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Dept. III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

Director Dagmar Schäfer

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2018-2019
Anuj Misra

EMESAS

2015-2018
Several Scholars

Early Modern Mechanics: Benedetti

Shrivelled apple to illustrate the origin of certain mountain ranges by shrinkage of the globe

2022-
Andrea Westermann

Earth Matters: Between Terrestrial and Social Scales

2000-2023

Edition Open Sources

2016-2017
Orna Harari

Animals and Human Action

2017-
Several Scholars

Epistemic Configurations: The Formation of Anthropocene Knowledge

2016-2019
Elizabeth Merrill

Early Modern Architectural Production

2012-
Florian Schmaltz

Fluid Mechanics in Times of War

2017-
Benjamin Steininger

Fossil Modernity

2018-
Pei Yin

Development of Quantum Entanglement

Several Scholars

Geoanthropology

2019
Audrey Borowski

Gottfried Leibniz's Networks

2008-2012
Matthias Schemmel

Historical Epistemology of Space

2017-
Thomas Turnbull

Histories of Energy Resource Conservation

Dept1_anthropocene_deutsche_suedpolarexpedition

2017-
Christoph Rosol

History and Epistemology of the (Paleo-)Climate Sciences

2017-
Several Scholars

Quantum Field Theory

2016-
Luisa Bonolis

2018-2020
Carla Rodrigues Almeida

History of Black Holes

2018-
Xiaodong YIN

History of Exchange in Physics between China and the West

2019
Several Scholars

Hopium Economy

2017-
Several Scholars

Global Perspectives of Knowledge

1997-

The Long-term Evolution of Knowledge

2016-2019
Several Scholars

In-Camera-Out

Benjamin Steininger

Industrial Catalysis in the Anthropocene

Malte Vogl

Interactive Tools and Publications

2018-
Huijuan Zhu

Into the Universe

Corn cultivation patterns in Northern Iowa, 2017

2017-
Several Scholars

Anthropocene Formations

2007-2012
Several Scholars

Knowledge as a Fellow Traveler

2008-2009
Several Scholars

Knowledge of Astronomy and the Invention of the Telescope

Front page image of Leonardo da Vinci by Colombini, Cosimo, -1812, engraver (1760). Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/.

2019
Jürgen Renn

Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos

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