How Basel changed the world
Published on 28. March 2015
176 pages
978-3-85616-675-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is all about events, discoveries and ideas which may have seemed small and insignificant at the time but later changed the world. DDT and LSD, Frick & Frack, the Basel Mission and the Zionist World Congress, Tadeus Reichstein and Friedrich Nietzsche, the first printed edition of the Koran and much else provide the stuff of which exciting stories are made in Basel, the hub of the universe.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Matthias Buschle | Daniel Hagmann
How Basel changed the world
Book
04/2015
1st Edition
Christoph Merian Verlag
€18.00
Article exhausted; check different version
Persons
Matthias Buschle (*1970) is an art historian, journalist and exhibition curator.
Daniel Hagmann (*1966) has a PhD in history and has been writing for many years on the cultural history of the Basel region.
Content
- Intro
- Titel
- Inhalt
- Introduction
- "Sugar . spinach . haemoglobin." The measurements of Gustav von Bunge
- "This is such stuff as dreams are made of." The discovery of LSD
- Freidorf and Bauhaus. Global architecture on Basel foundations
- Ice-skaters, Idioms, Slang and Erasmus of Rotterdam
- The Art of Art Dealing. Art Basel
- The Bells of Basel. The modern woman and world peace
- Excuse me, but where is Basel III? The city and the Bank for International Settlements
- A "painting to dream about". Die Toteninsel
- Love of Animals, Bone Screws, IPOs. The boom in accident surgery
- Cortisone and Vitamin C. Tadeus Reichstein, a master of the tiniest substances
- A Bitter-Sweet Success Story. The missions, slave liberation and the cocoa trade
- Habent sua fata libelli. The Civilizing Process
- A Bad Leg. Paracelsus and the reform of modern medicine
- Romantic Matriarchy. Johann Jakob Bachofen and mother right
- The Stumbling Block. The origins of global nature conservation
- Poison for the World. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane becomes DDT
- A Song for Peace. Mediating between revolution and monarchy in Basel
- SPQB instead of SPQR. Conclave and papal coronation in Basel
- Nietzsche's First Book. The tragedy at the birth of his philosophy
- Explosive! Christian Friedrich Schönbein and guncotton
- A Clash of Cultures. The commotion caused by the first printing of the Koran
- New Early Music. The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Paul Sacher
- "In Basel I founded the Jewish State." The Zionist Congress in Basel
- A Typeface travels the World. How the Haas Grotesk became Helvetica
- The Bernoulli Century. Eight representatives of one family influence the world.
- Russian Reverse. Yet another change
- Impressum
