
How Basel changed the world
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- 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
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