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Contents
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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
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