Abstract image of the Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klint

The Tree of Knowledge, HaK133  by Hilma af Klint. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation

Dept. III

Projects List

Dept. III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

Director Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Projects

The Circulation of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Theory of Technology in Early Modern Europe
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  • Stefanie Gänger
The Collecting and Study of Antiquities in Peru and Chile
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  • Several Scholars
Art and Science
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  • Jessica Ratcliff
The Company’s Serpents
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  • Marco Tamborini
The Constitution of Paleobiological Data
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The Cosmoscope and Its Users: The Role of Maps in Nineteenth-Century Plant Geography
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The Cybernetic State: Social Science, Information Technology, and American Government, 1955–1985
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  • Tania Munz
Of Birds and Bees
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The Dark Figure: Haunting and Counting the "Volksseele"
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The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text, and Practice
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The Demarcation of Science in Historical Perspective
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  • Susanne Pickert
Medieval Travelers’ Description of the Holy Sites
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The Earth Under Surveillance (TEUS)
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The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor, and the Visual Archive
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  • Jacob Habinek
The Emergence of the Life Sciences Field, 1750–1914
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  • Linda Henderson
The Energies of Modernism: Art, Science, and Occultism in the Early Twentieth Century
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The Environment of Note-Taking: Mining, ca. 1700–1900
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The Environment of Note-Taking: Mining, ca. 1700–1900
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  • Martha Fleming
Epistemic Effect of Display Practices
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Epistemic Virtues in Humanities and Science
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The Evolutionary Future
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  • Estelle Blaschke
The Excess of the Photographic Archive
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  • Dominique Pestre
Government of Techno-Science
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  • Several Scholars
History of Scientific Observation
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  • Monica Aufrecht
The History of the Distinction between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification
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The History of the Midlife Crisis
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  • Johan Östling
The Idea of the University: The Humboldtian Tradition in Twentieth-Century Germany
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  • Fernando Vidal
The Imagination and Miracles as Epistemic Things
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  • Several Scholars
The Impact of Neurosciences on Psychosomatics
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  • Luciana Vieira Caliman
Inattentive Individual
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