For all things early modern science studies, including: history and philosophy of science, science in/as culture, scientific print and performance, transatlantic and global studies of science in empire
Dominik Hünniger deposited The “Normative Forces” of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
One of the recurring themes in the public perception of containment policies during the current COVID-19 pandemic are the supposedly uneven and everchanging measures taken up by international, national and local authorities. This is especially the case in countries with a federal structure, like Germany. Not surprisingly, historical containment…[Read more]
Dominik Hünniger deposited Bilder machen – Charaktere, Stereotype und die Konstruktion menschlicher Varietät bei Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago
This chapter analyses the image production practices of the Goettingen university anatomist and natural historian Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) and the Berlin artis Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) when they collaborated on Blumenbach’s Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte (1790). Blumenbach wanted Chodowiecki to produce family scences for each of…[Read more]
Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
Mateus Yuri Passos deposited The Chudnovsky Case: How Literary Journalism Can Open the “Black Box” of Science in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Literary journalism offers an important way for explaining the complexity of the scientific world to a lay audience. An analysis of two of Richard Preston’s pieces published by The New Yorker, “The Mountains of Pi” and “Capturing the Unicorn” and how they give emphasize science-in-the-making.
Francesco Luzzini deposited Sounding the depths of providence: Mineral (re)generation and human-environment interaction in the early modern period in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The genesis and growth of minerals, as well as the existence in ore veins of such organic features as ‘seeds’, ‘matrices’, and ‘nourishment’, remained central and recurrent issues for natural philosophers, technicians, alchemists and practitioners throughout early modern Europe. By providing an overview of the main themes, voices, and concurrent…[Read more]
Elisabeth Moreau deposited Libavius, Andreas in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In the history of early modern science, the German physician Andreas Libavius (Halle, Saxony, c.1550–Coburg, Bavaria, 1616) is known for having promoted the institutionalization of alchemy in the academic sphere along with the creation of laboratories and instruments. Libavius was also remarkable for his extended network of scholarly friends and f…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
Jefferson Pooley deposited The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
The chapter argues that disciplinary memory claims in US American communication research have become smaller, more parochial, and less potent, as their underlying referent—the discipline—has splintered in the wake of the digital in the mid-1990s. For decades after its institutionalization in the 1950s, US communication research had relied on gra…[Read more]
Rob Hunt deposited 1,000 Days to First Light: Construction of the Perth-Lowell Telescope Facility, 1968-71 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
NASA’s Viking probes were launched in 1975. Six years earlier an International Planetary Patrol Network of telescopes was set up to observe Martian surface conditions. Sites were chosen to provide continuous observing, and were located in Hawaii, eastern Australia, India, South Africa, Chile, and central USA. Negotiations for a facility to be s…[Read more]
Nancy Roth deposited A Photographer on Mars in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Focussing the Nasa’s Opportunity Rover, the essay claims the field of creativity as definitively human, supported by Vilém Flusser’s understanding the the “apparatus”.
Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
Manfred Engel deposited Writing the Dream / Écrire le rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017 (Cultural Dream Studies; 1) — Contents and Preface in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing a factual or fictional dream is a difficult task as its ›otherness‹ will challenge all of our accustomed modes of narration. So the existence of established cultural and textual patterns is a welcome help. This collection of essays describes these patterns, their historical and individual modifications and their relation to the dre…[Read more]
Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Africa Editor in the discussion
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The History of Applied Science and Technology Open Access Textbook editors are seeking an Africanist to join our team.
Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
Dominik Hünniger deposited Policing Epizootics. Legislation and Administration during Outbreaks of Cattle Plague in Eighteenth-Century Northern Germany as Continuous Crisis Management in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 11 months, 4 weeks ago
This chapter analyzes administrative efforts to control epizootic disease in eighteenth-century Schleswig-Holstein as disaster management. It points to the importance of quarantine, slaughter, and the control of trade as the principal methods adopted by governments and draws links with the methods used to control plague in humans. The chapter…[Read more]
Marco Heiles deposited Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Ritual-magical divination in manuscript Hs. 3227a of the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
Rizal Akbar Aldyan deposited The Commodification of Religious Tourism in the Tomb of Sunan Kudus in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The tomb of Sunan Kudus is one of the walisongo monuments. The development of tourism caused a shift in the function and value of the tomb. The purpose of the study was conducted to explain the commodification of religious tourism in the Sunan Kudus Grave with research problems including: (1) the causes of commodification of the Sunan Kudus tomb,…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism,” Comparative Literature (2019) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
This article engages with cosmopolitan conceptions of culture that flourished in the nineteenth century Caucasus with a view to clarifying the relevance of these legacies today. I focus in particular on the polymath writer ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate liter…[Read more]
Marco Heiles deposited HWGL-Neuerscheinungen 2019 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Liste der Neuerscheinungen zur deutschsprachigen historischen Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur 2019.
Francesco Luzzini deposited In Reply to Marco Beretta in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
On scholarly traditions, quantitative assessments, and academic malpractices in Italy – and how someone disagreed (Isis, Vol. 110, n. S1, pp. 15-17 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/707594)
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