Abstract
The scientific world of the nineteenth century was shaped by far-reaching discoveries,expeditions, travel and collection activities as well as by the development of extensive naturalscientific social networking. During the 1840s, Dominik Bilimek (1813–1884) arose as a keypersonality in European natural sciences, with a significant impact on the biological,geoscientific and even archaeological communities. The Bilimek collection at the Universityof Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna encompasses thousands of specimens andprovides a large number of original labels with date, locality and companions in the field.This set of collection labels was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively with respect to itshistorical value to increase our knowledge about the explorer’s life and his social network.The study also focuses on Bilimek’s so far unknown social links, which were recovered bythe processing of the collection, probably resulting in the use of these data for a socialnetwork analysis of a nineteenth-century scientific network.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 403-430 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Notes & records : the Royal Society journal of the history of science |
Volume | 78 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 12 Apr 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Aug 2024 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 107003 History of natural sciences
Keywords
- Dominik Bilimek
- collection
- Eduard Suess
- history of sciences
- Mexico
- palaeobiology