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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.
Kotyk, Jeffrey (2025). “Cosmology, Time, Divinity, and Astrology: Comparing Buddhist and Neoplatonic Concepts.” In Buddhism and Neoplatonism, ed. E. Alexandrov and A. J. O’Neill, 89–118. Nagoya: Chisokudō Publications.
Turnbull, Thomas and Maximilian P. Lau (2025). “Lake Stechlin: A Thermal Sink for East Germany’s First Nuclear Power Plant.” In The Nuclear-Water Nexus, ed. P. Högselius and S. Evens, 73–84. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15572.003.0011.
Beirach, Yoav and Michael Friedma (2025). “`Tirer d’eux leurs secrets´: Leibniz on Artisanal Knowledge and `Secret` Geometry.” NTM 33: 107–144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-025-00414-8.
Gómez Revuelta, Gloria Maritza and Lachlan Summers (2025). “Negotiating the ‘Geo’ of Cold War Geopolitics: Seismology as Diplomacy During the International Geophysical Year (1957–58).” Global Perspectives 6 (1, Article 140468). https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2025.140468.
Yang, Qiao (2025). “Becoming an Astronomer in Late Medieval China.” Journal of Chinese History, June 9, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2025.11.
Vargha, Dora (2025). “Socialist Health: of Shortages. An Introduction.” European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 82: 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-20250100.
Jähnert, Martin, Saskia Elena Schaa, and Alexander S. Blum (2025). “Ein Sonnenaufgang auf Helgoland? Werner Heisenbergs Beitrag zur Quantenmechanik und seine Erinnerungen daran.” Physik Journal 24 (5): 31–37.
Mousavi, Razieh-Sadat (2025). “Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State.” In Science and Praxis: Historical Cases of Political Epistemology, ed. P. D. Omodeo, D. S. Babu, and C. Zittel, 19–46. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004117785_003.
Ahlers, Anna L. (2025). “Kan Trumps krig mot vitenskap fremskynder Kinas fremvekst som en global vitenskapsleder?” In Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk: en spesialrapport fra Senter for geopolitikk, ed. O. J. Sending, 99–102. Oslo: Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics. https://www.nupi.no/nyheter/trump-2.0-og-internasjonal-politikk.
Hegesh, Noa (2025). “Old Music, New Times: Zhangsun Shaoyuan and the Ritual Music of the Northern Zhou 舊樂新風—長孫紹遠與北周的禮樂建制 [Jiu le xinfeng—zhangsun shao yuan yu Bei Zhou de liyue jianzhi].” Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies 73 (1): 149–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2025.2488659.
Hegesh, Noa (2025). “Special Section: Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in China’s Period of Division (220–589 CE).” Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies 73 (1): 43–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2025.2488652.
Novick, Tamar, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel Rosenberg (2025). “Knowing Animals, Moving Animals.” Osiris 40: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1086/735515.
Bauer, Susanne, Nils R. Güttler, and Martina Schlünder (2025). “´Birds Have Procedures Too:` Avian Mobility, Airport Infrastructure, and Mixed Knowledges.” Osiris 40: 260–280. https://doi.org/10.1086/735526.
Yang, Yulei (2025). “Commercial General Maps in the Late Qing Dynasty: The Case of Two Maps in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Collection.” Crossroads, May 29, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/26662523-bja10025.
Ahlers, Anna L. (2025). “Review of: Van der Kamp, Denise: Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.” The China Quarterly, June 9, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574102510074X.
Dornelas, Isabela (2025). “Material History of Surgery.” In Oxford Bibliographies: History of Medicine, ed. J. Duffin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780197768723-0055.
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel and Razieh-Sadat Mousavi (2025). “An Unknown Astronomical Work on Planetary Theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581).” Journal for the History of Astronomy 56 (2): 172–206. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286241297967.
Taggart, Jack, Han Cheng, and Marcus Power (2025). “Chinese Development Finance and African Policy Space: Towards Productive Incoherence?” Journal of International Development 37 (4): 1039–1053. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3996.
Brause, Saba Rebeccy, Mike S. Schäfer, Christian Katzenbach, Yishu Mao, Vanessa Richter, and Jing Zeng (2025). “Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence.” Convergence, April 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251338192.
Howey, Riaz Tony (2025). “`Rotten and Useful`: Compos(t)ing Knowledge in Mongol Iran.” Journal of Material Culture 30 (1): 37–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835251318164.
