Search for dissertations about: "vetenskapshistoria"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word vetenskapshistoria.

  2. 1. A Science of Unique Events : Max Weber's Methodology of the Cultural Sciences

    Author : Ola Agevall; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Science of Univque Events; Infinite manifod; Governing point of view; History; Cultural Science; Value relations; historical individual; Objective possibility; Adequate cause; Ideal type; Sociology; Sociologi; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology;

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  4. 2. Muses and Patrons : Cultures of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth Century Scandinavia

    Author : Jakob Danneskiold-Samsøe; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of learning; Scandinavia; History of Science; Denmark; Sweden; natural philosophy; history of culture; Renaissance; 17th century; history of ideas; patronage; Vetenskapshistoria;

    Abstract : This study analyses the development of natural philosophy in Scandinavia in the 16th and 17th century. Rather than dealing with individual natural philosophers and ideas, it evolves around groups of natural philsophers - the Bartholin family and the former assistants of Tycho Brahe in Denmark, the Rudbeck family in Sweden. READ MORE

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

    Author : Hjalmar Fors; Anders Lundgren; Sven Widmalm; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

    Author : Charlotta Forss; Mats Hallenberg; Henrik Ågren; Kristiina Savin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical geography; Ottoman Empire; colonial America; conceptual history; history of knowledge; history of cartography; history of science; religious geography; early modern history; historisk geografi; kartografi; begreppshistoria; kunskapshistoria; Osmanska riket; vetenskapshistoria; religiös geografi; tidigmodern historia; det koloniala Amerika; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. READ MORE

  7. 5. Formal education and life-path development

    Author : Göran Hoppe; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Undervisningsväsen; Historia; Vetenskapshistoria; Demografi; Sverige;

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