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 ...
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...