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Scholars of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) have a strong book publication record, with output including individual publications, group collaborations, and edited volumes. Our Working Group books are volumes written by two or more authors as the result of intensive collaboration, and are a particular specialty of the Institute.
This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century.
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Mit Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007) widmet sich dieser Band einem der letzten universal gebildeten Gelehrten im deutschen Sprachraum aus Anlass seines 100. Geburtstages.
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This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba's scientific system from the colonial period to the present.
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Alchemy, the royal art of transforming stones into silver and base metals into gold, has captured the popular imagination for centuries and is a particularly fruitful subject for artists.
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In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were at the very center of the building of Franco’s Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science and technology have described scientists and engineers as working “under” Francoism, subject to censorship and bound by politically mandated research agendas.
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Kunst und Alchemie verbindet ein ehrgeiziges Ziel: die Vervollkommnung der Natur. Von rätselhaften, allegorischen Darstellungen von Jan Brueghel d.Ä. und Albrecht Dürer bis hin zu Werken von Yves Klein und Anish Kapoor spürt der opulente Band dem facettenreichen Austausch von Alchemie und Kunst nach.
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L’invention de l'hystérie nous porte au 18e siècle, lors de l’élaboration des maladies nerveuses frappant les gens du monde, hommes et femmes, et les lettrés en particulier. Qu’est ce qui se joue dans l’écriture de ce diagnostic ? À travers des textes de médecins, de patients, d’écrivains, Sabine Arnaud déchiffre toute une société.
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This book presents new research on women scientists who enjoyed careers at industrial corporations during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. It focuses on women who were active in Germany, Russia, and the United States, but the situation in Greece, France, and Great Britain is also addressed.
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'Observing by Hand' sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of handdrawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. The author investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae.
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass.
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Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted.
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Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932. The author conveys how Einstein's life and work were linked to the scientific and social life of the city and inspires the reader to explore the places where he made his mark.
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Sous ce titre qui rend hommage à la pensée de Derrida, sont rassemblées des conférences tenues par le biologiste Hans-Jörg Rheinberger entre 1994 et 2007. Six textes aussi brefs que denses, nourris de vie de laboratoire et de philosophie franco-allemande – de Gaston Bachelard à Bruno Latour en passant par Martin Heidegger et Jacques Lacan –, qui donnent à voir un mouvement épistémologique sur le temps long.
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The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
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Erstaunliche Geschichten aus der Erforschung eines der scheinbar vertrautesten Tätigkeiten des Menschen, dem Gehen – von Physiologie und Medizin über die Kriminologie bis hin zur Literatur und bildender Kunst.
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The manuscripts of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
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Während des Kalten Krieges spielten die physikalischen Wissenschaften eine zentrale Rolle in den beiden Machtblöcken. Die Beiträge nehmen das Extrem dieses Spannungsverhältnisses in den Blick, wie Ideologie und Politik die Entwicklung der Physik beeinflussten und deformierten.
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Die vorliegenden, vor allem auf der Grundlage des bisher nur unzureichend berücksichtigten Nachlasses entstandenen Studien geben Aufschlüsse über die für Schlick besonders prägenden Rostocker Jahre (1910 bis 1922). Zudem wird gezeigt, wie Schlick seine in diesem Zeitraum entwickelten Perspektiven in den Kontext des sich seit 1924 herausbildenden Wiener Kreises einbrachte.
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More than a century after the beginning of the quantum revolution, historians continue to explore new facets in the history of quantum physics, and to re-examine some of its better-known aspects.
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Die niederländische Stillebenmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts nahm aktiv an den naturphilosophischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen der Zeit teil, dennoch wird sie in der Forschung bis heute vereinfachend als „realistisch-abbildende“ Kunst bezeichnet.
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