Sökning: "Hjalmar Fors"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Hjalmar Fors.
1. Mutual Favours : The social and scientific practice of eighteenth-century Swedish chemistry
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
2. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France
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
3. Mechanicus : Performing an Early Modern Persona
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
4. Det nära främmande : Svensk lärdom och politik i en tysk tidning, 1753-1792
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
5. Kiär hustru, wackra barn, bodde i ett palais : Identitet och materialitet i hushållet von Linné
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