Author: Marianne Klemun
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137581069
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Expeditions as Experiments
Author: Marianne Klemun
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137581069
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137581069
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Attempt at a Catalogue of the Library of the Late Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte--Index of Authors
Author: prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
Author: Kathy Stuart
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031252446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031252446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.
Wallenstein
Author: Friedrich Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
Author: Eivor Andersen Oftestad
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110636549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110636549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, the Father of Modern Protestant Mission
Author: Daniel Jeyaraj
Publisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788172149208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
On the life and works of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, 1683-1719, German Lutheran pastor.
Publisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788172149208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
On the life and works of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, 1683-1719, German Lutheran pastor.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description