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Two Special Issues on MPIWG's "Anthropocene River" Project Published
The Anthropocene Review publishes two Special Issues on Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project
Dec 28, 2021 Go to PublicationVeröffentlichung von zwei Sonderausgaben über das Projekt des MPIWG „Anthropocene River"
The Anthropocene Review veröffentlicht zwei Sonderausgaben über Mississippi. Anthropocene River
Dec 28, 2021 Zur PublikationThe Reception of Latitude and Longitude in Early Modern China, 1644–1900
This project examines Qing scholars’ effort to integrate conventional Chinese cartographical practice and the Jesuit-style latitude-longitude coordina
Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10–20th Centuries
This project revisits construction activities in China by utilizing large datasets of the Chinese local gazette Difangzhi, dating from the tenth
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Measuring the Earth: A Digital Repository for the History of Modern Geodesy
This project aims to provide an open repository of primary sources for the history of late modern geodetical research. Moreover, it will study the app
Material Practices: The Anthropocene Earth in Formation
This first research area of the Anthropocene umbrella project investigates the development of particular knowledge economies that concern resource ext
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Political Epistemology of Earth System Science
This project studies the rather sudden framing of Earth system science in the 1980s as a hot field of interdisciplinary research devoted to studies of
Epistemic Configurations: The Formation of Anthropocene Knowledge
This second research area addresses questions of relevance for a historical epistemology of Anthropocene-related practice fields, such as (pre-)indust
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Deep History of Earth System Science
In the late eighteenth century, large-scale Earth systems such as the atmosphere and the earth’s crust became objects of systematic scientific inquiry
Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
With the founding of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg in 1970, the Max Planck Society had cre
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