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Scherer, Heinrich, Critica quadri partita, in qua plura recens inventa, et emendata circa geographiae artificium, historiam, technicam, et astrologiam scitu dignissima explicantur, 1710
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Dept. I

Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge

Acting Director Etienne Benson

Office: +49 30 22667 102

 

On January 1, 2024, Etienne Benson took over as Acting Director of Department 1, which will close at the end of December 2024.
Contact: dept1office@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

Jürgen Renn is now Director at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology.
Contact: <rennoffice@gea.mpg.de>.

Services & Administration

Publications Manager

Departmental Assistant (May 2023 - Apr 2025)

Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)

Researchers

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2019 - Dec 2024)

The Codex Ashb. 361 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy) and the manuscript O (Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy): From Leonardo da Vinci’s Codices to Giovanni Battista Venturi’s studies

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2019 - Dec 2025)

Astro-particle Physics 1970s — Early 1980s: Investigating the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Oct 2023 - Jan 2026)

Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2022 - Dec 2025)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2022 - Jan 2026)

The Survival of Cuneiform Writing and Knowledge of Akkadian (Babylonian)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2018 - Jan 2026)

Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic

Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)

Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2016 - Jan 2026)

Computational History of Science

Emeritus Scholar (Jan 2023 - Jan 2026)

Geschichte der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt

Research Scholar (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024)

Affiliated Scholar (Feb 2020 - Dec 2025)

The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions

Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)

Apokalypse Frau? Feminismus, Föten und "Fake News"

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2022 - Jan 2026)

Alfonsine Astronomers at Work: Computing Daily Planetary Positions, 1330 - 1560

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2022 - Jan 2026)

Applying the socio-epistemic network methodology to the history of recent physical sciences

Emeritus Scholar (Mar 2006 - Dec 2024)

Machine Drawings

Research Software Developer (Apr 2024 - Dec 2025)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2018 - Jan 2026)

The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis

Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2019 - Mar 2025)

Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2022 - Jan 2026)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024)

Sylter Austern. Eine tausendjährige multiperspektivische Beziehungsgeschichte von ostrea und homo sapiens

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2022 - Jan 2026)

1. The Encounter of Two Systems of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China, 2. Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2023 - Jan 2026)

Bibliometrie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2021 - Jul 2025)

The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Oct 2023 - Dec 2024)

The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms

Research Scholar (Jan 2018 - Nov 2026)

The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition

Research Group Leader (Since Oct 1998)

Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics

Emeritus Scholar (Sep 2018 - Dec 2024)

History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science

Research Scholar (Since Jan 2000)

Research IT