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  • 1.
    Ahnfelt, Nils-Otto
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Division of Pharmacognosy.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Hagströmer Library, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
    Making Early Modern Medicine: Reproducing Swedish Bitters2016In: Ambix, ISSN 0002-6980, E-ISSN 1745-8234, Vol. 63, no 2, p. 162-183Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Historians of science and medicine have rarely applied themselves to reproducing the experiments and practices of medicine and pharmacy. This paper delineates our efforts to reproduce "Swedish Bitters," an early modern composite medicine in wide European use from the 1730s to the present. In its original formulation, it was made from seven medicinal simples: aloe, rhubarb, saffron, myrrh, gentian, zedoary and agarikon. These were mixed in alcohol together with some theriac, a composite medicine of classical origin. The paper delineates the compositional history of Swedish Bitters and the medical rationale underlying its composition. It also describes how we go about to reproduce the medicine in a laboratory using early modern pharmaceutical methods, and analyse it using contemporary methods of pharmaceutical chemistry. Our aim is twofold: first, to show how reproducing medicines may provide a path towards a deeper understanding of the role of sensual and practical knowledge in the wider context of early modern medical culture; and second, how it may yield interesting results from the point of view of contemporary pharmaceutical science.

  • 2.
    Ahnfelt, Nils-Otto
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Farmakognosi. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Karolinska Inst, Unit Med Hist & Heritage, Stockholm, Sweden..
    Wendin, Karin
    Kristianstad Univ, Fac Sci, Food & Meal Sci, Kristianstad, Sweden.;Univ Copenhagen, Dept Food Sci, Frederiksberg C, Denmark..
    Historical Continuity or Different Sensory Worlds?: What we Can Learn about the Sensory Characteristics of Early Modern Pharmaceuticals by Taking Them to a Trained Sensory Panel.2020In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ISSN 0170-6233, E-ISSN 1522-2365, Vol. 43, no 3, p. 412-429Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Early modern medicine was much more dependent on the senses than its contemporary counterpart. Although a comprehensive medical theory existed that assigned great value to taste and odor of medicaments, historical descriptions of taste and odor appears imprecise and inconsistent to modern eyes. How did historical actors move from subjective experience of taste and odor to culturally stable agreements that facilitated communication about the sensory properties of medicaments? This paper addresses this question, not by investigating texts, but by going straight to the sensory impression, which certain substances convey. The aim is not to overwrite or rectify historical descriptions but to investigate whether modern methodologies for sensory assessment can be enlisted to understand the past. We draw on history of science for framing and research questions, pharmaceutical science for knowledge of pharmaceuticals and preparations, and food and meal science for assaying procedures and protocols. We show that sensory evaluation can yield precise descriptions that would not have been alien to early modern medicine makers. However, there are problems with translating descriptions of taste between different historical contexts. By comparing contemporary descriptions of sensations with eighteenth-century ones, the article discusses how sensory descriptions are highly dependent on context, and subject to historical change.

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  • 3.
    Cornu, Armel
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Enlightening Water: Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France2022Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry.

    Eighteenth-century mineral waters were no longer confined to discrete spa towns. Instead, their use had become a kingdom-wide phenomenon, thanks to developments in bottling. Increased access to mineral waters caught the interest of medical and chemical practitioners who wanted to explain the striking properties of the waters and ensure they were sold fairly and safely. This culminated in the 1776 creation of a dedicated regulatory institution, the Société de Médecine, which attempted to legislate the market of mineral waters.

    By examining the extensive records of the Société, my work brings into focus the unsuspected reach of the mineral water market, and explores the history of the institutions that attempted to control it. In parallel, I highlight the active resistance to the centralising force of the state coming from the vast, eclectic and inherently decentred world of mineral water handlers. Mineral water knowledge, likewise, was created within a decentred network of analysts, who nevertheless produced an increasingly standardised method for the chemical examination of mineral waters. Access to this intricate process of knowledge creation is provided by hundreds of treatises, reports, and letters concerning the analysis of mineral waters produced and circulated throughout the French kingdom. This substantial array of hitherto understudied primary material, interpreted via a combination of quantitative methods and social history from below, makes a case for mineral waters as a lens to both illustrate and challenge established narratives of the period. My work thus demonstrates the significance of the Enlightenment period in the longer history of spas and healing waters.

