Lissa Roberts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3601279 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lissa Roberts |
| PRENOMES | Lissa |
| SOBRENOME | Roberts |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTS L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9370-8467 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Joining Forces
Science and/as work
This brief essay introduces a special issue dedicated to exploring two themes: "science and work" and "science as work." Following a brief overview of these two themes, it briefly describes the other contributions to the special issue
Historiographies of science and labor
This article offers suggestions for what a labor history of science might look like and what it might accomplish. It does so by first reviewing how historians of science have analyzed the history of both "science as labor" and "science and labor" since the 1930s. It then moves on to discuss recent historiographical developments in both the history of science and labor history that together provide an analytical frame for further research. The art…
Introduction
This introduction to the Focus section "Let's Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together" considers the need for and implications of a labor history of science. What would the broad contours of such an approach be? And what new insights, into both the past and the present, could be revealed? The contributions to this Focus section show how a labor history of science broadens our understanding of the practice and pract…
Phases of physics
Integrating the history of science into broader discussions of research integrity and fraud
This introductory article frames our special issue in terms of how historicizing research integrity and fraud can benefit current discussions of scientific conduct and the need to improve public trust in science
Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science
A flurry of discussions about plagiarism and predatory publications in recent times has brought the issue of scientific misconduct in India to the fore. The debate has framed scientific misconduct in India as a recent phenomenon. This article questions that framing, which rests on the current tendency to define and police scientific misconduct as a matter of individual behavior. Without ignoring the role of individuals, this article contextualize…
Integrating research integrity into the history of science
This introductory essay frames our special issue by discussing how attention to the history of research integrity and fraud can stimulate new historical and methodological insights of broader import to historians of science
Contributions to this special issue
Historicizing research integrity and fraud
Compound Histories
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 explores the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, placing chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. Readership: All interested in European history since the mid-eighteenth century, and anyone interested in the history of industrialization, science, technology, modernization, politica…
Exploring global history through the lens of history of Chemistry
As global history continues to take shape as an important field of research, its interactive relationships with the history of science, technology, and medicine are recognized and being investigated as significant areas of concern. Strangely, despite the fact that it is key to understanding so many of the subjects that are central to global history and would itself benefit from a broader geographical perspective, the history of chemistry has larg…
Producing (in) Europe and Asia, 1750–1850
This essay argues for understanding and investigating the history of production, not primarily as a quantifiable economic phenomenon, but as a history of practice that involves the human senses, culture, governance, and material engagement. The vehicle it uses to make its case focuses on a brief examination of production cycles involving salts in various parts of Eurasia during the century that runs from approximately 1750 to 1850. The essay's ap…
Practicing oeconomy during the second half of the long eighteenth century
This essay introduces a special issue on oeconomy during the second half of the long eighteenth century. In addition to summarizing the four contributions to the issue, it argues in favor of replacing common reference to ‘the economy’ with reference to the terminology, practices and ‘imaginaries’ which shaped both historical actors’ experiences and the history they made. Beginning with the proposition that ‘the economy’ was actually an invention …
Accumulation and management in global historical perspective
This essay introduces a special issue dedicated to the theme 'accumulation and management in global historical perspective'. The concepts and practices of accumulation and management are explored in ways that work to de-center the history of science and empire. Particular attention is paid to four intertwined elements: 1) the networked location of centres of accumulation around the world; 2) (natural) knowledge as a tool, object and consequence o…
Le centre de toutes choses
In their recent book The colonial machine, James McClellan III and François Regourd detail how ancien regime France's government marshalled science in the service of colonial expansion. By focusing on the local and long distance struggles to make the Isle de France (present day Mauritius) a globally significant centre during the long eighteenth century, this essay suggests an alternative to McClellan and Regourd's geography of metropolitan centre…
Agency and Industry
Charles Coulston Gillispie's "The Discovery of the Leblanc Process" and "The Natural History of Industry" ( Isis 48 (1957): 152-70, 398-407) were unique, yet characteristic of their era. Together, they engaged with discussions of the historical relationship between science and industry. While influential contemporaries favored a narrative structured by Anglo-centrism and the linear model, Gillispie turned to France and offered a different view. S…
Historiography in a metaphysical mode
Geographies of steam
Entrepreneurship played a crucial role in the development and diffusion of steam technology. To account for this, we need to map the entrepreneurial activities that helped spread steam technology across Europe and beyond. Because tracing this history’s contours requires attending to local contexts, strategies and uses along with large-scale trajectories, it makes sense to speak of historical ‘geographies’ rather than of steam technology’s histori…
A very human tale
Instruments of Science and Citizenship
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of the eighteenth century—rivaling the much better known collection at the University of Leiden—belonged to an orphanage in The Hague that was specially established to mold hand-picked orphans into productive citizens. (The other was housed at the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam, for use in the education of its students.) The educational program at this…
Science and Global History, 1750–1850
