A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility [0.03%]
一个棱镜的悖论：Accademia del Cimento的技术人员、他们的仪器及他们（不）可见性的问题
Cristiano Zanetti
Cristiano Zanetti
The brief life of the Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667), the first known society with a purely experimental programme,1 is entangled with the most surprising advancements in the history of scientific instruments of that century, from the te...
The two 'strongest pillars of the empiricist wing': the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916-1939) [0.03%]
经验主义学派的“两大最强柱石”：菲利普·弗兰克与理查德·冯·米塞斯书信中的维也纳学圈、德国学术界及流亡问题（1916—1939）
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
ABSTRACTThis paper is divided into a surveying and argumentative part and a slightly longer documentary part, which is meant to verify or at least make more plausible claims made in the first part. The first part deals in broad outline with...
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment [0.03%]
挪威气候学、学者共和国与北欧启蒙运动
Siobhan Moira Ryan
Siobhan Moira Ryan
Although natural philosophers of Enlightenment Europe shared common ideals, like reliance on reason and natural philosophy, to promote what they deemed to be progress; there were national differences in attitude and disciplinary focus. This...
Shaul Katzir
Shaul Katzir
In his recent authoritative Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva has claimed that earlier authors had invoked the principle of conservation of living force only in cases of a system returning to an earlier state, or of o...
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany [0.03%]
论冲突的多种历史：19世纪德国的科学与宗教叙事
Christoffer Leber,Claus Spenninger
Christoffer Leber
The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion leading to relentless hostility between the two emerged in the nineteenth century and has become a powerful narrative of modernity. Most historians of science trace the origins...
Mary Pickard Winsor
Mary Pickard Winsor
Species that died without leaving descendants Darwin called 'utterly extinct'. They far outnumber the ancestors of all living things, so they resemble the dark matter of modern cosmology, which far outweighs visible matter. He realized in 1...
Newton's 'De Aere et Aethere' and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics [0.03%]
牛顿的《论空气和以太》与他物理学中微粒间力的引入
John Henry
John Henry
As well as the mathematically-supported celestial mechanics that Newton developed in his Principia, Newton also proposed a more speculative natural philosophy of interparticulate forces of attraction and repulsion. Although this speculative...
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks [0.03%]
坦噶尼喀的殖民地鼠类控制及其生态框架的应用
Jia Hui Lee
Jia Hui Lee
ABSTRACTAt the end of the 1920s, Tanganyika Territory experienced several serious rodent outbreaks that threatened cotton and other grain production. At the same time, regular reports of pneumonic and bubonic plague occurred in the northern...
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain [0.03%]
肥沃的培养基：英国大众显微镜的兴起、衰落与更替
Nathan Edward Charles Smith
Nathan Edward Charles Smith
This paper examines the rise and fall of the British popular microscopy movement during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. It highlights that what is currently understood as microscopy was actually two inter-related ...
Luís Campos Ribeiro
Luís Campos Ribeiro
While the link between navigation and astronomy is quite evident and its history has been extensively explored, the prognosticatory element included in astronomical knowledge has been almost completely left out. In the early modern world, t...