TY - JOUR

T1 - Spiegelbilder vom Meeresgrund

T2 - Leopold Blaschkas marine Aquarien

AU - Huber, Florian

PY - 2013/6

Y1 - 2013/6

N2 - Reflections from the Ocean Floor. Leopold Blaschka's Marine Aquaria. The paper focuses on the glass models of marine invertebrates by Leopold Blaschka (1822–1895). In the beginning of his career, Blaschka did not produce stand‐alone scientific models. Instead, he chose to create “marine aquaria”, i.e. dry fish tanks filled with artificial sea creatures, to promote and present his glass objects to the public. This concept was clearly inspired by the work of the British naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888). By describing the influence of Gosse's work, the paper argues that the aquarium served as a tool to display and organize Blaschka's early models.

AB - Reflections from the Ocean Floor. Leopold Blaschka's Marine Aquaria. The paper focuses on the glass models of marine invertebrates by Leopold Blaschka (1822–1895). In the beginning of his career, Blaschka did not produce stand‐alone scientific models. Instead, he chose to create “marine aquaria”, i.e. dry fish tanks filled with artificial sea creatures, to promote and present his glass objects to the public. This concept was clearly inspired by the work of the British naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888). By describing the influence of Gosse's work, the paper argues that the aquarium served as a tool to display and organize Blaschka's early models.

KW - Kulturwissenschaften allg.

KW - quaria

KW - zoological models

KW - 19 century

KW - natural history

KW - collections and colleting

KW - scientific illustration

KW - philip henry gosse

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878786816&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/bewi.201301615

DO - 10.1002/bewi.201301615

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

VL - 36

SP - 172

EP - 186

JO - Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

JF - Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

SN - 0170-6233

IS - 2

ER -