יום ב' ,   18.02.08,   18:00 - 20:00
חדר 449 בנין גילמן

Dr. Janina Wellmann,
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Cohn Institute

 
Developmental series: The role of visual representations in the embryological investigations
of Christian Heinrich Pander and Karl Ernst von Baer

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Historians of science have often noted that the establishment of biological knowledge around 1800 was part of a general cultural-epistemological change characterised by the 'dynamization' or 'temporalization' of nature. In my paper I will suggest an alternative historiographical perspective. I will argue for the central role of rhythm and rhythmical patterns in the emergence of a new understanding of biological development.

In particular, it was the establishment of a new 'epigenetic' iconography which enabled the conceptualization of developmental processes in terms of gradual, continuous change.

In my talk I will focus on the work of two of the founders of modern embryology, namely Christian Heinrich Pander (1794-1865) and Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876).  

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