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A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital perspectives on the complex challenges confronting us today in the Anthropocene-this new geological epoch shaped by humankind.Renn reframes the history of science and technology within a much broader history of knowledge, analyzing key episodes such as the evolution of writing, the emergence of science in the ancient world, the Scientific Revolution of early modernity, the globalization of knowledge, industrialization, and the profound transformations wrought by modern science. He investigates the evolution of knowledge using an array of disciplines and methods, from cognitive science and experimental psychology to earth science and evolutionary biology. The result is an entirely new framework for understanding structural changes in systems of knowledge-and a bold new approach to the history and philosophy of science.Written by one of today's preeminent historians of science, The Evolution of Knowledge features essays on historiographical themes, a glossary of key terms, and practical insights on global issues ranging from climate change to digital capitalism. This incisive book also serves as an invaluable introduction to the history of knowledge.

Theory of knowledge --- History of philosophy --- Science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy --- History --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- SCIENCE / History. --- Science. --- Anthropozän. --- Kulturwandel. --- Philosophie. --- Technologie. --- Wissenschaft. --- Wissenschaftstransfer. --- Philosophy. --- History.

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Physicists --- Relativity (Physics) --- History --- Einstein, Albert --- Influence.

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Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work­ must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops organized in the framework of the on text. In fact, the analysis of the function of Network on Science and the Visual Images images in the early modern period shows that 1500 - 1800 funded by the European Science they mediated not only between science and Foundation and initiated by William Shea. its cultural context, but also between practi­ Meanwhile a selection of contributions was cal knowledge and its theoretical reflection thoroughly revised and prepared for publica­ in scientific theories. tion together with additionally invited papers The analysis of images thus constitutes an for this book. The result is a volume which important branch of the history of science we hope corresponds to the original inten­ that on the one hand is conceived of as part tion of the Network to contribute to a histori­ of a more general history of culture and on cal reconstruction of the role of images in the the other hand as a historical epistemology of history of science, still neglected because of knowledge. This book is not a systematic and the traditional focus of the history of science comprehensive account of scientific images on texts corresponding to a concentration on and the early modern period.

Communication in science. --- Visual communication. --- Science --- Information scientifique --- Communication visuelle --- Sciences --- History. --- Histoire --- 133.5:54 --- 094:5 --- 094:681 --- 769.04:5 --- Alchemie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Precision mechanisms and instruments --- Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 769.04:5 Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 094:681 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Precision mechanisms and instruments --- 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 133.5:54 Alchemie --- Communication in science --- Visual communication --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- History --- Physics. --- History of Science. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Book history --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- scientific illustrations [images] --- anno 1500-1799

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Mit dem „Zeitalter des Menschen“ ist erdgeschichtlich ein irreversibler Prozess in Gang gesetzt worden. Wenn das, was wir bisher als Natur verstanden haben, von Menschen gemacht ist, funktionieren Dualismen wie Natur/Kultur oder Subjekt/Objekt nicht mehr in der althergebrachten Funktion. Die untrennbare Verkettung von industriellem Stoffwechsel, Klimawandel, Verstädterung, Bodenerosion und Artensterben erfordert eine neue Erschließung von Welt. Ein neues Staunen über das Wunder Erde ist gefragt: Was können wir tun, wie können wir wissen – und inwiefern hängt beides zusammen? Mit welchen Mitteln, Methoden und Sinnen können wir der von uns selbst geschaffenen Welt begegnen?

Environmental geology --- Nature --- Environmental ethics --- Global environmental change --- Human ecology --- Effect of human beings on --- Anthropozän. --- Mensch. --- Natur. --- Umweltethik. --- Nature - Effect of human beings on