Nineteen people work at the project The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe, based in five different areas located at the level of institute infrastructure (Communication, IT, and Library) and the research unit of Department I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
The first area concerns the historical research; the second, the development of Digital Humanities tools; the third the acquisition of the historical sources, of which the corpus is constituted; the fourth the presentation and the digital output of the project, and the fifth support concerning the production and cleaning of metadata as well as bibliographic research and acquisition of necessary secondary literature.
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Sabine Bertram
Head of Collection
Sabine Bertram is responsible for the rare books department of the library. She collects all the electronic copies of the treatises that belong to the early modern corpus of the Sphaera’s tradition.
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Esther Chen
Head of the Library
Esther Chen is Head of the Library at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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Stephanie Hood
Editing & Communication
Stephanie Hood curates the website of the project and supports its outreach.
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Anna I. Siebold
PhD Candidate in History
Affiliation:
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
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Florian Kräutli
IT Developer
Florian Kräutli’s research revolves around digital tools for knowledge production in the humanities. He specializes in data visualization and computational research methods in the qualitative sciences.
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Julius Martinetz
Machine Learning Researcher
Affiliation:
TU Berlin
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Christoph Sander
Historian
Christoph Sander is an expert in Medieval and Early Modern scientific text traditions and is currently investigating, in the frame of this project, the relation between the tradition of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera and the Catholic censorship.
Affiliation:
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History -
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Noga Shlomi
PhD Candidate in History
Affiliation:
Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
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Irina Tautschnig
Historian
Affiliation:
Universität Innsbruck. Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen Bereich Gräzistik und Latinistik / Projekt Noscemus
Austria
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Matteo Valleriani
Research Group Leader / Principal Investigator
Matteo Valleriani is concerned with the evolution of the scientific knowledge system in thirteenth- to seventeenth-century Europe. He also develops mathematical network models for history writing.
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Maryam Zamani
Physicist
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden