Bill M. Mak's History of Astral Science Laboratory

25/04/2026

25/04/2026

Cambridge Book Launch: Foreign Astral Sciences in China
Lecture: Cosmopolitan Heavens—Tracing Foreign Astral Sciences in Early Medieval China
24 April 2026

Organisers: NRI Series Editor Prof Christopher Cullen, Director Prof Mei Jianjun, Librarian John Moffett. A memorable and beautiful gathering with friends to celebrate the 21st book of the Needham Research Institute Series!

29/10/2025

Five Reviews on "Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia" (2022)

The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art.

24/10/2025

Exhibition: Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies

panke.gallery seeks to open up a dialogue between established and emerging artists whose work comes out of the connections between digital or net-based art and club culture, especially in the recent history of Berlin. Its program of exhibitions and events takes place in a gallery space within the pr...

23/10/2025

MPIWG ASTRA in Berlin
A fascinating workshop on Persian horoscopy and nativity manuscripts

https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/fortunate-and-fearful-years-structure-and-content-persian-nativity-books

23/10/2025

First ZODIAC colloqium this semester in Berlin

Abdurishid Yakup (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

"Astral Texts from Medieval Central Asia"

08/10/2025

Colloquium in Berlin

The Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World and the ERC-project "ZODIAC - Ancient Astral Science in Transformation", in association with the Max-Planck Research Group "Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia" (ASTRA, MPIWG, Berlin)

Wednesday, 18:00-19:30 s.t.

Venue: Inst. f. the History of Knowledge, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 10, room 010, 14195 Berlin

The Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World and the ERC-project "ZODIAC - Ancient Astral Science in Transformation", in association with the Max-Planck Research Group "Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia" (ASTRA, MPIWG, Berlin)

30/09/2025

ZODIAC GLOSSARY, an ongoing project by the ERC ZODIAC (Ancient Astral Science in Transformation) team. In it, one may find technical terms of ancient astral science in Egyptian, Akkadian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit.

26/03/2025

The latest Stellarium version 25.1 may now be downloaded freely from stellarium.org. One will find in it a variety "sky cultures" including asterisms of Vedic India and those of three periods in China: 3rd century (newly added), 1052, and 1844.

15/02/2025

Research Fellowship at the Needham Research Institute and Darwin College Cambridge
Fixed Term: October 2025 for 3 years

04/02/2025

2024-2025年度何丙郁奖学金获得者揭晓
Best wishes to Dr. Ji Chen, specialist of Ming-Qing astronomy and historical scientific exchange between China and the West, for her fellowship at the Needham Research Institute and Robinson College in Cambridge!