Visual Languages of the Sky at ICHST 2009

International Congress of History of Science and Technology

Budapest, Hungary, July 29, 2009.

Session S-28
Visual Languages (and Representations) of the Sky: Frameworks and Focal
Points in Social Context

Conveners:

Cornelia Luedecke: C.Luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
James R. Fleming: jfleming@colby.edu

Papers

1. Socializing the Sky: British Skies in Popular Culture, 1780-1880
Marilyn Gaull, The Editorial Institute, Boston University, USA

2. Aesthetical versus rational reflection of the world view of sky and
cloud forms in Goethe's poetic work
Karl-Heinz Bernhardt, Leibniz-Society of Sciences at Berlin

3. La Niña, Stellar Portents, and the Extinction of Easter Island's
Birdmen, 1862-1866
Gregory T. Cushman, University of Kansas, USA

4. Instructions for Cloud Observation at Meteorological Stations in Germany
before the international Year of Clouds 1896/97
Mathias Deutsch, Michael Börngen, Leipzig, and Karl-Heinz Pörtge, Göttingen;
Germany

5. Seeing icebergs in the sky: G. I. Taylor's Newfoundland voyage
Daniela Helbig, Harvard University, USA -- PAPER WITHDRAWN

6. Visible Impressions from World War II - Reality or artistic
interpretation?
Cornelia Lüdecke, Munich, Germany

7. Residencies of air
Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter, Cornwall and Jennifer Gabrys,
University of London, Great Britain