Matthias Schramm (science historian)

Matthias Schramm (born February 6, 1928 in Paris ; † January 24, 2005 in Tübingen ) was a German science historian .

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Matthias Schramm studied at the University of Marburg / L since the winter semester 1946/47 after taking the Abitur examination in 1946 . Mathematics , Classical Philology and Oriental Studies . He also learned Arabic . After continuing his studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main , he received his doctorate there in 1955 under Willy Hartner . He also completed his habilitation there. After a year-long stay at Oxford University , he was appointed to a newly created chair for the history of science (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences) at the University of Tübingen and retired in 1996. His chair was not filled again. In 2002 Ulm University appointed him honorary professor.

Schramm's research area encompassed ancient, medieval and Islamic history of science as well as the history of modern mathematics. He worked intensively with the Tübingen astronomer Wilhelm Schickard .

In 1966 Schramm was accepted as a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Natural Sciences , and since 1971 he has been a full member.

Fonts

• The importance of Aristotle's theory of movement for his two solutions to the Zenonic paradox, Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1962 (Philosophical Treatises, Volume 19) (Dissertation).
• Ibn Al-Haytham's path to physics , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1963 (Boethius, Volume 1) (habilitation thesis).
• On the conditions of scientific research at the university . In: Johannes Neumann (Ed.): Wissenschaft an der Universität heute, Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1977, pp. 45–95, ISBN 3-921552-01-X .
• Theology and science - yesterday and today. In: Theologische Quartalsschrift, Volume 157 (1977), pp. 208-213.
• Approaches to a descriptive geometry at Schickard . In: Friedrich Seck (Ed.): History of Science around Wilhelm Schickard , Mohr, Tübingen 1981 (Contubernium, Volume 26), pp. 21–50, ISBN 978-3-515-08004-0 .
• Reflections on the history of the concept of experience. In: Hans Braun (Hrsg.): Culture in the age of the social sciences. Friedrich H. Tenbruck on his 65th birthday, Reimer, Berlin 1984 (Writings on Sociology of Culture, Volume 4), pp. 43–50, ISBN 3-496-00795-8 .
• Nature without sense? The end of the teleological worldview , Styria, Graz 1985 (Origin and Future, Volume 3), ISBN 3-222-11454-4 .
• The astronomical calculators by Wilhelm Schickard (April 22, 1592– October 23, 1635) (together with Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff ), Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-89308-052-X .
• Moral and statistical laws. On Adolphe Quetelet's social physics . In: Jean-Pierre Wils (Ed.): Ethics without a chance? Explorations in the technological age , Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1991 (Ethics in the Sciences, Volume 2), pp. 45–68, ISBN 3-89308-136-4 .
• Friedrich II. Von Hohenstaufen and Arab Science , Max Planck Inst. for the history of science, Berlin 1997.
• Number theoretic approaches on cuneiform tablets . In: Renate Breuninger (Hrsg.): Philosophy of subjectivity and the subject of philosophy . Festschrift for Klaus Giel on his 70th birthday, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997, pp. 275–295, ISBN 3-8260-1356-5 .

literature

• Rüdiger Thiele (Ed.): Mathesis. Festschrift for the seventieth birthday of Matthias Schramm , publisher for the history of natural science. und der Technik, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-928186-43-4 (with bibliography).

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• Günther Oestmann : Obituary for Matthias Schramm (1928–2005). In: Contributions to the history of astronomy, Volume 8 (2006), pp. 220-223 online .