(Johann) Friedrich Dannemann (1858–1936) was a German physicist, high school teacher and

historian of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

. In the judgment of

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, Dannemann's four-volume ''Natural sciences in their development and context'' (1910-13) was "the first satisfactory textbook dealing with the history of science as a whole". In 1927, aged sixty-eight, Dannemann became an unsalaried professor in the history of science at the

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.Hans-Werner Schutt, 'History of Science in the federal Republic of Germany', ''Isis'', Vol. 71, No. 3 (September 1920), p.374. Dannemann also helped Abraham Wolf with his '' A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries''.

Works

* (ed.) ''Otto von Guericke's neue 'Magdeburgische' Versuche ueber den leeren Raum: 1672'' tto von Guericke's new 'Magdeburg' experiments on empty space: 1872by

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. Leipzig : Akad. Verlagsges, 1889. * ''Grundriss einer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften : zugleich eine Einführung in das Studium der naturwissenschaftlichen Litteratur'' utline of a history of the natural sciences, and an introduction to the study of natural scientific literature Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1896. * ''Aus der Werkstatt grosser Forscher: Allgemeinverständliche erläuterte Abschnitte aus den Werken hervorragender Naturforscher aller Völker und Zeiten'' rom the workshop of great researchers: universally understandable selections from the works of outstanding natural scientists of all peoples and times Leipzig: Engelmann, 1908. * ''Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange'' he natural sciences in their development and context 4 vols. Leipzig : Engelmann, 1910–13. * ''Wie unser Weltbild entstand, die Anschauungen vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart über den Bau des Kosmos.'' How our worldview came about: views about the structure of the cosmos from ancient times to the present Stuttgart: Kosmos, 1912.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dannemann, Friedrich 1858 births 1936 deaths German historians of science 20th-century German historians 19th-century German physicists German schoolteachers Academic staff of the University of Bonn