The Twofold History of Laboratory Glassware/ Kijan Malte Espahangizi

In order to understand their Umwelt, the biologist had to – metaphorically speaking – reverse the glass topos I presented in the beginning of my paper: He had to project himself empathetically on the other side of the glass boundary separating subjects and objects of research. Indeed, a careful reading of Uexküll’s texts explicitly shows that his imagery was at the same time very much inspired by his own day-to-day laboratory environment. He not only imagined living beings to be enclosed in “houses of glass”, but also in “watch-glasses” and “bell jars”.

The Twofold History of Laboratory Glassware/ Kijan Malte Espahangizi

ユクスキュルのユニークな発想の源は、「ガラス容器」という閉じられた空間で行われた実験室実験だったわけだ。

"Flying Aquarium"というタイトルがまたいいね。