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Appareil du sens—Concepts of the Human Senses in Scientific Observations
This project examined the conceptualization of the human senses in observational practices from 1750 to 1830. Starting with a discussion on the task o
Publications, “Haut und Zirkel. Ein Entstehungsherd: Ernst Heinrich Webers Untersuchungen ‘Ueber den Tastsinn’,“ in: Michael Hagner (ed.), Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001, pp. 191–223., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
A History of Scientific Methods and Expertise in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In nineteenth-century society, the sciences gained in importance. Technology and industry, nutrition, public health, and the law are only a few exampl
Publications, Shifting and Rearranging. Physical Methods and the Transformation of Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006
Emerging Complexity. The Dynamics of Discipline, Computational Tools, and Virtual Experiment from 1960–2000
The years 1960 to 2000 witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the "new sciences" of chaos and complexity. Lambert Williams’ project aimed to provide
Logistical Life: Flows, Forms, Moments, Places
Logistics is the science, technology, and art of efficiently managing the mobility of things and people. It is a byword for the management of global s
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Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
MehrEngineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
MehrFossil Modernity—Technical Materialities and Time Regimes in the Anthropocene
Most definitions of the Anthropocene connect this new era to the industrial use of fossil resources. However, crude oil, coal, and natural gas have ha
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In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion at Mülheim/Ruhr (MPICEC) the path from the history of fossil technology to
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award Ceremony 2020 (in German)
MehrVerleihung der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preise 2020
MehrVegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged call on chemistry, bi