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Binding Media. Painting Techniques in Art, Science, and Industry in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany
A painted image is perceived as a combination of forms, colors, and materials. But it is also a three-dimensional object made of different layers of c
Publications
"Farbtheorie und Malpraxis um 1800: Der 'Farbkörper’ entwickelt sich aus den 'Gesetzen der Ästhetik und Physik’,“ forthcoming in W. Bu
Studentische Hilfskraft (Bibliothek) (DE)
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte sucht zur Mitarbeit im Bereich der Versorgung der Forschung mit Literatur aus
Studentische Hilfskraft (Bibliothek) (DE)
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte sucht zur Mitarbeit im Bereich der Versorgung der Forschung mit Literatur aus
Exploring the Material Culture of Acoustics in German Collections
There is an extensive literature on the history of acoustics in Germany, complemented by diverse collections of surviving historic acoustical instrume
The Laboratories of Romantic Science: Hans Christian Oersted’s Ethnography of European Experimental Cultures
The project examined the experimental work of the Danish physicist and philosopher Hans Christian Oersted, the well-known discoverer of electromagneti
"It Was the Nightingale, Not the Jumbo": Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
Noise is a notorious issue in conflicts over airport operation and extensions, affecting spatial planning, land use, and public health in airport regi
Rocco Gaudenzi (2019)
Entropy? Exercices de style
Gaudenzi, R. (2019). Entropy? Exercices de style. Entropy, 21(8): 742. doi:10.3390/e21080742.
Households of Knowledge: Reshaping the Scholarly Habitus, 1300–1600
By the fifteenth century, prescribed Academic celibacy was eroding in northwestern Europe. Scholars moved out of the communal institutions, monasterie
Publications, " ‘Sich selbst Vergessen’ im späten Mittelalter: Denkfiguren und soziale Konfigurationen," in: Memoria als Kultur, Otto Gerhard Oexle ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995): 387-427
Dept. Daston
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Heat and Cold in Observation and Explanation of Natural Philosophers and Scientists
The modern concept of temperature would not have come to be without the thermometer. This statement can hardly be doubted, and it was not the intentio
Publications, "The weatherglass and its observers in the early seventeenth century", in: (Gisela Engel, Nicole Karafyllis, Romano Nanni and Claus Zittel, eds., Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008) 67-130 (Intersections 11)