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Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
AvChaokang Tai,Bart van der Steenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
694 kr
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Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the crossroads of political history, the history of science and art history.
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy
AvHuib Zuidervaart,Oscar Matsuura
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
737 kr
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This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe's untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements.
Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic
Isaac Beeckman in Context
AvKlaas van Berkel,Albert Clementm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
715 kr
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The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Here conditions were favourable for the development of new ways of knowing nature and the natural philosopher Isaac Beeckman, who was born in Middelburg in 1588, was a seminal figure in this context. He laid the groundwork for the strictly mechanical philosophy that is at the heart of the new science. Descartes and others could build on what they learned, directly or indirectly, from Beeckman. As previous studies have mainly dealt with the scientific content of Beeckman’s thinking, this volume also explores the wider social, scientific and cultural context of his work. Beeckman was both a craftsman and a scholar and fruitfully combined artisanal ways of knowing with international scholarly traditions. Beeckman’s extensive private notebook offers a unique perspective on the cultures of knowledge that emerged in this crucial period in intellectual history.
Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge
The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020
AvAnders Ekström,Hampus Östh Gustafsson
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
715 kr
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This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and intellectual organization that tend to be taken for granted. The focus on modern Sweden enables an extended but still empirically coherent historical analysis, inviting critical comparisons with the growing literature on the history of the humanities from around the world. In the Swedish case, the humanities were instrumental to the construction of modern societal institutions, political movements, and professional education in the second half of the 19th century, while in the 20th century, the sense of future-making shifted towards science and medicine, and later technology and economy. The very rationale of the humanities was thus put under pressure as their social contract required novel negotiations. Their state and connections to society were nevertheless of a complex and ambiguous character, as is demonstrated by this volume whose contributions explore the many faces and places of the modern humanities.
Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940
AvKlaas van Berkel,Ernst Homburg
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
715 kr
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The modern research university originated in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and expansion of the teaching and research laboratory. The universities and the sciences underwent a laboratory revolution that fundamentally changed the nature of both. This revolutionary development began in chemistry, where Justus Liebig is credited with systematically employing his students in his ongoing research during the 1830s. Later, this development spread to other fields, including the social sciences and the humanities. The consequences for the universities were colossal. The expansion of the laboratories demanded extensive new building programs, reshaping the outlook of the university. The social structure of the university also diversified because of this laboratory expansion, while what it meant to be a scientist changed dramatically. This volume explores the spatial, social, and cultural dimensions of the rise of the modern research laboratory within universities and their consequent reshaping.
Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
Writing History in the Age of Collapse
AvThor Rydin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
737 kr
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The lifetime of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was marked by dramatic transformations in Europe. Cityscapes, aesthetic codes, social orders, political cultures, international travel and means of warfare developed beyond recognition; entire catalogues of hopes and fears were torn asunder and replaced by new ones during not one but two wars. Amidst all these changes, Huizinga grew to become one of the most famous historians of his time. To this day, his works are treated as monuments in the cultural historical field. This book examines how these transformations and 'experiences of loss' affected and informed Huizinga's historical perspectives. Most centrally, this book contends that Huizinga's historical works helped to accommodate and give meaning to his own experiences of uncertainty and rupture, thus offering him a way of life in turbulent times. This project offers an original and comprehensive analysis of an iconic historian writing in the age of collapse.
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities
Explorations of a Discourse
AvHerman Paul
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 098 kr
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What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
AvChaokang Tai,Bart van der Steenm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 233 kr
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This volume collects essays on Anton Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the crossroads of political history, the history of science and art history.
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Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940
AvKlaas van Berkel,Ernst Homburg
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 278 kr
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This volume explores how research laboratories transformed universities spatially, socially, and culturally.
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy
AvHuib Zuidervaart,Oscar Matsuura
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 288 kr
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This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements.
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations
AvOscar Matsuura,Huib Zuidervaart
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
647 kr
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This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements.
Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic
Isaac Beeckman in Context
AvKlaas van Berkel,Albert Clementm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 550 kr
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The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. Here conditions were favourable for the development of new ways of knowing nature and the natural philosopher Isaac Beeckman was a seminal figure in this context. This volume explores the wider social, scientific and cultural context of his work.
Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
Writing History in the Age of Collapse
AvThor Rydin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 233 kr
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The lifetime of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was marked by dramatic transformations in Europe. Cityscapes, aesthetic codes, social orders, political cultures, international travel and means of warfare developed beyond recognition; entire catalogues of hopes and fears were torn asunder and replaced by new ones during not one but two wars. Amidst all these changes, Huizinga grew to become one of the most famous historians of his time. To this day, his works are treated as monuments in the cultural historical field. This book examines how these transformations and 'experiences of loss' affected and informed Huizinga's historical perspectives. Most centrally, this book contends that Huizinga's historical works helped to accommodate and give meaning to his own experiences of uncertainty and rupture, thus offering him a way of life in turbulent times. This project offers an original and comprehensive analysis of an iconic historian writing in the age of collapse.
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Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800
Devotees of Science
AvNikolaj Bijleveld,Arjen Dijkstram. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 166 kr
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This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and of scientific apparatus around 1800. It takes readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the horizon of inquiry by looking beyond the scientific elite of academies and prestigious science sponsored by princely courts, the focus of previous major studies of this time period. They consider people of diverse professions and occupations who advanced scientific knowledge through practical means by devoting their spare time and personal resources, thereby crossing geographic, linguistic, and societal barriers. The case studies together demonstrate that such individuals contributed substantially to the spread of new knowledge and found ways to promote technical innovations in society. The present volume is dedicated to these people: the devotees of science.
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Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge
The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020
AvAnders Ekström,Hampus Östh Gustafsson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 103 kr
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This book examines the humanities' evolving societal role through a two-century Swedish case study, using knowledge politics to historicize impact and intellectual organization concepts typically taken for granted.

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Studies in the History of Knowledge – serie

Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society

Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World

Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic

Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge

Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940

Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities

Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society

Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940

Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World

Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World

Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic

Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800

Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge

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