The Local versus the Global in the history of relativity: The case of Belgium [0.03%]
相对论历史中的地方与全球:比利时的例子
Sjang L Ten Hagen
Sjang L Ten Hagen
This article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein's theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, yet the early-twentieth-century Belgian context, because of its cultur...
Rendering Inuit cancer "visible": Geography, pathology, and nosology in Arctic cancer research [0.03%]
让因纽特人癌症“可见”:地理、病理和疾病命名法在北极癌症研究中的作用
Jennifer Fraser
Jennifer Fraser
In August of 1977, Australian pathologist David W. Buntine delivered a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia in Melbourne, Victoria. In this presentation, he used the diagnostic category of "Es...
Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data [0.03%]
为什么提倡数据共享:社会科学领域的早期论证回顾
Emily Hauptmann
Emily Hauptmann
Most social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.'s first university-based social s...
Brazilian political scientists and the Cold War: Soviet hearts, North-American minds (1966-1988) [0.03%]
巴西政治学家与冷战:苏联之心,北美思想(1966-1988)
Lidiane Soares Rodrigues
Lidiane Soares Rodrigues
The process of institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil was conditioned by the country's position in the geopolitical scenario proper to the Cold War, strongly affected by the influence of the USA and, later on, by the military d...
Historicizing the comparative survey of freedom: tracing the social trajectory of an influential indicator [0.03%]
从历史视角考察自由的比较调查——追踪一项有影响力的指标的社会轨迹
Emily Zerndt
Emily Zerndt
The Comparative Survey of Freedom, first published by Freedom House in 1973, is now the most widely used indicator of democracy by both academics and the U.S. government alike. However, literature examining the Survey's origins is virtually...
Paulo Ravecca
Paulo Ravecca
The study examines the trajectory of Uruguayan Political Science (PS) from a critical theory perspective. Concretely, the article focuses on PS' institutional birth and early period (1980s and 1990s) and shows how broader political and ideo...
Thibaud Boncourt,Paulo Ravecca
Thibaud Boncourt
Physiology and philhellenism in the late nineteenth century: The self-fashioning of Emil du Bois-Reymond [0.03%]
晚十九世纪的生理学和希腊爱好者主义:埃米尔·杜·布瓦·雷蒙的个性塑造
Lea Beiermann,Elisabeth Wesseling
Lea Beiermann
Nineteenth-century Prussia was deeply entrenched in philhellenism, which affected the ideological framework of its public institutions. At Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University, philhellenism provided the rationale for a persistent elevatio...
The procedure of the Section of Pieces of Areas in Li Ye and Yang Hui's works: genealogy of diagrams and equations [0.03%]
李冶和杨辉作品中的“求割圆术”的步骤:图表与方程的系谱
Charlotte-V Pollet
Charlotte-V Pollet
The study of algebra in China has often focused on the algebraic "procedure of the Celestial Source." Its geometrical ancestors are less known. The Yigu yanduan, authored by Li Ye (1192-1279), presents the procedure alongside its two geomet...
Practices of reasoning: persuasion and refutation in a seventeenth-century Chinese mathematical treatise of "linear algebra" [0.03%]
推理的实践:“线性代数”在十七世纪中国数学论著中的说服与反驳
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
This article documents the reasoning in a mathematical work by Mei Wending, one of the most prolific mathematicians in seventeenth-century China. Based on an analysis of the mathematical content, we present Mei's systematic treatment of thi...