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Collecting Nature
Nature can be collected in many forms and shapes: live animals have been locked up in cages, displayed in zoos and menageries and their hides and dried body parts have been used as part of installations in galleries and studies. Plants from far-away countries have been cultivated in botanical gardens and in hothouses. Furthermore, the depiction of medicinal plants and of prized animals was regarded as an important part of the decorative schemes, in an attempt to bring nature indoors. Recent research has also shown that artificialia and naturalia were displayed side by side in early modern Europe—sometimes in the company of scientifica—and that the exhibition set-up often included a compl...
Alexander von Humboldt
This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences—spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental impact of humans, erosion, and climate change. From the very beginning, he paved the way for a modern, integrated earth system science approach to decipher, characterize, and model the different forcing factors and their feedback mechanisms. It becomes obvious that Humboldt’s holistic approach is far beyond simple description and empiric data collection. As documented and analyzed in the different texts of this volume, he combines observation and analysis with emotions and subjective perceptions in a very affectionate way. However, this publication does not intend to add another encyclopedic text compilation but to observe and critically analyze this unique personality ́s relevance in a modern context, particularly in discussing environmental and social key issues in the twenty-first century.
Eye for Detail
Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from the Renaissance, Eye for Detail shows how the function of identification led to image manipulation techniques that will look uncannily familiar to the modern viewer. Egmond shows how the format of images in nature studies changed dramatically during the Renaissance period, as high-definition naturalistic representation became the rule during a robust output of plant and animal drawings. She examines what visual techniques like magnification can tell us about how early modern Europeans studied and ordered living nature, and she focuses on how attention to visual detail was motivated by an overriding question: the secret of the origins of life. Beautifully and precisely illustrated throughout, this volume serves as an arresting guide to the massive European collections of nature drawings and an absorbing study of natural history art of the sixteenth century.
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Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements
Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook’s voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds – ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationshi...
HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz = Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
-Christoph Markschies: Geleitwort -Ulrich Päßler: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg: Lebensbilder eines Naturforschers -Mathias Grote: „Aus dem Kleinen bauen sich die Welten“ – Christian Gottfried Ehrenbergs ökologische Mikrobiologie avant la lettre -Anne Greenwood MacKinney: Die Inszenierung naturforschender Gelehrsamkeit beim Sammeln: Christian Gottfried Ehrenbergs und Wilhelm Hemprichs nordafrikanische Forschungsreise (1820 – 1825) -Ulrich Päßler: Reisen im Nahen Osten. Zeichnungen -Ulrich Päßler: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg und die Biogeographie: Die russisch-sibirische Reise mit Alexander von Humboldt (1829) -Ulrich Päßler: Russisch-Sibirische Reise. Zeichnungen -Wolf-Henning Kusber, Regine Jahn: Christian Gottfried Ehrenbergs Zeichnungen: Eine frühe wissenschaftliche Dokumentation mikroskopischer Organismen -Ferdinand Damaschun: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg und die Entwicklung der Mikroskop-Technik im 19. Jahrhundert -Ulrich Päßler: Die Reise ins Kleinste der Natur. Zeichnungen -Katrin Böhme: Das große Ganze: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg und die Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin
Before Photography
Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.
Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum anatomicum
Die Buchreihe Theatrum Scientiarum versammelt originäre Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Philosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaft. Als produktiv hat sich dabei die konzeptionelle Orientierung erwiesen, ästhetische, technische und politische Experimente der Avantgardebewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts als programmatischen Gegenpol historischer Langzeitprozesse zu begreifen, als Akkumulator radikaler Fragestellungen, die sich mit heuristischem Gewinn auf Kulturen des Wissens in der Frühen Neuzeit beziehen lassen. Der nunmehr fünfte Band „Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum anatomicum“ fokussiert das anatomische Theater in seinem Modellcharakter als prägend für die ...
