Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte科学史报告
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte(英文缩写 BER WISSGESCH),ISSN 0170-6233,eISSN 1522-2365,中文译名:科学史报告 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-10-01 至 2026-09-30，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.500 | Q3 |
| 2022 | 0.600 | Q2 |
| 2023 | 0.600 | Q2 |
| 2024 | 0.400 | Q3 |
| 2025 | 0.400 | Q3 |
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 最新收录文献
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1. Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century*.
PMID:日期:2026-08-23This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite-a complex floral trait that was little understood. Its unique timescale, dramatic structural change in drying, and resistance to travel made collection extremely difficult,and an inability to collect such plants informed debates on how naturalists could make classifications without seeing them in situ and what characteristics should be prioritized when ordering flowering plants. Attempts at understanding parasitism, therefore, became possible only through global comparisons to other parasitic plants in places like Sumatra, Spain, and the Mediterranean. This created anxieties around authority between the lab and the field, and amateur and professional, testing European scientific methods at the crucial moment in which natural history was fragmenting into disciplines and Linnaean taxonomy became increasingly ineffective. This article thus uses Hydnora africana as a boundary object between shifting geographies, institutions, and epistemologies, demonstrating how the parasitism debate embodied all sorts of questions related to control-over people, places, the natural world-but especially the limits of European knowledge systems.
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3. Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938).
PMID:日期:2026-08-23This study examines The Forests of Joseon (1938), a forestry survey compiled by Tokumitsu Nobuyuki under Japanese colonial rule, as a key site of epistemic negotiation between imperial forestry science and Korean indigenous knowledge. Focusing on bíbo forests-geomantic forests believed to regulate energy flow between mountains and villages-the paper analyzes how these sites were reclassified as "protection forests" within the functionalist logic of imperial forestry. Drawing on the framework of boundary objects, the study reveals how the same forests were interpreted both as cosmological entities and as disaster prevention infrastructure. While many entries reduce bíbo forests to technical utilities, others-like the Hanjiwon case-retain traces of pungsu cosmology and present forests as nonhuman actors. This tension highlights the partial and uneven nature of colonial knowledge-making, in which local ontologies were subordinated but not fully erased. The paper situates this classificatory project within broader imperial strategies of environmental governance and argues that bíbo forests, despite ontological reduction, continued to exert agentive force. Through a close reading of The Forests of Joseon, the study demonstrates how forests operated as sites of translation between divergent epistemologies, revealing the limits of imperial science and the persistence of relational, cosmological understandings of the environment.
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4. Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post-)Colonial Southern Africa*.
PMID:日期:2026-08-23This article explores how borders in Southern Africa-such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana-functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement, reinforcing racial and economic inequalities by privileging certain species and people while restricting or dehumanizing others. This study examines political, veterinary, and conservation borders to show how they naturalized racist multispecies hierarchies and legitimized colonial oppression. In doing so, it reveals the dangers of blurring the boundaries between human and nonhuman life, as well as the importance of recognizing nonhumans as co-constituting borders and boundaries. I argue that more-than-human historiography must critically engage with the local histories of border regimes and animal movements to understand their ongoing role in reproducing multispecies power imbalances in (post-)colonial contexts.
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5. Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900-1930s*.
PMID:日期:2026-08-21In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large-scale Jewish settlement. Recent historiography has started to recognize the importance of agronomists and botanists as central actors in the broader project of Jewish-Zionist knowledge production in and of Palestine. This article uses Haraway's concept of companion species to analyze two initiatives by Jewish plant researchers who, through different strategies, pursued a common goal: expanding botanical knowledge of Palestine, mobilizing plant life to advance political claims and alliances, and thereby contributing to the realization of a Jewish state. The case studies focus on the establishment of the first Jewish agricultural experiment station by agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn in 1910, and the creation of the botanical garden at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem by botanists Otto Warburg and Alexander Eig in 1931. Both projects exemplify how nature and culture were co-produced in the service of Zionist nation-building-using the Palestinian plant world to establish scientific authority, forge international alliances, and help delineate both epistemic and territorial boundaries.
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6. The Locust Fungus: A Global History of Colonial Circulation and Commodification*.
PMID:日期:2026-08-21This paper examines the collection, cultivation, and distribution of the "locust fungus" in late-nineteenth century South Africa, India, and Argentina. In 1896 an amateur microscopist, Andrew W. Cooper, brought the bodies of locusts infected by a parasitic fungus to the Cape of Good Hope Colonial Bacteriological Institute, hoping that fungi collected from these specimens could be used to destroy locust swarms. Scholars have shown how empires attempted to apply scientific fixes to the problem of colonial pest control in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet these fixes were not always successful. I argue that the locust fungus demonstrates the limitations of the global circulation of science. Laboratory tests and field trials of the fungus across the British Empire and beyond all ended in failure. These setbacks led entomologists and mycologists to question both the efficacy and identity of locust fungus, suggesting that the microorganism lost its virulence when cultivated or was only capable of infecting African locusts. The locust fungus eluded all attempts to deploy it as a biological control. Eventually, a growing consensus emerged that Cooper and staff at the Colonial Bacteriological Institute had accidentally cultivated the wrong species of fungus.
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7. Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts-)Biografik: Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung.
PMID:日期:2026-06-23Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified. So far, the discussion has suffered from an unclear factual basis, partly because key sources remain largely inaccessible. This is due, in part, to the publication of a biography (Schrödinger: Life and Thought by Walter Moore, 1989), which was already considered problematic at the time of its release. This paper presents a review and analysis of previously unexamined sources. Alongside Schrödinger's diaries, known as Ephemerides, and letters from affected women, numerous letters and research notebooks from Moore's documents were examined to gain insight into the biographer's methods. Our findings suggest that the widely circulated allegations in the media stem from a combination of unprofessional, suggestive biographical writing and poor journalism. They do not substantiate claims of pedophilic or sexually abusive behaviour by Schrödinger.
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9. Strategien zur Etablierung der Neuen Deutschen Biographie: Die frühe Arbeitsweise am Beispiel der Mitarbeit Max von Laues 1952-1961.
PMID:日期:2026-05-11The first volume of the biographical dictionary Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) was published in 1953; after the end of the Second World War, the publication was considered a national biography and was seen as a contribution to the cultural foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. The establishment of the NDB was also made possible by the participation of important personalities such as Federal President Theodor Heuss (1884-1963) and Nobel Prize winner in physics Max von Laue (1879-1960). Based on previously unexamined sources from Laue's estate and the Archive of the Historical Commission in Munich, it is shown that Laue not only contributed to the reputation of the NDB, but also used the opportunities available in the early years to help shape the emerging culture of remembrance. An analysis of editorial practices reveals that articles had different contexts of origin. In addition to articles written by the authors who signed them, there were also articles based on a collective authorship and articles in which the signed author and the original author were not identical.
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10. Promoting the Mathematization of Physics: Hermann Minkowski's Draft Presentations of His 1908 "Grundgleichungen" Paper.
PMID:日期:2026-05-11I present and discuss two drafts of remarks prepared by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909). They were composed in December 1907 while preparing his paper on the "Basic Equations of Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies" for publication in the Proceedings of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. I discuss the biographical and institutional context as well as the scientific background to highlight a document which illuminates the perception of an emerging academic discipline of mathematical physics.