Anna Marie Roos
Anna Marie Roos
In the seventeenth century, there were developing norms of openness in the presentation of scientific knowledge that were at odds with traditions of secrecy among chymists, particularly practitioners of chrysopoeia, or the transmutation of ...
Robert Boyle, Transmutation, and the History of Chemistry before Lavoisier: A Response to Kuhn [0.03%]
罗伯特·波义耳、元素转化说以及拉瓦锡之前的化学史——回应库恩教授的观点
William R Newman
William R Newman
In an influential article of 1952, Thomas Kuhn argued that Robert Boyle had little or no influence on the subsequent development of chemistry. This essay challenges Kuhn's view on two fronts. First, it shows that Johann Joachim Becher devel...
Eloquence in the Marketplace: Erudition and Pragmatic Humanism in the Restoration of Chymia [0.03%]
巧言令色的市场：学究气与务实的人文主义在还原化学的复兴中如何相互作用
Bruce T Moran
Bruce T Moran
This chapter focuses upon the relation between textual and social practices that influenced the formation of a communal approach to acquiring chemical knowledge in the early seventeenth century. It also describes the utilitarian purpose of ...
Auβ Quecksilber und Schwefel Rein: Johann Mathesius (1504-65) and Sulfur-Mercurius in the Silver Mines of Joachimstal [0.03%]
除汞和硫磺外的净化方法：约翰·马特西乌斯（1504-1565）与约阿希姆斯塔尔银矿中的硫黄-水银问题
John A Norris
John A Norris
The Sarepta, oder Bergpostill (1562) by Johann Mathesius is a book of sermons on mining and mineral subjects in which the composition and generation of metals in ore veins are discussed in terms of the sulfur-mercurius theory. Gur was an em...
Transmuting Sericon: Alchemy as "Practical Exegesis" in Early Modern England [0.03%]
从炼金术视角看早期英国的“实用释义”：对《赛瑞孔》的再解读
Jennifer M Rampling
Jennifer M Rampling
An influential strand of English alchemy was the pursuit of the "vegetable stone," a medicinal elixir popularized by George Ripley (d. ca. 1490), made from a metallic substance, "sericon." Yet the identity of sericon was not fixed, undergoi...
Matthew Daniel Eddy,Seymour H Mauskopf,William R Newman
Matthew Daniel Eddy
Optimal climate change: economics and climate science policy histories (from heuristic to normative) [0.03%]
气候科学政策中的经济与气候变化（从启发式到规范）
Samuel Randalls
Samuel Randalls
Historical accounts of climate change science and policy have reflected rather infrequently upon the debates, discussions, and policy advice proffered by economists in the 1980s. While there are many forms of economic analysis, this article...
The politics of atmospheric sciences: "nuclear winter" and global climate change [0.03%]
大气科学的政治化：“核冬天”与全球气候变化
Matthias Dörries
Matthias Dörries
This article, by exploring the individual and collective trajectories that led to the "nuclear winter" debate, examines what originally drew scientists on both sides of the controversy to this research. Stepping back from the day-to-day act...
Melting empires? Climate change and politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year [0.03%]
冰川融化？国际地球物理年之后的气候变化与南极政治关系
Adrian Howkins
Adrian Howkins
This article examines the relationship between climate change and politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year of 1957-8, paying particular attention to the work of the British Antarctic Survey. Research conducted in Anta...
Maria Bohn
Maria Bohn
This article concerns atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements made in Scandinavia and in the Arctic region before measurements started at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in 1958. The CO2 hypothesis of climate change was one reason to measure atmos...