• Swirls of Colours

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    Institute's Colloquium 2024-25: History of Science in Public

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    Science Social

    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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Matteo Valleriani interviewed by Science News on the use of AI for historians of science

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In Pictures: Researchers Pitch at MPIWG's Autumn Publications Slam

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Events

String Theory and the ‘Real World’ in the 1980s

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Emerging Traditions in Zodiac Representations in the Hellenistic Era

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The War for Chinese Talent in America and Lessons for Europe

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Another Day at the Office: Tracking Epistemic Change in the Minutiae of Daily Work-Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

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