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Making Marvels
Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
The Creative Lives of Animals
Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & Nature The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals’ creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpack...
A History of Folding in Mathematics
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass – for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments – the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately aris...
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Kohabitation, Koexistenz, Konvivialität
In dieser Ausgabe von Tierstudien geht es um Praktiken, Theorien und Visionen des Zusammenlebens der Arten. Dabei sollen das Miteinander- oder Beieinanderwohnen von Menschen und anderen Tieren und die Koexistenz unterschiedlicher Spezies in kulturellen Räumen im Fokus stehen. Alle Tiere richten sich auf ihre Art in der Welt ein und sind auf ihre Weise in ihr zuhause. Dies geschieht immer in relationalen Zusammenhängen. Sie lassen sich an Orten nieder, die nie ganz unbesetzt sind, oder arrangieren sich in Räumen, die ihnen zugewiesen wurden. Das soziale Zusammenleben wird dann jeweils im gemeinsamen Wohnen organisiert. Es stehen vor allem domestizierte Tiere, verwilderte Haustiere und Kult...
Extinction. Das große Sterben
Das sechste Massenaussterben von Flora und Fauna hat bereits begonnen. Die politischen Maßnahmen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Kampagnen, die darauf abzielen, die Katastrophe noch zu stoppen oder wenigstens einzudämmen, werden meist damit begründet, dass Tiere und Pflanzen verloren gehen könnten, die Menschen das Überleben sichern oder die der Menschheit in Zukunft nützlich sein könnten. In dieser Ausgabe von Tierstudien wird der Blick umgekehrt und das Artensterben von den Tieren aus perspektiviert, um auf weniger anthropozentrische Weise für den Erhalt von Arten und Individuen zu argumentieren. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Narrative analysiert, die sich in den wissenschaftliche...
