Kärin Nickelsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kärin Nickelsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kärin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickelsen |
| SIGNATURE | NICKELSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2487-3303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology
Cooperative Division of Cognitive Labour: The Social Epistemology of Photosynthesis Research
How do scientists generate knowledge in groups, and how have they done so in the past? How do epistemically motivated social interactions influence or even drive this process? These questions speak to core interests of both history and philosophy of science. Idealised models and formal arguments have been suggested to illuminate the social epistemology of science, but their conclusions are not directly applicable to scientific practice. This pape…
Introduction: Embracing Ambivalence and Change
In 1997, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger published his now seminal book Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Twenty-four years later, in 2021, he compiled a collection of essays under the title Spalt und Fuge: Eine Phänomenologie des Experiments, which will shortly also be available in English. What happened between these two books? What does it mean to write the history of the life sciences now? What is the place o…
The Politics of Sources Meets the Practices of the Librarian: An Interview with Esther Chen
[I] want to single out one phenomenon that could be called the ‘politics of sources’. It points to the extent to which the histories that both scientists and historians can write are artifacts of the available sources. The Rockefeller Foundation not only opened its archives very early on for historical work but also invested a lot in making the archives readily available for historical exploration. During the 1980s, many young historians took adv…
Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850-1900
Research has shown that there has often been overlap between the humanities and the sciences. This essay brings to the fore a prominent borderline case in cultural history, where the mix of disciplines that could contribute to its study became an issue of debate. It examines the attempts made by botanists throughout the nineteenth century, culminating around 1900, to call into question the monopoly of the humanities on cultural history. Botanists…
Ein Botaniker in der Papiergeschichte: Offene und geschlossene Kooperationen in den Wissenschaften um 1900
Die Studie analysiert die Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Kooperation zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften an einem Beispiel aus der historischen Papierforschung in Wien um 1900. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Wiener Pflanzenphysiologe Julius Wiesner (1838–1916), der ab 1884 (und bis 1911) mittelalterliche Papiermanuskripte unter dem Mikroskop prüfte. Dies erfolgte in produktiver Zusammenarbeit mit Paläographen, Archäologen und Orientalisten (Josef Kar…
Introduction: History of Science or History of Knowledge
New perspectives in the history of twentieth-century life sciences: Historical, historiographical and epistemological themes
Die Zukunft der Wissen/schaft/sgeschichten
The Future of the Histories of Science and Knowledge . This essay addresses the relationship between the history of science and the history of knowledge, particularly in view of the situation in Germany. This relationship has become a controversial issue, culminating in the suggestion that the history of science suffers of irremediable shortcomings and, hence, ought to be replaced by the less problematic history of knowledge. The essay raises dou…
To live among the stars: Artificial environments in the early space age
Startled by NASA’s decision to let orbiting astronauts collect their own feces in a bag for medical experiments, a pair of sanitary engineers at Berkeley designed an algae-based bio-regenerative system to recycle oxygen, water, and even nutrients. This article explains the technological choice facing the emerging space program between the infamous ‘fecal-bag’ and a now-forgotten alternative, the ‘Algatron’, in the mid-1960s. The article situates …
The organism strikes back: Chlorella algae and their impact on photosynthesis research, 1920s–1960s
Discovery of causal mechanisms: Oxidative phosphorylation and the Calvin–Benson cycle
In pursuit of formaldehyde: Causally explanatory models and falsification
Rezension: Spinning the Scientific Web. Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung von Heiner Fangerau
The construction of a scientific model: Otto Warburg and the building block strategy
Draughtsmen, botanists and nature: Constructing eighteenth-century botanical illustrations
On employera les meilleurs Graveurs pour les Figures”. Zeichner und Stecher der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1700–1806
Although barely mentioned in accounts of its history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, draughtsmen and engravers were, from the very inception, essential collaborators. Based on previously overlooked archival sources, this paper investigates the strategies that scientists used to select the most appropriate candidates during the first hundred years of the academy's existence. These included: (1) the engaging of artists already known to the scien…
Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature: The Construction of Eighteenth–Century Botanical Illustrations
This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. The author describes the different production stages of these illustrations, traces their uses by means of the private correspondence of participants and the documentation of the learned societies and academies, and explores their…
The Challenge of Colour: Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the Hand-Colouring of Illustrations
Colourful plant images are often taken as the icon of natural history illustration. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the question of how this beautiful colouring was achieved. At a case study of the eighteenth-century Nuremberg doctor and botanist, Christoph Jacob Trew, the process of how illustrations were hand-coloured, who was involved in this work, and how the colouring was supervised and evaluated is reconstructed, mostly b…
Draughtsmen, botanists and nature: Constructing eighteenth-century botanical illustrations
Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature: The Construction of Eighteenth–Century Botanical Illustrations
This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. The author describes the different production stages of these illustrations, traces their uses by means of the private correspondence of participants and the documentation of the learned societies and academies, and explores their…
New perspectives in the history of twentieth-century life sciences: Historical, historiographical and epistemological themes
Discovery of causal mechanisms: Oxidative phosphorylation and the Calvin–Benson cycle
In pursuit of formaldehyde: Causally explanatory models and falsification
The Challenge of Colour: Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the Hand-Colouring of Illustrations
