Queries and quaestiones: Edward Lhwyd between Natural History and Natural Philosophy [0.03%]
问与问道——Edward Lhwyd自然史与自然哲学间的探索之旅
Flynn Allott
Flynn Allott
This article reads the antiquary and Fellow of the Royal Society Edward Lhwyd's works with attention to the different forms of questioning which he associated with various forms of natural enquiry. It argues that Lhwyd associated two forms ...
From ambition to restraint the WMO, atomic energy, and UN institutional rivalry in the early Cold War [0.03%]
从雄心到克制：早冷战时期原子能机构与世界气象组织的竞争关系
Maria Rentetzi
Maria Rentetzi
This paper explores the evolving relationship between the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the emerging international governance of atomic energy during the early Cold War. In the mid-1950s, widespread public concern that nuclear...
De Tellescopiis Stellarum (1666). Was Galileo experimenting with four-lens terrestrial telescopes by 1630? [0.03%]
论恒星望远镜（1666）。伽利略是否在1630年之前用四透镜的陆标望远镜做实验？
José María Moreno Madrid
José María Moreno Madrid
This paper presents a hitherto unknown seventeenth-century component-by-component description of a four-lens terrestrial telescope attributed to Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), complete with diagrams and measurements. The author is the Spanish...
Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries [0.03%]
伊萨克•牛顿论超距作用力及太以学之疑问书
John Henry
John Henry
Contemporaries who only knew Newton's natural philosophy from his published works would have seen him as a thinker who was thoroughly opposed to the concept of an all-pervasive universal aether. There was no need, mathematically or physical...
Magnetic margins: insights into the digital descriptive census of William Gilbert's De Magnete [0.03%]
磁性边距：威廉·吉尔伯特《论磁》数字描述目录的见解
Christoph Sander
Christoph Sander
This essay investigates the reception of William Gilbert's foundational work on magnetism, De Magnete, through a comprehensive analysis of extant copies of its early modern printed editions (1600, 1628, 1629, 1633). By employing a hybrid me...
Method and Melancholy: Aristotle and the defence against Cartesian estrangement [0.03%]
方法与忧郁：亚里士多德对笛卡尔式的疏离的防御
Ofer Gal,Victor D Boantza
Ofer Gal
From the publication of Descartes's Dioptrique in 1637 to the end of the century, leading English scholars declared their preference for 'Aristotle, not des Cartes'. Modern commentators tended to interpret these declarations as defences of ...
Stereotypical thinking in the historiography of science and religion: creation and reception history of Reijer Hooykaas's Religion and the Rise of Modern Science [0.03%]
科学史与宗教史中的刻板思维：Reijer Hooykaas的《宗教与现代科学的兴起》的创作和接受历史
Jelmer Heeren,Pablo de Felipe
Jelmer Heeren
Historians of science and religion have occasionally resorted to stereotypes, rejecting harmonious accounts without clear justifications. This article chronicles the creation and reception history of Religion and the Rise of Modern Science ...
Debating vision and refraction in Galileo's time: Marcantonio De Dominis and Cesare Cremonini [0.03%]
伽利略时代关于视觉和折射的辩论：马克安托尼奥·德·多明尼斯与切萨雷·克雷莫尼尼
Francesco Molinarolo
Francesco Molinarolo
This article provides a reading of Marcantonio De Dominis' De radiis visus et lucis (1611) in light of the discovery of its substantial dependence on Cesare Cremonini's manuscript De iride. The relationship between the two works is examined...
From botanics to physics: Henri Devaux (1862-1956) and the origins of surface science [0.03%]
从植物学到物理学：Henri Devaux（1862-1956）与表面科学的起源
Benjamin Le Roux,Marcin Krasnodębski
Benjamin Le Roux
This article explores the interdisciplinary career and overlooked legacy of Henri Devaux (1862-1956), a French botanist-turned-physicist whose pioneering work on thin films and surface science predated the field's maturity. Trained as a bot...
The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions [0.03%]
滴答与度量衡：一个不受控制的单位如何在革命中幸存下来
Armel Cornu,Sarah Hijmans,Rebecca L Jackson
Armel Cornu
This paper presents the peculiar story of the drop, a non-standard unit which outlived the standardizing forces of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as an instructive lens for understanding how and why non-standard units survive...