

Here research approaches to the development and reorientation of engineering education and technical education in the second half of the 19th century will be adopted.

A further aim of the project is to define more precisely the relationship between theory and practice in navigation, as well as to investigate the processes of academisation and scientificalisation of nautical instruction. The formative structures, social status of the actors and epistemic practices will be explored and the introduction of new educational content in the civil and military maritime sector will be studied. The time frame under consideration essentially covers the 19th century in regional terms, the focus will be on the German coastal territories (or the German Reich from 1871 onwards).īasic assumption is the presence of two expert cultures in which nautical knowledge is generated, validated and organised: Practitioners and nautical instructors ashore. The project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and starting in 2021, aims to contribute to the development of specific knowledge cultures using the example of nautical education. Eser, Die älteste Taschenuhr der Welt? Der HenleinUhrenstreit, Nuremberg, Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2014, pp. 16), and on the quarrels with its owner see T. The debate on the authenticity of a pomander watch allegedly of 1505 and ascribed to Henlein will not be addressed here (see below n. The third case (formerly in the collection of George Daniels) is also private property, but currently on display in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. BassermannJordan, 'Ein Bisam-Apfel aus Peter Henleins Zeit', Die Uhrmacher-Woche 31, (1924), 301-2 (whereabouts unknown) id., 'Ein zweiter Bisam-Apfel aus Peter Henleins Zeit', Die Uhrmacher-Woche, 31 (1924), 627-8 (case without movement private collection). Two of these once belonged to the private collection of Otto Koch in Frankfurt a. For a detailed survey of this extraordinarily important object see M. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum: 58.17. Note the blacksmith's leg-vice attached to a tree trunk behind him. 1859), bronze casting by Christoph Lenz, 1905 (Nuremberg, Hefnersplatz). Henlein Fountain, designed by Max Meißner (b.
