Elena Băltuță,Giora Hon
Elena Băltuță
The answer to the question, "Is Roger Bacon's scientific practice scientific?" concerns an assessment of whether Bacon's scientific practice exhibits traits of modern science. This paper uses the theoretical framework proposed by Hon and Go...
The subject is the object: On the emergence of subjective science in thirteenth-century theology [0.03%]
主体成为客体:论13世纪神学中主观科学的出现
Florian Wöller
Florian Wöller
This article examines a fundamental transformation in thirteenth-century theory of science by tracing the shifting role of the subiectum scientiae in scholastic theology. While Aristotelian epistemics defined a science through a unitary sub...
Athanasios Rinotas
Athanasios Rinotas
The aim of this paper is to accurately assess the epistemological status of Albertus Magnus' (ca 1200-80) alchemy. In modern bibliography there is a "black or white" approach to the question of whether Albertus regarded alchemy as an art or...
Dominic Dold,Niklaas Görsch
Dominic Dold
We expound the notion of "distinct experience" (experientia distincta) as introduced in the writings of the early modern polymath Joachim Jungius (1587-1657) and operative in his scientific practice. After contextualizing "distinct experien...
Anne Eriksen
Anne Eriksen
The article argues that, contrary to what is often held in academic literature, traditional fishermen had solid empirical knowledge about underwater topography long before acoustic sounding. To substantiate the argument, a large mid twentie...
Imaging a black hole shadow through the Event Horizon Telescope: A study in scientific collaboration and its epistemic constraints [0.03%]
事件视界望远镜的科学合作及其认知限制:黑洞阴影成像研究
Luca Guzzardi
Luca Guzzardi
In this paper I present a case study of the creation of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which provided the first image of a black hole shadow (April 2019) and that of the central black hole of the Milky Way (May 2022), as one in which th...
Ina Heumann
Ina Heumann
Over a four-year period from 1909 to 1913, the German expedition to Tendaguru removed 250 metric tons of dinosaur fossils from what is now Tanzania and was then part of the colony of German East Africa. To this day, these fossils - some of ...
The masters and victims of partisanship: Arnošt Kolman and Adam Schaff at the crossroads of partisan science [0.03%]
派别科学的代表与受害者——兼论阿诺斯特·科尔曼和亚当·沙夫的理论分歧
Alexej Lochmatow
Alexej Lochmatow
This article develops a praxeological perspective on the history of partisanship in Central and Eastern Europe. The author proposes to examine partisanship not as an idea or a concept but as a virtue that was supposed to be forcibly cultiva...
Mary S Morgan
Mary S Morgan
When newly independent states in Africa set out to make their own economies in the 1960s, they did so under the label of "planning," a generic term denoting economic policy-making to create the economic future. This planning was guided by i...
Trust and invigilation: The practical functions of time-fixed development plans, Colombia 1958-1970 [0.03%]
信任与监督:哥伦比亚1958—1970年的定时发展规划的实务功能
Andrés M Guiot-Isaac
Andrés M Guiot-Isaac
Development planning was a form of interventionist social knowledge widely used in the mid-twentieth century. Planning was employed with different aims, and the adoption of concrete techniques and procedures was highly sensitive to each cou...