Kathryn M Olesko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1102073 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kathryn M Olesko |
| PRENOMES | Kathryn M |
| SOBRENOME | Olesko |
| ASSINATURA | OLESKO K M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6827-2892 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The crisis in American science
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive O…
Ludwik Fleck, Alfred Schutz, and Trust in Science
Ludwik Fleck and Alfred Schutz each wrote groundbreaking treatises in the 1930s that laid the foundation for their views on the role of science education in establishing trust in science. This essay examines how science education was for Fleck explicitly and for Schutz implicitly a crucial site for understanding the social dimensions of knowledge, for understanding how layers of knowledge are socially distributed among groups, and for conceptuali…
The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier
The Indaganda is an obscure but widely used survey designed by Prussian administrators to gather territorial information, especially about provinces acquired in the Polish Partitions (1772–1795). This essay uses the Indaganda of South Prussia—a highly urbanized province annexed in the Second Partition—as a nodal point in Prussia’s efforts to manage and control territory by using material means to transform the natural and built worlds. Prussian p…
L. Pearce Williams (1927–2015)
Previous articleNext article FreeL. Pearce Williams (1927–2015)Kathryn M. OleskoKathryn M. Olesko Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWhen L. Pearce Williams died on 8 February 2015, historians of nineteenth-century physics lost one of the most important founders of the field. An expert on Mic…
Humboldts Preußen
Reviewed by: Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch by Ursula Klein Kathryn Olesko (bio) Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch. By Ursula Klein. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2015. Pp. 336. €49.95. This book is a game-changer. Written for a semi-popular press and in a style that will reach a wide audience, it challenges received views on the role of science and technology in Prussia by taking se…
Coming to Terms with the Past
The attempt to understand how scientists remember their pasts leads us to consider how we as historians acknowledge our own. This essay argues for taking a second look at an older incarnation of disciplinary history in order to revisit the still underexamined and underexplained transition from natural philosophy to the scientific disciplines
Introduction
The introduction discusses the essays in the volume in terms of ongoing changes in the history of science. It addresses the challenges of going beyond the microstudy and the historiographical issues that need to be addressed when doing so: constructing appropriate categories of historical analysis, defining periodization, and casting subjects in relevant historical contexts
The World We Have Lost
Among the recently published historical novels and “little books” on topics in the history of science, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World (trans. 2006) offers an opportunity to reflect critically on the relationship between narrative structure and historical evidence
History and the History of Science Redux
This preface announces the shift in the intellectual orientation of Osiris toward the continuing mediation between history and the history of science, an issue first addressed by Thomas S. Kuhn. The background for this volume on science and civil society in the work of Jürgen Habermas is explained. Future issues of Osiris will mediate history of science and urban history, environmental history, comparative politics, and international affairs
Precision, Tolerance, and Consensus
The Values of Precision
Tacit Knowledge and School Formation
Physics as a Calling
Wissenschaft in Berlin
The University and the City
Physics Instruction in Prussian Secondary Schools before 1859
Zur Entstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen
The Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx . Karl Marx , C. Aronson , M. Meo
Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany
Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher education combined scientific world leadership and competent professional training with an eroding liberal education (Bildung) to create an educated class that was tragically susceptible to the appeal of the Third Reich.…
Die Natur als arbeitende Maschine
Social History of Nineteenth-Century Mathematics. Herbert Mehrtens , Henk Bos , Ivo Schneider
Max Planck. A Bibliography of His Non-Technical Writings . Henry Lowood William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg. A Bibliography of Their Non-Technical Writings . Henry Lowood Ernest Rutherford.…
Employment Trends in History of Science
Tacit Knowledge and School Formation
Introduction
The introduction discusses the essays in the volume in terms of ongoing changes in the history of science. It addresses the challenges of going beyond the microstudy and the historiographical issues that need to be addressed when doing so: constructing appropriate categories of historical analysis, defining periodization, and casting subjects in relevant historical contexts
Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany
Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher education combined scientific world leadership and competent professional training with an eroding liberal education (Bildung) to create an educated class that was tragically susceptible to the appeal of the Third Reich.…
The crisis in American science
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive O…
Physics Instruction in Prussian Secondary Schools before 1859
Ludwik Fleck, Alfred Schutz, and Trust in Science
Ludwik Fleck and Alfred Schutz each wrote groundbreaking treatises in the 1930s that laid the foundation for their views on the role of science education in establishing trust in science. This essay examines how science education was for Fleck explicitly and for Schutz implicitly a crucial site for understanding the social dimensions of knowledge, for understanding how layers of knowledge are socially distributed among groups, and for conceptuali…
Employment Trends in History of Science
Max Planck. A Bibliography of His Non-Technical Writings . Henry Lowood William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg. A Bibliography of Their Non-Technical Writings . Henry Lowood Ernest Rutherford.…
Employment Trends in History of Science
Die Natur als arbeitende Maschine
Social History of Nineteenth-Century Mathematics. Herbert Mehrtens , Henk Bos , Ivo Schneider
The Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx . Karl Marx , C. Aronson , M. Meo
Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany
Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher education combined scientific world leadership and competent professional training with an eroding liberal education (Bildung) to create an educated class that was tragically susceptible to the appeal of the Third Reich.…
Zur Entstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen
Physics Instruction in Prussian Secondary Schools before 1859
Wissenschaft in Berlin
The University and the City
Physics as a Calling
Tacit Knowledge and School Formation
The Values of Precision
Precision, Tolerance, and Consensus
History and the History of Science Redux
This preface announces the shift in the intellectual orientation of Osiris toward the continuing mediation between history and the history of science, an issue first addressed by Thomas S. Kuhn. The background for this volume on science and civil society in the work of Jürgen Habermas is explained. Future issues of Osiris will mediate history of science and urban history, environmental history, comparative politics, and international affairs
The World We Have Lost
Among the recently published historical novels and “little books” on topics in the history of science, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World (trans. 2006) offers an opportunity to reflect critically on the relationship between narrative structure and historical evidence
Introduction
The introduction discusses the essays in the volume in terms of ongoing changes in the history of science. It addresses the challenges of going beyond the microstudy and the historiographical issues that need to be addressed when doing so: constructing appropriate categories of historical analysis, defining periodization, and casting subjects in relevant historical contexts
L. Pearce Williams (1927–2015)
Previous articleNext article FreeL. Pearce Williams (1927–2015)Kathryn M. OleskoKathryn M. Olesko Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWhen L. Pearce Williams died on 8 February 2015, historians of nineteenth-century physics lost one of the most important founders of the field. An expert on Mic…
Humboldts Preußen
Reviewed by: Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch by Ursula Klein Kathryn Olesko (bio) Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch. By Ursula Klein. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2015. Pp. 336. €49.95. This book is a game-changer. Written for a semi-popular press and in a style that will reach a wide audience, it challenges received views on the role of science and technology in Prussia by taking se…
Coming to Terms with the Past
The attempt to understand how scientists remember their pasts leads us to consider how we as historians acknowledge our own. This essay argues for taking a second look at an older incarnation of disciplinary history in order to revisit the still underexamined and underexplained transition from natural philosophy to the scientific disciplines
Ludwik Fleck, Alfred Schutz, and Trust in Science
Ludwik Fleck and Alfred Schutz each wrote groundbreaking treatises in the 1930s that laid the foundation for their views on the role of science education in establishing trust in science. This essay examines how science education was for Fleck explicitly and for Schutz implicitly a crucial site for understanding the social dimensions of knowledge, for understanding how layers of knowledge are socially distributed among groups, and for conceptuali…
The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier
The Indaganda is an obscure but widely used survey designed by Prussian administrators to gather territorial information, especially about provinces acquired in the Polish Partitions (1772–1795). This essay uses the Indaganda of South Prussia—a highly urbanized province annexed in the Second Partition—as a nodal point in Prussia’s efforts to manage and control territory by using material means to transform the natural and built worlds. Prussian p…
The crisis in American science
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive O…
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