University of Hamburg - Faculty of Mathematics

Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Technology

Overview of the Courses offered by the IGN
in Summer Term 2004

Kurzübersicht über Lehrveranstaltungen im Summersemester 2004

Main Lectures

- for students of all departments (faculties) -

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Stefan Kirschner
  General history of science and technology II (Middle Ages and Early Modern)

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt
  History of physics and chemistry IV (20th century)

• Stefan Kirschner
  History of biology IV (19th to 20th centuries)

Special Lectures

• Stefan Kirschner
  History of science with a special emphasis on history of pharmacy

• Peter Ullrich
  Milestones in the historical development of mathematics

Seminars

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Stefan Kirschner
  Seminar on general history of science and technology II
  (Antiquity)

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt
  Seminar on history of physics and chemistry IV (20th century)

• Stefan Kirschner
  Seminar on history of biology IV
  (19th to 20th centuries)

• Cornelia Lüdecke
  Seminar zur Einführung in die naturwissenschaftshistorische Arbeitsmethodik
  Blockveranstaltung 29.03. - 2.04.2004, Mo-Fr 11 - 17 Uhr, Geom E 11/13

• Dirk Siebers, Gudrun Wolfschmidt
  Seminar: Reading and analysis of alchemistic literature as well as metallurgical literature of Early Modern time

• Torsten Rüting
  Seminar: Construction of manliness and womanliness in the biology of the 20. century

• Igor Abdrakhmanov
  Seminar: West - East? North - South? The science and the scientists in the European-asiatic region

• Peter Ullrich
  Seminar: History of mathematics, especially analysis

• Günther Oestmann
  Seminar: History of astronomy: The tools of medieval astronomers

• Peter Heering (University of Oldenburg)
  Seminar on history of physics:
  Analyzing by doing historical experiments in the field of physics
  (Saturday May 29 and June 26, 2004, 9 - 18 h
  University Oldenburg - Standort Wechloy)
  Information: April 20, 2004, 14 - 16 Geom H 6

• Elena Roussanova
  Seminar on the history of chemistry:
  Expedition through the history of chemistry
  (especially for high school teacher students)

• Elena Roussanova
  Seminar on the history of chemistry:
  Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838-1906) - the chemist and his work
  (especially for high school teacher students)

• Torsten Rüting
  Seminar on the history of biology:
  Medicine and ,,Kognitionswissenschaften'': More than the sum of the parts. The reductionism problem and experiments for the conquest in the biology of the 20. century

• Philip Beeley
  Working group: Archiving and editing of scientists' papers

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Karin Reich
  Colloquium on recent research and new trends in the history of science, mathematics and technology
  Kolloquium

EXCURSION

• Gudrun Wolfschmidt
  EXcursion in history of science and technology
  (5 days): Paris, June 26-30, 2004
  Information: 29.04.2004, 18.00, Geom E 11/13

Gudrun Wolfschmidt

April 2, 2004

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