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Institute's Colloquium | Jan 22, 2019 | 14:00 bis 15:30
Data and the Quest for Facts: Empirical Knowledge in the Age of Big and Open Data
MehrBrass Instrument Psychology: Timing—1840–1940
The term “brass instrument psychology,” a common term used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe laboratory psychology, sho
Virtual Laboratory Project, Essay on Titchener’s Photo Album , Funding Institutions, East Carolina University
MPIWG Map Collection: Comparative Study of Cosmographic Maps of the Qing Empire
The MPIWG collection of East Asian maps includes two versions of a large general map of the Qing Empire (printed on four sheets, overall size ca.
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Discovery and Justification: Revisiting a Precarious Distinction
Originally, the distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification was introduced to mark the difference between empirical studies of sci
Publications, Schickore, Jutta & Friedrich Steinle (eds.). Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction, New York: Springer, 2006.
The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the Geistkreis from Vienna to the New-World, 1920–1980
This project traces the story of the Viennese Geistkreis. An intellectual circle of (mainly law) students, which was gathered together by two friends—
Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors, and the History of Conservation Science and Politics
Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005) was the U.K.’s foremost conservation biologist and field naturalist in the 1960s,1970s and 1980s. He was also a prolific a
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Architecture in Two Dimensions. From Drawing to Photography
From the early Renaissance—from Leon Battista Alberti—to Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus to today’s computer modeling, architects have perennially strugg
Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica
The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877
This project studies early statistics—statistical science before its mathematization—in Britain, which was responsible for the advent of an unprecede
A Cultural History of Heredity
This project centered on the scientific and technological practices in which knowledge of heredity was materially entrenched and in which it unfolded
Related digital sources, vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de, Funding Institutions, Government of Liechtenstein