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Centaurus

Subject Areas: History and Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company - Wiley
ISSN: 0008-8994
SJR: 11

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2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12318
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Centaurus: Past and Future

Vermeir, Koen

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12421
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Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy

Frey, Felix; Schädler, Jonas

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12419

The concept and material manifestations of energy are often considered elusive and invisible per se. In most historical, sociological, and anthropological studies, the idea prevails that processes of energy conversion and transmission have become more and more invisible to humans since the...
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Deciphering economic futures: Electricity, calculation, and the power economy, 1880–1930

Russ, Daniela

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12416

More than other energy industries, the electric power industry relied on calculating practices and codifications like load management to handle and develop their technical systems. Scholars have approached these practices largely from the point of view of the history of electricity. While it is...
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Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid in East Africa

Straeten, Jonas

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12415

The electrification of East Africa followed an exceptionally uneven path. After about 50 years of relative neglect under colonial rule, the construction of hydroelectric dams moved electricity generation into the focus of late colonial development policy and became the major field of intervention...
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Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between the US, Kuwait, and Switzerland

Hindelang, Laura

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12418

This article examines three cases of mid‐20th‐century oil media—oil‐related imagery, iconographies, and media—in visual culture: a series of popular science books entitled The Story of Oil published in the US, an oil‐themed set of Kuwaiti postage stamps (1959), and an art exhibition in Zurich...
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Visible winds: The production of new visibilities of wind energy in West Germany, 1973–1991

Hesse, Nicole

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12420

The use of energy from wind has a multi‐faceted relationship to visibility. Between 1973 and 1991, various actors in the West German environmental movement made assertions about the visibility of renewable sources of power, but wind energy took on a particular prominence. In this article, the...
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Trepidation spheres: Variant representations of the eighth sphere and the debate about the movement of the apogees and the fixed stars in Alfonsine astronomy

Gessner, Samuel

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12412

In what way does the construction of three‐dimensional spherical models in the early modern period reflect the search for an appropriate representation of subtle, slow changes perceived in the firmament of the fixed stars? The present paper analyses some of the preserved models and assesses the...
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The Earth's eccentricity in Kepler's refutation of the Tychonic approach to the problem of Mars

Recio, Gonzalo Luis

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12414

In this paper I explain Kepler's procedure for refuting the Ptolemaic‐Tychonic approach to the problem of Mars, by using latitudinal observations at Mars's opposition, from Chapter 19 of the Astronomia Nova. This critique is fundamental to his reformation of the foundations of astronomy with his...
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The dissemination of mesmerism in Germany (1784–1815): Some patterns of the circulation of knowledge

Gantet, Claire

2021 Centaurus

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12396

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), a physician who graduated from the University of Vienna, invented a therapy based on the concept of a universal fluid, similar to electricity, that flowed through all living things. By restoring the circulation of this fluid in the nerves of human bodies, he...

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