Expeditions as Experiments

Marianne Klemun is Professor of Modern History and, from 2006 to 2012, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her publications include (as Guest Editor) ‘Moved Natural Objects: Spaces in Between’ in HOST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 5 (2012).Ulrike Spring is Associate Professor of History at the Department of Social Sciences at Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway, and Researcher in the project 'Making Sense of the Aurora' at the Department of History and Religious Studies at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

• 1. Expeditions as Experiments: An Introduction by Marianne Klemun and Ulrike Spring. - 2. An Idea Ahead of its Time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Mobile Botanical Laboratory by Alexandra Cook. - 3. Experiments and Evolving Frameworks of Scientific Exploration: Jean-André Peyssonnel’s Work on Coral by Jan Vandersmissen. - 4. Japanese Ichthyological Objects and Knowledge Gained in Contact Zones by the Krusenstern Expedition by Yuko Takigawa. - 5. Naturalists at Work: Expeditions, Collections and the Creation of “Epistemic Things” by Kurt Schmutzer. - 6. Mary Barber’s Expedition Journal: An Experimental Space to Voice Social Concerns by Tanja Hammel. - 7. Materialising the Aurora Borealis: Carl Weyprecht and Scientific Documentation of the Arctic by Ulrike Spring. - 8. Going Deeper Underground: Social Cooperation in Cave Expeditions of the Early Twentieth Century by Johannes Mattes. - 9. A Mutual Space? Stereo Photography on Viennese Anthropological Expeditions (1905–45) by Katarina Matiasek. - 10. Traditions, Networks, and Deep-Sea Expeditions After 1945 by Peder Roberts. - 11. It Had to Be Us: Geological Practice, Scientific Authority and Politics in the Expedition to Goa (1960–61) by Teresa Salomé Mota