NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00418-4
Parviz Tarikhi
{"title":"Jörg Matthias Determann 2023. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy: A Modern History and Tomáš W. Pavlíček, Petra Hyklová, and Martin Šolc 2024. Astronomers behind the Iron Curtain: The First Postwar Generation in Czechoslovakia.","authors":"Parviz Tarikhi","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00418-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00418-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"235-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00416-6
Alexander Kraft, Gerhard Görmar, Thomas Moenius
{"title":"[VIA VERITATIS - A sought-after component of the alchemical Basilius-Valentinus corpus?]","authors":"Alexander Kraft, Gerhard Görmar, Thomas Moenius","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00416-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00416-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the early modern period, alchemical writings circulating under disguised author identities were part of a shadow economy of pseudepigraphical alchemical knowledge. By the end of the 16th century at the latest, the term Via Veritatis appeared as the title of alchemical, especially transmutatory, writings. For the period up to the 18th century, eighteen different versions were identified, which can be divided into five different text groups in terms of content. While the two older text groups (typus 1 and 2) criticize the state of contemporary alchemy and show the supposedly only true way to transmutation, the other text groups (typus 3 to 5) consist of a large number of systematically structured process instructions. However, a connection to the fictional person of Basilius Valentinus cannot be proven for all texts. The Via Veritatis texts of typus 1 and 2 show no obvious connections to Basilius Valentinus. For texts of typus 3 to 5, however, there appears to be reference to Basilius Valentinus in content and form. Based on the classification system proposed by Lawrence Principe for the corpus of Basilius Valentinus' writings, these can be assigned to sub-corpus C.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"175-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144121190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00417-5
Ezra Kücken
{"title":"Performing and Policing Prostitution: Race and Sexuality in Colonial Hong Kong Under the Contagious Diseases Ordinances.","authors":"Ezra Kücken","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00417-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00417-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper delves into the complex construction and regulation of prostitution in colonial Hong Kong, exploring how intersecting dynamics of race, gender, class, and sexuality influenced perceptions and governance. Drawing on intersectionality, doing gender, and performativity frameworks, it analyzes the role of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, medical expertise, and humanitarian networks in shaping colonial attitudes toward prostitution, particularly through the enactment of contagious diseases (CD) ordinances. Despite existing scholarship on imperial regulation, there is a notable gap regarding the nuanced construct of the prostitute herself and its impact on regulatory practices. Through examination of historical documents, the paper reveals the interdependence between colonial and domestic constructions of race, sexuality, and class, highlighting their influence on legislative approaches in Britain and its colonies. By situating Hong Kong within broader imperial networks and scrutinizing medico-moral discourse and capitalist imperatives, the study exposes contradictions in colonial regulation, emphasizing the enduring legacies of exploitation. It advocates for further research into the performance and policing of prostitution, stressing the necessity of an intersectional lens to comprehend the complexities of colonial history.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"201-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144038932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00419-3
Ylva Söderfeldt
{"title":"Oliver Falk 2023. Diabetes: Eine Wissensgeschichte der modernen Medizin, 1900–1960 und Rob Boddice und Bettina Hitzer (Hg.) 2022. Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness.","authors":"Ylva Söderfeldt","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00419-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00419-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"241-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00415-7
Ursula Heim
{"title":"[The Medical Atom: Radioisotopes in Internal Medicine in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1965].","authors":"Ursula Heim","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00415-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00415-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Radioisotopes were one of the defining innovations in clinical internal medicine in the post-war period. Medical university clinics used radioisotopes in the treatment of previously untreatable diseases and at the same time used them to study physiological processes in the laboratory. In the mid-1950s, new technical methods-such as scintigraphy-expanded the diagnostic and therapeutic repertoire of internal medicine. The article uses the example of isotope research to highlight the significance of technology-driven processes of change for the internal medicine clinic in West Germany. In addition, transfer processes between basic medical research and clinical research are examined and analyzed as a form of translational medicine avant la lettre.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"145-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00414-8
Yoav Beirach, Michael Friedman
{"title":"\"Tirer d'eux leurs secrets\": Leibniz on Artisanal Knowledge and \"Secret\" Geometry.","authors":"Yoav Beirach, Michael Friedman","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00414-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00414-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What was Leibniz's approach to artisanal knowledge? And how did he consider it with respect to mathematical, and more concretely, to geometrical knowledge? On the one hand, Leibniz emphasizes several times in his writings that one should extract \"secrets and inventions\" from the artisans. On the other hand, Leibniz points out that such artisans cannot formulate by themselves the geometric principles at the base of their machines. In this paper, we examine these intricate relations between Leibniz's reflections on artisans, especially clockmakers and textile workers, as well as his thoughts on mechanical and geometric knowledge. Leibniz's considerations of various artisanal machines, like clocks and looms, lead us to discuss his wish to expand geometry, presenting these machines as embodying a \"secret,\" \"hidden,\" or even \"deeper\" or \"more profound\" geometry.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"107-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-03-25DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00411-x
Christoffer Leber
{"title":"[A Controversy On Tape: Oral History, Witnesses, and Mythmaking in the American Debate About Genetic Engineering, 1975-1980].","authors":"Christoffer Leber","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00411-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00411-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the 1970s, historians discovered oral history as a new approach to the history of modern science. One example of this trend is the Recombinant DNA History Collection, which was created by Charles Weiner (1932-2012) at MIT in 1975. Following the approach of \"history in the making\", the collection aimed to document events that were considered turning points in the history of science. The collection included oral history interviews, audio and video recordings, press clippings, and further material around recombinant DNA (rDNA). In addition to the 1975 Asilomar Conference, the collection focused on the controversy about rDNA research in Cambridge (MA) in 1976/77. When Mayor Alfred Vellucci heard from Harvard's plan to build a laboratory for rDNA experiments on a P3 containment level, he convened two public hearings at the City Council in the summer of 1976. After a critical assessment of potential hazards of rDNA research by a citizen board, Cambridge passed the first local ordinance for the regulation rDNA research in the United States. In the following, I argue that the Recombinant DNA History Collection challenged the myth of neutral, objective, and disinterested science. Yet at the same time, it created new myths.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"29-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11958452/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1007/s00048-025-00410-y
Heinrich Hartmann
{"title":"[Spontaneous infrastructures : The Jeep and the Creation of Postcolonial Spaces in the Postwar Period (1940s-1960s)].","authors":"Heinrich Hartmann","doi":"10.1007/s00048-025-00410-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-025-00410-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The jeep was one of the most important pieces of equipment used by the US American army in the Second World War and was heroized accordingly during and after the war. At the same time, the post-war use of hundreds of thousands of jeeps was unclear. Repurposing them as agricultural equipment proved to be difficult. Instead, Jeeps were often put to new uses in different geographical contexts and represented a form of late and post-colonial infrastructure, especially in parts of the world with little access to transportation and road networks. However, jeeps were far more than simple transportation devices. They enabled access to remote regions and villages, with the aim of allowing them to participate in a seemingly global information society.At the same time, the Jeep began its rise as a status symbol of the upper American middle class. Design played a decisive role in bringing the Jeep together with the changing mental maps of the post-war period. Brooks Stevens and Henry Kaiser in particular played an important role in giving the former military vehicle a completely different use, although in many respects it remained part of the modernizing mission of the Postwar period. This essay understands these two uses of the Jeep not as coincidental parallel developments, but reads them as two sides of the same coin.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11958434/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}