Dr. Matthias Schemmel

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Matthias Schemmel is head of the Topoi junior research group „Historical Epistemology of Space“ at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His research interests lie in the fields of long-term developments of fundamental structures of knowledge, early modern mechanics, twentieth-century physics and astronomy, and Chinese science.
 

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
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+49 30 22667-0 -119
 

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Career

Awards

2007 – Georg-Uschmann-Award for the history of science of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2006 – Junior scholar award of the Georg Agricola Society

 

Appointments

Visiting assistant professor at the University of Bern (2006/07, 2008)
Research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (1998-2008)

 
 

Publications

 
In Topoi

2010Medieval Representations of Change and Their Early Modern Application
Schemmel, Matthias
 
further Publications

  (Selection)
  The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 268 (Dordrecht 2008).
  Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics, 2 vols.: „Between Mechanics, Field Theory, and Astronomy“ and „The Promise of Mathematics“, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 250 (Dordrecht 2007) (Co-edited with Jürgen Renn).
  Medieval Representations of Change and Their Early Modern Application (To appear in a special issue of Foundations of Science).
  The Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Europe to China in the Early Modern Period, in: J. Renn (ed.), The Globalization of Knowledge and Its Consequences (to appear).
  The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot and the Force of Shared Knowledge in Early Modern Mechanics, Physics in Perspective 8 (2006) p. 360-380.
  Mechanics in the ‘Mohist Canon’ and Its European Counterpart, in: H. U. Vogel, Ch. Moll-Murata and Gao Xuan (eds.), Studies on Ancient Chinese Scientific and Technical Texts: Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST (Zhengzhou 2006) p. 24–31 (co-author with J. Renn).
  An Astronomical Road to General Relativity: The Continuity between Classical and Relativistic Cosmology in the Work of Karl Schwarzschild, Science in Context 18.3 (2005) p. 451–478.
  Gekrümmte Universen vor Einstein: Karl Schwarzschilds kosmologische Spekulationen und die Anfänge der relativistischen Kosmologie, in: H. W. Duerbeck and W. R. Dick, (eds.), Einsteins Kosmos: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Kosmologie, Relativitätstheorie und zu Einsteins Wirken und Nachwirken (Frankfurt a. M. 2005) p. 56–65.
  Exploring the Limits of Classical Physics: Planck, Einstein and the Structure of a Scientific Revolution, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003) p. 37–59 (co-author with J. Büttner and J. Renn).
  The Challenging Images of Artillery: Practical Knowledge at the Roots of the Scientific Revolution, in: W. Lefèvre, J. Renn, and Urs Schoepflin (eds.), The Power of Images in Early Modern Science (Basel 2003) p. 3–27 (co-author with J. Büttner, P. Damerow, and J. Renn).
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

A detailed CV can be found at the website of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.