No 75

The Networks of Early Quantum Theory

• Alexander Blum
• Christoph Lehner
• Jürgen Renn
• Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
• Dept. I

No one single event caused the quantum revolution. Instead, it emerged from a series of crises in classical mechanics from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Quantum physics evolve...

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No 74

Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science

• Angela N.H. Creager
• Mathias Grote
• Elaine Leong
• Dept. I

How do practitioners—of any form of specialized knowledge—learn technical skills, and how do they find knowledge deemed as solid and secure?

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No 73

Knowing the Unobservable: Analogies and Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology

• Hannah Erlwein
• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Premodern Islamic theologians frequently employed analogies and analogical reasoning in their works—making comparisons between one thing and another for the purpose of explanation, clarificatio...

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No 72

From the Renaissance of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the Confirmation of the Black Hole Paradigm

• Alexander Blum
• Luisa Bonolis
• Roberto Lalli
• Juan-Andres Leon Gomez
• Jürgen Renn
• Dept. I
• Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
• Max Planck Research Program (GMPG)

The five years since the centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in 2015 have been among the theory’s most successful, with the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the ...

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