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Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
This project focuses on the changing role of experience, techniques of observation, and the use of material instruments in seventeenth-century acousti
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In my PhD project, I argue that a particular shift in musical and acoustical techniques of observations took place in the early modern perio
Mats Fridlund
Mats Fridlund is a historian of science, technology and industrialization with...
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Susan Zieger
Susan Zieger is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She ...
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Weijing (Vivian) Xu
Beijing-born Vivian Xu is a media artist and researcher currently based in Shanghai. In 2013, sh...
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Eine Revolution der Geisteswissenschaften
MoreArticle by MDC highlights MPIWG participation in Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
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Artikel des Max Delbrück Centrums hebt Teilnahme des MPIWG bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften hervor
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The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology
In this project, I seek to understand critiques of technology after World War II by arguing that technological choices are inherently moral choices. D
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
The MPIWG Chinese Map Collection: Typological Parallels and “Historical” Layers
This project investigates a group of six Chinese maps, presumably dating from the nineteenth to twentieth century, acquired by the MPIWG in 2016 from