Universität Regensburg

Omar W. Nasim


Anschrift:
Herr Prof. Dr. Omar W. Nasim
Universität Regensburg
Fakultät für Philosophie, Kunst-, Geschichts- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Philosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Straße:
Universitätsstraße 31
Ort:
93053 Regensburg
Tel.:
0941 943-3661
Fax:
0941 943-1985

Leistungsprofil:
Praxisrelevante Forschungsgebiete:
  • Scientific practices and techniques (observation)
  • history of astronomy
  • history of photography (scientific)
  • history of relationship between science and philosophy/art

Praxisrelevante aktuelle Projekte:
  • Furniture history of Science
  • history of photography in astronomy
  • the role of the ornamental arts in the history of science



Publikationen:
  • Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)
  • Notieren, Skizzieren. Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs, edited with Karin Krauthausen (Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 2010)
  • Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Emergence of Analytic Philosophy and a Controversy at the Aristotelian Society, 1900-1916, Guest editor of special issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Virtual Issue, No. 2, 2014


Sonstiges:

“Hybrid Photography: Cases from Astronomy,” in Hybrid Images, eds. Stefanie Klamm, Sara Hillnhüter and Friedrich Tietjen, under review at Bloomsbury Press. “Photography is not Alone,” in Practicing Photography in the Sciences, eds. Kelley Wilder and Geoff Belknap, under review at University of Chicago Press. “Handling the Heavens: Things and the Photo-Objects of Astronomy,” in Photo-Objects: Photographs as Research Objects, for special virtual edition at the KHI, forthcoming. “James Nasmyth on the Moon; Or on Becoming a Lunar Being Without the Lunacy,” in special issue of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, forthcoming. “The Labour of Handwork in Astronomy: Between Drawing and Photography in Anton Pannekoek.” in Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Ways of Viewing Science and Society Modernism in Science, Radical Politics and Art, eds. Jeroen van Dongen and Chaokang Tai (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017), forthcoming.


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