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Nützliches Wissen : die Erfindung der Technikwissenschaften
Ursula Kleins kompaktes Buch verfolgt den Diskurs über nützliches Wissen bis ins 18. Jahrhundert zurück, wo sie den Ursprung der Technikwissenschaften verortet. Die wissenschaftlich-technischen Experten jener Zeit waren hybride Figuren zwischen intellektuellem Gelehrten und traditionellem Handwerker, und damit maßgeblich für die Produktion von nützlichem Wissen verantwortlich.
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Health and Difference : Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements
Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century.
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Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected
This book recounts how during the Cold War the study of science moved to the centre of academic through the creation of the new discipline of science studies.
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1001 Distortions: How (not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures
This book reflects on debates among historians of science, medicine and technology as well as Islamicate societies about fundamental questions of how we think and write about the intellectual and technological past in cultures to which we do not belong any longer or never were a member of.
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Spatial Thinking and External Representation: Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space
Spatial thinking plays a central role in the life of individuals as well as whole societies. It ranges from everyday orientation in our living environment to the social organization of place and space and the structuring of a huge corpus of experiential knowledge by means of theoretical concepts in modern science.
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Scientia Kircheriana: die Fabrikation von Wissen bei Athanasius Kircher
Wer oder was verbarg sich hinter dem Namen Athanasius Kircher S. J.? Anhand der Analyse des gedruckten Œuvre Kirchers, seiner Korrespondenz sowie seiner zahlreichen Wissenspräsentationen nördlich und südlich der Alpen untersucht der Band die Fabrikationsmechanismen der Kircher-Figur und seiner Wissenschaft.
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LEMCO : un Coloso de la Industria Cárnica en Fray Bentos, Uruguay ; The Meat Industry’s Colossus in Fray Bentos, Uruguay
The publication tells the story, unknown to the general public, of the foundation of a unique scientific enterprise that existed sixty years before Frigorífico Anglo (meatpacking plant) of Fray Bentos began to operate exactly on the premises where LEMCO (Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company) was located.
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Data-Centric Biology: a Philosophical Study
In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approach to research that uses innovative methods to produce, store, distribute, and interpret huge amounts of data.
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Poe's American Experiments
The writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) dramatize the challenges of the archive: the rites of burial and exhumation, the perils of encryption and
Alvarus Thomas und sein ‚Liber de triplici motu‘
Der Liber de triplici motu ist ein Werk von Alvarus Thomas aus dem Jahr 1509. Das Buch repräsentiert einen letzten Höhepunkt der scholastischen Auseinandersetzung mit der aristotelischen Bewegungslehre vor der Entstehung der klassischen Mechanik, an dem man die entscheidenden Stadien der Transformation des Bewegungsbegriffs seit der Antike studieren kann.
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