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Situating Science in Global History
In response to increasing academic interest, Cambridge University Press launched a new journal in 2006, entitled the Journal of Global History . To inaugurate the endeavour, the editors asked economic historian Patrick O'Brien to write an introductory essay to serve as a prolegomenon for this newly invigorated field of study. O'Brien began by noting that it is no mere coincidence that interest in global history should be growing, given the global…
The Content of the Form
In his Allgemeines Oeconomisches Lexicon, Georg Heinrich Zincke offered this definition of a "book":[E]ither numerous sheets of white paper that have been stitched together in such a way that they can be filled with writing; or, a highly useful and convenient instrument constructed of printed sheets variously bound in cardboard, paper, vellum, leather, etc. for presenting the truth to another in such a way that it can be conveniently read and rec…
Models
A second chapter that I found quite engaging was Steven Shapin's "Who Is an Industrial Scientist?"Shapin juxtaposes the mid-twentieth-century culture and practice of industrial science as portrayed by academic sociologists and industrial research managers.He shows convincingly that the normative strains which authors like Robert Merton and William Kornhauser saw as central facts of life for industrial scientists were almost certainly not the esse…
Situating Science in Global History
In response to increasing academic interest, Cambridge University Press launched a new journal in 2006, entitled the Journal of Global History . To inaugurate the endeavour, the editors asked economic historian Patrick O'Brien to write an introductory essay to serve as a prolegomenon for this newly invigorated field of study. O'Brien began by noting that it is no mere coincidence that interest in global history should be growing, given the global…
The death of the sensuous chemist
Introduction
This introduction to the Focus section "Let's Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together" considers the need for and implications of a labor history of science. What would the broad contours of such an approach be? And what new insights, into both the past and the present, could be revealed? The contributions to this Focus section show how a labor history of science broadens our understanding of the practice and pract…
Filling the Space of Possibilities
The ArgumentThis paper charts eighteenth-century chemistry's transition from its definition as an art to its proclaimed status as a science. Both the general concept of art and specific practices of eighteenth-century chemists are explored to account for this transition. As a disciplined activity, art orients practitioners' attention toward particular directions and away from others, providing a structured space of possibilities within which thei…
A Word and the World
Integrating the history of science into broader discussions of research integrity and fraud
This introductory article frames our special issue in terms of how historicizing research integrity and fraud can benefit current discussions of scientific conduct and the need to improve public trust in science
Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science
A flurry of discussions about plagiarism and predatory publications in recent times has brought the issue of scientific misconduct in India to the fore. The debate has framed scientific misconduct in India as a recent phenomenon. This article questions that framing, which rests on the current tendency to define and police scientific misconduct as a matter of individual behavior. Without ignoring the role of individuals, this article contextualize…
Exploring global history through the lens of history of Chemistry
As global history continues to take shape as an important field of research, its interactive relationships with the history of science, technology, and medicine are recognized and being investigated as significant areas of concern. Strangely, despite the fact that it is key to understanding so many of the subjects that are central to global history and would itself benefit from a broader geographical perspective, the history of chemistry has larg…
Le centre de toutes choses
In their recent book The colonial machine, James McClellan III and François Regourd detail how ancien regime France's government marshalled science in the service of colonial expansion. By focusing on the local and long distance struggles to make the Isle de France (present day Mauritius) a globally significant centre during the long eighteenth century, this essay suggests an alternative to McClellan and Regourd's geography of metropolitan centre…
Science and/as work
This brief essay introduces a special issue dedicated to exploring two themes: "science and work" and "science as work." Following a brief overview of these two themes, it briefly describes the other contributions to the special issue
Integrating research integrity into the history of science
This introductory essay frames our special issue by discussing how attention to the history of research integrity and fraud can stimulate new historical and methodological insights of broader import to historians of science
Science Becomes Electric
This essay explores the range of Dutch interaction with the electrical machine in terms of its identities and uses and in terms of the Dutch culture in which it sparked so much interest. Thanks largely to the relatively open borders of the Netherlands, Dutch eighteenth-century electrical science seems similar to its counterparts elsewhere, especially in Great Britain. But two characteristics of Dutch culture led to important differences. First, t…
Historiographies of science and labor
This article offers suggestions for what a labor history of science might look like and what it might accomplish. It does so by first reviewing how historians of science have analyzed the history of both "science as labor" and "science and labor" since the 1930s. It then moves on to discuss recent historiographical developments in both the history of science and labor history that together provide an analytical frame for further research. The art…
Producing (in) Europe and Asia, 1750–1850
This essay argues for understanding and investigating the history of production, not primarily as a quantifiable economic phenomenon, but as a history of practice that involves the human senses, culture, governance, and material engagement. The vehicle it uses to make its case focuses on a brief examination of production cycles involving salts in various parts of Eurasia during the century that runs from approximately 1750 to 1850. The essay's ap…
A Word and the World
Filling the Space of Possibilities
The ArgumentThis paper charts eighteenth-century chemistry's transition from its definition as an art to its proclaimed status as a science. Both the general concept of art and specific practices of eighteenth-century chemists are explored to account for this transition. As a disciplined activity, art orients practitioners' attention toward particular directions and away from others, providing a structured space of possibilities within which thei…
