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Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des MPIWG veröffentlichen zahlreiche Bücher, darunter Monografien, Gruppenarbeiten und Sammelbände. Unsere Arbeitsgruppenbücher, eine institutsspezifische Publikationsform, sind von zwei oder mehr Autorinnen und Autoren verfasste Bände, die aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit entstehen.
Why does a magnet attract iron? Why does a compass needle point north? Although the magnet or lodestone was known since antiquity, magnetism only became an important topic in natural science and technology in the early modern period.
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History of science's spatial turn has focused on the horizontal dimension, leaving the role of the vertical mostly unexplored as both a condition and object of scientific knowledge production. This special issue seeks to contribute to a burgeoning discussion on the role of verticality in modern sciences, building upon a wider interdisciplinary debate about the importance of the vertical and the volumetric in the making of modern lifeworlds.
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This contributed volume explores the renaissance of general relativity after World War II, when it transformed from a marginal theory into a cornerstone of modern physics.
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Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship.
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Covid-19, Klimakrise, Big Tech, algorithmic bias, #MeToo: Wissen, Wissenschaft und Technologie hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren in einem Maße politisiert wie letztmals um 1980.
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Nur wenn wir begriffen haben, womit wir es seit 150 Jahren in unseren Motoren, Laboren, Körpern und Träumen zu tun haben, können wir uns von dieser ebenso zauberhaften wie verhängnisvollen Substanz wieder lösen.
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Do today's technoscientific disciplines—including materials science, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics—signal a radical departure from traditional science? In Technoscience in History, Ursula Klein argues that these novel disciplines and projects represent not an “epochal break,” but part of a history that can be traced back to German “useful” sciences and beyond.
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‘Gone to Ground’ is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the center of this shift.
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Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire.
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Der Erste Weltkrieg von 1914 bis 1918 war nicht nur ein globales Ereignis aus militärhistorischer Perspektive, sondern hatte auch erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die protestantischen und katholischen Missionsgesellschaften in den Kolonien in Afrika und auf dem indischen Subkontinent.
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A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices.
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At a time when the social and cultural importance of silk in the pre-modern global world is increasingly evident, this volume returns to the issue of technology and queries the ways in which actors determined the nature of silk by deploying, selecting, or pursuing certain set of technics, practices, or ideals (while dismissing or ignoring others).
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One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world’s largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor.
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After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its prominence and novelty attracted the interest of not only Chinese literati but also foreign scholars.
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The first book-length history of this controversial concept, MPIWG alumna Susanne Schmidt’s "Midlife Crisis" recounts the surprising origin story of the midlife debate and traces its movement from popular culture into academia.
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Kunst im Krieg? Das Buch zeigt anhand der Geschichte der Camouflage, wie in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts überraschende neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit zum Zweck der Tarnung entstanden. Künstler*innen betonten ihre Expertise in Illusionsgestaltung und entwickelten fleckige Tarnmuster, kulissenartige Attrappen, nächtliche Lichtinstallationen und unterrichteten auch Camouflage.
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This work fills a void in Assyriological studies. It provides a methodology to explore, understand, and exploit statistical data. The anlaysis also fills a void in the history of mathematics by presenting historians of mathematics a method to study practical texts.
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Einstein on Einstein features the full English text of Autobiographical Notes along with incisive essays that place Einstein’s reflections in the context of the different stages of his scientific life.
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"Know Your Remedies" presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization.
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Examining the neglected organizational and research origins of the first interdisciplinary centres for the brain sciences.
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