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How to Use Your Eyes
James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often misunderstood and largely ignored, brought into striking focus. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous.
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until the present. The institute was among the earliest established by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, and its inauguration was one of the first steps in the development of Berlin-Dahlem into a center for scientific research. Its establishment was made possible by an endowment from Leopold Koppel, granted on the condition that Fritz Haber, well-known for his discovery of a method to synthesize ammonia from its elements, be made its director. The history of the institute has largely ...
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.
Beklaute Frauen
Wie Frauen Geschichte schrieben – und Männer dafür den Ruhm bekamen Muse, Sekretärin, Ehefrau – es gibt viele Bezeichnungen für Frauen, deren Einfluss aus der Geschichte radiert wurde. Für deren Leistungen Männer die Auszeichnungen und den Beifall bekamen: Wissenschaftlerinnen, deren Errungenschaften, im Gegensatz zu denen ihrer männlichen Kollegen, nicht anerkannt wurden. Autorinnen, die sich hinter männlichen Pseudonymen versteckten. Oder Künstlerinnen, die im Schatten ihrer Ehemänner in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Lebendig und unterhaltsam erzählt die Historikerin Leonie Schöler ihre Geschichten, sie zeigt, wer die Frauen sind, die unsere Gesellschaft bis heute wirklich vorangebracht haben. Und sie verdeutlicht, wie wichtig die Diskussion um Teilhabe und Sichtbarkeit ist. Dabei wird klar: Hinter jedem erfolgreichen Mann steht ein System, das ihn bestärkt; vor allen anderen steht ein System, das sie aufhält. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Infokästen
