418 Search Results
The Cosmoscope and Its Users: The Role of Maps in Nineteenth-Century Plant Geography
In this project Nils Güttler concentrated on the history of a particular practice amongst plant geographers: mapmaking. In analyzing the history
Publications, "Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870-1910s," Science in Context 24/1 (2011), S. 1-41. , Funding Institutions, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Styles of Observation and Experience in Renaissance Aristotelianism
“Experience and observation triumph in the new science at the expense of the philosophy of the schools in the Renaissance” in some sense, but we shoul
Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Preserving the Forgotten—William Henry Fox Talbot, Photography, and the Antique
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) is primarily remembered as the pioneer of photography. This is reinforced by the disposition of his papers, notab
Funding Institutions, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Cambridge Trust
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)
The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Phonetics and the Invention of Free Verse and All-Sound Performance
At about the same time as Karl Marx’s 1844 remark that “the forming of the five senses is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the prese
The Observational Regimes of pre-Lavoisian Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century
Pre-Lavoisian chemistry, maintaining interfaces with physiology, pharmacy, mineralogy, heat and electrical science, and manufacturing, provides analyt
Color Beginnings
Color was long excluded from the “characters” or “differentiae” used to describe species and thus to distinguish species from each other. For late eig
Magic Pragmatism. Inner Observation and the Quest for Inner Perfection
This project explored a group of Italian psychologists, philosophers, and writers who in the first years of the twentieth century crafted a form of pr
The Virtues of Observational Practice in Italian Scientific Culture, ca. 1660–1700
During the second half of the seventeenth century observation was often portrayed as a diligent, patient, and dispassionate investigation into natural