Dr.
Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2016-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr.
Computational History of Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
The Treadmill of Protection: Evaluating the Social Costs of Saving Disappearing Coasts
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Oct 2020-31 Oct 2021)
Power/Ignorance and the Role of the History of Economic Thought in the Energy Impasse
Emeritus Scholar (24 Feb 2016-31 Dec 2022)
Prof. Dr. emeritus
Geschichte der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt
Research Scholar (1 Aug 2020-31 May 2022)
Hellmut Becker als Gründungsdirektor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Bildungsforschung
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2018-30 Jun 2023)
PhD
Writing Histories of Greek Philosophy in the Islamicate World
Visiting Scholar (1 Dec 2019-30 Nov 2022)
Publication Project: How Einstein Found His Field Equations: A Source Book.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (24 Nov 2019-31 May 2024)
Dr.
CO2: The Molecular Aluminum Can
Emeritus Scholar (1 Jun 2011-31 Dec 2021)
Dr.
History of Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (esp. Atomic Physics and Institutional and Social Aspects)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Redefining the Second: Astronomy, Physics, Technology and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Affiliated Scholar (1 Feb 2020-31 Dec 2025)
Prof. Dr.
The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
Visiting Scholar (16 May 2018-31 Dec 2022)
Analyzing the Patterns and Mechanisms Driving the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocence
Emeritus Scholar (1 Mar 2006-29 Feb 2024)
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Machine Drawings
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2017-31 Jan 2023)
PhD
Instrument Earth: Geohistories of 20th Century Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2022)
PhD, Dept. of History University College London
Technologies of Health c. 1450-1750
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2021-31 May 2022)
The Anthropocene Hypothesis: Birth and Epistemology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Feb 2018-31 Dec 2022)
PhD
Sounding the Depths of Providence: On Mineral (Re)generation and Human-Environment Interaction in the Early Modern Period
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2021-31 Dec 2022)
The Emotional Reconditions for Scientific Subjectivity
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-8 Jan 2022)
Text and Context in Early Islamic Scholarship: A Ninth-Century Paraphrase of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr.
The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2019-30 Sep 2021)
Visiting Scholar (16 Sep 2019-15 Mar 2025)
Professor, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-30 Sep 2021)
Symbiotic World: The Past, Present and Future of a Concept
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Dec 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)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Die Erwirtschaftung des Anthropozäns? Die Rolle des modernen Wirtschaftens in den Entwicklungsdynamiken zur Entstehung des Anthropozäns: Ursprünge und neue Wege
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 Program Coordinator, Senior Research Scholar (1 Jul 2015-31 Dec 2022)
Dr.
History of the Max Planck Society
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2019-30 Sep 2021)
The Water City. The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2020-28 Feb 2021)
PhD
Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-30 Sep 2023)
The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms
Visiting Scholar (19 May 2020-1 May 2022)
Lehre und Forschung des Göttinger Physikers Robert Wichard Pohl (1884-1976)
Visiting Scholar (15 Aug 2020-31 Aug 2023)
Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. Towards a global history of the 1919 solar eclipse (E3GLOBAL)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 May 2021-31 Mar 2024)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-30 Nov 2022)
„Fairtrade“ von traditionellem Wissen? Praktiken des Wissensaustauschs zwischen Südamerika und Europa im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der pharmazeutischen Pflanze Ipecacuanha (Brechwurz)
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Dec 2022)
Dr. phil.
Industrielle Katalyse und ihre Rolle im Mensch-Erde-System im Anthropozän
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2020-31 Dec 2021)
MA
Praktiken digitalen Publizierens in den Humanities: Die Edition Open Access am MPIWG
Research Scholar (15 Jan 2018-25 Nov 2026)
PhD
The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2021-15 Oct 2021)
Dr.
Ruination Politics: Reimagining Environmental Regulation in the Anthropocene
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 Feb 2021-31 Jan 2023)
Dr. phil., Kapitän
Weltbildwandel around 1500: Overseas Discoveries, the Physics of the Elements and the globus terraquaeus
Research Scholar (15 Jul 2016-31 Mar 2024)
Dr.
Methoden zur Analyse eines Textkorpus
Emeritus 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
Emeritus Scholar (1 Jul 2020-30 Jun 2022)
Prof. Dr.
Zum Epistemologischen Status der "Messung"
Emeritus Scholar (1 Jul 2020-30 Jun 2022)
Dr., Professorin für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Der Charakter der Philosophie im Vergleich zu den Einzelwissenschaften
Research Scholar (2 Oct 2017-28 Feb 2023)
Dr.
Coal: A Global Object of Knowledge; Métissage: A Problem of European History
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2021-30 Jun 2022)
Dr.
Colonial Elements: Oceanic Media and Wet Globalization 1550-1650