Klaus Hentschel
Biographic Data
| ID | 446973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klaus Hentschel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klaus |
| FAMILY NAME | Hentschel |
| SIGNATURE | HENTSCHEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0045-3264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Italic>Astronomen, Akten und Affären. Vom Anfang zum Ende des Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums zu Potsdam. Berichte und Erinnerungen , by Günther Rüdiger
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse (review)
Der neue Weg“: Mit „interatomarer Energie“ zum „Herrn der Welt“ werden
Bei der Durchsicht des Nachlasses von Rudolf Tomaschek (1895–1966) fand ich ein 30 Seiten umfassendes Typoskript seines damaligen Assistenten Hugo Watzlawek (1912–1995) aus dem Jahr 1944 mit dem Titel „Interatomare Energie“. Heute würde man eher von „inneratomarer Energie“, oder von „Kernenergie“ sprechen, da der Inhalt des Typoskripts „technische Kernphysik“ einschließlich ihrer potentiellen militärischen Anwendungen betrifft. Der Text bietet ei…
Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject by Michael Sappol
Reviewed by: Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject by Michael Sappol Klaus Hentschel Michael Sappol. Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. xv + 247 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-1-5179-0021-2). Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a graduate of the Berlin medical school, became a visual popularizer of medicine and science. He became famous f…
Entkernung – Erwartungen und Befürchtungen zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Loss of the Inner Core: Expectations and Fears for the Future of the History of Science . In this paper, I discuss the current state of history of science in Germany, a combination of strong interest in the field from various neighboring fields (including cultural history, media history, history of art, visual studies) and increasing fragmentation. Powerful institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for History of Science rather encourage this…
Translating in the History of Science: A Concerted Effort
A translator and her science consultant, who have worked together on many books, consider the problems of translating primary and secondary texts in science. Various problems encountered in translating an ongoing documentary edition in the history of science are discussed using the collected works of Albert Einstein as a test case. For instance, each language has its own preferred sentence structure; moreover, not every historical term finds a pe…
A periodization of research technologies and of the emergency of genericity
Die allmähliche Herausbildung des Konzepts ,Lichtquanten‘
The Gradual Formation of the Concept of ‘Light Quanta’. The complex concept of ‘light quanta’ which made its first appearance in Albert Einstein’s 1905 paper on a “heuristic point of view” to cope with the photoelectric effect and other forms of interaction of light and matter, has a rich history both before and after 1905. Some of its semantic layers lead as far back as Newton and Kepler, others are only fully espoused several decades later, yet…
Compendium of Quantum Physics
Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit. Der Physiker James Franck 1882–1964
The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870 (review)
Reviewed by: The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870 Klaus Hentschel Jutta Schickore. The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ix + 317 pp. Ill. $40.00, £22.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-73784-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73784-3). Not merely another history of microscopy, this book focuses on the interplay of microscopic practice and methodology. Such seventeenth- and earl…
Rezension: Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution von Richard Staley
Wissenschaftliche Photographie als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und Dokumentation von Spektren
This paper discusses facets of 19th-century scientific photography as a visual culture. The example of spectral research and documentation is particularly well suited, because prismatically diffracted light from the sun or from luminous gases was one of the most frequently examined phenomena of that century. The results were significant not only for physics but also for analytical chemistry and astrophysics. The spectrum also served as an ideal t…
To the Editor
What history of science can learn from Michael Frayn's 'Copenhagen
Michael Frayn's play 'Copenhagen', which premiered in 1998, has attracted much attention and is certainly one of the most intriguing plays taking its inspiration from the history of science. This paper analyses one of its central characteristics, namely what I have termed 'historical polyphony'. Instead of advocating one amongst a multitude of widely differing reconstructions of what 'really' happened at a meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in o…
An Engraver in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Career of Pierre Dulos
AN ENGRAVER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS: THE CAREER OF PIERRE DULOS KLAUS, KLAUS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANN HENTSCHEL ANN HENTSCHEL *The first author is currently writing a book on spectrum illustration, and the second is a freelance translator. Comments and requests for offprints may be sent to Dr.habil. Klaus Hentschel, Institute for History of Science, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 11, D…
