Chemie – Kultur – Geschichte. Festschrift für Hans-Werner Schütt anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages.

“Chemistry—Culture—History: Festschrift for Hans-Werner Schütt on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday” edited by Astrid Schürmann and Burghard Weiss (German and English language articles) Chemistry—Culture—History brings together essays that understand the history of chemistry and science as cultural history: as the history of concepts, practices, instruments, institutions, translations, biographies, and social interpretations. The volume presents chemistry not as an isolated discipline, but as a historically formed culture of knowledge deeply intertwined with philosophy, technology, medicine, industry, religion, politics, and the public sphere. The studies range from alchemy, Paracelsianism, and early modern natural philosophy to the emergence of chemical nomenclatures, instruments, and laboratory practices, and on to physical chemistry, biochemistry, nuclear chemistry, energy technology, and industrial production. They also examine the media of scientific knowledge: language, letters, images, apparatus, mathematical models, acoustic and visual forms of representation, and the historiographical role of scientific biography. The result is a multifaceted panorama of the cultural history of science in which progress, tradition, experiment, theory, materiality, and social responsibility are not treated separately, but shown in their historical interrelations. The volume demonstrates that the history of chemistry is more than disciplinary chronicle: it is a key to understanding modern science, its cultural conditions, and its ambivalent power to shape the world.