Travel, technology, and theory: the aesthetics of ichthyology during the Second Scientific Revolution

Claudia Kreklau

doi:10.1353/gsr.2018.0095

Travel, technology, and theory: the aesthetics of ichthyology during the Second Scientific Revolution

Claudia Kreklau

School of History

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Abstract

By investigating the ichthyology of "foreign fishes" in the age of exploration and printing developments before the advent of the camera, aquariums, and Darwin, this article shows that aesthetic theory and romanticism informed and inflected ichthyology during its rapid development between 1780 and 1830. This paper builds on the mutual constitution of art and science during the Second Scientific Revolution and aesthetic ways of seeing that treated beauty as an indicator of scientific truth preceding scientific objectivity, and demonstrates that by 1839, ichthyologists operated in an ontological framework that had integrated fish into nature and located the scientific viewer in a world of natural beauty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	589-610
Number of pages	22
Journal	German Studies Review
Volume	41
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2018.0095
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2018

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