Materials and Skills in the History of Knowledge: An Archaeological Perspective from the "Non-Asian" Field [0.03%]
材料与技能的知识史：来自“非亚洲”领域的考古学视角
Maikel H Kuijpers
Maikel H Kuijpers
This essay assesses the connections between craft, science, and technology, which I explore through the notion of skill. In particular, what we can learn from studying things and materials? Where do the properties of materials fit in the hi...
Jianjun Mei
Jianjun Mei
In this essay, I reflect on Joseph Needham's intellectual heritage, its impact on understanding the world history of knowledge circulation, and its broad influence on generations of scholars. I present two case studies of paktong and iron/s...
A Great (Scientific) Divergence: Synergies and Fault Lines in Global Histories of Science [0.03%]
伟大的(科学的)分流：全球科学史中的协同与裂隙
Helen Tilley
Helen Tilley
Historians of science have a lingering Europe (and U.S.) problem, even as the field has undergone its own transnational, imperial, and global turns that have broadened its scope. Likewise, area studies scholars have a lingering science prob...
Buyun Chen
Buyun Chen
Joseph Needham offered a vision of history that united his understanding of the physical world with his interpretation of social process, in which the material, social, and ideal realms were reciprocally constituted. This essay explores Nee...
Reading Needham Now [0.03%]
重读李约瑟工程篇
Carla Nappi,McKenzie Wark
Carla Nappi
What possible futures can be opened up by creatively reading an encyclopedic text not as a repository for information and historical facts but along two other lines instead: as an archive of concepts and of generative narrative detritus? Th...
Introduction [0.03%]
简介
Florence Hsia,Dagmar Schäfer
Florence Hsia
These essays take a second look at Joseph Needham (1900-1995), the British biochemist whose colossal publishing project with Cambridge University Press, Science and Civilisation in China (1954-), attracts and frustrates historians of scienc...
Where Does Work Belong? Home-Based Work and Communication Technology within the American Middle-Class Postwar Home [0.03%]
工作在哪里才有归属？战后美国家庭中基于家庭的工作和沟通技术
Elizabeth Patton
Elizabeth Patton
This article examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated by certain business industries via mass media during the postwar period. I draw evidence from popular culture, mass media, and marketing and adve...
New Zealand's Technological Participation in the International Goldfields: The Example of the Stamper Battery [0.03%]
新西兰的国际淘金潮： stampers电池技术参与案例分析
Peter Petchey
Peter Petchey
New Zealand's gold rushes of the early 1860s followed similar rushes in California and Australia, and mining technology was imported from those fields from the outset. Over the subsequent decades international mining technology was develope...
"Who Has Seen the Wind": Imagining Wind Power for the Generation of Electricity in Victorian Britain [0.03%]
“谁见过风”——维多利亚时代的英国人眼中的风电发电技术
Nathan Kapoor
Nathan Kapoor
This article argues that discussion and construction of wind mills for the generation of electric power represent a sociotechnical imaginary which linked Victorian unease over waste and resource depletion with a conviction that technologica...