Nicolaas A Rupke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolaas A Rupke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolaas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rupke |
| SIGNATURE | RUPKE N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Darwin Mythology
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has become an accepted narrative. This concise, accessible and engaging collection unpacks this narrative to rehumanize Darwin's story and establish what it meant to be a 'genius' in the Victorian context. Leading Darwin scholars have come together to argue …
Humboldt and Metabiography
In the wake of contemporary anxieties about climate change and environmental degradation, biographers of Alexander von Humboldt have sought inspiration from his life as an explorer, a plant geographer and a scientific writer. A ‘green Humboldt’ has emerged, to many a key thinker on the environment, to some the founding father of modern environmentalism. During earlier times and in separate places, in the course of the nearly 200‐year tradition of…
R obert J. R ichards and M ichael R use . Debating Darwin
In most volumes with more than a single author, the contributors complement each other, addressing a common subject matter from a shared point of view. Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse’s Debating Darwin is unusual in the sense that its two authors disagree, profoundly so, about their joint topic of interest—Charles Darwin. The very purpose of the collaboration is to bring to the fore each author’s very different interpretation of what the shar…
Livingstone's ‘Lives’
Bursting the Limits of Time
AROUND 1800, European ‘Wissenschaft’ went through a major transformation. This ranged from physics, which increasingly adopted mathematical exactness, to theology, which began to treat the Bible as a product of historical change. New disciplines branched off, and professionalism stirred. Geology was one of the emerging new disciplines, and made dramatically novel contributions to the historicisation of the natural world. The study of rocks and fo…
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Translation studies in the history of science
The three translations of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation invested the text with new meaning. None of the translations endorsed the book for the author's advocacy of species transformation. The first translation, into German (1846), put forward the text as evincing divine design in nature. The second, into Dutch (1849), also presented Vestiges as proof of divine order in nature and, more specifically, as aiding the stabilization of so…
Victorian Science in Context. Bernard Lightman
"The End of History" in the Early Picturing of Geological Time
Les anciennes representations de l'epoque geologique expriment l'aspect chretien de l'histoire du monde ou un procede theologique conduit a la naissance de l'homme
Biology Takes Form
Eurocentric Ideology of Continental Drift
Les theories du mouvement continental et de la tectonique des plaques ont ete reconnues comme un accomplissement du XX e siecle et ont conduit Wegener (A.) a publier son livre sur la tectonique qui l'opposa a la communaute des geologues americains
Men among the Mammoths
Alejandro de Humboldt
Briefe aus Amerika, 1799-1804 . Alexander von Humboldt , Ulrike Moheit
C. C. Gillispie's Genesis and Geology
Richard Owen's Vertebrate Archetype
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. A. RUPKE N. A. RUPKE Australian National UniversityCanberra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1046–1047, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1046 Published: 01 October 1993
The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy, May-June, 1837 . Richard Owen , Phillip Reid Sloan
Catastrophism
Bathybius Haeckelii and the psychology of scientific discovery
Translation studies in the history of science
The three translations of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation invested the text with new meaning. None of the translations endorsed the book for the author's advocacy of species transformation. The first translation, into German (1846), put forward the text as evincing divine design in nature. The second, into Dutch (1849), also presented Vestiges as proof of divine order in nature and, more specifically, as aiding the stabilization of so…
Bursting the Limits of Time
AROUND 1800, European ‘Wissenschaft’ went through a major transformation. This ranged from physics, which increasingly adopted mathematical exactness, to theology, which began to treat the Bible as a product of historical change. New disciplines branched off, and professionalism stirred. Geology was one of the emerging new disciplines, and made dramatically novel contributions to the historicisation of the natural world. The study of rocks and fo…
C. C. Gillispie's Genesis and Geology
Livingstone's ‘Lives’
"The End of History" in the Early Picturing of Geological Time
Les anciennes representations de l'epoque geologique expriment l'aspect chretien de l'histoire du monde ou un procede theologique conduit a la naissance de l'homme
Bathybius Haeckelii and the psychology of scientific discovery
Bathybius Haeckelii and the psychology of scientific discovery
Catastrophism
Richard Owen's Vertebrate Archetype
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. A. RUPKE N. A. RUPKE Australian National UniversityCanberra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1046–1047, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1046 Published: 01 October 1993
The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy, May-June, 1837 . Richard Owen , Phillip Reid Sloan
Briefe aus Amerika, 1799-1804 . Alexander von Humboldt , Ulrike Moheit
C. C. Gillispie's Genesis and Geology
Men among the Mammoths
Alejandro de Humboldt
Biology Takes Form
Eurocentric Ideology of Continental Drift
Les theories du mouvement continental et de la tectonique des plaques ont ete reconnues comme un accomplissement du XX e siecle et ont conduit Wegener (A.) a publier son livre sur la tectonique qui l'opposa a la communaute des geologues americains
Victorian Science in Context. Bernard Lightman
"The End of History" in the Early Picturing of Geological Time
Les anciennes representations de l'epoque geologique expriment l'aspect chretien de l'histoire du monde ou un procede theologique conduit a la naissance de l'homme
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Translation studies in the history of science
The three translations of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation invested the text with new meaning. None of the translations endorsed the book for the author's advocacy of species transformation. The first translation, into German (1846), put forward the text as evincing divine design in nature. The second, into Dutch (1849), also presented Vestiges as proof of divine order in nature and, more specifically, as aiding the stabilization of so…
Bursting the Limits of Time
AROUND 1800, European ‘Wissenschaft’ went through a major transformation. This ranged from physics, which increasingly adopted mathematical exactness, to theology, which began to treat the Bible as a product of historical change. New disciplines branched off, and professionalism stirred. Geology was one of the emerging new disciplines, and made dramatically novel contributions to the historicisation of the natural world. The study of rocks and fo…
Livingstone's ‘Lives’
R obert J. R ichards and M ichael R use . Debating Darwin
In most volumes with more than a single author, the contributors complement each other, addressing a common subject matter from a shared point of view. Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse’s Debating Darwin is unusual in the sense that its two authors disagree, profoundly so, about their joint topic of interest—Charles Darwin. The very purpose of the collaboration is to bring to the fore each author’s very different interpretation of what the shar…
Humboldt and Metabiography
In the wake of contemporary anxieties about climate change and environmental degradation, biographers of Alexander von Humboldt have sought inspiration from his life as an explorer, a plant geographer and a scientific writer. A ‘green Humboldt’ has emerged, to many a key thinker on the environment, to some the founding father of modern environmentalism. During earlier times and in separate places, in the course of the nearly 200‐year tradition of…
Darwin Mythology
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has become an accepted narrative. This concise, accessible and engaging collection unpacks this narrative to rehumanize Darwin's story and establish what it meant to be a 'genius' in the Victorian context. Leading Darwin scholars have come together to argue …
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