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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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Physiology of the Piano

Julia Kursell studies why the Muscovite neurophysiologist Nikolai Bernstein brought piano virtuosos into the laboratory.

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Numbering Bees

Historian of science Tania Munz examines Karl von Frisch’s work on honeybees over five decades and traces the transition of the bee as a cultural and scientific object.

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New Ways of Using Digital Images

Christine von Oertzen describes problems related to open access to digital visual media and reports on the efforts of the MPIWG to establish guidelines for the scholarly use of visual sources. ...

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Telling Instruments

By studying the German physiologist and psychologist Hugo Münsterberg’s late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century laboratories in Freiburg and at Harvard University, Henning Schmidgen shows ...

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Microscope Slides: An Object of the History of Science?

The international Max Planck research network “History of Scientific Objects” aims to rediscover historical objects as a source for the history of science.

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What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?

Thomas Sturm reflects on a conference on historical epistemology, held at the MPIWG in July 2008, which brought together historians and philosophers of science.

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