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

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The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877
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  • Marie-Noelle Bourguet
The Scientific Traveler’s Notebook
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  • Nicolas Michel
The Shaping of Generality in the Emergence of Enumerative Geometry (1852–1900)
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  • Jacob Habinek
The Social Origins of Life Science Disciplines in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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  • Per Wisselgren
The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden
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The Steady State of Cultures: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and American Anthropology, ca. 1930–1950
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The Strait in the Cold War
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  • Daniel Stolzenberg
Study of Amulets
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  • Marga Vicedo-Castello
Observation and Experimentation in the Study of Animal Behavior ;
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  • Marco Bresadola
The Virtues of Observational Practice
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  • Angela Matyssek
Theories and Practices of the Original in Contemporary Art
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  • Sarah Igo
Theorizing the Surveillance Society: Bodies of Data and “Data Bodies” in the 1970s
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Thinking about Rows and Columns
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  • Xiaona Wang
Though their Causes be not yet discover'd": Occult Traditions in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy
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Tools of the Phrenological Trade in Antebellum America
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  • Daniel Rosenberg
Toward a Quantitative History of Data
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  • Daniel Rosenberg
Toward a Quantitative History of Data
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  • Catherine Herfeld
Tracing the Origins of Rational Choice Theory
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The Organization of Global Plant Genetic Resources
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  • Luciana Kind
Brain Death and Somatic Limits of the Self
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  • Floris Solleveld
Types of Professionalization and Scientification in the Humanities, 1770–1870
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  • Teru Miyake
Underdetermination, Decompositon, and the A Priori
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Understanding Life in the Digital Age
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Utilitarian Neurology, 1803–1973
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  • Birgit Nemec
Of Social Landscapes and Political Images
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Visualization as Translation of Scientific Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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  • Boris Michel
Visualization in Geography
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  • Ashley West
Visualizing Knowledge
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Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions
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Vital Histories: A Reassessment of the Modern Life Sciences
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