Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The History of Scientific Observation: Research Project Prospectus, 2005-8

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Lorraine Daston, Andreas Mayer, Tania Munz, Thomas Sturm, Kelley Wilder

Extended Bibliography

Working Group Books

  • Fiorentini, Erna (Editor/s). Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.

Books

  • Lewis, Rhodri. Language, mind, and nature : artificial languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
  • Keller, Susanne B.. Naturgewalt im Bild : Strategien visueller Naturaneignung in Kunst und Wissenschaft 1750-1830. Weimar: VDG, 2006.

Edited Books

  • Fiorentini, Erna (Editor/s). Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.
  • Pickert, Susanne; Bernasconi, Gianenrico; Maerker, Anna; (Editor/s). Objects in transition : an exhibition at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ; August 16 - September 2, 2007. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2007.
  • Daston, Lorraine; Park, Katharine (Editor/s). The Cambridge history of science. Vol. 3: Early modern science. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
  • Daston, Lorraine; Mitman, Gregg (Editor/s). Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005.

Articles and Chapters

  • Fiorentini, Erna. "Optical instruments and modes of vision in early nineteenth century." In: Verfeinertes Sehen : Optik und Farbe im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, eds.: Busch, Werner. München: Oldenbourg, 2008.
  • Altmann, Jan. "Andere Augen : was Tiere sehen." In: Blick. Spiel. Feld, eds.: Denana, Malda; Hillgärtner, Jule; Holling, Eva. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008.
  • Altmann, Jan. "[Entry] 'Koch'." In: Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. Vol. 2, eds.: Hannavy, John. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2008.
  • De Rijcke, Sarah. "Light tries the expert eye : the introduction of photography in nineteenth-century macroscopic neuroanatomy. " Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17 (3 2008)
  • Klamm, Stefanie. "[Entries] 'Ahrendts’, 'Biow’, 'Böttger’, 'Bruckmann Verlag’, 'Edler’, 'Graff’, 'Matthies-Masuren’, 'Meydenbauer’, 'Miethe’, 'Schnauss’." In: Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. Vol. 1-2, eds.: Hannavy, John. New York [u.a.]: Taylor & Francis, 2008.
  • Park, Katharine. "Response to Brian Vickers 'Francis Bacon, feminist historiography, and the dominion of nature'. " Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (1 2008)
  • Fiorentini, Erna. "Raumsehen - Ortszeichnen : Wirklichkeit und Erlebnis im frühen 19. Jahrhundert." In: Räume der Zeichnung, eds.: Lammert, Angela; Meister, Carolin; Frühsorge, Jan-Philipp; Schallhorn, Andreas. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2007.
  • Lehoux, Daryn. "Observers, objects, and the embedded eye : or, seeing and knowing in Ptolemy and Galen. " Isis 98 (3 2007)
  • Fiorentini, Erna. "'Ich fand dann wieder genug zu sehen, zu studiren und zu bewundern' : Christoph Nathes Verhältnis zur Natur." In: 'Mit der Natur innig vertraut' : Christoph Nathe - Landschaftszeichner der Vorromantik, eds.: Michels, Norbert; Winzeler, Marius. Dessau [u.a.]: Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau [u.a.], 2007.
  • Lewis, Rhodri. "The enlightenment." In: The Oxford handbook of English literature and theology , eds.: Hass, Andrew; Jasper, David; Jay, Elisabeth. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Didier, Emmanuel. "Quelles cartes pour le New Deal? De la différence entre gouverner et discipliner. " Genèses 68 (3 2007)
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "The art of staging science in Victorian times." In: A for alibi, eds.: Castillo Deball, Mariana; Kopelman, Irene. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2007.
  • Tillberg, Margareta. "Tsvetnaia vselennaia Mikhaila Matiushina. " Russkoe iskusstvo (1 2007)
  • Klamm, Stefanie. "Review of: Paul, Gerhard (ed): Visual history: ein Studienbuch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006. " Bildwelten des Wissens 5 (2 2007)
  • Klamm, Stefanie. "Bilder im Wandel : der Berliner Archäologe Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz und die Konkurrenz von Zeichnung und Fotografie. " Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 49 (2007)
  • Klamm, Stefanie. "Vom langen Leben der Bilder : Wahrnehmung der Skulptur und ihrer Reproduktionsverfahren in der Klassischen Archäologie des 19. Jahrhunderts. " Pegasus 9 (2007)
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "The panorama, or la nature a coup d’oeil." In: Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850, eds.: Fiorentini, Erna. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.
  • Krämer, Fabian. "Die Individualisierung des Hermaphroditen in Medizin und Naturgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts. " Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 30 (1 2007)
  • Locher, Fabien. "The observatory, the land-based ship, and the crusades : earth sciences in European context, 1830-50. " The British Journal for the History of Science 40 (4 2007)
