News Archive

• 06/2010
  All six editions of Wilhelm Wundt's (1832-1920) renowned Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie from 1874 to 1911 are now online in the library (English Translation of the 5th edition by Titchener: Principles of Physiological Psychology, 1904).
  Also new in the journal section of the library: the complete Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (1890-1906).
• 05/2010
  Henning Schmidgen was awarded the Paul Bunge-Prize 2010 for his contributions to the historical study of scientific instruments and the Virtual Laboratory.
• 10/2009
  The Virtual Laboratory now provides online in the journal section the complete Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie from 1877 to 1921.
• 09/2008
  The library now provides historical audio material from the Phonogramm-Archiv (Berlin), and offers a selection of films from the 1930s, created mainly for teaching purposes.
  A new search feature has been added to the library: the new full-text search is based on automated OCR on a constantly growing corpus of selected sources.
• 02/2008
  The Virtual Laboratory introduces the picture of the month.
• 03/2007
  The Sites section has been updated: lots of new sites can be found on the list of physiological and psychological institutes.
• 08/2006
  The Concepts section provides a searchable headword register for Baldwin, James Mark. 1905. Dictionary of philosophy and psychology and other selected dictionaries and handbooks.
• 07/2006
  New in the Library: Nietzsches private copy of Féré, Charles. 1888. Dégénérescence et criminalité. Essai physiologique with marks by Nietzsche from the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
• 05/2006
  On May 12th and 13th, the workshop A glance in to the prime of Prussian culture: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's «Blick in Griechenlands Blüthe» and Prussian cultural narratives around 1820 will be held at the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin.
• 05/2006
  On May 5th and 6th the Experimentalization of Life Project organized the workshop Introspective Self-Rapports: Shaping Ethical and Aesthetic Concepts 1850-2006 at the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin.
• 04/2006
  The section on «Concepts» has been opened, presenting the headwords from selected handbooks and dictionaries. Some more will follow in the future.
• 02/2006
  On February 23th and 24th the Virtual Laboratory has been presented on the .hist2006 conference in Berlin.
• 03/2005
  From May 13th to October 2nd the Virtual Laboratory presents in Berlin the Exhibition Apoll in the Lab together with the «Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité».
• 03/2005
  From March 20th to October 3rd, 2005, the VL is shown at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. It is part of the show "Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy," curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
• 10/2004
  The Virtual Laboratory is now based on an entirely rewritten code. Though not everything is completely finished yet, this new version has so many new features and much richer content, that we decided to go online now. We are still working on it, so please be patient if you come across some things that do not yet work or look as they should.
  - The section on «Experiments» has opened.
  - The «Technology» section has been completely reorganized with subcategories of selected important instruments.
  - The Library offers new access to more than 3,500 complete bibliographic references concerning the private libraries of two eminent scholars, i.e. Johannes Müller and Wilhelm Wundt.
  - A new feature is our Encyclopaedia module. A growing collection of original contributions highlights important issues in systematic form, relating at the same time to the various sections of the VL.
• 09/2004
  The section on «Experiments» has opened; The Library offers new access to more than 3,500 complete bibliographic references concerning the private libraries of two eminent scholars, i.e. Johannes Müller and Wilhelm Wundt; A new feature is the Encyclopaedia module, a growing collection of original contributions that highlights important issues in systematic form, relating at the same to the various sections of the VL.
• 08/2003
  The section on «Technology» has opened, giving access to more than 15,000 images with a search engine and lists of selected, categorized instruments and their datasheets.
• 04/2003
  The digital Library holds more than 1000 items!
• 10/2002
  Selected Helmholtz papers from the Archives of the BBAW
• 07/2002
  Emil du Bois Reymond: Laboratory Diaries (1841-1895), provided by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• 03/2002
  The VL is going online!