Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Journal: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Ber. Wiss.gesch.

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Wiley-VCH

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0170-6233
1522-2365

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Tobias Scheidegger, „Petite Science“. Außeruniversitäre Naturforschung in der Schweiz um 1900
Delucchi, Rachele (2018)
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Texts, Practice and Practitioners: Computational Cultures at Work in Early Modern South India
Dhandapani, Senthil Babu (2022)
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This essay will discuss the hegemonic role that texts have come to play in the historiography of subcontinental mathematical traditions. It will argue that texts need to be studied as records of practices of people's working lives, grounded in social hierarchies. We will take particular mathematical texts to show how different occupational registers have come to shape practices that defy the binaries of concrete and abstract, high and low mathematics or the pure and applied conundrum. Measuring, counting and accounting practices as part of the routine work of practitioners performing their caste occupations then provide us with a spectrum of the computational activities that controlled and regulated the lives of people in the past. In the process the act of computing itself gained certain political values such as cunning and manipulation, identified with professions of village accountant and merchant, for example. Drawn from my earlier work on these records, I discuss the occupational role of the accountant as a political functionary who assessed and authenticated the measurements of land and produce in the village, making values of the labor performed by others, and creating avenues for his own proficiency as a mathematical practitioner.
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
Grütter, Fabian; Güttler, Nils; Stadler, Max; et al. (2018)
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Sandra Pravica, Bachelards tentative Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wien: Passagen 2015. 321 S., ISBN 978‐3‐7092‐0183‐1. Kaja Tulatz, Epistemologie als Reflexion wissenschaftlicher Praxen. Epistemische Räume im Ausgang von Gaston Bachelard, Louis Althusser und Joseph Rouse, (Edition panta rei) Bielefeld: transcript 2018. 304 S., ISBN 978‐3‐8376‐4212‐
Wulz, Monika (2018)
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