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Title:Globalna zgodovina fizike sveta
Authors:ID Anthony, Patrick (Author)
ID Skubic, Andrej E. (Translator)
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Language:Slovenian
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:Logo ZRC SAZU - The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Abstract:Prispevek na novo osvetljuje raziskovalni program iz 19. stoletja, ki ga je Susan Faye Cannon po pruskem učenjaku Alexandru von Humboldtu (1769–1859) poimenovala »humboldtovska znanost«. Danes standardna interpretacija humboldtovske znanosti, ki jo je v devetdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja razvil Michael Dettelbach, opisuje skupek kvantitativnih, zakonitosti iščočih kartografskih ved, ki so temeljile na obsežnem sodelovanju učenjakov in imperialnih uradnikov na področjih, ki segajo od meteorologije in magnetizma do geologije in botanične geografije. Novi pogledi kolonialnega in globalnega zgodovinopisja »humboldtovski« projekt razkrivajo kot razpršen sistem raziskovanja, ki ga je oblikovala razprostranjena geografija imperijev in ekstrakcije, predvsem globalna rudarska industrija. Kar je Humboldt poimenoval »fizika sveta«, je imelo globoke korenine v pruskem ekspanzionizmu in rudarski dejavnosti v devetdesetih letih 18. stoletja. Nato pa je bila koordinirana med imperiji vzhoda in zahoda, na blagovnih mejah iberske Amerike in ruske Sibirije. V članku se vračamo k Humboldtu, da bi razgrnili prepleteno zgodovino znanosti, ki so bile izvorno v službi agresivnih držav in imperijev v Evropi in zunaj nje.
Keywords:humboldtovska znanost, fizika sveta, vremenoslovje, rudarstvo
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:07.01.2026
Year of publishing:2025
Number of pages:str. 89-94
Numbering:letn. 46, št. 1
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-27429 New window
UDC:53(091)
ISSN on article:0353-4510
DOI:10.3986/fv.46.1.03 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:266405635 New window
Copyright:Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji
Publication date in DiRROS:07.02.2026
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Title:Filozofski vestnik
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Publisher:Filozofski inštitut ZRC SAZU
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Language:English
Title:A global history of global physics
Abstract:This contribution revisits a nineteenth-century research program coined by Susan Faye Cannon as “Humboldtian science,” named for the Prussian savant Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). The now-standard account of Humboldtian science developed by Michael Dettelbach in the 1990s describes a set of quantitative, law-seeking, cartographic sciences that involve widespread collaboration of savants and imperial bureaucrats, ranging from meteorology and magnetism to geology and plant geography. New perspectives from colonial and global history show the “Humboldtian” project as a diffuse system of inquiry shaped by widespread geographies of empire and extraction, particularly global mining industries. What Humboldt called “global physics” had deep roots in Prussian expansionism and ore mining in the 1790s. It was then coordinated across empires east and west, in the commodity frontiers of Ibero-America and Russo-Siberia. This article revisits Humboldt to open a connected history of sciences that served aggressive states and empires, in and outside of Europe.
Keywords:Humboldtian science, global physics, meteorology, mining


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