Simon Werrett
Simon Werrett
Following a series of workshops funded by AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), the papers in this special issue provide new perspectives on the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Moving beyond a focus on Banks's work with Capt...
Towards a methodology for analysing nineteenth-century collecting journeys of science and empire, with Charles Darwin's activities in Tierra del Fuego as a case study [0.03%]
以查尔斯·达尔文在火地岛的活动为例的新世界观下的科学考察方法研究
Janet Owen
Janet Owen
The interests of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in natural history and evolution took them to remote parts of the globe on hazardous, multi-sensory journeys that were ultimately about collecting. This paper introduces a methodolog...
Casting life, casting death: connections between early modern anatomical corrosive preparations and artistic materials and techniques [0.03%]
铸造生命，铸造死亡：解剖学腐蚀技术和早期现代艺术材料与技术之间的联系
Marieke M A Hendriksen
Marieke M A Hendriksen
Although the historical connections between anatomy and the visual arts have been explored in quite some depth, especially in the cases of early modern anatomical drawing, sculpting, the making of wet preparations and wax modelling, the rol...
Instrument provision and geographical science: the work of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830- ca 1930 [0.03%]
仪器供应与地理科学：英国皇家地理学会的相关工作（1830年至约1930年）
Jane A Wess,Charles W J Withers
Jane A Wess
This paper examines the Royal Geographical Society's provision and management of scientific instruments to explorers and expeditions in the century following its foundation in 1830. Assessment of the Society's directives concerning appropri...
Jenny Bulstrode
Jenny Bulstrode
By the early decades of the nineteenth century, with surveys established as the weapon of choice for the fiscal military state, their instrumentation provided a focal point for radical attacks on political establishments. This paper conside...
Michele Camerota,Franco Giudice,Salvatore Ricciardo
Michele Camerota
This article describes an important manuscript discovered recently in the Royal Society archives, and presents evidence that it is the holograph of Galileo's Letter to Benedetto Castelli of 21 December 1613. It was in this letter that Galil...
Charles Blagden's diary: Information management and British science in the eighteenth century [0.03%]
查尔斯·布拉德吉的日记：信息管理与18世纪的英国科学
Hannah Wills
Hannah Wills
This paper examines the diary of Charles Blagden, physician and secretary of the Royal Society between 1784 and 1797. It argues that the form and content of Blagden's diary developed in response to manuscript genres from a variety of contex...
Charles Blagden's diary: Information management and British science in the eighteenth century [0.03%]
查尔斯·布拉德格的日记：信息管理和18世纪的英国科学
Hannah Wills
Hannah Wills
This paper examines the diary of Charles Blagden, physician and secretary of the Royal Society between 1784 and 1797. It argues that the form and content of Blagden's diary developed in response to manuscript genres from a variety of contex...