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DR GERHARD WIESENFELDT



Contact Details

Organization: Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
Position: LECTURER HISTORY OF SCIENCE
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Work: 83447983
Room: 232
Level: 01
Building: Old Arts Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Early modern empiricism experimental culture, arts and science, scientific institutions, lens grinding Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom
Science at early modern universities science teaching, disputations, academic spheres Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
Science and Naturphilosophie Galvanism, self-experiments, enlightenment, idealistic philosophy, romanticism kant, arnim, ritter, van marum Germany, Netherlands, Denmark
The visual culture of experiments Text book illustrations, performances, engravings, epistemology in culture France, United Kingdom, Germany
Scientists in Popular Movies science fiction, mad scientist, biographies, Jack Arnold, David Cronenberg United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Friedrich Schiller Universitaet Jena Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Diplom-Physiker University of Hamburg 06-Mar-1995
Doktor der Naturwissenschaften University of Hamburg 31-Oct-2001

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • The Order of Knowledge, of Instruments, and of Leiden University, ca. 1700
    Year: 2008
    Book: Instruments in Art and Science: On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter(Berlin)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Was demonstriert ein Experiment? Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Erkenntnisgewinn und Wissensvermittlung in der Frühen Neuzeit


    Year: 2006
    Book: Spektakulare experimente: praktiken der evidenzproduktion im 17 Jahrhundert
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter(Berlin)
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  • Die Ordnung des Wissens, der Instrumente und der Universität Leiden, ca. 1700.
    Year: 2006
    Book: Instrumente in Kunst und Wissenschaft: Zur Architektonik kultureller Grenzen im 17. Jahrhundert
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter(Berlin)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Auf den Schultern von Zwergen: essays an den Grenzen von Physik und Biographie
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: ERS-Verlag(Berlin and Liebenwalde)
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Book Chapters

  • Achim von Arnim
    Year: 2005
    Book: Naturphilosophie nach Schelling
    Publisher: Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart(Stuttgart)
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Journal Articles

  • Eigenrezeption und Fremdrezeption: die galvanischen Selbstexperimente Johann Wilhtlm Ritters (1776-1810)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Yearbook for European Culture of Science
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 207-232
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  • Rezeptionsidentitäten und Rezeptionsschichtungen: Methodische Zugänge zur Wissenschaftskultur um 1800.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Yearbook for European Culture of Science
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 131-132
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Die Sache selbst
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Universitaetsverlag(Weimar)
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  • Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus: Experimentelle Naturlehre an der Universität Leiden, 1675-1715
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science(Amsterdam)
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Book Chapters

  • "...von ein oder zwei der schönsten Zeichnungen... eine Abbildung hier beifügen": Ästhetik und Naturerkenntnis in den Experimenten Martinus van Marums (1750-1837).
    Year: 2002
    Book: Die Sache selbst
    Publisher: Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Universitaetsverlag(Weimar)
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  • Luftpumpenexperimente: Forschungen an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen des 17. Jahrhunderts.
    Year: 2002
    Book: Die Welt im leeren Raum� Otto von Guericke 1602-1686
    Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Politische Ikonographie von Wissenschaft: Die Abbildung von Teylers ,,ungemein groβer" Elektrisiermaschine, 1785/87
    Year: 2002
    Journal: NTM Journal of History of Sciences, Technology, and Medicine
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 222-233
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Defining Places of Experiment in Late 17th Century Leiden
    Year: 2002
    Event name: XXth International Congress of History of Science
    Conference Publication: Insititutions and Societies for Teaching, Research and Popularisation.
    Page numbers: 13-21
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Wahrnehmung der Natur: Natur der Wahrnehmung
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Verlag der Kunst(Dresden)
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Book Chapters

  • Säkularisierung der Naturerkenntnis: Zur bildlichen Darstellungen von Experimenten in Lehrbüchern des 18. Jahrhunderts
    Year: 2001
    Book: Wahrnehmung der Natur - Natur der Wahrnehmung: Studien zur Geschichte visueller Kultur um 1800.
    Publisher: Verlag der Kunst(Dresden)
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