Andreas W Daum
Andreas W Daum
This article sheds new light on Alexander von Humboldt's political position in the revolutionary decade between 1789 and 1799. The young naturalist interacted with both supporters and opponents of the revolution. In July 1790, he even parti...
A natural history of the satyr: a dialectical history of myth and scientific observation since 1550 [0.03%]
一部关于Satyr的自然史——自1550年以来神话与科学研究的历史对话
Dániel Margócsy
Dániel Margócsy
This article uses the mythological figure of the satyr to examine European attitudes towards incorporating mythical creatures into zoology and, more broadly, to survey attempts to reconcile the relative status of myth vis-à-vis modern scie...
'Made in the Galleries of His Most Serene Highness, Florence'. Conflicts in instrument invention at the Medici court: the pendulum clock, and the Accademia del Cimento [0.03%]
‘在美第奇宫廷的画廊中制造的’：佛罗伦萨乐器发明中的冲突：摆钟和实验学院
Cristiano Zanetti
Cristiano Zanetti
This essay proposes that the only publication of the Accademia del Cimento, referred to as Saggi,11 Accademia del Cimento, Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo ...
The social agency of instruments of surveying and exploration c.1830-1930 [0.03%]
约1830-1930年测绘和探险仪器的社会能动性
Jane A Wess
Jane A Wess
This paper utilizes the concept of the agency of material objects, proposed as a tenet by several historians of science in the late twentieth century. It argues that scientific instruments have agency in the field due to their value and fra...
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the conservation of energy [0.03%]
古斯塔夫-阿道尔夫·希恩、热的机械当量及能量守恒原理
Kenneth L Caneva
Kenneth L Caneva
Alsatian engineer Gustave-Adolphe Hirn is best known to historians of science for his experimental determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat, first published in 1855. Since the 1840s, that equivalent has been closely associated wit...
Obstetrics during the French Revolution: political and medical controversies around the new obstetrical surgery [0.03%]
法国大革命时期的妇产科政治和医学争议中的新的外科接生手术
Elena Danieli
Elena Danieli
During the French Revolution, obstetrics underwent substantial transformations in practice, teaching, and the physical spaces where it was conducted. The revolutionary authorities implemented reforms in French medical institutions that prom...
Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582 [0.03%]
安东尼诺·萨利巴1582年的《Nuova Figura di tutte le cose》中的彗星与宇宙学
Joseph Caruana
Joseph Caruana
Antonino Saliba, a sixteenth century cartographer hailing from the Maltese island of Gozo, published a map in 1582 espousing his cosmology. Its popularity at the time is attested via the multiple editions and copies that were produced in Eu...
A 'heavy hammer to crack a small nut'? The creation of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), 1963-1970 [0.03%]
用大炮打蚊子？欧洲分子生物学大会（EMBC）的创立，1963-1970年
Francesco Cassata
Francesco Cassata
This article reconstructs the complex diplomatic negotiations that led to the peculiar organization of molecular biology at the European level, by focusing in particular on the establishment of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMB...
Jean De Groot
Jean De Groot
Modern commentators have doubts about the authenticity and cogency of the early propositions of Archimedes' On Equilibrium of Planes Book 1. Ernst Mach famously said that the proof of Prop. 6, the so-called law of the lever, assumes what is...
Gert Schubring
Gert Schubring
The life and work of Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877) attract not only ever again the attention of mathematicians, mathematical historians and those interested in the history of mathematics, they constitute also a challenge for the me...