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  • 4.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Away, Away to Falun!: J. G. Gahn and the application of enlightenment chemistry to smelting2009In: Technology and culture, ISSN 0040-165X, E-ISSN 1097-3729, Vol. 50, no 3, p. 549-568Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 5.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Elements in the Melting Pot: Merging chemistry, assaying and natural history, c. 1730-17602014In: Osiris, ISSN 0369-7827, E-ISSN 1933-8287, Vol. 29, no 1, p. 230-244Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This essay examines how the modern concept of the chemical element emerged during the eighteenth century. It traces this concept to a group of assayers, mineralogists, and chemists active at the Swedish Bureau of Mines (Bergskollegium). Driven by a deep ontological pragmatism, these “mining chemists” came to regard all inquiries into the component parts of metals as useless speculation. Instead, metals were treated as immutable species that made mineralogical taxonomy possible. Their work was a form of Enlightenment boundary work, which associated chrysopoeia and the pursuit of the components of metals with superstition and disreputable activities such as astrology.

  • 6.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Hjälten utan ansikte: Om Carl Wilhelm Scheeles liv efter döden2014In: Svensk snillrikhet? : Nationella föreställningar om entreprenörer och teknisk begåvning 1800-2000 / [ed] Staffan Bergwik, Michael Godhe, Anders Houltz, Magnus Rodell, Lund: Nordic Academic Press , 2014, 1, p. 161-180Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 7.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Kemi, paracelsism och mekanisk filosofi: Bergskollegium och Uppsala cirka 1680-17702007In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 211-44Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 8.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Matematiker mot linneaner: Konkurrerande vetenskapliga nätverk kring Torbern Bergman2008In: Vetenskapens sociala strukturer: Sju historiska fallstudier om konflikt, samverkan och makt / [ed] Sven Widmalm, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2008, p. 25-53Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 9.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Karolinska Inst, Hagstromer Med Hist Lib, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Medicine and the Making of a City: Spaces of Pharmacy and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Stockholm2016In: Isis, ISSN 0021-1753, E-ISSN 1545-6994, Vol. 107, no 3, p. 473-494Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This essay takes seventeenth-century Stockholm as its point of departure in discussing the many spaces to which early modern medicine belonged, in particular the court, the cityscape, the site of the pharmacy, and the city's Collegium Medicum. It shows how scholarly medicine and pharmacy arose along with the city itself. They were a part of the city and of its many interlaced local, European, and global flows and relationships. Thus the essay offers new perspectives on medicine as part of, and a driving force behind, Stockholm's transition from a medieval town to the capital of an early modern state, as well as the city's integration into the early modern system of global trade. It also shows how a switch of perspective may relocate pharmacy to the center of the seventeenth-century medical world. By focusing on the city, rather than on specific professional groups, the essay seeks to problematize the alleged special importance of physicians for early modern medicine and the view that physicians held a superior status in relation to other medical practitioners, as well as to artisans/craftsmen.

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  • 10.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Occult Traditions and Enlightened Science: The Swedish Board of Mines as an Intellectual Environment 1680-17602007In: Chymists and chymistry: Studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / [ed] Lawrence M. Principe, Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA , 2007, p. 239-252Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 11.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Speaking about the other ones: Swedish chemists on alchemy, c. 1730-702008In: Neighbours and Territories: The Evolving Identity of Chemistry, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the History of Chemistry / [ed] J. R. Bertomeu-Sánchez, D. T. Burns, B. Van Tiggelen, Leuven: Memosciences , 2008, p. 283-289Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 12.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Stepping through science’s door: C. W. Scheele, from pharmacist’s apprentice to man of science2008In: Ambix, ISSN 0002-6980, E-ISSN 1745-8234, Vol. 55, no 1, p. 29-49Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 13.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining and Enlightenment2015 (ed. 1)Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead began looking elsewhere to explain the world around them. In The Limits of Matter, Hjalmar Fors investigates how conceptions of matter changed during the Enlightenment and pins this important change in European culture to the formation of the modern discipline of chemistry. Fors reveals how, early in the eighteenth century, chemists began to view metals no longer as ingredients for chrysopoeia –or gold making– but as elemental substances, or basic building blocks of matter. At the center of this emerging idea, argues Fors, was the Bureau of Mines of the Swedish state, which saw the practical and profitable potential of these materials in the economies of mining and smelting. By studying the bureau's chemists and their networks, and integrating their practices into the wider European context, Fors illustrates how they and their successors played a significant role in the development of our modern notion of matter and made a major contribution to the modern European view of reality. 

