Christoph Hoffmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Hoffmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lucerne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1675-7863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Training scenes
Academic training, especially at the undergraduate level, is a marginal topic in science studies today. Scientific practices have commonly been approached through studies of research contexts—most visibly, the lab—and only sporadically through studies of the classroom or other teaching contexts. In this article, we draw attention to the pivotal role that academic training plays in the formation and reproduction of thought collectives. Such traini…
Winegrowers’ decision-making
European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and ph…
Forschung und Freizeit
In March 1911, Karl von Frisch visited the Zoological Station in Naples for the first time. During his stay, Frisch, who had just received his doctorate, was studying the color adaptation of marine fish. At the same time, as diary notes show, he also completed an extensive tourist program. Frisch was not alone in this; many scientists combined their time in Naples with excursions and other pleasures. Usually these activities are labelled—in Frisc…
Schreiben im Forschen
Wenn Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler forschen, sind sie immer auch am Schreiben. Ob im Labor oder im Archiv, im Feld oder im Büro, mal formalisierter, mal individuell geprägt, begleiten Aufzeichnungen alle ihre Tätigkeiten. Welche Rolle spielt das Schreiben im Forschungsprozeß? Geht es nur darum, schnell eine Literaturstelle festzuhalten oder seine Beobachtungen zu notieren, entlasten diese Schreibereien bloß das Gedächtnis oder leisten …
Spontane Geschichten, spontane Philosophien. Wissenschaftskonzepte im akademischen Unterricht
Spontaneous Histories, Spontaneous Philosophies: Concepts of Science in Academic Training . Science studies and history of science usually focus on exploring scientific research activities. Academic training does not garner much attention by contrast. However, what scientists think and do in the course of research activities is not completely independent of what they once have learned. I suggest that in academic training, beneath everything else,…
Does a Glowworm See
What does seeing mean with respect to different living beings? Is seeing with a compound eye similar to seeing with a single-lens eye? In what way is vision conceptually coupled with the formation of a retinal image? These and other questions arise from consideration of a famous photograph of the retinal image formed by the eye of a glowworm in Sigmund Exner's authoritative treatise on compound eyes of 1892
Bildmaterial
Paris vs. Prague
Argument In spring 1888, an anonymous critic raised severe doubts about Ernst Mach's and Peter Salcher's studies, published one year before, on the processes in the air caused by very rapid projectiles. Paraphrasing the experiments for the French popular science magazine La Nature , the critic insinuated that the photographs upon which Mach and Salcher's argument were ostensibly based must have been of such low quality that they did not allow any…
Working with Instruments
With the death of Ernst Mach on February 19, 1916, one day after his seventy-eighth birthday, a question finally became explicit that had been looming for some time. It was as simple as it was fundamental: who, in the end, was this man, a scientist or a philosopher? The importance of this question for contemporaries can easily be gleaned from the obituaries that appeared in the weeks following Mach's death: one in the Physikalische Zeitschrift , …
Einwegbilder
Bildkritik befasst sich üblicherweise mit Bildern, die aufbewahrt und gehütet, archiviert und dokumentiert werden. Was aber ist mit Bildern, denen kein dauerhafter Wert zugebilligt wird? Einwegbilder generieren ihren Wert in der kurzen Dauer, in der sie ihre Funktion erfüllen. Ihnen scheinen eindeutige und ausschließliche Rezeptions- und Gebrauchsweisen eingeschrieben zu sein. Eintrittskarten werden entwertet, Briefmarken abgestempelt, Plakate üb…
Schule Mit Zukunft
Introduction
Argument Drawing and writing number among the most widespread scientific practices of representation. Neither photography, graphic recording apparatuses, typewriters, nor digital word- and image-processing ever completely replaced drawing and writing by hand. The interaction of hand, paper, and pen indeed involves much more than simply recording or visualizing what was previously thought, observed, or imagined. Both writing and drawing have the p…
Superpositions
Processes on Paper
ArgumentThe paper focuses on the instrumentality of writing in the context of scientific research. It is suggested that the tool-character of writing is related to specific writing procedures, such as the list. These procedures can vary in their degree of complexity and often follow rules that are not codified. In any case, writing procedures can be characterized as non-material devices of "concretion." Two examples from the notebooks of the phys…
Constant differences
In 1823 the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel gave notice of an observational error which is now known as the personal equation. Bessel, however, never used this phrase to characterize the finding that when noting the time of a certain event observers show a considerable ‘ involuntary constant difference’. From this starting point the paper develops two arguments. First, these involuntary differences subverted the concept of the ‘observing obse…
The Ruin of a Book
Jean-Andr de Luc's book has a long history. More than twenty years pass between the first barometrical observations of the Genevian natural philosopher Jean-Andr de Luc and the publication of his "Recherches sur les modifications de l'atmosph re" (1772) and for almost ten years the book remains "sous presse." The result forced the author, however, to comment on the misshapen "proportion" and poor "interwovenness" of his treatise. That de Luc coul…
"Der Dichter am Apparat"
Schule mit Zukunft
Der Literarische Nachlass (review)
Reviewed by: Der literarische Nachlaß Christoph Hoffmann (bio) Robert Musil, Der literarische Nachlaß, Ed. Friedbert Aspetsberger, Karl Eibl und Adolf Frisé, CD-ROM mit Handbuch und Erschließungsprogramm PEP, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1992. Es ist Herbst 1941, seit mehr als zwei Jahren lebt Robert Musil in Genf. Im Arbeitszimmer des kleinen Hauses, Chemin des Clochettes 1, stapeln sich [End Page 663] in einem Büffet Papiere: Vorarbeiten und Varianten zu b…
Introduction
Argument Drawing and writing number among the most widespread scientific practices of representation. Neither photography, graphic recording apparatuses, typewriters, nor digital word- and image-processing ever completely replaced drawing and writing by hand. The interaction of hand, paper, and pen indeed involves much more than simply recording or visualizing what was previously thought, observed, or imagined. Both writing and drawing have the p…
Processes on Paper
ArgumentThe paper focuses on the instrumentality of writing in the context of scientific research. It is suggested that the tool-character of writing is related to specific writing procedures, such as the list. These procedures can vary in their degree of complexity and often follow rules that are not codified. In any case, writing procedures can be characterized as non-material devices of "concretion." Two examples from the notebooks of the phys…
Constant differences
In 1823 the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel gave notice of an observational error which is now known as the personal equation. Bessel, however, never used this phrase to characterize the finding that when noting the time of a certain event observers show a considerable ‘ involuntary constant difference’. From this starting point the paper develops two arguments. First, these involuntary differences subverted the concept of the ‘observing obse…
Winegrowers’ decision-making
European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and ph…
The Ruin of a Book
Jean-Andr de Luc's book has a long history. More than twenty years pass between the first barometrical observations of the Genevian natural philosopher Jean-Andr de Luc and the publication of his "Recherches sur les modifications de l'atmosph re" (1772) and for almost ten years the book remains "sous presse." The result forced the author, however, to comment on the misshapen "proportion" and poor "interwovenness" of his treatise. That de Luc coul…
Superpositions
Der Literarische Nachlass (review)
Reviewed by: Der literarische Nachlaß Christoph Hoffmann (bio) Robert Musil, Der literarische Nachlaß, Ed. Friedbert Aspetsberger, Karl Eibl und Adolf Frisé, CD-ROM mit Handbuch und Erschließungsprogramm PEP, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1992. Es ist Herbst 1941, seit mehr als zwei Jahren lebt Robert Musil in Genf. Im Arbeitszimmer des kleinen Hauses, Chemin des Clochettes 1, stapeln sich [End Page 663] in einem Büffet Papiere: Vorarbeiten und Varianten zu b…
Schule mit Zukunft
"Der Dichter am Apparat"
The Ruin of a Book
Jean-Andr de Luc's book has a long history. More than twenty years pass between the first barometrical observations of the Genevian natural philosopher Jean-Andr de Luc and the publication of his "Recherches sur les modifications de l'atmosph re" (1772) and for almost ten years the book remains "sous presse." The result forced the author, however, to comment on the misshapen "proportion" and poor "interwovenness" of his treatise. That de Luc coul…
Constant differences
In 1823 the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel gave notice of an observational error which is now known as the personal equation. Bessel, however, never used this phrase to characterize the finding that when noting the time of a certain event observers show a considerable ‘ involuntary constant difference’. From this starting point the paper develops two arguments. First, these involuntary differences subverted the concept of the ‘observing obse…
