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

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  • Maria Rentetzi
Radium Emanations and Male Sexual Debilities in Twentieth-Century America
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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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  • Oriana Walker
A Cultural History of Breathing
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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 History of Artificial Beings
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  • Yulia Frumer
A Matter of Time
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  • Ronny Vollandt
Coptic Adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic Translation of the Torah
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A Natural History of Data
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  • Katharine Park
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and Its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World, 750–1650
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  • Lukas M Verburgt
A Terrible Piece of Bad Metaphysics?
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  • Anne Ziemke
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
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Agricultural Modernization and Biodiversity Conservation in the Twentieth Century
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  • Adam Lawrence
Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
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Allegoresis and Etymology in the Greco-Latin Scholarly Traditions
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  • Gianna Pomata
Amateurs by Choice
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  • Kirsten Leng
An "Elusive" Phenomenon: The "Normal" Female Sex Drive
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Analytic Narratives and the Semantics of Formal Decision Theories
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Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
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Animal Models of Human Behavior
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  • Chihyung Jeon
Anthropometric Data Banks
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  • Jean-Marc Besse
Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving, and Representing Geographical Knowledge
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Architecture in Two Dimensions. From Drawing to Photography
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  • Mona Friedrich
Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Archival Reasoning: Astronomy, Chronology, History
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Archives in the Anthropocene
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Archiving Indigeneity
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  • Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
Archiving the Doomed
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Aristotle’s Endoxa
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