  • 14.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Vetenskap i alkemins gränsland: Om J. G. Wallerius Wattu-riket1998In: Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift, ISSN 0375-2038, Vol. 1996-1997, p. 33-60Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 15.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    von Stockenström, Erik2010In: Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon: Stille-Strandell / [ed] Åsa Karlsson, Stockholm: Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon , 2010, p. 548-553Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 16.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden..
    Ways of Making and Knowing. The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge2015In: Ambix, ISSN 0002-6980, E-ISSN 1745-8234, Vol. 62, no 4, p. 395-396Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Fors, Hjalmar
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Karolinska Inst, Hagstromer Lib, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden..
    Principe, Lawrence M.
    Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Hist Sci & Technol, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA..
    Sibum, H. Otto
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    From the Library to the Laboratory and Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for Historians of Science2016In: Ambix, ISSN 0002-6980, E-ISSN 1745-8234, Vol. 63, no 2, p. 85-97Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Frangsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    University of Oslo from 1811-2011, vol 3, In the research age from 1911-1940.2013In: Historisk Tidsskrift, ISSN 0018-263X, E-ISSN 1504-2944, Vol. 92, no 3, p. 470-473Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 19.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala University, University Administration. 1971.
    Den svåra kollegialiteten: Några historiska perspektiv2017In: Annales Academiae Regiae Scientiarum Upsaliensis: Kungl. Vetenskapssamhällets i Uppsala årsbok 2015-2016 / [ed] Stefan Mähl, Uppsala: Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala , 2017, p. 33-46Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala University, University Library.
    Fimbulvintrar och kakelugnar: Värme, kyla ochm klimatlära i svenskt 1700-tal2021In: Kakelugnen i Sverige / [ed] Kurt Almqvist och Svante Helmbaek Tirén, Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe , 2021, p. 47-57Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala University, University Administration. 1971.
    Gud, Gustaf Adolf och Sveriges försvar: Fosterländska studentförbundet i 1890-talets Uppsala2019In: I samhällets tjänst: Festskrift till Sverker Gustavsson på åttioårsdagen den 1 januari 2020 / [ed] Lars-Gunnar Larsson och Stefan Mähl, Uppsala: Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala , 2019, p. 31-46Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 22.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Hågkomster samlade från en lång lefnad2008Collection (editor) (Other academic)
  • 23.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala University, University Administration. 1971.
    Mårten Richert och nordistikens etablering vid Uppsala universitet2017In: Saga och Sed: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademiens årsbok 2016 / [ed] Gunnar Ternhag, Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien , 2017, p. 121-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 24.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Samvetsäktenskap gjorde slut på universitetens rättskipande2010In: Tvärsnitt, ISSN 0348-7997, no 3:10, p. 24-27Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 25.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Stenius. Jacob2008In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, Stockholm: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , 2008, p. 338-341Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 26.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    The Svedberg, "Fragment": Urval och inledning2012In: Nya professorer: Installation 2012 / [ed] Per Ström, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2012, 3000, p. 5-94Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 27.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Universitetets historia2011In: Utbildningshistoria: En introduktion / [ed] Esbjörn Larsson & Johannes Westberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2011, p. 143-157Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Universitetshuset 125 år: Med rektor Carl Yngve Sahlins tal vid dess invigning2012In: Doktorspromotionen fredag 1 juni 2012 / [ed] Per Ström, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2012, 3000, p. 9-34Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Uppsala universitet 1852–1916, Del 12010Book (Other academic)
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  • 30.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Uppsala universitet 1852–1916, Del 22010Book (Other academic)
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  • 31.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Yrväderstisdagen och meteorologins framväxt2008In: Moln : konst, väder och vetenskap: Museum Gustavianum 23 maj-14 september 2008 : tvärvetenskapliga essäer om moln, Uppsala: Uppsala universitets konstsamlingar , 2008, p. 35-39Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 32.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Lundin, Tom
    SHT:s Stor-Mästare2011Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 33.
    Frängsmyr, Carl
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Sandin, Per
    Dynastin Bernadotte och det kungliga riksuniversitetet: Två kungliga besök i Uppsala2011In: Nya professorer: Installation hösten 2011 / [ed] Per Ström, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2011, p. 5-36Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 34.
    Frängsmyr, Tore
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Att popularisera svensk idéhistoria2007In: Annales Academiae regiae scientiarum Upsaliensis : Kungl. Vetenskapssamhällets i Uppsala årsbok , ISSN 0504-0736 , Vol. 36, p. 2005-2006Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Frängsmyr, Tore
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Carl von Linné - paradoxernas vetenskapsman: högtidstal på Linnés födelsedag, 23 maj, 2007 i Uppsala universitets aula2007Book (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Frängsmyr, Tore
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Vetenskapshistoria under 25 år: 1982-2007 : en redogörelse2007Book (Other academic)
  • 37.
    Frängsmyr, Tore
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Wolffianism in Sweden2007In: Gesammelte Werke. Abt. 3, Materialien und Dokumente. Bd 101, Wolffiana II.1: Christian Wolff und die europäische Aufklärung : Aktes des 1. Internationalen Christian -Wolff- Kongresses, Hales (Saale), 4-8. April 2004. T. 1, Hildesheim: Olms , 2007, p. 153-163Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 38.
    Hellström, Petter
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Is there an end to evolution?2017In: Global Intellectual History, ISSN 2380-1883, E-ISSN 2380-1891Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 39.
    Hellström, Petter
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    André, Gilles
    76 Rue Hurepoix, F-91470 Limours, France.
    Philippe, Marc
    Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, CMR LEHNA 5023, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
    Life and works of Augustin Augier de Favas (1725–1825), author of 'Arbre botanique' (1801)2017In: Archives of Natural History, ISSN 0260-9541, E-ISSN 1755-6260, Vol. 44, no 1, p. 43-62Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Augustin Augier's “Arbre botanique” (“botanical tree”) (1801), a diagram representing the natural order of plants in the shape of a family tree, is today a standard reference in histories of systematics and phylogenetic trees. The previously unidentified author was a nobleman from Saint-Tropez, a schoolteacher and a priest in the Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus et de Marie immaculée. His biography and two previously unnoticed publications, as well as his correspondence with the Institut national in Paris, are discussed. Knowledge of Augier's identity, his life and works sheds new light upon his taxonomic theories, and helps us to understand his “Arbre botanique”. Long before the tree was made into an icon of evolutionism, Augier used it to demonstrate the beauty and perfect order of divine creation.

