Ian Lawson
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Interdisciplinary Laboratory
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Ian Lawson completed his PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, focusing on Robert Hooke‘s scientific methodology and microscope use. He taught at Sydney before joining the Max Planck Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science as a Visiting Fellow in Winter 2016/17, and is also currently part of the guest teaching faculty at Bard College Berlin.
Ian has a stipendium from the »Bild Wissen Gestaltung« Cluster of Excellence, where he is researching understandings and uses of vision, optics, images and colour in early modern Europe. In particular, his focus is on the way instruments, pictures and practices influenced theoretical understandings as well as expressed knowledge themselves.