Search for dissertations about: "H. Otto Sibum"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words H. Otto Sibum.
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1. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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2. The End of Piracy : Rethinking the History of German Print Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Abstract : This dissertation is an historical study of the German book trade in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In this period, German states passed authorial rights reforms that prompted energetic discussions about the definition of authorship and unauthorized reprinting. READ MORE
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3. Trees of Knowledge : Science and the Shape of Genealogy
Abstract : This study investigates early employments of family trees in the modern sciences, in order to historicise their iconic status and now established uses, notably in evolutionary biology and linguistics. Moving beyond disciplinary accounts to consider the wider cultural background, it examines how early uses within the sciences transformed family trees as a format of visual representation, as well as the meanings invested in them. READ MORE
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4. Mechanicus : Performing an Early Modern Persona
Abstract : 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”. READ MORE