Artful Science
The death of the sensuous chemist
The Enlightenment of Matter
The Enlightenment of Matter
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 401 This is a very long and thorough study. It is well written, and distinguished by judiciousness, balance, and sensitivity. After sixty years there had to be a successor to Nef’s work, and Hatcher has provided it authoritatively and with fairness to his predecessor. J. R. Harris Dr. Harris is emeritus professor, University of Birmingham. He has written exten sively on British coal-using industries, including…
The Rise of Public Science
Reviewed by: The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1600–1750, and Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 Lissa Roberts (bio) Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1600–1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 453 pp. illus. $69.95 Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: C…
The Age of Minerva. Paul Ilie
Studies in the Culture of Science in France and Britain Since the Enlightenment, by Maurice Crosland
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
Science Becomes Electric
This essay explores the range of Dutch interaction with the electrical machine in terms of its identities and uses and in terms of the Dutch culture in which it sparked so much interest. Thanks largely to the relatively open borders of the Netherlands, Dutch eighteenth-century electrical science seems similar to its counterparts elsewhere, especially in Great Britain. But two characteristics of Dutch culture led to important differences. First, t…
An Arcadian Apparatus
This article begins by tracing the history that led to the construction of the first fully Dutch steam engine on the country estate of an urban oligarch. The goal here is to highlight the role of gardens and fountain design in the early development of steam engines and emphasize that Dutch interest in steam during the eighteenth century was based largely on issues related to drainage and water management. This concern with the landscape - whether…
Models
A second chapter that I found quite engaging was Steven Shapin's "Who Is an Industrial Scientist?"Shapin juxtaposes the mid-twentieth-century culture and practice of industrial science as portrayed by academic sociologists and industrial research managers.He shows convincingly that the normative strains which authors like Robert Merton and William Kornhauser saw as central facts of life for industrial scientists were almost certainly not the esse…
The Content of the Form
In his Allgemeines Oeconomisches Lexicon, Georg Heinrich Zincke offered this definition of a "book":[E]ither numerous sheets of white paper that have been stitched together in such a way that they can be filled with writing; or, a highly useful and convenient instrument constructed of printed sheets variously bound in cardboard, paper, vellum, leather, etc. for presenting the truth to another in such a way that it can be conveniently read and rec…
Science and Global History, 1750–1850
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Situating Science in Global History
In response to increasing academic interest, Cambridge University Press launched a new journal in 2006, entitled the Journal of Global History . To inaugurate the endeavour, the editors asked economic historian Patrick O'Brien to write an introductory essay to serve as a prolegomenon for this newly invigorated field of study. O'Brien began by noting that it is no mere coincidence that interest in global history should be growing, given the global…
Instruments of Science and Citizenship
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of the eighteenth century—rivaling the much better known collection at the University of Leiden—belonged to an orphanage in The Hague that was specially established to mold hand-picked orphans into productive citizens. (The other was housed at the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam, for use in the education of its students.) The educational program at this…
Geographies of steam
Entrepreneurship played a crucial role in the development and diffusion of steam technology. To account for this, we need to map the entrepreneurial activities that helped spread steam technology across Europe and beyond. Because tracing this history’s contours requires attending to local contexts, strategies and uses along with large-scale trajectories, it makes sense to speak of historical ‘geographies’ rather than of steam technology’s histori…
A very human tale
Historiography in a metaphysical mode
Agency and Industry
Charles Coulston Gillispie's "The Discovery of the Leblanc Process" and "The Natural History of Industry" ( Isis 48 (1957): 152-70, 398-407) were unique, yet characteristic of their era. Together, they engaged with discussions of the historical relationship between science and industry. While influential contemporaries favored a narrative structured by Anglo-centrism and the linear model, Gillispie turned to France and offered a different view. S…
Practicing oeconomy during the second half of the long eighteenth century
This essay introduces a special issue on oeconomy during the second half of the long eighteenth century. In addition to summarizing the four contributions to the issue, it argues in favor of replacing common reference to ‘the economy’ with reference to the terminology, practices and ‘imaginaries’ which shaped both historical actors’ experiences and the history they made. Beginning with the proposition that ‘the economy’ was actually an invention …
Accumulation and management in global historical perspective
This essay introduces a special issue dedicated to the theme 'accumulation and management in global historical perspective'. The concepts and practices of accumulation and management are explored in ways that work to de-center the history of science and empire. Particular attention is paid to four intertwined elements: 1) the networked location of centres of accumulation around the world; 2) (natural) knowledge as a tool, object and consequence o…
Le centre de toutes choses
In their recent book The colonial machine, James McClellan III and François Regourd detail how ancien regime France's government marshalled science in the service of colonial expansion. By focusing on the local and long distance struggles to make the Isle de France (present day Mauritius) a globally significant centre during the long eighteenth century, this essay suggests an alternative to McClellan and Regourd's geography of metropolitan centre…
Producing (in) Europe and Asia, 1750–1850
This essay argues for understanding and investigating the history of production, not primarily as a quantifiable economic phenomenon, but as a history of practice that involves the human senses, culture, governance, and material engagement. The vehicle it uses to make its case focuses on a brief examination of production cycles involving salts in various parts of Eurasia during the century that runs from approximately 1750 to 1850. The essay's ap…
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