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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) scholars’ articles and preprints are the results of completed and ongoing research projects. Many of the journal articles are also free to access.
Turnbull, Thomas (2024). “Redefining Efficiency: US Physicists and the 1970s Energy Crisis.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 54 (3): 365–406. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.3.365.
Mousavi, Razieh-Sadat (2024). “From Complex to Simple: The Example of Qibla-Indicators.” In Failed Historical Scientific Instruments, ed. S. J. Schechner and S. Talas, 148–166. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689107_010.
Ahlers, Anna L. (2024). The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations and Reality. La Jolla, CA: University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. https://ucigcc.org/publication/the-communist-partys-steering-of-chinas-science-technology-and-innovation-system-aspirations-and-reality/.
Luchetti, Michele (2024). “Epistemic Circularity and Measurement Validity in Quantitative Psychology: Insights from Fechner’s Psychophysics.” Frontiers in Psychology 15 (Article 1354392). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1354392.
Baark, Erik (2024). “‘New Quality Productive Forces’ to Revamp Economy: Can China Succeed?” ThinkChina, April 24, 2024. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_27004376.
Wietecha, Tracy (2024). “Losing Foreignness: Johann Sigismund Elsholtz on the Meaning of Plants in the Pleasure Gardens of Berlin.” Notes and Records, February 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0068.
Schüßler, Lotte (2024). “Distance Education During a Paper Shortage: Wartime Economics, Efficiency, and the Nazi Humanities at the Front.” Journal for the History of Knowledge 5. https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.15221.
Sun, Yifei and Erik Baark (2024). “Missing Transformational Place Leadership-Why High-Tech Industries are not Developed in Hong Kong.” Regional Economic Development Research 5 (1): 17–31. https://doi.org/10.37256/redr.5120244215.
Baark, Erik (2024). “China’s Digital Silk Road: Innovation in a New Geopolitical Environment.” East Asian Policy 16 (1): 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793930524000023.
Luo, Zhifan, Xiao Yang, and Muyang Li (2024). “Breaking Borders, Bridging Fields: Unveiling the Transculturality of Anti-Asian Racism in a Global Context.” Sociological Inquiry 94 (2): 319–329. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12597.
Kaye, Aleksandra (2024). “Piecing together ‘Big Pictures’ with Social Network Analysis and Digital Tools.” BJHS Themes, April 11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2024.5.
Yang, Yulei (2024). “From China to Korea: Kim Suhong’s Cheonha gogeum daechong pyeollam do.” In Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”, ed. M. Cams and E. Papelitzky, 188–205. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/remapping-the-world-in-east-asia-toward-a-global-history-of-the-ricci-maps/.
Germanese, Donatella (2024). “Atoms for Peace: Convincing the World of the Goodness of Atomic Energy.” In Transform! Designing the Future of Energy, ed. M. Kries and J. Eisenbrand, 156–165. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum.
Lazaroff-Puck, Cameron (2024). “Empire-Laden Theory: The Technological and Colonial Roots of Maxwell’s Theories of Electromagnetism.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 54 (1): 42–83. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.1.42.
Kannan, Thamarai Selvan (2023). “Skin and Sound: Caring for and Crafting Bovine Hide in South India.” Technology and Culture 64 (4): 1121–1139. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.a910997.
Novick, Tamar (2023). “On the Cover: Speculations with Vaginal Specula.” Technology and Culture 64 (4): 1019–1026. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.a910992.
Beech, Lucy and Tamar Novick (2023). “Sex Panic and the Productive Infertility of the Freemartin.” Technology and Culture 64 (4): 1071–1092. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.a910995.
Novick, Tamar, ed. (2023). Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies. Special issue, Technology and Culture 64 (4). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51785.
Johnson, Benjamin (2024). “The Closed Carbon Cycle: In a Managed, Stable Anthropocene.” The Anthropocene Review, February 13, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196231184777.
Geller, Markham J., ed. (2023). Commentaries from Babylon to Byzantinum: Gleanings from the MPWIG. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte : Preprint 516. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/2024-516-PREPRINT-deptrenn-babylon-geller_0.pdf.
