Ariane Dröscher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariane Dröscher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariane |
| FAMILY NAME | Dröscher |
| SIGNATURE | DRÖSCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5576-8039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Of atoms, bricks and cells
The essay argues against historical accounts that portray classical cell theory as having established an atomistic and/or building block vision of life and hence as being diametrically opposed to the organismic standpoint. The cell-atom analogy came up in the mid-nineteenth century as a rhetorical creation against cell theory. Yet, the historical fact that opponents, such as Thomas Huxley, Adam Sedgwick, and Charles Otis Whitman interpreted and r…
Inspiring imagination – embarrassing analogies
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the observation of a phenomenon that we call today cyclosis or cytoplasmic streaming provoked great astonishment, and also raised great expectations of being able to penetrate into the secrets of living matter. From the outset, the steady circling flow of liquids and granules inside the cells of algae posed an explanatory challenge, because it seemed to contradict the laws of physics. With sc…
From exceptional to common presence
This essay surveys the situation of Italian women life scientists from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It follows the path that took women from being an exceptional presence to becoming a common, yet not equal, presence in the Italian science departments. Very different proportions of women occupied the three ranks in the academic hierarchy-students, research staff and professors. From the late nineteenth century onwards, women …
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Of germ-plasm and zymoplasm
Crossroads between nature and culture
Gregor Mendel, Franz Unger, Carl Nägeli and the magic of numbers
This paper aims to illustrate the influence of Franz Unger's (1800-1870) and Carl Wilhelm Nägeli's (1817-1891) anatomical and developmental works on Gregor Mendel's (1822-1884) use of numerical ratios in biological inquiry. All hypotheses concerning Mendel's sources of inspiration have hitherto overlooked the cytological teaching of Unger, his professor of botany. In the 1830s and 1840s, he was a pioneer of cell theory. His publications, includin…
Images of cell trees, cell lines, and cell fates
Cellular dimensions and cell dynamics, or the difficulty over capturing time and space in the era of electron microscopy
Edmund B. Wilson's the cell and cell theory between 1896 and 1925
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Edmund B. Wilson's the cell and cell theory between 1896 and 1925
Images of cell trees, cell lines, and cell fates
Inspiring imagination – embarrassing analogies
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the observation of a phenomenon that we call today cyclosis or cytoplasmic streaming provoked great astonishment, and also raised great expectations of being able to penetrate into the secrets of living matter. From the outset, the steady circling flow of liquids and granules inside the cells of algae posed an explanatory challenge, because it seemed to contradict the laws of physics. With sc…
Gregor Mendel, Franz Unger, Carl Nägeli and the magic of numbers
This paper aims to illustrate the influence of Franz Unger's (1800-1870) and Carl Wilhelm Nägeli's (1817-1891) anatomical and developmental works on Gregor Mendel's (1822-1884) use of numerical ratios in biological inquiry. All hypotheses concerning Mendel's sources of inspiration have hitherto overlooked the cytological teaching of Unger, his professor of botany. In the 1830s and 1840s, he was a pioneer of cell theory. His publications, includin…
Edmund B. Wilson's the cell and cell theory between 1896 and 1925
Cellular dimensions and cell dynamics, or the difficulty over capturing time and space in the era of electron microscopy
Images of cell trees, cell lines, and cell fates
Of germ-plasm and zymoplasm
Crossroads between nature and culture
Gregor Mendel, Franz Unger, Carl Nägeli and the magic of numbers
This paper aims to illustrate the influence of Franz Unger's (1800-1870) and Carl Wilhelm Nägeli's (1817-1891) anatomical and developmental works on Gregor Mendel's (1822-1884) use of numerical ratios in biological inquiry. All hypotheses concerning Mendel's sources of inspiration have hitherto overlooked the cytological teaching of Unger, his professor of botany. In the 1830s and 1840s, he was a pioneer of cell theory. His publications, includin…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Inspiring imagination – embarrassing analogies
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the observation of a phenomenon that we call today cyclosis or cytoplasmic streaming provoked great astonishment, and also raised great expectations of being able to penetrate into the secrets of living matter. From the outset, the steady circling flow of liquids and granules inside the cells of algae posed an explanatory challenge, because it seemed to contradict the laws of physics. With sc…
From exceptional to common presence
This essay surveys the situation of Italian women life scientists from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It follows the path that took women from being an exceptional presence to becoming a common, yet not equal, presence in the Italian science departments. Very different proportions of women occupied the three ranks in the academic hierarchy-students, research staff and professors. From the late nineteenth century onwards, women …
Of atoms, bricks and cells
The essay argues against historical accounts that portray classical cell theory as having established an atomistic and/or building block vision of life and hence as being diametrically opposed to the organismic standpoint. The cell-atom analogy came up in the mid-nineteenth century as a rhetorical creation against cell theory. Yet, the historical fact that opponents, such as Thomas Huxley, Adam Sedgwick, and Charles Otis Whitman interpreted and r…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 works) · Biology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Genetics (3 works) · History of Science and Natural History (3 works) · Philosophy of biology (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works)