Reculturing and particularizing climate discourses: weather, identity, and the work of Gordon Manley [0.03%]
本土化和具体化气候论述:天气、认同与戈登·曼利的工作
Georgina Endfield
Georgina Endfield
During the last three decades, popular discourses of climate have been replaced by a global and scientific metanarrative focusing on climate change and global warming. Recent climate scholarship has thus highlighted the need for a reexamina...
Inventing Caribbean climates: how science, medicine, and tourism changed tropical weather from deadly to healthy [0.03%]
发明加勒比气候:科学、医学和旅游业如何将热带天气从致命变为有益健康
Mark Carey
Mark Carey
This article examines how four major historical factors--geographical features, social conditions, medicine, and tourism--affected European and North American views of the tropical Caribbean climate from approximately 1750 to 1950. It focus...
The letter from Dublin: climate change, colonialism, and the Royal Society in the seventeenth century [0.03%]
来自都柏林的信件:17世纪的气候变化、殖民主义和英国皇家学会
Brant Vogel
Brant Vogel
This article discusses an anonymous letter published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1676 that reports the theories of American colonists about the cause of their warming climate (cultivation and deforestation), and offers Ireland's co...
Diagnosing the dry: historical case notes from Southwest Western Australia, 1945-2007 [0.03%]
来自西南西澳大利亚州的干旱诊断历史病例报告(1945—2007)
Ruth A Morgan
Ruth A Morgan
Long regarded for its reliable winter rainfall, the Southwest region of Western Australia was beset by unexpected dry conditions in the early 1970s whose persistence was baffling. The gradual growth of scientific interest in the region's ra...
The anxieties of a science diplomat: field coproduction of climate knowledge and the rise and fall of Hans Ahlmann's polar warming" [0.03%]
科学外交官的焦虑:气候知识的现场联合生产与汉斯·阿勒曼的极地变暖理论的兴衰
Sverker Sörlin
Sverker Sörlin
In the decades between the world wars there were several attempts to document and explain perceived tendencies of atmospheric warming. Hans Ahlmann, a seminal figure in modern glaciology and a science policy adviser and diplomat, constructe...
Deborah R Coen
Deborah R Coen
This article argues for the importance of Europe's continental empires, Habsburg and Romanov, to the emergence of a physical-dynamical model of the global climate before World War I. It begins to identify a set of questions and methods that...
Humboldtian science, Creole meteorology, and the discovery of human-caused climate change in South America [0.03%]
洪堡科学、克里奥耳气象学与南美人类引起气候变暖的发现
Gregory T Cushman
Gregory T Cushman
The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander von Humboldt's tre...
Political order and the ambivalence of expertise: Count Rumford and welfare reform in late eighteenth-century Munich [0.03%]
政治秩序与专业知识的两面性:伦福德伯爵与18世纪后期慕尼黑的社会保障改革
Anna Maerker
Anna Maerker
From 1784 to 1798, the military expert and natural philosopher Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, worked in Munich for Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria on a series of reforms that demanded a careful articulation of the reformer's expertise. T...
Ahmad al-Damanhūrī (1689-1778) and the utility of expertise in early modern Ottoman Egypt [0.03%]
Ahmad al-Damanhuri(1689-1778)与近代奥斯曼埃及的专业知识作用
Jane H Murphy
Jane H Murphy
Eighteenth-century Arabic manuscripts in the "uncommon sciences"--a range of mathematical, astronomical, astrological, medical, and divinatory practices-number in the thousands. In light of the economic and social upheaval over the eighteen...
Psychiatric genetics in Munich and Basel between 1925 and 1945: programs-practices-cooperative arrangements [0.03%]
1925至1945年的慕尼黑和巴塞尔的精神病学遗传学:项目-实践-合作安排
Hans Jakob Ritter,Volker Roelcke
Hans Jakob Ritter
The first research institution worldwide to exclusively devote its research to psychiatric genetics was the Department of Genealogy and Demography at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie...