This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning...
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It inv...
English summary: Franz Unger, palaeo-botanist, biologist, cell-researcher, ecologist, geologist, evolutionist and cultural scientist, has often been described as the Austrian Darwin. Since he worked before Darwin, his work deserves more than this kind of associative equation, namely a serious scientific analysis through which the multiplicity of Unger's innovative approaches can be located in epistemic contexts. The unity in the approaches of all the essays collected in this volume lies in their concentration on both local and international contexts, debates and knowledge orientations in...
English summary: Franz Unger, palaeo-botanist, biologist, cell-researcher, ecologist, geologist, evolutionist and cultural scientist, has often been d...