  • 40.
    Ling, Sofia
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History.
    Östholm, Hanna
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Uppgifter om kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i Stockholm, kämnärsrättens protokoll för år 1650, 1690, 1748, 17512014Data set
    Abstract [sv]

    Försörjningsaktiviteter, som förekommer i ärenden som inbegriper kvinnor, i kämnärsrättens protokoll åren 1650, 1690, 1748, 1751 har transkriberats och analyserats, och källtext och källtrogna variabler registrerats bokstavstroget, av Sofia Ling och Hanna Östholm inom projektet Gender and Work. 

    Kvalitetskontroll är utförd av Rosemarie Fiebranz.

    Insamling och analys av källunderlaget har gjorts av Sofia Ling inom projektet Gender and Work -https://www.gaw.hist.uu.se/vad-kan-jag-hitta-i-gaw/kallunderlag/stockholm--kamnarsratten/

    Materialet är sökbart i databasen GAW - http://gaw.ddb.umu.se:8080/gaw-query/query/index.xhtml

  • 41.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Centre for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
    Actors out of sight?: Digital methods and the visibility of historical knowers2023In: Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge / [ed] Johan Östling; David Larsson Heidenblad; Anna Nilsson Hammar, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2023, p. 217-232Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 42.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–602016In: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / [ed] Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. 89-110Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 43.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Reading art, reading nature: How microscopic literature formed seventeenth-century readers2009In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 91-116Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article discusses how two books on microscopical observations, Experimental Philosophy (1664) by Henry Power (1623–1668) and Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke (1635–1703) were related to by contemporaries. These books were read by diverse readers who used microscopic observations in forming their own identities. Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) and Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692) all read Hooke’s and Power’s books and in their responses one can discern some of the roles microscopy had in early modern English society. What attitude did these readers, who responded from their respective positions, have to the experiences in Micrographia and Experimental Philosophy?

