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BALTIC JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIes, JOURNAL OF TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ISSN 2228-0588 Special issue: Selected papers of the 24th International Baltic Conference on the History of Science and the follow-up seminar Editor-in-chief of the special issue: Peeter Müürsepp Vol. 1, No 1 (9) June 2011 Foreword (by Peeter Müürsepp and Mait Talts) .................................................................. 3 Notes on the Contributors ................................................................................................... 6 GENERAL ISSUES Jānis Stradiņš. Foundation of the Baltic Association of the History and Philosophy of Science (BAHPS) ......................................................................................................11 Jānis Stradiņš, Anita Draveniece. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts: Its Impact on Latvia ...................................................................................................... 24 Juozas Algimantas Krikštopaitis. The Joint Baltic Course of Intellectual Activity: A Relevant Subject for Discussion ............................................................................... 32 Claude Debru. Science and Human Normativity .............................................................. 39 PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE Rein Vihalemm. Towards a Practical Realist Philosophy of Science................................ 46 Peeter Müürsepp. Knowledge in Science and Non-Science ............................................ 61 Leo Näpinen. On the Unfitness of the Exact Science for the Understanding of Nature .... 74 Enn Kasak. Some Aspects of Religiosity in Science ........................................................ 83 Endla Lõhkivi. Identity and Rationality: Towards Normative Cultural Studies of Science ..................................................................................................................... 97 Katrin Velbaum. Worrall’s Rule and a Critique of Standard Empiricism ........................111 Jan Radler. Arne Naess’ Meta-Philosophy: From ‘Empirical Semantics’ to ‘Deep Ecology’ ............................................................................................................ 125 HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY Karin Reich, Elena Roussanova. Carl Friedrich Gauss’ Correspondents in the Baltics .... 139 Algimantas Grigelis, Leonora Živilė Gelumbauskaitė. Development of Geological Studies in Lithuania: New Records on Roman Symonowicz’s 1803 Mineralogical Travel ........................................................................................................................157 Baltic Journal of European Studies 1 Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 1(9) Laima Petrauskienė, Jadvyga Olechnovičienė. The Fame of Scientists: Does It Reflect Their Real Contribution to Science? ...................................................181 Marina Loskutova. Public Science as a Network: The Congresses of Russian Naturalists and Physicians in the 1860s–1910s ...........................................................196 Raivo Kalle, Renata Sõukand. Collectors of Estonian Folk Botanical Knowledge .......213 Heldur Sander, Toivo Meikar. Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu (Dorpat) and the Botanical Network in the First Half of the 19th Century ................................230 Ieva Libiete. Fighting Schizophrenia: Beginnings of Somatic Treatments in Psychiatry in Riga Sarkankalns Hospital in the 1930s ..................................................................257 Vladimirs Kuzņecovs. Abolishment of the Military Guard at the Riga Alexander Heights Institution in 1856: War as a Monitor of Humanization? ...............................269 Angelė Rudzianskaitė, Vilma Gudienė. Advertisements in Professional Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Journals, 1923–1940 .........................................................................282 Mikko Kylliäinen. Riding toward the Civil Society: Bicycle in Nineteenth-Century Estonia .........................................................................................................................294 HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION Andrejs Veisbergs. Overview of the Early Development of the Lexicography of the Three Baltic Nations (from 17th to 19th century) ................................................307 Helgi Vihma. On the Origin of the Ideas of Estonian Language Reformer Johannes Aavik ............................................................................................................326 Kateryna Gamaliya. Vladimir (Woldemar Justus Konstantin) Malmberg (1860–1921), Professor of Dorpat and Moscow Universities ...........................................................345 Epi Tohvri. Some New Aspects of Georges Frédéric Parrot’s Visions about the Institutional and Architectural Establishment of the University of Tartu in the Early 19th Century ..............................................................................................354 Iveta Ķestere, Iveta Ozola. Pedagogy: A Discipline under Diverse Appellations ...........363 Vahur Mägi. Estonian Technology Education in Exile after the Second World War .......379 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Rein Mägi. BALTGRAF: Engineering Graphics in the Baltic States ..............................390 Anastasia A. Fedotova. Encyclopedic Dictionary Biology in St Petersburg. 1703–2008 ...................................................................................................................398 Juris Salaks. Exhibition Dedicated to the Bicentenary of Professor Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810–1881) in the Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga ..............................................................................402 Mait Talts The Follow-up Seminar of the 24th International Baltic Conference on the History of Science ............................................................................................407 2 Baltic Journal of European Studies Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 1(9) Foreword Baltic Journal of European Studies (BJES), the first issue of which you are holding right now, is the direct successor of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies, the Journal of Tallinn University of Technology (IES Proceedings) published by the Department of International Relations of the Tallinn University of Technology until the 2010. One can say that this is, in fact, the same journal on a conceptually higher level. Moreover, BJES tries to cherish and continue the traditions created by IES Proceedings. There were several reasons why the editors of the journal, upon consulting with the editorial board, decided to change its name. First and foremost, the Tallinn University of Technology underwent some structural changes in 2010 which made the use of the previous name virtually obsolete, but there were also other, weightier reasons for adopting a new name. Considering the above reasoning and after some discussions with the editorial board, we decided to call the publication Baltic Journal of European Studies, emphasizing our determination to represent a larger region. In this connection we are happy to welcome Tove Malloy (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany), Göran Hoppe (Uppsala University, Sweden), Tatyana Muravska (Latvian University), Vladas Gaidys (Lithuanian Social Research Centre) and Victor Shadurski (Belarusian State University) as our new editorial board members. At the same time we wish to express our special gratitude to these outstanding academics who have agreed to join the editorial board earlier for their assistance and direct help in finding competent reviewers and advice on other issues related to the development of IES Proceedings / Baltic Journal of European Studies. The change of name does not actually represent a change of the course or profile of the journal, but rather the journal’s willingness to further evolvement, promotion and deepen scientific cooperation in the Baltic Rim as well as in the Nordic countries and the Central and Eastern Europe. European studies in the broad sense of the term will remain the main focus of the journal. The publication called Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies has quite a long and remarkable history. The first issue under that name appeared already in 2002. It took several years for the management of the Audentes University (since 2006, the International University Audentes, IUA) and its then Institute for European Studies to come out with an idea to turn this irregularly issued publication into an annual peer- reviewed scientific periodical (a yearbook) of international scope. In 2007, the third issue of the IES Proceedings was published following the 5th Audentes Spring Conference. In July 2008, the merger of IUA (together with its Institute for European Studies) with the Tallinn University of Technology took place. In 2009, the Department of International Relations of the Tallinn University of Technology within the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration (TSEBA) was established on the basis of the former School of International Relations of IUA. The merger gave fresh impetus to the journal and since then IES Proceedings has successfully met the needs of the department and TSEBA. Since the beginning of 2009, the Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies has been issued twice a year. Since 2010, the journal has enjoyed significant financial support Baltic Journal of European Studies 3