Sökning: "Fors Hjalmar"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Fors Hjalmar.

  1. 1. Mutual Favours : The social and scientific practice of eighteenth-century Swedish chemistry

    Författare :Hjalmar Fors; Anders Lundgren; Sven Widmalm; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria; Sweden; chemistry; mineralogy; eighteenth century; enlightenment science; republic of letters; reciprocity; networks; Johan Gottschalk Wallerius; Torbern Bergman; Carl Wilhelm Scheele; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a study of the creation of chemistry as a science in eighteenth-century Sweden. It is argued that the chemists in the study participated in a network for exchange of scientific facts and all kinds of favours, in which science was both conducted, negotiated and created. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France

    Författare :Armel Cornu; H. Otto Sibum; Hjalmar Fors; Sven Widmalm; Jakob Vogel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mineral waters; Eighteenth century; French Enlightenment; History of science; History of chemistry; Social history; Société de Médecine; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mechanicus : Performing an Early Modern Persona

    Författare :Jacob Orrje; H. Otto Sibum; Fors Hjalmar; Thomas Kaiserfeld; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mechanics; performance; virtue; persona; mathematics; self fashioning; education; masculinity; age; oeconomy; cameralism; Sweden; eighteenth century; intergenerational relationships; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies mechanics as a means of making men, rather than machines. Drawing on Swedish sources from 1700–50, it approaches mechanics as an exercise of a virtuous subject, known to his contemporaries as the “mechanicus”. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Det nära främmande : Svensk lärdom och politik i en tysk tidning, 1753-1792

    Författare :Mathias Persson; Anders Lundgren; Hjalmar Fors; Rebecka Lettevall; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; Germany; Göttingen; Hanover; Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen; enlightenment; eighteenth century; patriotism; cosmopolitanism; network; review; history of the press; Albrecht von Haller; Carolus Linnaeus; Sverige; Tyskland; Göttingen; Hannover; Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen; upplysning; 1700-tal; patriotism; kosmopolitism; nätverk; presshistoria; Vetenskapsakademien; Albrecht von Haller; Carl von Linné; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes the representations of Swedish learning and politics in the well-known review journal Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen during the time period 1753–1792. The overarching purpose is to investigate how a European country could be imagined and put to use in a nearby state, where it had the status of a proximate “other”. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Kiär hustru, wackra barn, bodde i ett palais : Identitet och materialitet i hushållet von Linné

    Författare :Annika Windahl Pontén; Hjalmar Fors; Hanna Hodacs; Kristiina Savin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carl Linnaeus; Carl von Linné; The Linnaeus household; Linnaeus family; persona; identity; materiality; performative practices; 18th century; Sweden; Uppsala; household; history of science; university history; Carl Linnaeus; Carl von Linné; Linnaeus household; Linnaeus family; persona; identity; materiality; performative practices; 18th century; Sweden; Uppsala; household; history of science; university history; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is identity and materiality in the household of Carl Linnaeus. Focus in on the period between the mid 1730s and early 1780s. The household eventually came to consist of five children and a number of servants. LÄS MER