[Review of] "Lorraine Daston and Elisabeth Lunbeck (eds.), Histories of Scientific Observation, Chicago, 2011" [0.03%]
[Daston Lorraine And Elisabeth Lunbeck Elisabeth 主编 ]《科学观察史》(芝加哥大学出版社，2011)书评
Staffan Müller-Wille
Staffan Müller-Wille
The background to the proposition that plankton be used as food in the United Kingdom during the Second World War [0.03%]
英国在二战期间提议将浮游生物作为食物的背景
P G Moore
P G Moore
Food shortages, particularly of proteins, in Britain during the Second World War led to the suggestion re-surfacing that marine plankton might be harvested on an industrial scale first as human food, then turning to its potential use as a s...
H J Noltie
H J Noltie
The sitters in a previously misunderstood nineteenth-century Indian group photograph are identified as four East India Company surgeons with wider interests in natural history: William Jameson, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon, John Lindsay Stewart ...
Sachiko Kusukawa
Sachiko Kusukawa
This review surveys recent scholarship on the history of natural history with special attention to the role of images in the Renaissance. It discusses how classicism, collecting and printing were important catalysts for the Renaissance stud...
Archibald Menzies on Albemarle Island, Galápagos archipelago, 7 February 1795 [0.03%]
阿奇博尔德·梅نزيس1795年2月7日在加拉帕戈斯群岛的阿尔贝马尔岛上的活动
E Charles Nelson,Duncan M Porter
E Charles Nelson
Menzies made the earliest extant botanical collections in the Galápagos; five sheets, representing three endemic species, are known. Menzies's own account of the visit is also extant and is transcribed here from his manuscript journal.
Biagio Bartalini's "Catalogo dei corpi marini fossili che se trovano intorno a Siena" (1776) [0.03%]
比亚焦·巴尔塔利尼的《森诺地区化石海洋生物分类目录》（1776）
Giuseppe Manganelli,Andrea Benocci,Valeriano Spadini
Giuseppe Manganelli
In 1776, the Sienese botanist Biagio Bartalini (1750-1822) published a catalogue of wild plants growing around Siena, adding an appendix on fossils found in the same area, that is the first monograph on Sienese fossils and one of the first ...
The tree as evolutionary icon: TREE in the Natural History Museum, London [0.03%]
进化标志中的树——伦敦自然历史博物馆的“树”展览
Nils Petter Hellström
Nils Petter Hellström
As part of the Darwin celebrations in 2009, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled TREE, the first contemporary artwork to win a permanent place in the Museum. While the artist claimed that the inspiration for TREE came from Darwin's...
Edward Forbes (1815-1854) and the exhibition of natural order in Edinburgh [0.03%]
爱德华·福布斯与苏格兰爱丁堡自然秩序的展示
Geoffrey N Swinney
Geoffrey N Swinney
The roles, affordances and social agency of natural history museums are discussed in relation to the writings of Edward Forbes. These signal a motivation, in the mid-nineteenth-century, to naturalize the established social order through the...
"Muy poco se sabe de los resultados": Francis E. Bond's expedition to the Paria Peninsula and delta of the Orinoco, Venezuela (1911) [0.03%]
“知之甚少的结果”——范妮斯·E·邦德1911年委内瑞拉帕里亚半岛和奥里诺科河三角洲考察
L J Dorr
L J Dorr
The natural history expedition of the American banker and stock broker Francis E. Bond and companions to the Paria Peninsula and delta of the Orinoco, Venezuela, in early 1911 is described. Biographical details are provided for the three pr...
Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's "Collins pocket guide to the sea shore" (1958) [0.03%]
巴雷特和扬格的《柯林斯海滨口袋指南》(1958)的插图及其起源
P G Moore
P G Moore
Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the pu...