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Wissenschafts- und Technikhistoriker/-innen als Zeitenfresser. (Historians of Science and Technology as Time-wasters.) (2018)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
Pages: 429-432

DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201801914

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801914

ISSN: 1522-2365; 0170-6233

Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Special Issue "Zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte" ("On the Future of the History of Science")
Language: German

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Natural history Anthropocene History of technology, as a discipline Big history History of science, as a discipline History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past Bloch, Marc

Historians of Science and Technology as Time-wasters. Historians for long mainly focussed on the last couple of millenia. Recently, they have reached out to colonize different temporal worlds. While Deep History seeks to get a better understanding of the development of anatomically modern humans and their culture, Big History integrates cosmological, geological and human temporalities to develop new narratives on the big picture. Hence, historians are time-eaters. They share their foremost prey, however, with other disciplines such as anthropology and archaeology, paleontology and primatology, linguistics and molecular genetics, with which they collaborate and at the same time compete when reaching out for new temporal concepts such as the Anthropocene. This article understands the both rich and controversial debate on the Anthropocene, the epoch of the humans, as a positive provocation. For historians of science and technology, it offers a welcome opportunity to critically re-assess their established sets of narratives by interlinking geological and human time-scales. Newly developed terms such as the “technosphere” and the “technocene” force them to (1) re-think their concept of technology, (2) better integrate history of technology and environmental history, and (3) replace linear temporalities by layered models of historical change.

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Article Hagner, Michael (2018) Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte II. (Views of History of Science II.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 363-366). unapi

Article Dommann, Monika (2018) Und am Ende kümmerten sie sich um das Wissenschaftsmuseum… (And at the end, they took care of the science museum...). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 333-336). unapi

Article Osten, Philipp (2018) Die Fakten in den Naturwissenschaften. Zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (The Facts in the Case of Science. The future of the history of science.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 413-416). unapi

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Article Müggenburg, Jan; Vehlken, Sebastian (2018) Die Quadratur des Bermudadreiecks. (The squaring of the Bermuda Triangle.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 403-408). unapi

Article Karafyllis, Nicole C. (2018) Philosophie braucht Wissenschaftsgeschichte braucht Philosophiegeschichte. (Philosophy needs History of Science needs History of Philosophy.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 379-382). unapi

Article Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (2018) Wissenschaftsgeschichte heute. (History of Science Today.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 417-419). unapi

Article Epple, Moritz (2018) Vier Bemerkungen „zur Lage der Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Deutschland“ (Four Remarks Concerning “the Situation of the History of Science in Germany”). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 345-349). unapi

Article Ash, Mitchell G. (2018) Wissenschaftsgeschichte in der Geschichtswissenschaft. (History of Science in History.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 329-332). unapi

Article Grütter, Fabian; Güttler, Nils; Stadler, Max; Wulz, Monika (2018) Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration. (After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 359-362). unapi

Article Hofer, Hans-Georg (2018) Epistemische Begegnungen, neue Herausforderungen. Drei Gedanken zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Medizin. (Epistemic Encounters, Emerging Challenges. Three Thoughts about the History of Science and Medicine.). Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 371-373). unapi

Article Borck, Cornelius (2018) Der Einsatz der Wissenschaftsgeschichte [Editorial). (The use of the history of science (Editorial).]. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 325-328). unapi

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