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    Varieties of Popular Science and the Transformations of Public Knowledge: Some Historical Reflections.Andreas W. Daum - 2009 - Isis 100 (2):319-332.
    ABSTRACT This essay suggests that we should understand the varieties of “popular science” as part of a larger phenomenon: the changing set of processes, practices, and actors that generate and transform public knowledge across time, space, and cultures. With such a reconceptualization we can both de‐essentialize and historicize the idea of “popularization,” free it from normative notions, and move beyond existing imbalances in scholarship. The history of public knowledge might thus find a central place in many fundamental narratives of the (...)
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    Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science.Andreas W. Daum - forthcoming - History of Science.
    This article investigates why Humboldtian Science, as a heuristic concept, has gained prominence in the historiography of science and requires clarification. It offers an ideal-type model of comparative research and exact measurements across vast spaces, which Susan F. Cannon and others tied to Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). Yet, he himself was less “Humboldtian” than this concept suggests. The article proposes to disentangle Humboldtian Science from Humboldt’s science, which constituted a set of individual research practices that defied the ideal of precision. (...)
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    Das versöhnende Element in der neuen Weltanschauung Entwicklungsoptimismus, Naturästhetik und Harmoniedenken im populärwissenschaftlichen Diskurs der Naturkunde um 1900.Andreas Daum - 1996 - In Volker Drehsen & Walter Sparn (eds.), Vom Weltbildwandel Zur Weltanschauungsanalyse: Krisenwahrnehmung Und Krisenbewältigung Um 1900. Akademie Verlag. pp. 203-216.
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    Ein 'Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko': Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich/Alexander von Humboldt und Cotta: Briefwechsel.Andreas W. Daum - 2011 - Annals of Science:1-4.
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    Ein ‘Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko’: Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich.Andreas W. Daum - 2013 - Annals of Science 70 (3):428-431.
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    Alexander von Humboldt: Counternarrative of a dissenter? : Laura Dassow Walls: The passage to cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, xv+404pp, US$35.00 HB. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2010 - Metascience 20 (3):577-579.
    Alexander von Humboldt: Counternarrative of a dissenter? Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9514-0 Authors Andreas W. Daum, History Department, 570 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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    Alexander von Humboldt-August Böckh: Briefwechsel. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2014 - Annals of Science 71 (3):439-441.
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    Alexander von Humboldt;, Aimé Bonpland. Essay on the Geography of Plants. Edited by, Stephen T. Jackson. Translated by, Sylvie Romanowski. xx + 274 pp., illus., tables, bibl. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $45. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2011 - Isis 102 (4):781-782.
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    Ina Heumann. Gegenstücke: Populäres Wissen im transatlantischen Vergleich . 391 pp., illus., bibl., index. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014. €49. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2017 - Isis 108 (1):233-234.
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    Lynn K. Nyhart. Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany. xix + 423 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2010 - Isis 101 (3):665-667.
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    Nature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2014 - Annals of Science 71 (1):118-121.
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    (1 other version)Richard Weikart. Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein. Foreword by Alfred Kelly. x + 257 pp., bibl., index. San Francisco/London: International Scholars Publications, 1999. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2002 - Isis 93 (4):727-738.
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    Unterwegs mit wilden Tieren: Wandermenagerien zwischen Belehrung und Kommerz, 1750-1850. Annelore Rieke-Müller, Lothar Dittrich. [REVIEW]Andreas Daum - 2001 - Isis 92 (1):182-183.