Earth-Knowledge

Norman Henniges (Humboldt University of Berlin) is a geographer and historian of knowledge and science (nineteenth to twentieth centuries). His research fields include historical geographies of global knowledge and the social and cultural history of geography, geology, and cartography. His key publication is “Die Spur des Eises” (2017).Johannes Mattes (Austrian Academy of Sciences) is a historian of knowledge and science focusing on Central and Eastern Europe from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries (geosciences, life sciences, physics, and medicine), with an emphasis on global entanglements. His key publications include “Collaborative Research in Imperial Vienna” (2024) and “Reisen ins Unterirdische” (2015).Marianne Klemun (University of Vienna) is a historian of science (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). Her research fields include cultures and political contexts of the history of natural history (geology, botany, gardens, travel, collecting; communication and documentation of sciences). Her key publication is with Spring (Eds.), “Scientific Expeditions as Experiments” (2016).

• 1 Earth–Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge? An IntroductionNorman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun2 “Our Earth Has Undeniably Suffered Some Great Revolutions”: Johann Reinhold Forster and Scientific World-Making in Eighteenth-Century Natural HistoryAnne Mariss3 Performing Science Between Laboratories and GlaciersDania Achermann4 A Paradigm Shift? German Impact Crater Geology in Light of its Social/Political ContextMartina Kölbl-Ebert5 “Very Early, the Enjoyment of Nature Research and Mountaineering Awoke in Me”: Autobiographical Narratives of Lives in Earth Sciences (Early Twentieth Century, Vienna)Sandra Klos6 Willful Eyes and Hands: Transferring Theories into Mapmaking Knowledge in Justus Perthes’ Geographical Establishment, ca. 1900–1930Philipp Meyer7 Vitrified Forts. Prehistoric Settlements as a Topic of Chemistry, Geology, and Early Archaeology in Scotland and Saxony (Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century)Susanne Grunwald8 Bibliographic Data as Knowledge Proxies: Mapping Books and Tracing the Scientific Discipline of “Historische Geographie” (Historical Geography)Anna Regener9 CommentaryPratik Chakrabarti