Colourful plant images are often taken as the icon of natural history illustration. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the question of how this beautiful colouring was achieved. At a case study of the eighteenth-century Nuremberg doctor and botanist, Christoph Jacob Trew, the process of how illustrations were hand-coloured, who was involved in this work, and how the colouring was supervised and evaluated is reconstructed, mostly b…
Die Zukunft der Wissen/schaft/sgeschichten
The Future of the Histories of Science and Knowledge . This essay addresses the relationship between the history of science and the history of knowledge, particularly in view of the situation in Germany. This relationship has become a controversial issue, culminating in the suggestion that the history of science suffers of irremediable shortcomings and, hence, ought to be replaced by the less problematic history of knowledge. The essay raises dou…
The organism strikes back: Chlorella algae and their impact on photosynthesis research, 1920s–1960s
The Challenge of Colour: Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the Hand-Colouring of Illustrations
Colourful plant images are often taken as the icon of natural history illustration. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the question of how this beautiful colouring was achieved. At a case study of the eighteenth-century Nuremberg doctor and botanist, Christoph Jacob Trew, the process of how illustrations were hand-coloured, who was involved in this work, and how the colouring was supervised and evaluated is reconstructed, mostly b…
Draughtsmen, botanists and nature: Constructing eighteenth-century botanical illustrations
On employera les meilleurs Graveurs pour les Figures”. Zeichner und Stecher der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1700–1806
Although barely mentioned in accounts of its history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, draughtsmen and engravers were, from the very inception, essential collaborators. Based on previously overlooked archival sources, this paper investigates the strategies that scientists used to select the most appropriate candidates during the first hundred years of the academy's existence. These included: (1) the engaging of artists already known to the scien…
Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature: The Construction of Eighteenth–Century Botanical Illustrations
This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. The author describes the different production stages of these illustrations, traces their uses by means of the private correspondence of participants and the documentation of the learned societies and academies, and explores their…
The construction of a scientific model: Otto Warburg and the building block strategy
In pursuit of formaldehyde: Causally explanatory models and falsification
Rezension: Spinning the Scientific Web. Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung von Heiner Fangerau
Discovery of causal mechanisms: Oxidative phosphorylation and the Calvin–Benson cycle
To live among the stars: Artificial environments in the early space age
Startled by NASA’s decision to let orbiting astronauts collect their own feces in a bag for medical experiments, a pair of sanitary engineers at Berkeley designed an algae-based bio-regenerative system to recycle oxygen, water, and even nutrients. This article explains the technological choice facing the emerging space program between the infamous ‘fecal-bag’ and a now-forgotten alternative, the ‘Algatron’, in the mid-1960s. The article situates …
The organism strikes back: Chlorella algae and their impact on photosynthesis research, 1920s–1960s
New perspectives in the history of twentieth-century life sciences: Historical, historiographical and epistemological themes
Die Zukunft der Wissen/schaft/sgeschichten
The Future of the Histories of Science and Knowledge . This essay addresses the relationship between the history of science and the history of knowledge, particularly in view of the situation in Germany. This relationship has become a controversial issue, culminating in the suggestion that the history of science suffers of irremediable shortcomings and, hence, ought to be replaced by the less problematic history of knowledge. The essay raises dou…
Introduction: History of Science or History of Knowledge
Ein Botaniker in der Papiergeschichte: Offene und geschlossene Kooperationen in den Wissenschaften um 1900
Die Studie analysiert die Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Kooperation zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften an einem Beispiel aus der historischen Papierforschung in Wien um 1900. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Wiener Pflanzenphysiologe Julius Wiesner (1838–1916), der ab 1884 (und bis 1911) mittelalterliche Papiermanuskripte unter dem Mikroskop prüfte. Dies erfolgte in produktiver Zusammenarbeit mit Paläographen, Archäologen und Orientalisten (Josef Kar…
Cooperative Division of Cognitive Labour: The Social Epistemology of Photosynthesis Research
How do scientists generate knowledge in groups, and how have they done so in the past? How do epistemically motivated social interactions influence or even drive this process? These questions speak to core interests of both history and philosophy of science. Idealised models and formal arguments have been suggested to illuminate the social epistemology of science, but their conclusions are not directly applicable to scientific practice. This pape…
Introduction: Embracing Ambivalence and Change
In 1997, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger published his now seminal book Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Twenty-four years later, in 2021, he compiled a collection of essays under the title Spalt und Fuge: Eine Phänomenologie des Experiments, which will shortly also be available in English. What happened between these two books? What does it mean to write the history of the life sciences now? What is the place o…
The Politics of Sources Meets the Practices of the Librarian: An Interview with Esther Chen
[I] want to single out one phenomenon that could be called the ‘politics of sources’. It points to the extent to which the histories that both scientists and historians can write are artifacts of the available sources. The Rockefeller Foundation not only opened its archives very early on for historical work but also invested a lot in making the archives readily available for historical exploration. During the 1980s, many young historians took adv…
Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850-1900
Research has shown that there has often been overlap between the humanities and the sciences. This essay brings to the fore a prominent borderline case in cultural history, where the mix of disciplines that could contribute to its study became an issue of debate. It examines the attempts made by botanists throughout the nineteenth century, culminating around 1900, to call into question the monopoly of the humanities on cultural history. Botanists…
A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology
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