Institute's Bibliography (PuRe) Team
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) scholars’ articles and preprints are the results of completed and ongoing research projects. Many of the journal articles are also free to access.
Hess, Christoph Alexander (2026). “Fertilizer, Local Knowledge, and the Making of Practical Learning in Early Modern China.” Isis, September 23, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1086/743692.
Schmidt-Madsen, Jacob (2026). “Gyan Chaupar.”. In Indian Traditional Boardgames: A Guide to the Art of Play, ed. R. G. Singh, H. S. Dharmendra, and D. K. C. R. Gowda, 52–56. Mysore: House of Ramsons.
Shu, Changxue (2026). “How the Historical Structure of Local Gazetteers Conditioned Modern Science: Machinery in China, 1840–1949.” International Journal of Digital Humanities, September 30, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-026-00132-0.
Krause, Katja and Tracy Wietecha (2026). “Albert the Great on Negative-Mystical Theology as the Epitome of Science.”. In The Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology, ed. J. R. Betz and R. Van Nieuwenhove, 228–242. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191887017.003.0018.
Adams, Chanelle (2026). “The Making of a Medicinal Plant: Ravintsara (Cinnamomum camphora) in Madagascar, from Colonial Introduction to Export Remedy.” Histoire, médicine et santé 29: 123–144. https://doi.org/10.4000/16hu9.
Baark, Erik (2026). “How Did Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Become the World’s Number One Tech Hub?” ThinkChina, August 25, 2026. https://www.thinkchina.sg/technology/how-did-shenzhen-hong-kong-guangzhou-become-worlds-number-one-tech-hub.
Valleriani, Matteo (2026). “Time-Reckoning, University Education, Knowledge Diffusion and Cultural Identity: A Multi-Layered Network as a Constellation.”. In Konstellationen, ed. A. Speer and L. Reuke, 19–38. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112253618-002.
Kaše, Vojtěch and Sarah A. Lang (2026). “Contextual Word Embeddings for Paracelsian Lexicography: Tangled Terminologies and their Origins in Ruland’s Alchemical Dictionary.” Ambix 73 (2-3): 205–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2692190.
Li, Huangwei and Han Cheng (2026). “China’s Scientific Cooperation with Africa.” Megatrends Africa 83. https://www.megatrends-afrika.de/en/publication/mta-spotlight-83-chinas-scientific-cooperation-with-africa.
Asokan, Arun (2026). “Sawing Measure: Thingking Wood Problems in Malayalam Kaṇakkatikāram and Other Indian Mathematical Treatises.”. In Normative Texts and Occupational Practices: Towards New Social Histories of Mathematics, ed. S. Babu D. and R. Wagner, 159–194. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-28419-8_7.
Krause, Katja (2026). “Albertus Magnus im Religionsdialog mit Moses Maimonides? Zur Ordnung von Philosophie und Theologie.”. In Religionsdialoge und Wissensordnungen in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. A. Fidora and M. Lutz-Bachmann, 141–166. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Braun Střelcová, Andrea (2026). “China’s Got Talent: The Interface of Foreign Affairs and Global Competition for Talent in China’s Scientific Knowledge Production.” Minerva, August 19, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-026-09658-7.
Blum, Alexander S., Roberto Lalli, and Jürgen Renn (2026). “Brans–Dicke Theory and the Empirical Renaissance of General Relativity.”. In Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity, ed. B. C. Odom and D. Kennefick, 185–225. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15746.003.0012.
Mahootian, Farzad, Sarah A. Lang, and Guillermo Restrepo (2026). “Introduction: Computational Approaches to the Histories of Alchemy and Chemistry.” Ambix, August 12, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709974.
Laursen, Ole Birk (2026). “How Berlin Became the Centre of the Indian Freedom Struggle Abroad.” Indian Express, August 10, 2026. https://indianexpress.com/article/research/how-berlin-became-the-centre-of-the-indian-freedom-struggle-abroad-10825931/.
Penaloza-Patzak, Brooke (2026). “Sense and the Science of Nineteenth-Century Environmental Determinism.” History of Science, May 23, 2026, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753251408130.
Lang, Sarah A. (2026). “A Computational Turn? Reflections on Digital and Computational History of Science, Knowledge and Technology.” Ambix, August 7, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709686.
Turnbull, Thomas (2026). “Modelling the Anthropocene: A Brief and Partial History.” The Anthropocene Review 13 (2): 316–320. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196261472817.
Turnbull, Thomas and Adam Wickberg (2026). “Introduction: Putting History in its Place: Historicising Planetary Modelling.” The Anthropocene Review 13 (2): 181–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196261472808.
Lang, Sarah A., Farzad Mahootian, and Hazem Lashen (2026). “Mediating Alchemical Language across Terminologies and Cultures in Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae: A Data-driven Study of Arabic Terms.” Ambix, July 29, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2697142.
