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Historical Epistemology of Hearing, 1850-2000
This project investigated the concepts that constitute our present understanding of sound, hearing, and music in three different historic constellatio
Funding Institutions, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, Volkswagenstiftung
Vital Histories: A Reassessment of the Modern Life Sciences
We need a new storyline for the rise of modern biology, and Lynn Nyhart and I are planning to generate one. Both of us are dissatisfied with the conve
Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group established leading positions in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science.
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Evolution, History, Pedagogy
In secondary schools, historical perspectives are rarely integrated into science pedagogy. For example, the structure and function of DNA, Mendelian g
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Large-Scale Environmental Engineering During the Cold War
In 2006, the atmospheric scientist and Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen broke what was until then a taboo within his community. As the leading figure i
The Known and the Lived: Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, 1903–1945
Few written traces remain of the personal life of Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, a researcher in technical physics and test pilot for the Luftwaffe wh
Oceans and Expeditions Between the Wars
This book examines the way that new technologies, international ideals, and scientific practices changed the way that oceans were studied and imagined
Direktor Jürgen Renn im Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zum Anthropozän
Director Jürgen Renn interviewed on the Anthropocene in Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Read ArticleEar and Instrument—Hermann v. Helmholtz’s “On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music”
This project investigated the relation of psycho-physiological research and musicological theory. It considered music as an experimental setup in its
Related Digital Resources, The Virtual Laboratory, Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung