Floris Winckel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Floris Winckel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Floris |
| FAMILY NAME | Winckel |
| SIGNATURE | WINCKEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4815-3896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The scientific consensus on the beauty of snowflakes
Philosophers of science interested in aesthetics have tended to privilege the epistemic and cognitive dimensions of science. Historians of science interested in aesthetics have largely focused on the aesthetics of scientific images and artefacts. Productive exchanges between these traditions of scholarship have been few and far between. Drawing inspiration from recent studies on the aesthetics of paleontology and geology, I aim to stimulate such …
How the Glaishers pictured snowflakes
The Glaisher snowflakes (1855) are amongst the most recognizable images of snow crystals produced in the nineteenth century. Made with the intent of compiling a comprehensive record of snow crystal forms, they also appeared in a variety of print publications, from popular magazines to scientific textbooks, and briefly circulated through various scientific and artistic societies. In a time when reliable images of these small, transparent, ephemera…
Desert Edens
Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745-1789
This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic. Electricity’s medical value was by no means self-evident in the years following 1746, when the first Dutch patient was treated with it. Understandings of its effects on the body were still unclear and judgements on the efficacy of electrotherapy varied. The subsequent four decades s…
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Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745-1789
This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic. Electricity’s medical value was by no means self-evident in the years following 1746, when the first Dutch patient was treated with it. Understandings of its effects on the body were still unclear and judgements on the efficacy of electrotherapy varied. The subsequent four decades s…
How the Glaishers pictured snowflakes
The Glaisher snowflakes (1855) are amongst the most recognizable images of snow crystals produced in the nineteenth century. Made with the intent of compiling a comprehensive record of snow crystal forms, they also appeared in a variety of print publications, from popular magazines to scientific textbooks, and briefly circulated through various scientific and artistic societies. In a time when reliable images of these small, transparent, ephemera…
Desert Edens
The scientific consensus on the beauty of snowflakes
Philosophers of science interested in aesthetics have tended to privilege the epistemic and cognitive dimensions of science. Historians of science interested in aesthetics have largely focused on the aesthetics of scientific images and artefacts. Productive exchanges between these traditions of scholarship have been few and far between. Drawing inspiration from recent studies on the aesthetics of paleontology and geology, I aim to stimulate such …
Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · aesthetics of science (1 work) · Anxiety (1 work)