MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

A shop superintendent instructing a worker, probably at Spring Quarry, Wiltshire, England, 1942
Remaking the British workplace through psy-science
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Illustration of the Japanese plant Tsubaki (today known as Camellia japonica) in an observation by Andreas Cleyer in Miscellanea Curiosa. Source: 2 Decuria, 7. 1688
Cultural History of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum
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Folio from an Arabic manuscript of Dioscorides, De materia medica, 1229. Public domain.
Philosophy and Medicine in Late Antique Alexandria
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Camillo Golgo, “Image of a dog’s olfactory bulb,” Plate 7 in Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervosa (1885), in the public domain.
  • Several Scholars
Knowing Nerves
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The neotenic, sexually mature axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum
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The plate shows motion of the amoeba through the shifting of internal substance
Biological Motion
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Measuring a patient image
Measuring a Patient
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A hastily made wiring duct connecting two labs in the Central European University’s Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna. Photo: Cameron Brinitzer, January 2020.
The Evolution of Culture
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“Cosmic board” from a Western-Han tomb excavated in Yizheng, Jiangsu
The Visuality of Chinese Cosmology
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