'Undeterred by Aristotle's demonstrations': parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265 [0.03%]
"不为亚里士多德的证明所左右":一场关于视差和彗星距离的被遗忘的书信体论战(1265年)
C Philipp E Nothaft
C Philipp E Nothaft
A manuscript now in Bamberg preserves the only surviving fragment of a thirteenth-century treatise on comets or 'new stars', which was written as a letter addressed by an unknown Dominican author to the Master General of his order, John of ...
Alexander N. Aksakov and the domestication of 'scientific spiritualism' in Imperial Russia, 1865-1875 [0.03%]
亚历山大·亚克斯阿科夫与俄国帝国“科学心灵学”的本土化(1865—1875)
Nikolai Krementsov
Nikolai Krementsov
Over the past decades scholars have traced the intersections between science and spiritualism during the second half of the nineteenth century in a variety of locales around the world. This essay examines such intersections in one setting t...
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
In 1644, the Manchus, a Tungusic population from northeast Asia, conquered Ming China, establishing the Qing Empire. Four years later, Crimean Tartar horsemen joined a major uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, gravely desta...
Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature [0.03%]
动物关系:人类史与自然史简明介绍
Dániel Margócsy
Dániel Margócsy
Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur by Celio Calcagnini: scientific context and translation [0.03%]
《天稳地动》(切利奥·卡卡尔尼尼著)的科学背景与译注解析
Pietro Daniel Omodeo,Alberto Bardi
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
This paper offers an introduction to the Renaissance defence of terrestrial motion by the Ferrara humanist Celio Calcagnini, Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur (ca. 1518). It presents its main argument and reconstructs its intellectual contex...
Tentzel and the elephant in the room. Inconsistencies in the history of nature and history of humans (not) being discussed when 'fossils' were found in Thuringia in 1695 [0.03%]
帐篷泽尔和房间里的大象。当1695年在图林根发现'化石'时,没有讨论的人类历史与自然史的不一致性
Susanne Friedrich
Susanne Friedrich
In 1695 the fossils of a woodland elephant were excavated in Burgtonna (Thuringia). This article deals with the debate between Gotha's court historiographer Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel (1659-1707), who interpreted the discovery as the remains of ...
The 'tale' of a termometro cinquantigrado kept at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge [0.03%]
保存于剑桥惠普尔博物馆的一个"termometro cinquantigrado"的故事
Elisabetta Rossi
Elisabetta Rossi
The 50-degree thermometer currently exhibited at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge (Wh.1116), was originally crafted by skilled Italian glassmakers for the Florentine Accademia del Cimento's activities in the 1650s. ...
Normal and abnormal rhythms in the search for biological clocks: an epistemological gap between early twentieth-century biology and experimental psychology [0.03%]
在寻找生物钟的过程中正常和异常的节奏:二十世纪早期生物学与实验心理学之间的认识论差距
Jole Shackelford
Jole Shackelford
When American experimental psychologists began to study activity cycles in the early twentieth century, their research methods and interpretations of experimental results were guided by a commitment to behaviourism and neglected the work of...
Hamitic race theory and African cattle classification, 1868-1971 [0.03%]
关于哈姆伊特人种理论与非洲牛分类学,1868—1971
Tad Brown
Tad Brown
From the late nineteenth century, European ideas about African cattle breeds relied on the racial classification of African peoples, routed through Hamitic theory. As it were, anthropology influenced the reconstruction of cattle history, an...
Helge Kragh
Helge Kragh
So-called antimatter in the form of elementary particles such as positive electrons (antielectrons alias positrons) and negative protons (antiprotons) has for long been investigated by physicists. However, atoms or molecules of this exotic ...