    Samuel Pepys read the books as a way of learning the art of microscopy. He sought to fashion himself as a gentleman through microscopic observations of nature. Margaret Cavendish did not relate to microscopy in the same way as Pepys. She used the books on microscopy in her philosophical critique of the experimentalist programme, a critique based on her seeing the microscopic picture as artificial. Thomas Shadwell’s play The virtuoso depicted the fictional experimentalist Sir Gimcrack. Where Pepys succeeded in balancing experimental practice with everyday responsibilities, Gimcrack was alienated from everyday life because he focused on the artificial world of lice, mites and weeds.

    The article shows how the way these three readers related to the books on microscopy was influenced by their opinions on the microscopic experience as either natural or artificial. Furthermore, it argues that one can discern an interaction between the readers’ gender identities and their microscopic observations. In Pepys and Shadwell/Gimcrack’s case how their gentlemanliness was formed in relation to their microscopic observations, in Cavendish’s case how her critique of these observations gave her a position as a woman who published in natural philosophy.

  • 44.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Recension av Cecilia Rosengren, "Conway. Naturfilosofi och kvinnliga tänkare i barockens tidevarv".2010In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 315-316Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 45.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Recension av Johan Kärnfelt, Karl Grandin & Solveig Jülich (red.): "Kunskap i rörelse. Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien och skapandet av det moderna samhället"2019In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 336-338Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 46.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungliga vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm, Sverige.
    Should we write about history, or about doing history?: Analysing the role of methodology in digital history and Swedish intellectual history2022In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 65-83Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article explores diverging ways of accounting for methodological questions in the history writing of digital history on one hand, and Swedish intellectual history (idé- och lärdomshistoria) on the other. By highlighting differences in how the two fields treat these central historiographical issues, I aim better to understand some of the difficulties of conducting and publishing research in Swedish intellectual history, based on digital-history methods.

    The study is separated into two sections: first, I make a qualitative analysis of texts containing reflexive discussions on method, produced during the early discipline- forming phases of each field. Then, I do a distant reading of peer-reviewed articles in Lychnos published 2005–2020, as well as of a recent edited volume in digital history. This analysis provides an overview of recent discussions on method in these two fields, while it at the same time serves as an example of how such methods shape the way we write history.

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  • 47.
    Persson, Mathias
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economic History. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Mediating the Enemy: Prussian representations of Austria, France and Sweden during the Seven Years War2014In: German History, ISSN 0266-3554, E-ISSN 1477-089X, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 181-200Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article aims to shed light on early modern images of intra-European 'others' and the interface between the transnational public sphere and politics of the time through an investigation of how the periodical Berlinische Privilegirte Zeitung framed Prussia's adversaries Austria, France and Sweden during the Seven Years War (1756-1763). The global struggle was accompanied by intense wars of words and in print, but not all representations of the enemy 'others' in the Berlin periodical were negative in tone-some reports on the antagonistic powers were neutral or even positive. The pro-Prussian drive of the Berlinische Privilegirte Zeitung was therefore not, it appears, a comprehensive propaganda campaign; rather, it was the sum of a multitude of biased accounts that corresponded to the preferences of King Frederick II and his government. While the analysis corroborates the claim that the Seven Years War was primarily a political conflict, it simultaneously demonstrates that religious arguments were by no means obsolete. On the contrary, religion and politics were intimately intertwined in a master narrative defined by a sequence of dichotomies between 'self' and 'other'. Even so, the article overall reveals the looser, more porous quality of identities in a period when religious essentialism had been decisively weakened and the rise of nationalism had yet to occur.

  • 48.
    Pestre, Dominique
    et al.
    École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
    Sibum, H. OttoUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.Raj, KapilÉcole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
    History of Science and Knowledge2023Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 49.
    Sappol, Michael
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Anatomy’s photography: Objectivity, showmanship, and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1860-19502017In: REMEDIAArticle in journal (Other academic)
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  • 50.
    Sappol, Michael
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden..
    Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain2021In: Social history of medicine, ISSN 0951-631X, E-ISSN 1477-4666, Vol. 34, no 2, p. 688-690Article, book review (Other academic)
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