About the replication method

About the replication method

For many years, we have been researching the history of experiments and experimentation using a method that is unique in the world: the reconstruction of historical experiments with largely faithful replicas. We refer to this procedure as the "replication method".
This method is characterised in particular by two advantages. Firstly, the analysis of the original apparatus required for a replication, the production of a replica and the subsequent performance of the experiments necessitates an extremely intensive examination of the "materiality" of scientific research. This includes, for example, the materials and production techniques used, but also the rooms in which the experiments were carried out. In this way, it is possible to gain a more precise understanding of the material culture of a particular time in a particular place.

List of replicas

The following devices were used by the Didactics and History of Physics working group at the Physics Department of the University of Oldenburg in the context of replications of experiments from the history of physics. They were all built in the university's central workshops.

The order of the list is based on the time of manufacture or use of the respective historical original. The links refer to images of the respective devices. All illustrations and photos on the following web pages of the Didactics and History of Physics working group may not be used, reproduced or distributed without the authorisation of the working group.

(Changed: 11 Feb 2026)  |  Kurz-URL:Shortlink: https://uol.de/p21773en
Zum Seitananfang scrollen Scroll to the top of the page

This page contains automatically translated content.