Jennifer Mensch
Jennifer Mensch
In 1786 Georg Forster published a widely read critique of Immanuel Kant's theory of race. Since then, the dispute between Forster and Kant on the unity of mankind has been widely discussed in light of both Forster's essay and Kant's decisio...
Boris Demarest
Boris Demarest
In this paper, I argue that, by the contingency of organic forms with regard to the mechanical laws of nature, Kant means their accidental or coincidental nature with respect to these laws. Something is coincidental if it cannot be shown wh...
Fabian Burt
Fabian Burt
In his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755), Kant claims that the Universe has existed for 'a series of millions of years and centuries'. In light of the authority of biblical chronology, according to which God created...
Stephen Howard
Stephen Howard
Debates over the nature, status, and explanatory scope of various ethers were widespread among seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophers. This article argues that an important feature of Kant's mature natural philosophy is it...
From Greek to Latin Europe and back: recovering and interpreting Theophrastus' De odoribus in the early modern age [0.03%]
从希腊语到拉丁语再回到希腊语：早期现代时代下的理论斯塔图斯的《论气味》的复苏与解读
Tommaso De Robertis
Tommaso De Robertis
The article traces the reception history of Theophrastus' De odoribus in the early modern period. It first examines the recovery and circulation of the earliest manuscript witnesses of the work in fifteenth-century Italy and the publication...
Kostas Gavroglu
Kostas Gavroglu
In August 1623, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII, and in April 1624, Galileo went to Rome to pay his respects to his old friend. Before returning to Florence at the beginning of June 1624, Galileo, informed Federico Cesi tha...
The protean idea of useful knowledge, or the rise of the capitalist orders of knowledge [0.03%]
变化莫测的有用知识理念，或资本主义知识体系的崛起
Youngsoo Bae
Youngsoo Bae
This essay treats the idea of useful knowledge as a historical concept, attempting to apprehend its evolutionary process from a long-term perspective. Focusing on two leaders, early modern Britain and the post-World War II United States, th...
A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory [0.03%]
一百年的观测：斯德哥尔摩天文台的Ertel子午仪
Johan Kärnfelt
Johan Kärnfelt
In the 1820s, Stockholm Observatory undertook a significant upgrade of its instruments. The new acquisitions included a meridian circle, crafted by Traugott Ertel in Munich, which - after extensive delays - was finally installed at the obse...
Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan's translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War Hong Kong [0.03%]
战冷战时期的香江学政之间：徐贯三的《行动中的演化论》英译及其因应策略
Yunrou Liu
Yunrou Liu
The Cold War's bipolarity between the Free World and the Communist World was evident across diplomacy, literature, military competition. Science, where research and publications often reflected opposing ideologies, is undoubtedly a crucial ...
Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell's canal experiments of 1834-1835 [0.03%]
生而有痕：约翰·斯科特·罗素爵士1834至1835年运河实验的背景和影响
David Pritchard
David Pritchard
We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell's first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering science. We place the experiments in the context ...