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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
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Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
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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
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Astro-particle Physics 1970s — Early 1980s: Investigating the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process
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Thema: Maschinelles Lernen in und für die Archäologie
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2020-30 Apr 2024)
Prof. Dr.
Natural Philosophy in the Polemics of the Muslims of Medieval Iberia
Visiting Scholar (16 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2023)
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Spaces of Visual Epistemology
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-31 Dec 2023)
PhD, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Faculty in Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Projekte: 1) Camera obscura interactive database and timeline 2) “In-Camera-Out”, Moving Portraits
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2020-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
The Euclidean World. A Global History of Cross-Cultural Transmissions, Translations and Transformations of Euclid’s Elements
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PD Dr.
Geld – Macht – Wissenschaft. Eine Strukturgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Sphaera Project
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2006-31 Jan 2024)
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Wissenschaftliche Philosophie und öffentliche Vernunft
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (16 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2023)
Doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari Università Venezia in the ERC-project Early Modern Cosmology Editorial Manager for Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology (EOA book series).
The Unity of Science in the Anthropocene
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PhD, Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London
The Survival of Cuneiform Writing and Knowledge of Akkadian (Babylonian)
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PhD, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2012-1 Jan 2025)
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Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2016-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr.
Computational History of Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2023-31 Oct 2023)
Scientific Controversies as a Window to Modeling Processes in the Life
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Geschichte der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt
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The Italian Abbacus School: Its Background and Its Influence
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CO2: The Molecular Aluminum Can
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Forschung im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1871-1918)
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The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
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The Max Planck Society and the Internationalization of Life Science Research, During the Cold War and Beyond
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Alfonsine Astronomers at Work: Computing Daily Planetary Positions, 1330 - 1560
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Applying the socio-epistemic network methodology to the history of recent physical sciences
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Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Machine Drawings
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PhD, Dept. of History University College London
Technologies of Health c. 1450-1750
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (27 Jan 2023-29 Feb 2024)
CorDeep and the Sacrobosco Dataset: Detection of Visual Elements in Historical Documents
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Text and Context in Early Islamic Scholarship: A Ninth-Century Paraphrase of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy
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Prof. Dr.
The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
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The dissemination of Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera
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The History of the Accademia dei Lincei, 1870-2000
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Professor, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA
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Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
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Prof. Dr.
Sylter Austern. Eine tausendjährige multiperspektivische Beziehungsgeschichte von ostrea und homo sapiens
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Die Erwirtschaftung des Anthropozäns? Die Rolle des modernen Wirtschaftens in den Entwicklungsdynamiken zur Entstehung des Anthropozäns: Ursprünge und neue Wege
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Dr., Professor, Universität Hamburg
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)
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– Luftfahrtforschung und Okkupationspolitik: Die „Außenstellen“ der Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt im europäischen Herrschaftsbereich des NS-Regimes während des Zweiten Weltkriegs – Vergangenheitspolitik der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft –Dual Use-Problematik und militärische Forschung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (17 Oct 2022-31 Oct 2023)
NFDI4Objects: Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History
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Dipl. Soz.
Bibliometrie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2022-30 Jun 2024)
Prof. Dr.
Marc Bloch: The Philosophy of an Historian
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2021-31 Jul 2025)
The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology
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Erschließung und Aufbereitung von Dokumenten zur Lehre und Forschung des Göttinger Physikers Robert Wichard Pohl (1884 – 1976)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Dec 2023)
A “Fair Trade” of Knowledge? Ipecacuanha as an Example of Practices of Knowledge Exchange Between South America and Europe, 16th-19th Centuries
Research Scholar (1 Aug 2014-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
How the Max Planck Society Generated New Knowledge in the Field of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Dec 2025)
Dr.
Industrial Catalysis and its Impact on the Human-Earth-System in the Anthropocene
Research Scholar (1 Mar 2017-31 Dec 2023)
Dr. phil.
History of the Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience and the Cognitive Sciences (BNC) in the Max Planck Society
Research Scholar (15 Jan 2018-25 Nov 2026)
PhD
The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition
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Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor for Special Appointment, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Research Scholar (15 Jul 2016-31 Mar 2024)
Dr.
Methoden zur Analyse eines Textkorpus
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Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
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Moving Back into Laboratory: Responsibility and Economisation of the Life Sciences in the MPG (1948-2000)
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Ecologies of Skins
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Coal: A Global Object of Knowledge; Métissage: A Problem of European History
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The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity in Europe