David E Rowe
David E Rowe
Epistemological issues associated with Cantorian set theory were at the center of the foundational debates from 1900 onward. Hermann Weyl, as a central actor, saw this as a smoldering crisis that burst into flames after World War I. The his...
The hospital as a laboratory: Population studies at Tel-Hashomer hospital in Israel (1950s-1960s) [0.03%]
以医院为实验室：以色列特拉维夫苏 Hebrew 比奥医院的人群研究（20世纪50-60年代）
Ari Barell,Nurit Kirsh
Ari Barell
In this article we examine how a leading Israeli hospital gradually became a large biomedical research facility, resembling a huge laboratory. For Chaim Sheba (1908-1971), the founder and first director of Tel-Hashomer Hospital, the massive...
The Ancients and the Moderns: Chasles on Euclid's lost Porisms and the pursuit of geometry [0.03%]
古今之争：Chasles关于欧几里得遗失的Porism以及几何追求的研究
Nicolas Michel,Ivahn Smadja
Nicolas Michel
Of Euclid's lost manuscripts, few have elicited as much scholarly attention as the Porisms, of which a couple of brief summaries by late-Antiquity commentators are extant. Despite the lack of textual sources, attempts at restoring the conte...
Victims and diplomats: European white stork conservation efforts, animal representations, and images of expertise in postwar ornithology [0.03%]
战后鸟类学中的欧洲白鹳保护工作、动物形象以及专业知识的形象化
Simone Schleper
Simone Schleper
This article discusses two approaches to save the European white stork populations from extinction that emerged after 1980. Despite the shared objective to devise transnational, science-based conservation measures, the two approaches' geogr...
Wybe Kuitert
Wybe Kuitert
When Japan faced the world after the collapse of its feudal system, it had to invent its own modern identity in which the Tokyo Cherry became the National Flower. Despite being a garden plant, it received a Latin scientific species name as ...
John L Hennessey
John L Hennessey
In 1909, Italian zoologist Daniele Rosa (1857-1944) proposed a radical new evolutionary theory: hologenesis, or simultaneous, pan-terrestrial creation and evolution driven primarily by internal factors. Hologenesis was widely ignored or rej...
Anna Kiel Steensen,Mikkel Willum Johansen,Morten Misfeldt
Anna Kiel Steensen
In this paper, we wish to explore the role that textual representations play in the creation of new mathematical objects. We do so by analyzing texts by Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) and Évariste Galois (1811-1832), which are seen as c...
The animal model of human disease as a core concept of medical research: Historical cases, failures, and some epistemological considerations [0.03%]
以动物模型模拟人类疾病作为医学研究的核心概念：历史案例、失败教训及若干认识论思考
Volker Roelcke
Volker Roelcke
This article uses four historical case studies to address epistemological issues related to the animal model of human diseases and its use in medical research on human diseases. The knowledge derived from animal models is widely assumed to ...
Euclid's Fourth Postulate: Its authenticity and significance for the foundations of Greek mathematics [0.03%]
欧几里得第四公设：其正统性及其对希腊数学基础的意义
Vincenzo De Risi
Vincenzo De Risi
The Fourth Postulate of Euclid's Elements states that all right angles are equal. This principle has always been considered problematic in the deductive economy of the treatise, and even the ancient interpreters were confused about its math...
Detecting the unknown in a sea of knowns: Health surveillance, knowledge infrastructures, and the quest for classification egress [0.03%]
在已知的海洋中发现未知：卫生监控、知识基础设施和分类退出的追求
Francis Lee
Francis Lee
The sociological study of knowledge infrastructures and classification has traditionally focused on the politics and practices of classifying things or people. However, actors' work to escape dominant infrastructures and pre-established cla...