Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science consisted of little more than a litany of unrelated facts....

In the past few decades, so-called model organisms have become a cornerstone of research in the biomedical sciences. For the scientists, the model organism is both a practice ground for developing laboratory techniques, and a source of insights into common or even universal biological...

When the German translation of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1860, it intensified a conflict that German theologians had been fighting since the early 19th century. Arguments against the secular relativising or even thorough dismissal of the scientific, philosophical and...

The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...

This lecture is not in any sense a survey of the …field. It is a highlyselective and personal view of the motivation behind the fi…eld and some ofthe key themes that link the literature. Thus, it represents a manifestopresented in the hope that somebody who encounters these ideas for the...

Seit Jahren gibt die Bundesregierung Reports zur wissenschaftlich-technischen LeistungsfähigkeitDeutschlands heraus, mal kombiniert, mal getrennt zur technischen und zur wissenschaftlichen.Darin sieht die Entwicklung immer positiv aus. Aber das ist schließlich auch dieFunktion von Evaluierung....

Ach ja, der Journalismus. Das Verhältnis von Wissenschaftund Journalismus ist ambivalent. Einerseits freuen sich Wissenschaftler,wenn über Forschungsergebnisse berichtet wird.Andererseits ist den Journalisten der Stoff meist zu trocken.Da liegt es nahe, ein wenig nachzuwürzen und der...