The article deals with the historical relationship between physics and economy. My investigation focuses primarily on the use of meteorological metaphors in reporting financial market transactions. This paper charts recent ...

In 1937, the meteorologist Joachim Kuettner used several gliders to study and map a large-scale, yet hitherto unknown, atmospheric phenomenon called mountain waves. He also examined an accompanying occurence that stood in ...

Der Artikel unternimmt – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der bislang unveröffentlichten Aufzeichnungen zur Ausdruckskunde – eine systematisierende Rekonstruktion von Warburgs fragmentarischer Theorie der Nachahmung. ...

A science drama from the years 1725/26: A collector of fossils—Johann Beringer, professor in Würzburg—is reputed to have been the victim of a plot by his colleagues who provided him with fanciful, man-made “fossils” which ...

Étienne-Jules Marey’s experiments in rendering invisible air movements and turbulences visible are of crucial importance to aviation research around 1900. The article takes these experiments as a point of departure to show ...