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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Empire, Nature, and Ottoman Pharmacology
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Empires of Useful Knowledge
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Enacting East Africa
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Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness
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Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development
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British Colonial Cairo, 1882–1922
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Engineering the Earth
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Environmental Transformations in the Dongting Lake Region in the Ming-Qing Dynasty
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Frontispiece of Herbenstreit's tract on the comet 1556
Epistemic Visuality of Early Modern Astral Knowledge
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Epistemologies of Craft
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The “Scientific” Racialization of Indian Food, 16th–17th c.
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Euclide's Elements in the West and China
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Exotic Animals and Domestic Life
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Expansive Science in Southern Mexico
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Experts of Memory
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Fabricating Modern Fibers
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Zhao_Project_Shūken’ō kyūkō honzō (1716)_National Diet Library Tokyo
Famine Plant Manuals in the Sinosphere
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Scan of two facing pages showing circular astrology diagram.
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  • Several Scholars
Fenye in Local Gazetteers
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pages showing astral allocations
  • Yulei Yang
Fenye Knowledge in General Maps
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Technical Safety in 20th Century Engineering
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Fish, People, Place: North Atlantic Colonial Landscapes
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illustration of a cesarean section
Follow the Thread
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Forging Technology in the Pre-Qin Period
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  • Morris Rossabi
The Forgotten in Eurasian History
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Urine collection by Serono, 1960s
Fountain of Knowledge
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Plants, Trade, and Knowledge
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Craft and Statecraft in Qing China: 1700–1844
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Genealogies of Anthropogenic Change
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  • Yulei Yang
Geographical Knowledge and Cultural Concepts
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Yao manuscript
  • Chia-Yun Wu
Geographical Maps and Religious Charts
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