Göttingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences

Göttingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences

von: Nicolaas Rupke

Wallstein Verlag, 2012

ISBN: 9783835321526 , 200 Seiten

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Göttingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences


 

Contents

6

Preface and Acknowledgements

8

Charles Withers: The Geography of Scientific Knowledge

10

Nicolaas Rupke: The Göttingen Location

20

Urs Boschung: Göttingen, Hanover, and Europe. Haller’s Correspondence

34

J. L. Heilbron: Physics and its History at Göttingen around 1800

51

William Clark: From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Lichtenberg and Göttingen Physics

73

John Gascoigne: Blumenbach, Banks, and the Beginnings of Anthropology at Göttingen

87

Ivo Schneider: The Development of Gauss’ Image

100

Anders Lundgren: Stockholm – Göttingen: Does Distance Matter? The Relationship between Berzelius and Wöhler

109

Renate Tobies: The Development of Göttingen into the Prussian Centre of Mathematics and the Exact Sciences

117

Hans-Joachim Dahms: Appointment Politics and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Physics at Göttingen

144

Nancy Greenspan: Spreading the Quantum Message. Born’s 1925-1926 US Trip

159

Mark Walker: Göttingen as a Scientific Borderland following World War II

171

Nicolaas Rupke and Karen Wonders: Scientific Portraiture: Göttingen Professors in Historical Pictures

179

Notes on Contributors

187

Index of Names

190