Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

Jürgen Renn

Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin

May 4, 2021

Exhibition: "Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos" at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Leonardo da Vinci is commonly known as the great inventor of creative machines, the artist of the famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man. But Leonardo was also an avid reader: […]

Exhibition: "Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos" at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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