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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.
Six essays on pre-modern translations across a variety of languages and disciplines, exploring both their technical commonalities and cultural specificities, while also addressing the reception of the ideas they transmit.
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Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended from that last colony protected in Gran Paradiso under Mussolini’s rule.
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This special issue turns the tables. We ask how local definitions and practices of usefulness and reliability generated wealth and technological change.
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The contributions featured in the theme issue “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound” address the period between approximately 1890 and 1970—from the modern disciplinary formation of knowledge about sound and the rise of the social sciences and humanities to the beginnings of computerized sound research.
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Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness and animality so as to better germinate unruly, wily, perverse relationships between them, and their spawn. Through tranimacies the book aims at rethinking the linking of liberation struggles amongst former colonized peoples and lands, minoritized genders and sexualities, racially marked persons and non-human animals, and does so in a variety of geopolitical and temporal sites.
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Leonardo da Vinci ist allgemein bekannt als großer Erfinder kreativer Maschinen, als Künstler der berühmten Zeichnung des Vitruvianischen Menschen. Doch Leonardo war auch ein wissbegieriger Leser: In seiner persönlichen Bibliothek standen fast 200 Bücher aus Wissenschaft und Technik, Literatur und Religion.
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The MPIWG, with the Museo Galileo and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, has now reconstructed the lost book collection of Leonardo da Vinci for the exhibition “Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos,” where visitors can marvel at many of these outstanding old works. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly-illustrated catalogue including essays by leading Leonardo experts, available in German and in English from Giunti Editore.
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In diesem Buch geht es um das Experimentieren, das in den Wissenschaften seit der Frühen Neuzeit eine immer größere Rolle spielt. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass sich Philosophie und Geschichte der Wissenschaften mit der unglaublichen Vielgestaltigkeit des Experimentierens kaum auseinandergesetzt haben.
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Contemporary scholarship concerning science diplomacy is increasingly taking a historical approach. Through cases discussed in the articles of the special issue we see that historically, in the Global South as well as the Global North, science diplomacy has often functioned to mediate the circulation of technoscientific knowledge and materials, and its historical study helps to better illuminate the resulting knowledge‐power nexus.
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This volume in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categories to the historical, sociological, and cultural analysis of science.
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This book is about the radical novelty of modern polities in a functionally differentiated world society. Premodern states were at the apex of a stratified, hierarchical society. They dominated society and all its groups and strata. Modern polities have to be understood through the ecology of relations among different function systems.
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This Introduction presents the key concerns of “Sonic Things: knowledge formation in flux,” a Special Issue of Sound Studies.
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L'idea di una costruzione logica del mondo, cruciale per la filosofia della scienza del XX secolo, non è nuova. La tradizione aristotelica ha giocato una parte fondamentale nello stabilire una connessione essenziale fra scienza e logica, come pure più avanti le discussioni filosofiche del primo periodo moderno.
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The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the authors’ fieldwork, interviews and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses and forms of engagement in Chinese society.
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The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante.
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In dieser Studie wird gezeigt, dass Phänomenologie und Begleitumstände von »past life«-Erfahrungen gegen ihre Interpretation als Erinnerungen im Sinne eines Wiedererlebens sprechen.
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This book is more than a text translation: It is a veritable goldmine of information about the historical and conceptual dimensions of the problem with which Aquinas grapples.
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Edna Bonhomme befasst sich mit dem aktuellen Thema „Ungleichheit“ und zeigt dies am Beispiel der Situation der meist schwarzen Gefangenen in den USA. Sie sind dem Corona-Virus in besonderer Weise ausgesetzt.
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This special issue is the collective result of a working group of historians who focus on very different periods and regions, such as the medieval Latin West, Spanish America, Qing China, and the Ottoman Empire.
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