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    Big is a Thing of the Past: Climate Change and Methodology in the History of Ideas.Deborah R. Coen - 2016 - Journal of the History of Ideas 77 (2):305-321.
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    Rise, Grubenhund: on provincializing Kuhn.Deborah R. Coen - 2012 - Modern Intellectual History 9 (1):109-126.
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    (1 other version)A Lens Of Many Facets: Science through a Family’s Eyes.Deborah R. Coen - 2006 - Isis 97 (3):395-419.
    This essay argues for the relevance of the history of family life to the history of science, taking the example of the Exners of Vienna. The Exners were an influential case of the nineteenth‐century European phenomenon of the “scientific dynasty.” The focus here is on their collaborative research on color theory at the turn of the twentieth century. At first glance, this project looks like a reactionary strike against aesthetic innovation, a symptom of what historians assume was an unbridgeable gulf (...)
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    (1 other version)The Greening of German History.Deborah Coen - 2008 - Isis 99:142-148.
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    The Tongues of Seismology in Nineteenth-Century Switzerland.Deborah R. Coen - 2012 - Science in Context 25 (1):73-102.
    ArgumentBetween 1878 and 1880, Switzerland, Italy, and Japan initiated the world's first national earthquake commissions, but only the Swiss made ordinary citizens a vital part of this undertaking. This paper examines the texture of communication between Swiss scientists and lay observers and traces the development of a language for seismology that was simultaneously scientific and vernacular. This is the story of an aborted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk, an alternative abandoned on the way to the (...)
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    The Storm Lab: Meteorology in the Austrian Alps.Deborah R. Coen - 2009 - Science in Context 22 (3):463-486.
    ArgumentWhat, if anything, uniquely defines the mountain as a “laboratory of nature”? Here, this question is considered from the perspective of meteorology. Mountains played a central role in the early history of modern meteorology. The first permanent year-round high-altitude weather stations were built in the 1880s but largely fell out of use by the turn of the twentieth century, not to be revived until the 1930s. This paper considers the unlikely survival of the Sonnblick observatory in the Austrian Alps. By (...)
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    Miss Fielde’s Nests.Deborah R. Coen - 2016 - In Susan Neiman, Peter Galison & Wendy Doniger (eds.), What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 77-87.
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    Between History and Earth System Science.Deborah R. Coen & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson - 2022 - Isis 113 (2):407-416.
    The Anthropocene is the signature concept of the new discipline of Earth System science (ESS). This essay argues that ESS is, first and foremost, a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration, and it considers the advantages and disadvantages to historians of adopting this framework. The authors conclude that the epistemological framework of ESS devalues the role of historical interpretation and evinces a self-defeating tendency toward Holocene nostalgia. A historically informed response to the present environmental crisis needs to attend to historical forces that (...)
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    Introduction: Witness to Disaster: Comparative Histories of Earthquake Science and Response.Deborah R. Coen - 2012 - Science in Context 25 (1):1-15.
    For historians of science, earthquakes may well have an air of the exotic. Often terrifying, apparently unpredictable, and arguably even more deadly today than in a pre-industrial age, they are not a phenomenon against which scientific progress is easy to gauge. Yet precisely because seismic forces seem so uncanny, even demonic, naturalizing them has been one of the most tantalizing and enduring challenges of modern science. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken not just human edifices but the foundations of human knowledge. They (...)
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    Plants, maps, and the politics of scale: Nils Güttler, Das Kosmoskop: Karten und ihre Benutzer in der Pflanzengeographie des 19. Jahrhunderts. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014, 545 pp, € 65.90 HB.Deborah R. Coen - 2016 - Metascience 25 (2):213-216.
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    Elizabeth R. Neswald, Thermodynamik als kultureller Kampfplatz: Zur Faszinationsgeschichte der Entropie, 1850–1915. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2006. Pp. 475. ISBN 978-3-7930-9448-7. €48.00 .Helge S. Kragh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-7546-6414-7. £60.00. [REVIEW]Deborah Coen - 2009 - British Journal for the History of Science 42 (3):467.
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    (1 other version)Fear: Across the Disciplines. [REVIEW]Deborah Coen - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):204-205.
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    Laura Dassow Walls, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xv+404. ISBN 978-0-226-87182-0. £24.00 .H. Walter Lack, Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas. London: Prestel, 2009. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-3-79134142-2. £125.00. [REVIEW]Deborah Coen - 2010 - British Journal for the History of Science 43 (2):302-303.
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    (1 other version)Oskar von Miller 1855–1934: Eine Biographie. [REVIEW]Deborah Coen - 2006 - Isis 97:768-769.
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    Stefani Engelstein. Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity. xiii + 360 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $65 . ISBN 9780231180405. [REVIEW]Deborah R. Coen - 2019 - Isis 110 (1):192-193.
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