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Colloquium Summer 2016
Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
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Types of Professionalization and Scientification in the Humanities, 1770–1870
There is a substantial and growing literature on the formation of the "modern scholar" and the corresponding ethos and scholarly persona in the late e
The Hydraulic Machines in Antiquity: A Reassessment
The project discusses the various explanations of the rising motion of water inside small pipes and tubes and tries to understand how the Greeks came
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Structural Mathematical Change in Musical Thought in the Early Modern Period
The project deals with structural transformations in the theory of ratios in the theory of music in the early modern times and the consequent emergenc
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Epigenetic Landscapes
This book project focused on the iconic image of the epigenetic landscape, introduced by CH Waddington in 1952 to illustrate the probabilistic relatio
The Matrix and Structures of Practical Knowledge
The matrix is a stable structure of epistemic economy. It considers useful aspects of knowledge and spillover effects that enable knowledge produced i
Early Modern Mechanics: Benedetti
The Italian Renaissance of mechanics, an age in which “artist-engineers” were transformed into “scientist-engineers” and eventually at court, “mathema
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The History of Hydrostatics in the Early Modern Period
This study of the history of hydrostatics fills a gap in the project undertaken at the MPIWG on the origins of mechanics, which hitherto has not inclu
The Mathematization of Mechanics
The project investigates if and to what extent antique natural science continued to have an impact after the seventeenth century, despite the rise of
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History and Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
The other major pillar of the “Rethinking Basic Science” theme is the study of the history of quantum field theory, which focuses on the attempts to b