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 ...
50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations [0.03%]
格拉什曼研究五十周年：成果、悬而未决的问题及误读
Hans-Joachim Petsche
Hans-Joachim Petsche
In the context of the 150th anniversary of Hermann Graßmann's death, the results of 50 years of recent Graßmann research, starting with Lewis's dissertation and his contribution to the Annals of Science, are reflected upon. The unexpected...
Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy [0.03%]
真相而非科学？乔治·贝克莱与《分析者》之争中的数学权威的政治性
Julia Tomasson
Julia Tomasson
This article reframes the Analyst Controversy, incited by George Berkeley's incendiary tract The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), as not merely a debate about Newtonian fluxions but as a conflict over epist...
Henry Cort and the 'Black metallurgists': on the accuracy of Bulstrode's historical account [0.03%]
亨利·科特与“黑色冶金学家”：论布尔斯特罗德历史叙述的准确性
Oliver Jelf
Oliver Jelf
The editors of History and Technology have declared their 'unreserved support' for Jenny Bulstrode's claim that eighteenth-century ironmaster Henry Cort stole his revolutionary iron-rolling process from enslaved 'Black metallurgists'. This ...
Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Lars Montin (1723-1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (Hypoderma tarandi L.) [0.03%]
将历史写入自然经济：卡尔·林奈（1707-1778）和拉尔斯·蒙廷（1723-1783）与驯鹿舌蝇（Hypoderma tarandi L.）战争的故事
Linda Andersson Burnett,Hanna Hodacs,Staffan Müller-Wille
Linda Andersson Burnett
In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723-1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala professor Linnaeus, followed his teacher's f...