The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) has published its format “Research Topics” since 2008. Every six to eight weeks, researchers present individual contributions of one relevant aspect of their research or present a new research project. “Research Topics” appear on the home page of the Institute’s website and in a printed version available in the MPIWG’s entrance hall. The online version makes the latest research easily available and offers links to sources, databases, audiovisual material, publications, authors, and partner institutions. Published in German and English, the collection of Research Topics gives a representative picture of the ways in which research is conducted at the Institute. Copies can be ordered in brochure form through the Institute's press contact.
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No 45![]()
Refugee Housing
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Mapping Climatology
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One Hundred Years of Gravitational Waves
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- Alexander Blum
- Roberto Lalli
- Jürgen Renn
- Dept. I
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How High Is the Sea?
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The Renewal of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in the Post-War Era
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Do Data Have Politics?
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From Sound to Knowledge
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Colours and Their Context
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- Sylvie Neven
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
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Is Bigger Better
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- Dagmar Schäfer
- Nina Lerman
- Martina Siebert
- Dept. III
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Rooting Language Family Trees
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Making Genetics Human
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Galileo’s Laboratory of Ideas
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- Jürgen Renn
- Matteo Valleriani
- Jochen Büttner
- Dept. I
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Historicizing Big Data
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Ancient Balances at the Nexus of Innovation and Knowledge
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Looking at Diversity
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- Veronika Lipphardt
- Kathrin von Lehmann
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
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How Recipes Created Knowledge in Early Modern Households
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Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments
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Science under Scrutiny
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The Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences
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- Jürgen Renn
- Helge Wendt
- Dept. I
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Parts Unknown: Making the Familiar Strange
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