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History of Scientific Observation
This Working Group, Histories of Scientific Observation, met several times during the years 2005–08. The outcome of this work, a book edited by Lorrai
Brownian Motion and Microphysical Reality c. 1900
In the years around 1900 scientific research became increasingly concerned with sub-microscopic entities, including atoms, molecules, ions, bacteria,
Drawing As Observing
Jan Altmann aimed to explore the functions and effects of drawing as a technique and mode of scientific observation. Even seeing is not a passive proc
Picturing the Inaccessible: Gazing under the Earth’s Surface (Eighteenth to Twentieth Century)
This project investigated the visualization of the hidden zones beneath the Earth’s surface and the interior of the Earth, in science and art. The geo
Of Telescopes and Footprints—Indicators, Statistical Observation, and Political Perception
Rafael Ziegler primarily worked on two case studies. The first one, on the Traum vom Umweltraum, studied the “eco-space” approach that has been propos
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Arts of Memory
Rhodri Lewis's research project was concerned with the reception and development of the classical arts of memory (mnemotechnics), principally in north
Publications, “‘The best mnemonicall expedient’: John Beale’s Art of Memory and its Uses”, The Seventeenth Century 20 (2005), 113-44.
The Politics of Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Landscape has long been an object of aesthetic interest. Painted by artists, chanted by poets, depicted by writers, it remained a way to see the outsi
Funding Institutions, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Strategies of Visualization in German Archeology, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
As an object-based science, classical archeology has to retrieve objects of investigation not only in the place where they were actually situated but
Publications, Bilder im Wandel : der Berliner Archäologe Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz und die Konkurrenz von Zeichnung und Fotografie. In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 49 (2007), p. 115-126
How Did a Centaur Get to Early Modern London? Observation and Reading in the European Study of Nature, ca. 1550–1750
Building on Gianna Pomata’s and Nancy G. Siraisi’s notion of "learned empiricism," this project aimed at overcoming the dichotomy between early modern
How Surveys Expressed the USA: A Study of Government Statistics during the Interwar Period
Emmanuel Didier's project at the MPIWG was to turn his PhD dissertation (2001), into a book under contract with INED Press in France. The provisional