The Theory-Practice Gap in the Evaluation of Agent-Based Social Simulations [0.03%]
基于代理的社会模拟评价中的理论实践差距
David Anzola
David Anzola
Agent-based social simulations have historically been evaluated using two criteria: verification and validation. This article questions the adequacy of this dual evaluation scheme. It claims that the scheme does not conform to everyday prac...
Belgium and probability in the nineteenth century: The case of Paul Mansion [0.03%]
十九世纪的比利时概率论：以Paul Mansion为例
Laurent Mazliak
Laurent Mazliak
This paper explores how the Belgian mathematician Paul Mansion became interested in probability theory. In comparison to many other countries at the time, probability theory had a much stronger presence in Belgium. In addition, Mansion, who...
Information, meaning and physics: The intellectual evolution of the English School of Information Theory during 1946-1956 [0.03%]
信息、意义与物理：1946-1956年间英国信息论学派的知识进化过程
Javier Anta
Javier Anta
In this comparative historical analysis, we will analyze the intellectual tendency that emerged between 1946 and 1956 to take advantage of the popularity of communication theory to develop a kind of informational epistemology of statistical...
The Bryson synthesis: The forging of climate change narratives during the World Food Crisis [0.03%]
布莱森综合：世界粮食危机期间气候变化叙述的形成
Robert L Naylor
Robert L Naylor
During the first half of the 1970s, climate research gained a new significance and began to be perceived within political and academic circles as being worthy of public support. Conventional explanations for this increased status include a ...
Jaume Navarro
Jaume Navarro
In this paper I follow the demise of the ether in the first half of the twentieth century to show how the first obituaries of the ether were instrumental in creating an object with specific and largely simplified properties related to, but ...
How scientific objects end [0.03%]
科学对象如何终结
Jaume Navarro
Jaume Navarro
A terrifying poison or a cheap fertilizer? The life and death of Mount Vesuvius ash [0.03%]
致命的毒药还是廉价的肥料？维苏火山灰的生死故事
Corinna Guerra
Corinna Guerra
During the eighteenth century, chemists in the Kingdom of Naples (the South of Italy) were very busy analyzing the chemical composition of ash from Mount Vesuvius. Undoubtedly, after a huge eruption this dusty phenomenon was the most import...
At the ends of the line: How the Airy Transit Circle was gradually overshadowed by the Greenwich Prime Meridian [0.03%]
在线的尽头：Airy子午环是如何逐渐被格林尼治本初子午线掩盖的
Daniel Belteki
Daniel Belteki
The Greenwich Prime Meridian is one of the iconic features of the Royal Museums Greenwich. Visitors to the Museum even queue up to pose with one leg on either side of the Line. Yet, the Airy Transit Circle, the instrument that defined the m...
Anatomy collections as "modern ruins": The nostalgia of lonely specimens [0.03%]
解剖学收藏作为“现代废墟”：孤独的标本的怀旧情绪
Alexandra Ion
Alexandra Ion
This text is a reflection on the fate of a special kind of scientific object - anatomy collections - and their place in contemporary times. Though the phenomenon of keeping and displaying such collections is generally dying out, those speci...
Dead or "undead"? The curious and untidy history of Volta's concept of "contact potential" [0.03%]
死亡还是“不死”?关于伏打的“接触电势”概念曲折而混乱的历史
Hasok Chang
Hasok Chang
Much of the long controversy concerning the workings of electric batteries revolved around the concept of the contact potential (especially between different types of metals), originated by Alessandro Volta in the late eighteenth century. A...