Noah Heringman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1057166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Heringman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Heringman |
| SIGNATURE | HERINGMAN N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deep Time in the South Pacific
Deep Time at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
This essay argues that the concept of deep time is essential to the intellectual history of the Anthropocene-the name widely (though not yet formally) used for our current geological epoch. Buffon's Epochs of Nature, one of the earliest secular models of geological time in Enlightenment natural history, uses inscription as a metaphor to mark the advent of biological species, including humans, in the course of earth history. The Anthropocene exten…
Sciences of Antiquity
Sciences Of Antiquity Romantic Antiquarianism Natural History And Knowledge Work
"In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anth…
Beyond Patronage
This chapter studies the working relationship of Sydney Parkinson and Joseph Banks during Captain James Cook’s first voyage on the Endeavour. Banks hired Parkinson as a botanical draftsman, but his role expanded dramatically as he began to illustrate landscapes, human subjects, and artefacts and eventually established himself as a collector and author in his own right. Parkinson’s illustrated Journal, published after his untimely death, received …
The Natural History of Art
Turning from the form to the content of Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities, this chapter offers the concept of ‘ethnographic actualism’ to describe d’Hancarville’s strategy of deriving explanations of ancient vase paintings from contemporary Neapolitan customs and manners, including music, dance, and religion. The term ‘actualism’, drawn from the history of geology, also signals a set of disciplinary and formal analogies between…
The Spiritual History of Ice
Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting
Deep Time at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
This essay argues that the concept of deep time is essential to the intellectual history of the Anthropocene-the name widely (though not yet formally) used for our current geological epoch. Buffon's Epochs of Nature, one of the earliest secular models of geological time in Enlightenment natural history, uses inscription as a metaphor to mark the advent of biological species, including humans, in the course of earth history. The Anthropocene exten…
The Spiritual History of Ice
Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting
The Spiritual History of Ice
Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting
Sciences of Antiquity
Sciences Of Antiquity Romantic Antiquarianism Natural History And Knowledge Work
"In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anth…
Beyond Patronage
This chapter studies the working relationship of Sydney Parkinson and Joseph Banks during Captain James Cook’s first voyage on the Endeavour. Banks hired Parkinson as a botanical draftsman, but his role expanded dramatically as he began to illustrate landscapes, human subjects, and artefacts and eventually established himself as a collector and author in his own right. Parkinson’s illustrated Journal, published after his untimely death, received …
The Natural History of Art
Turning from the form to the content of Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities, this chapter offers the concept of ‘ethnographic actualism’ to describe d’Hancarville’s strategy of deriving explanations of ancient vase paintings from contemporary Neapolitan customs and manners, including music, dance, and religion. The term ‘actualism’, drawn from the history of geology, also signals a set of disciplinary and formal analogies between…
Deep Time at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
This essay argues that the concept of deep time is essential to the intellectual history of the Anthropocene-the name widely (though not yet formally) used for our current geological epoch. Buffon's Epochs of Nature, one of the earliest secular models of geological time in Enlightenment natural history, uses inscription as a metaphor to mark the advent of biological species, including humans, in the course of earth history. The Anthropocene exten…
Deep Time in the South Pacific
Art (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Deep time (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)