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History of Exchange in Physics between China and the West
This research project, as part of the Max Planck Society Partner Group "Transmission and Interactions in Chinese Modern Physics," will study the acade
Straton Model and Yang-Mills Theory
This project, as part of the Max Planck Society Partner Group "Transmission and Interactions in Chinese Modern Physics," concentrates on two case stud
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This case study aims to show how scientific theory comes into being within a specific social context. It will also help us to understand the developme
Transmission and Interactions in Chinese Modern Physics
The objectives of the Max Planck Partner Group "Transmission and Interactions in Chinese Modern Physics" are to draw upon archival and secondary liter
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A History of the “Typical”: Scientific Research in Prisoner-of-War-Camps from 1915 to 1918
During the First World War, the politically allied governments of Germany and Austria encouraged scientific commissions to conduct extensive research
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Herodotus Among the Moderns
Over the centuries, Herodotus’ readers have cast him as “the father of history” and “the father of lies,” as a Greek patriot and a barbarian lover, as
MPIWG Map Collection: Comparative Study of Cosmographic Maps of the Qing Empire
The MPIWG collection of East Asian maps includes two versions of a large general map of the Qing Empire (printed on four sheets, overall size ca.
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Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Ideology in the Soviet Union
This project examines the conflicted history of Darwinism in Soviet Russia and the political implications of the theory of evolution for Bolshevik the
The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877
This project studies early statistics—statistical science before its mathematization—in Britain, which was responsible for the advent of an unprecede
The Scientific and Cultural Phenomenon of European Bison in the 19th–early 20th Century
My research project is focused on European bison, Bison bonasus (a species that was once widespread almost throughout Europe) and the Bialowieza Fores
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Using this expedition as a case, I am going to analyse the re-formulation of the research question in the process of studying European bison: how were