Schule Mit Zukunft
Introduction
Argument Drawing and writing number among the most widespread scientific practices of representation. Neither photography, graphic recording apparatuses, typewriters, nor digital word- and image-processing ever completely replaced drawing and writing by hand. The interaction of hand, paper, and pen indeed involves much more than simply recording or visualizing what was previously thought, observed, or imagined. Both writing and drawing have the p…
Superpositions
Processes on Paper
ArgumentThe paper focuses on the instrumentality of writing in the context of scientific research. It is suggested that the tool-character of writing is related to specific writing procedures, such as the list. These procedures can vary in their degree of complexity and often follow rules that are not codified. In any case, writing procedures can be characterized as non-material devices of "concretion." Two examples from the notebooks of the phys…
Bildmaterial
Paris vs. Prague
Argument In spring 1888, an anonymous critic raised severe doubts about Ernst Mach's and Peter Salcher's studies, published one year before, on the processes in the air caused by very rapid projectiles. Paraphrasing the experiments for the French popular science magazine La Nature , the critic insinuated that the photographs upon which Mach and Salcher's argument were ostensibly based must have been of such low quality that they did not allow any…
Working with Instruments
With the death of Ernst Mach on February 19, 1916, one day after his seventy-eighth birthday, a question finally became explicit that had been looming for some time. It was as simple as it was fundamental: who, in the end, was this man, a scientist or a philosopher? The importance of this question for contemporaries can easily be gleaned from the obituaries that appeared in the weeks following Mach's death: one in the Physikalische Zeitschrift , …
Einwegbilder
Bildkritik befasst sich üblicherweise mit Bildern, die aufbewahrt und gehütet, archiviert und dokumentiert werden. Was aber ist mit Bildern, denen kein dauerhafter Wert zugebilligt wird? Einwegbilder generieren ihren Wert in der kurzen Dauer, in der sie ihre Funktion erfüllen. Ihnen scheinen eindeutige und ausschließliche Rezeptions- und Gebrauchsweisen eingeschrieben zu sein. Eintrittskarten werden entwertet, Briefmarken abgestempelt, Plakate üb…
Does a Glowworm See
What does seeing mean with respect to different living beings? Is seeing with a compound eye similar to seeing with a single-lens eye? In what way is vision conceptually coupled with the formation of a retinal image? These and other questions arise from consideration of a famous photograph of the retinal image formed by the eye of a glowworm in Sigmund Exner's authoritative treatise on compound eyes of 1892
Schreiben im Forschen
Wenn Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler forschen, sind sie immer auch am Schreiben. Ob im Labor oder im Archiv, im Feld oder im Büro, mal formalisierter, mal individuell geprägt, begleiten Aufzeichnungen alle ihre Tätigkeiten. Welche Rolle spielt das Schreiben im Forschungsprozeß? Geht es nur darum, schnell eine Literaturstelle festzuhalten oder seine Beobachtungen zu notieren, entlasten diese Schreibereien bloß das Gedächtnis oder leisten …
Spontane Geschichten, spontane Philosophien. Wissenschaftskonzepte im akademischen Unterricht
Spontaneous Histories, Spontaneous Philosophies: Concepts of Science in Academic Training . Science studies and history of science usually focus on exploring scientific research activities. Academic training does not garner much attention by contrast. However, what scientists think and do in the course of research activities is not completely independent of what they once have learned. I suggest that in academic training, beneath everything else,…
Winegrowers’ decision-making
European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and ph…
Forschung und Freizeit
In March 1911, Karl von Frisch visited the Zoological Station in Naples for the first time. During his stay, Frisch, who had just received his doctorate, was studying the color adaptation of marine fish. At the same time, as diary notes show, he also completed an extensive tourist program. Frisch was not alone in this; many scientists combined their time in Naples with excursions and other pleasures. Usually these activities are labelled—in Frisc…
Training scenes
Academic training, especially at the undergraduate level, is a marginal topic in science studies today. Scientific practices have commonly been approached through studies of research contexts—most visibly, the lab—and only sporadically through studies of the classroom or other teaching contexts. In this article, we draw attention to the pivotal role that academic training plays in the formation and reproduction of thought collectives. Such traini…
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