A Breakdown of Intersubjective Measurement: The Case of Solar-Rotation Measurements in the Early 20th Century
The Interplay of Instrumentation, Experiment, and Theory: Patterns Emerging from Case Studies on Solar Redshift, 1890–1960
This paper discusses a series of case studies on observations, experiments, and the theoretical interpretation between 1890 and 1960 of a shift of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum. I argue for the use of flow charts to analyze interconnections and to identify sequences of research strategies. Also I advocate using a newly-developed tool called “block diagram” representation of experimental systems as an appropriate method to identify r…
Philipp Fauth--Leben und Werk: Aus dem autobiographischen Nachlass zusammengestellt von Hermann Fauth. Philipp Fauth , Freddy Litten
The Conversion of St. John: A Case Study on the Interplay of Theory and Experiment
The Argument Gravitational redshift of spectral lines as one of the three early-known experimental implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity and gravitation was intensively searched for by researchers all over the world, but around 1920 most of the contemporary evidence in the sun's Fraunhofer-spectrum conflicted with the predictions of relativity theory. In 1923 the American astrophysicist Charles Edward St. John announced that his…
Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing relativity theory 1907–1927
On Feyerabend's version of ‘Mach's theory of research and its relation to Einstein’
On Feyerabend's version of ‘Mach's theory of research and its relation to Einstein’
The Interplay of Instrumentation, Experiment, and Theory: Patterns Emerging from Case Studies on Solar Redshift, 1890–1960
This paper discusses a series of case studies on observations, experiments, and the theoretical interpretation between 1890 and 1960 of a shift of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum. I argue for the use of flow charts to analyze interconnections and to identify sequences of research strategies. Also I advocate using a newly-developed tool called “block diagram” representation of experimental systems as an appropriate method to identify r…
Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing relativity theory 1907–1927
What history of science can learn from Michael Frayn's 'Copenhagen
Michael Frayn's play 'Copenhagen', which premiered in 1998, has attracted much attention and is certainly one of the most intriguing plays taking its inspiration from the history of science. This paper analyses one of its central characteristics, namely what I have termed 'historical polyphony'. Instead of advocating one amongst a multitude of widely differing reconstructions of what 'really' happened at a meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in o…
Entkernung – Erwartungen und Befürchtungen zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Loss of the Inner Core: Expectations and Fears for the Future of the History of Science . In this paper, I discuss the current state of history of science in Germany, a combination of strong interest in the field from various neighboring fields (including cultural history, media history, history of art, visual studies) and increasing fragmentation. Powerful institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for History of Science rather encourage this…
Translating in the History of Science: A Concerted Effort
A translator and her science consultant, who have worked together on many books, consider the problems of translating primary and secondary texts in science. Various problems encountered in translating an ongoing documentary edition in the history of science are discussed using the collected works of Albert Einstein as a test case. For instance, each language has its own preferred sentence structure; moreover, not every historical term finds a pe…
On Feyerabend's version of ‘Mach's theory of research and its relation to Einstein’
Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing relativity theory 1907–1927
The Conversion of St. John: A Case Study on the Interplay of Theory and Experiment
The Argument Gravitational redshift of spectral lines as one of the three early-known experimental implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity and gravitation was intensively searched for by researchers all over the world, but around 1920 most of the contemporary evidence in the sun's Fraunhofer-spectrum conflicted with the predictions of relativity theory. In 1923 the American astrophysicist Charles Edward St. John announced that his…
Philipp Fauth--Leben und Werk: Aus dem autobiographischen Nachlass zusammengestellt von Hermann Fauth. Philipp Fauth , Freddy Litten
The Interplay of Instrumentation, Experiment, and Theory: Patterns Emerging from Case Studies on Solar Redshift, 1890–1960
This paper discusses a series of case studies on observations, experiments, and the theoretical interpretation between 1890 and 1960 of a shift of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum. I argue for the use of flow charts to analyze interconnections and to identify sequences of research strategies. Also I advocate using a newly-developed tool called “block diagram” representation of experimental systems as an appropriate method to identify r…
A Breakdown of Intersubjective Measurement: The Case of Solar-Rotation Measurements in the Early 20th Century
An Engraver in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Career of Pierre Dulos
AN ENGRAVER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS: THE CAREER OF PIERRE DULOS KLAUS, KLAUS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANN HENTSCHEL ANN HENTSCHEL *The first author is currently writing a book on spectrum illustration, and the second is a freelance translator. Comments and requests for offprints may be sent to Dr.habil. Klaus Hentschel, Institute for History of Science, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 11, D…
What history of science can learn from Michael Frayn's 'Copenhagen
Michael Frayn's play 'Copenhagen', which premiered in 1998, has attracted much attention and is certainly one of the most intriguing plays taking its inspiration from the history of science. This paper analyses one of its central characteristics, namely what I have termed 'historical polyphony'. Instead of advocating one amongst a multitude of widely differing reconstructions of what 'really' happened at a meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in o…
To the Editor
Wissenschaftliche Photographie als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und Dokumentation von Spektren
This paper discusses facets of 19th-century scientific photography as a visual culture. The example of spectral research and documentation is particularly well suited, because prismatically diffracted light from the sun or from luminous gases was one of the most frequently examined phenomena of that century. The results were significant not only for physics but also for analytical chemistry and astrophysics. The spectrum also served as an ideal t…
Compendium of Quantum Physics
Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit. Der Physiker James Franck 1882–1964
The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870 (review)
Reviewed by: The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870 Klaus Hentschel Jutta Schickore. The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ix + 317 pp. Ill. $40.00, £22.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-73784-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73784-3). Not merely another history of microscopy, this book focuses on the interplay of microscopic practice and methodology. Such seventeenth- and earl…
Rezension: Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution von Richard Staley
A periodization of research technologies and of the emergency of genericity
Die allmähliche Herausbildung des Konzepts ,Lichtquanten‘
The Gradual Formation of the Concept of ‘Light Quanta’. The complex concept of ‘light quanta’ which made its first appearance in Albert Einstein’s 1905 paper on a “heuristic point of view” to cope with the photoelectric effect and other forms of interaction of light and matter, has a rich history both before and after 1905. Some of its semantic layers lead as far back as Newton and Kepler, others are only fully espoused several decades later, yet…
Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject by Michael Sappol
Reviewed by: Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject by Michael Sappol Klaus Hentschel Michael Sappol. Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. xv + 247 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-1-5179-0021-2). Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a graduate of the Berlin medical school, became a visual popularizer of medicine and science. He became famous f…
Entkernung – Erwartungen und Befürchtungen zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Loss of the Inner Core: Expectations and Fears for the Future of the History of Science . In this paper, I discuss the current state of history of science in Germany, a combination of strong interest in the field from various neighboring fields (including cultural history, media history, history of art, visual studies) and increasing fragmentation. Powerful institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for History of Science rather encourage this…
Translating in the History of Science: A Concerted Effort
A translator and her science consultant, who have worked together on many books, consider the problems of translating primary and secondary texts in science. Various problems encountered in translating an ongoing documentary edition in the history of science are discussed using the collected works of Albert Einstein as a test case. For instance, each language has its own preferred sentence structure; moreover, not every historical term finds a pe…
Der neue Weg“: Mit „interatomarer Energie“ zum „Herrn der Welt“ werden
Bei der Durchsicht des Nachlasses von Rudolf Tomaschek (1895–1966) fand ich ein 30 Seiten umfassendes Typoskript seines damaligen Assistenten Hugo Watzlawek (1912–1995) aus dem Jahr 1944 mit dem Titel „Interatomare Energie“. Heute würde man eher von „inneratomarer Energie“, oder von „Kernenergie“ sprechen, da der Inhalt des Typoskripts „technische Kernphysik“ einschließlich ihrer potentiellen militärischen Anwendungen betrifft. Der Text bietet ei…
Italic>Astronomen, Akten und Affären. Vom Anfang zum Ende des Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums zu Potsdam. Berichte und Erinnerungen , by Günther Rüdiger
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse (review)
Philosophy (16 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Physics (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Theoretical physics (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (6 works)