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Scholars of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) have a strong book publication record, with output including individual publications, group collaborations, and edited volumes. Our Working Group books are volumes written by two or more authors as the result of intensive collaboration, and are a particular specialty of the Institute.
This book explores the unequal ways that China’s Belt and Road Initiative, commonly called the New Silk Road, is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. From road building projects in Nairobi to grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, researchers from across the globe analyse the project's real-world impacts.
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Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical understanding of glands, argued that the heart was a muscle, renamed the so-called female testicles as ovaries, and developed a mathematical model for understanding muscle contraction—discoveries that were fundamental to the fields of anatomy and physiology.
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This Special Issue gathers studies from ten scholars who discuss the relationship between Buddhism, Science, and Technology, focusing on the challenges that Buddhism faces in the processes of modernization and digitization.
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As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of how the Qing court sought to codify Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants throughout the eighteenth century.
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La découverte au tournant du xxe siècle de milliers de documents dans l’oasis centrasiatique de Dunhuang fut comparable, par son retentissement scientifique, à celle des manuscrits de la mer Morte ou de la Genizah du Caire.
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This publication brings together perspectives from art history, visual science studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology to encounter watercol- ors, sculpture, comics, advertising, and infographics.
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In 1405, a family left their home in the Mongolian steppe and moved to China. This daring decision, taken at a time of dramatic change in eastern Eurasia, paved the way for 250 years of unlikely success at the Ming court.
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The story of a unique and controversial wartime study of pilot fatigue
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Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast empires, separated by thousands of miles, developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds
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Technology, Power and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation offers a critical exploration of how digitalization, datafication, and automation impact societies worldwide, with a particular focus on underrepresented and understudied contexts.
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With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is “a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that have shaped our history” (Uché Blackstock, New York Times bestselling author).
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Im Sommer 1925 ist es Werner Heisenberg, der mit einer kurzen, kryptischen Arbeit, „Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen“, eine neue Quantenmechanik begründet, die im Mikroskopischen an die Stelle der Newtonschen Mechanik tritt.
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This open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known volvelles emerged in the mid-thirteenth century and were cut out and installed by the reader, often appearing in books dealing with astronomical subjects.
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Situates “animal mobility” within the politics of movement, opening new perspectives in the history of science.
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Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry.
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This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways did that experience constitute science?
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A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought
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What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam?
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Die sozialhistorische Studie untersucht die veränderten Bedingungen wissenschaftlicher Arbeit und die Transformationen beruflicher Kooperationsbeziehungen in der Grundlagenforschung am Beispiel der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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