In Political Draughts Between Science and the Humanities
AbstractThe methodology of scientific geography in Estonia and Finland has been summarised by Johannes Gabriel Granö (1929, 1997). This paper examines the history of geography as a dualistic discipline...
View ArticleThe International Polar Year 1882–1883
AbstractDuring the nineteenth century in the western world knowledge production was centred in North America and Europe including Russia, while Asia and Africa were not considered. Economical progress...
View ArticleThe Expeditions of the First International Polar Year
AbstractWhen reading through the accounts of the various IPY-1 expeditions, one is easily struck by the great variation in the courses of each expedition. These reports were originally published in...
View ArticleThe First Experiments on Ascidian and Sea Urchin Eggs Fertilization
AbstractIn 1845 Karl Ernst von Baer made the first experiments on artificial fertilization of ascidian and sea urchin eggs in Cornigliano near Genoa (Italy). These studies were continued in Venice and...
View ArticleScientific traditions in conflict: the Rusconi–von Baer controversy on the...
AbstractIn 1835, the meaning of the cleavage furrows in the division of frog eggs was the cause of a heated argument between the Italian naturalist Mauro Rusconi and Karl Ernst von Baer. These furrows...
View ArticleUsing the “mean temperature of the catch” to assess fish community responses...
AbstractThis contribution applies the “mean temperature of the catch” (MTC) concept of Cheung et al. (Nature 497:365–368, 2013) to fish catch data for Lake Peipsi, Estonia/Russia, covering the years...
View ArticleInnovationen im Ostseeraum: Nils Alwall, Lembit Norviit, Adolfs Martins...
ZusammenfassungDie Konstruktion einer der ersten in der Praxis erfolgreich eingesetzten Dialyseapparate ist in der Medizingeschichte mit dem Wirken des schwedischen Mediziners Nils Alwall fest...
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