Abstract image of the Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klint

The Tree of Knowledge, HaK133  by Hilma af Klint. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation

Dept. III

Projects List

Dept. III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

Director Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Projects

Ma, Yuan. Shui tujuan. 1160-1225.
The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
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  • Doris Oltrogge
"Colores Quibus Pictores Utuntur." The Integration and Disintegration of Pigment Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century
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The sportsman and sports journalist Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala is writing on a typewriter in 1932. The typewriter is attached to the thighs with Knefix pliers, developed by Pihkala, so that the writer can write in any position needed.
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"First Research Article" Fellowship
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The sportsman and sports journalist Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala is writing on a typewriter in 1932. The typewriter is attached to the thighs with Knefix pliers, developed by Pihkala, so that the writer can write in any position needed.
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"Get-It-Published" Fellowship
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  • Maria Rentetzi
Radium Emanations and Male Sexual Debilities in Twentieth-Century America
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drawing of dun and stars above Earth
Attempts to Measure the Universee
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  • Several Scholars
Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
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  • Andrew Morrall
"Siben Farben unnd Künsten frey." The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner's Universe Table
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map from 1673
Connecting yi 醫 with yi 易 in 11–17th China
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"The Myth of Greek Algebra": Philology and the Discovery of the Calculus, 1580–1710
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"The Science of Prophecy?" The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916–2015
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  • Marta Hanson
Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of Memory
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book cover: Ursula Klein: Humboldts Preußen. Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch (2015)
"Useful Sciences," State Bureaucracy, and Industrialization in Prussia (ca. 1760–1830)
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  • Several Scholars
Planning and Counter-Planning
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Project_RGKrause_WGExperientialKnowledgeInThePremodernIslamicContext_Erlwein
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  • Hannah Erlwein
Debating Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islam
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  • Several Scholars
Al-Khazini’s Book on the Balance of Wisdom
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  • Francesca Bray
Crops on the Move
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The Classification Structures of Local Gazetteers
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  • Oriana Walker
A Cultural History of Breathing
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Cover of A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century
A Cultural History of Chemistry
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  • Several Scholars
A Cultural History of Heredity
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Practical pointer toward the electricity plant at the Four-à-Chaux one of the largest bunkers built prior to WWII on the Ligne Maginot, Lembach, Alsace France.
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  • Gretchen Anna Bakke
Fossil Fuels at an End
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A Global History of Human Teeth
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  • Paola Molino
A Guide Through Textual Practices in Late Renaissance Court Libraries
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A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
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image of hands holding an old tools
A History of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920–1980
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A History of Artificial Beings
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  • Carsten Reinhardt
Methods and Expertise
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  • Britta Lange
History of the Typical
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  • Yulia Frumer
A Matter of Time
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