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Annual Report 1995
Table of Contents
- Research scholars
- Visiting scholars and research fellows
- Project 1: The Relation of Practical
Experience and Conceptual Structures in the Emergence of Science
- General Goals of the Project
- Current research activities related to
``The Relation of Practical Experience and Conceptual Structures in the
Emergence of Science''
- The Emergence of Preclassical Mechanics
- The Sources of Medieval Theoretical Mechanics
- The Terminology of Preclassical Mechanics
- The Cosmological Contexts of Mechanics
- A New Translation of Newton's Principia
- Project 2: Studies in the Integration
and Disintegration of Knowledge in Modern Science
- General Goals of the Project
- Current research activities related to
``Studies in the Integration and Disintegration of Knowledge in Modern
Science''
- Knowledge Integration and Concept Formation
in Microbiology
- The Philosophical Integration of Classical
Science
- Newton's Synthesis of jusiV and tecnh
and its Reception in the Hegelian system
- The Disintegration of Nineteenth Century
Physics and its Reflection in Wittgenstein's Philosophy
- The Relativity Crisis and the Reorganization
of Classical Knowledge on Gravitation
- The Quantum Crisis and the Reorganization
of Research Strategies in Classical Physics
- The Disintegration of Evolutionary Biology
- Development: Electronic Research Tools
and Databases
- General Goals of the Developments
- Current work related to ``Electronic
Research Tools and Databases''
- Toolbox for the Development of Electronic
Working Environments
- Electronic Edition and Representation
of Codex Ms. 72, Galileo's manuscripts on mechanics (joint project together
with the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza and with the Biblioteca
Nazionale Centrale in Florence)
- Database of Proto-Cuneiform Texts from
Archaic Babylonia (joint project together with the Seminar of Near Eastern
Archaeology of the Freie Universität Berlin, with the Near Eastern
Department of the Pergamon Museum Berlin, and with the Computer Center
of the Universität Lüneburg)
- Computer Representation and Analysis
of Astronomical Diaries from Ancient Mesopotamia
- Electronic Models of Discovery Processes
- Project 1: The varieties of scientific
experience
- General Goals of the Project
- Current research activities related to
``The Varieties of Scientific Experience''
- Wonders and the Order of Nature
- The Emergence of Scientific Psychiatry:
From Clinical Observation to Social Field Work
- A World on Paper: Experiment, Explanation,
and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Organic Chemistry
- The Eloquence of Experiment: Changing
Physical Standards in Nineteenth-Century Experimental Physics
- The Electrification of Iceland: The Calibration
of Physics and Culture
- Entering a New Field from Different Contexts:
The Early Research of Faraday and Ampère in Electromagnetism
- Project 2: The history of scientific
objectivity
- General Goals of the Project
- Current research activities related to
``The History of Scientific Objectivity''
- The Images of Objectivity
- History as a Problem for the Sciences:
Changing Approaches to History in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
in Germany after 1900
- Women Scientists at the Berlin University
and at the Berlin Institutes of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, 1898-1945
- Other activities of the research scholars
- Activities of the visiting scholars
and research fellows
- Library and documentation unit
- Computing service unit
- Workshops and conferences
- Workshop on ``Fundamental Concepts of
Early Modern Chemistry in the Context of Operational and Experimental Practice,''
June 16-18, 1995
- ``Fourth International Conference on
the History of General Relativity'', July 31 - August 3, 1995
- Berlin Summer Academy 1995: ``The Knowing
Body of the Scientist/ Körperkenntnisse in den Naturwissenschaften,''
August 13-26, 1995
- ``The Coming into Being and Passing Away
of Scientific Objects,'' September 20-23, 1995
- Memorial Symposium for Lorenz Krüger,
September 25, 1995
- Workshop ``Rethinking - not Unthinking
- the Enlightenment,'' November 11-12, 1995
- Planned Workshops and Conferences
- Workshop ``Gene Concepts in Development
and Evolution II,'' October 17-20, 1996
- ``The Display of Nature in Eighteenth-Century
Europe,'' December 1996
- ``Varieties of Scientific Experience,''
June 19-22, 1997
- Berlin Summer Academy: Nature's Histories,
August 1997
- International Summer Seminar, August
1998
- Internal Colloquium of the Institute
1995
- Cumulative Bibliography to date December
31, 1995
- Preprints 1995
- Speeches at the opening ceremony of the
Institute on March 31, 1995
Responsible: J. Schneider.
Last Modified: November 4, 1996