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What Can Local Circulation Explain? The Case of Helmholtz's Frog-Drawing-Machine in Berlin (2007)

HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 1
Pages: 15--73

Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “The Circulation of Science and Technology”
Language: English

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Neurophysiology Neurosciences Science and culture Transmission of ideas Scientific apparatus and instruments 19th century Berlin (Germany) Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)

I would like to suggest here another function for circulation, in cultural history of science, especially the intensely local studies currently being produced. For that purpose I will develop an example drawn from a book manuscript on Bourgeois Berlin and Laboratory Science. I hope to show how circulation helps us to understand that the resources available to Hermann Helmholtz and his friends in the Berlin Physical Society in the late 1840s were cultural resources. The story will culminate in Helmholtz's early work on muscle and nerve physiology, as illustrated by his frogdrawing- machine.The focus will be on the status of the line and the curve as they circulated among the representatives of neoclassical aesthetics, industrial promotion, military modernization, and science education in Berlin in the 1830s and 40s.

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Article Saraiva, Tiago (2007) Editorial Note: Launching HoST and “The Circulation of Science and Technology”. HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology (p. 7). unapi

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