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "Review of: Heilbron, John L. (ed.): The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press 2005. " The British Journal for the History of Science 40 (4 2007)
  • Secord, Anne. "Hotbeds and cool fruits : the unnatural cultivation of the eighteenth-century cucumber." In: Medicine, madness, and social history : essays in honour of Roy Porter, eds.: Bivins, Roberta; Pickstone, John V.. Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2007.
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "In weiter Ferne so nah : Bilder des Titans. " Bildwelten des Wissens 5 (2 2007)
  • Fiorentini, Erna. "Osmotic romanticism? : questions, materials and results." In: Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850, eds.: Fiorentini, Erna. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.
  • Fiorentini, Erna. "Practices of refined observation : the conciliation of experience and judgement in John Herschel's discourse and in his drawings." In: Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850, eds.: Fiorentini, Erna. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.
  • Pickert, Susanne. "Building blocks of the earth." In: Objects in transition : an exhibition at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ; August 16 - September 2, 2007, eds.: Bernasconi, Gianenrico; Maerker, Anna; Pickert, Susanne. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2007.
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "The scientist as personality : elaborating a science of intimacy in the Nadar/ Chevreul interview (1886)." In: Science images and popular images of the sciences, eds.: Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger; Weingart, Peter. New York [u.a.]: Routledge, 2007.
  • Bigg, Charlotte. "Les observatoires populaires. " Pour la science (354 2007)
  • Maas, Harro. "A pragmatic intellectual : Dutch Fabians, Boekman, and cultural policy in the Netherlands, 1890-1940." In: Intellectuals and cultural policy, eds.: Ahearne, Jeremy; Bennett, Oliver. London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2007.
  • Wilder, Kelley. "Nature exposed : photography as eyewitness in Victorian science. " History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (3 2006 publ. 2007)
  • Lewis, Rhodri. "Of 'Origenian Platonisme' : Joseph Glanvill on the pre-existence of souls. " Huntington Library Quarterly 69 (2 2006)
  • Bourguet, Marie-Noëlle. "La fabrique du savoir : essai sur les carnets de voyage d’Alexander von Humboldt. " HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz VII (13 2006)
  • Vetter, Jeremy. "Wallace's other line: human biogeography and field practice in the Eastern colonial tropics. " Journal of the History of Biology 39 (1 2006)
  • Lewis, Rhodri. "An unpublished letter from Andrew Marvell to William Petty. " Notes and Queries 53 (2 2006)
  • Altmann, Jan. "Färbung, Farbgestaltung und früher Farbdruck am Ende der Naturgeschichte. " Bildwelten des Wissens 4 (1 2006)
  • Altmann, Jan. "Gedankenvolle Blicke : Anthropomorphismen in der naturgeschichtlichen Illustration. " Kunsttexte.de (4 2006)
  • Wilder, Kelley. "Photography absorbed. " Bildwelten des Wissens 4 (2 2006)
  • Tillberg, Margareta. "Glödlampor och semaforer fran rymden - färgidéer i mellankrigstiden." In: Forskare och praktiker om färg ljus rum, eds.: Anter, Karin Fridell. Stockholm: Forskningsrådet Formas, 2006.
  • Tillberg, Margareta. "Review of: Christ, Thomas: Wladimir Lebedew und die Russische Avantgarde. Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2004. " Russian Review 65 (2 2006)
  • Wilder, Kelley. "William Henry Fox Talbot und 'the picture which makes Itself'." In: Von selbst : autopoietische Verfahren in der Ästhetik des 19. Jahrhunderts, eds.: Weltzien, Friedrich. Berlin: Reimer [u.a.], 2006.
  • Lewis, Rhodri. "A Babel off Broad Street : artificial language planning in 1650s Oxford." In: History of universities. Vol. XX/1, eds.: Feingold, Mordechai. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
  • Lewis, Rhodri. "'The best mnemonicall expedient': John Beale's art of memory and its uses. " The Seventeenth Century 20 (1 2005)
  • Daston, Lorraine; Mitman, Gregg. "Introduction: the how and why of thinking with animals." In: Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism, eds.: Daston, Lorraine; Mitman, Gregg. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005.
  • Tillberg, Margareta. "Elena Guro's 'organic eye' generates Leningrad colour scheme." In: Understanding Russian nature : representations, values and concepts, eds.: Rosenholm, Arja ; Auti-Sarasmo, Sari . Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2005.
  • Dörries, Matthias. "[Entry] 'Johann von Lamont'." In: Oxford dictionary of national biography, eds.: Harrison, Brian; Matthew, Henry C. G.; . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
  • Daston, Lorraine. "Taking note(s). " Isis 95 (3 2004)
  • Ginsborg, Hannah. "Two kinds of mechanical inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle. " Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1 2004)
  • Mendelsohn, J. Andrew; Klein, Ursula. "Translation of: Geoffroy, Etienne-François: Table of the different relations observed in chemistry between different substances, 27 August 1718'. " Science in Context 9 (1996)