Arthur Rose
Arthur Rose
"An epidemic has a dramaturgic form," wrote Charles Rosenberg in 1989, "Epidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, move to a crisis of i...
How epidemics end [0.03%]
大流行病如何结束
Erica Charters,Kristin Heitman
Erica Charters
As COVID-19 drags on and new vaccines promise widespread immunity, the world's attention has turned to predicting how the present pandemic will end. How do societies know when an epidemic is over and normal life can resume? What criteria an...
Flavio D&#x;Abramo,Sybille Neumeyer
Flavio D&#x;Abramo
This article traces the historical co-evolution of microbiology, bacteriology, and virology, framed within industrial and agricultural contexts, as well as their role in colonial and national history between the end of the 19th century and ...
Jürgen Renn
Jürgen Renn
The history of science can be better understood against the background of a history of knowledge comprising not only theoretical but also intuitive and practical knowledge. This widening of scope necessitates a more concise definition of th...
Sword, Shield and Buoys: A History of the NATO Sub-Committee on Oceanographic Research, 1959-1973 [0.03%]
剑、盾与浮标：1959—1973年北约海洋研究分委会兴衰史
Simone Turchetti
Simone Turchetti
In the late 1950s the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made a major effort to fund collaborative research between its member states. One of the first initiatives following the establishment of the alliance's Science Committee was t...
Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household [0.03%]
搜集知识以造福家庭：早期英国英语家庭中的食谱、性别与实用知识
Elaine Leong
Elaine Leong
When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, she carried to her new home in Yorkshire a leather-bound notebook filled with medical recipes. Over the next few decades, Mary and Henry, their children and various members of the Fairfax a...
The "Annie hypothesis": did the death of his daughter cause Darwin to "give up Christianity"? [0.03%]
“安妮假说”——女儿的去世促使达尔文“放弃基督教”?
John Van Wyhe,Mark J Pallen
John Van Wyhe
This article examines one of the most widely believed episodes in the life of Charles Darwin, that the death of his daughter Annie in 1851 caused the end of Darwin's belief in Christianity, and according to some versions, ended his attendan...
The survival of 19th-century scientific optimism: the public discourse on science in Belgium in the aftermath of the Great War (ca. 1919-1930) [0.03%]
一战后的比利时科学公共讨论（约1919-1930）：19世纪的科学乐观主义在20世纪的延续
Sofie Onghena
Sofie Onghena
In historiography there is a tendency to see the Great War as marking the end of scientific optimism and the period that followed the war as a time of discord. Connecting to current (inter)national historiographical debate on the question o...
"Mathematics made no contribution to the public weal": why Jean Fernel (1497-1558) became a physician [0.03%]
“数学对公众福祉无所贡献”：让•法内尔（1497-1558）为何成为医生
John Henry
John Henry
This paper offers a caution that emphasis upon the importance of mathematics in recent historiography is in danger of obscuring the historical fact that, for the most part, mathematics was not seen as important in the pre-modern period. The...