Tobias Cheung forscht auf den Gebieten der Wissenschafts- und Philosophiegeschichte, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Begriffsgeschichte des 'Organismus' und der Systemtheorie in der Biologie des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Seine Arbeit rekonstruiert die epistemologischen und kulturellen Transformationen, die zur Neudefinition lebender Systeme als aktive Agenten zwischen Innen- und Außenwelten führten. Dabei analysiert er die Diskurse von Denkern wie Cuvier, Kant, Leibniz und Uexküll, um die Entstehung moderner biologischer und sozialer Wissenschaften zu verstehen. Cheung verbindet historische Textanalyse mit kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, um die Verflechtung von Naturwissenschaften, Philosophie und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit und der Moderne zu beleuchten.
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Dr. Tobias Cheung
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 03/2004 - 02/2006 Projektleitung: Dr. Tobias Cheung
Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 03/2006 - 02/2007 Projektleitung: Dr. Tobias Cheung
Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 06/2026 - 05/2029 Projektleitung: Dr. Tobias Cheung, Prof. Dr. phil. Christian Kassung
The British Journal for the History of Science · DOI
This paper retraces the occurrence of the word 'organism' in writings of different authors from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It seeks to clarify chronological and conceptual shifts in the usage and meaning of the word. After earlier uses of the word in medieval sources, the Latin word organismus appeared in 1684 in Stahl's medico-physiological writings. Around 1700 it can be found in French (organisme), English (organism), Italian (organismo) and later also in German (Organismus). During the eighteenth century the word 'organism' generally referred to a specific principle or form of order that could be applied to plants, animals or the entire world. At the end of the eighteenth century the term became a generic name for individual living entities. From around 1830 the word 'organism' replaced the expressions 'organic' or 'organized body' as a recurrent technical term in the emerging biological disciplines.
Early Science and Medicine · DOI
Early Science and Medicine · DOI
In a long-term transformation, that begins in Antiquity but takes a crucial turn in the Renaissance anatomies, the "fibre" becomes from around 1750 the operative building block and at the same time the first unifying principle of function-structure-complexes of organic bodies. It occupies the role that the cell takes up in the cell economies of the second third of the nineteenth century. In this paper, I will first discuss some key notions, technical analogies, and images that are related to "fibre"-concepts from Andreas Vesalius to Albrecht von Haller and then focus on Charles Bonnet's and Denis Diderot's fibre ceconomies. In Bonnet's and Diderot's fibre economies, the self-active, regulating properties of fibre-agents and their material structures, that reach from fibre bundles, tissues and membranes to apparati of organs, are united within the concrete whole of individual organized "systems" or "networks."