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1. Science and the state in nineteenth century Prussia: M. Norton Wise: Aesthetics, industry & science. Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, xxi+405pp, $45, ISBN 978-0-22.35-96-531.

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Pedersen, Kurt Møller

Subjects
*NINETEENTH century, *SCIENCE museums, *AESTHETICS, *THEATER design & construction, *ARCHITECTURAL details
Abstract

Science and the state in nineteenth century Prussia: M. Norton Wise: Aesthetics, industry & science. Wise goes into a detailed analysis of the Tree of Knowledge that figures so prominently on the certificate, an analysis that tells us how I Bildung i was conceived by members of the Berlin Physical Society. In a very detailed analysis, Wise concludes that the resources Helmholtz employed in his classical paper lay close at hand in the Society (272). [Extracted from the article]

Published
2020
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