Dr. Richard Kremer

Dr. Richard Kremer

Associate Professor of History Office: 405 Carson Hall Office Phone: (603) 646-2228 Fax: (603) 646-3353 Email: Richard.Kremer@Dartmouth.edu
Address:
Department of History Dartmouth College 6107 Carson Hall Hanover, NH 03755
Courses
57: Scientific Revolutions and Modern Society
63: History of Recent Science and Technology
94.2: Science, Technology and Culture in the Nuclear Age
96: Science and Medicine in Germany, 1933-1945

Professor Kremer teaches courses in the history of science, medicine and technology. He earned his PhD in History of Science from Harvard and specializes in European science from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. His books include The Thermodynamics of Life and Experimental Physiology (Garland 1990), a study of experiment in nineteenth-century medicine; Letters of Hermann von Helmholtz to His Wife, 1849-1859 (Steiner 1990), an edition of early letters by a leading German physicist and cultural icon; and The Practice of Alfonsine Astronomy in the Fifteenth Century (forthcoming), an analysis of early printed almanacs. Kremer's current research examines responses to Copernican astronomy in astrological calendars printed between 1543-1630. His work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Humboldt Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

(Dartmouth College Website)

I first met Richard Kremer at the opening of my first MoO show at Galerie Brigitte Schenk in 2007, Richard contributed his essay ‘The Eye as Inscription Device in the 1870‘s: Optograms, Cameras and the Photochemistry of Vision’, to my first Encyclopedia of Optography, a crude publication at this point.
With, for me, impressive patience he transcribed a number of pages from the Gustav Erhard Reif trial notes. His interpretation of the Optographic Chamber which appears in my book and here inspired my Chamber piece.