Göttingen and the development of the natural sciences
By: edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.
Contributors: Rupke, Nicolaas A.
Publisher: Wallstein
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Science -- Germany -- Göttingen -- History -- Congresses.; Scientists -- Germany -- Göttingen -- Congresses.; Göttingen (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Chiefly contributions to a conference held in November 2000 at the Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The geography of scientific knowledge / Charles Withers; title: The Göttingen location / Nicolaas Rupke; title: Göttingen, Hanover, and Europe: Haller's correspondence / Urs Boschung; title: Physics and its history at Göttingen around 1800 / J.L. Heilbron; title: From enlightenment to romanticism: Lichtenberg and Göttingen physics / William Clark; title: Blumenbach, Banks, and the beginning of anthropology at Göttingen / John Gascoigne; title: The development of Gauss' image / Ivo Schneider; title: Stockholm - Göttingen: Does distance matter? The relationship between Berzelius and Wöhler / Anders Lundgren; title: The development of Göttingen into the Prussian centre of mathematics and exact sciences / Renate Tobies; title: Appointment politics and the rise of modern theoretical physics at Göttingen / Hans-Joachim Dahms; title: Spreading the quantum message: Born's 1925-1926 US trip / Nancy Greenspan; title: Göttingen as a scientific borderland following World War II / Mark Walker; title: Scientific portraiture: Göttingen professors in historical pictures / Nicolaas Rupke, Karen Wonders.