Emily Akkermans
Emily Akkermans
Marine chronometers, often considered precision instruments, proliferated in navigational practices during the nineteenth century. This paper examines their use in the hands of naval officers in the early-nineteenth century. It argues that ...
'Si te omnimoda delectat precisio': early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century [0.03%]
《若汝乐于精准：16世纪天文仪器上的尺度与精确性的多重含义》
Samuel Gessner
Samuel Gessner
This paper explores the various meanings of precision during the early modern period in Europe. In contrast with existing literature focused on assessing the precision of early instruments, this study delves into the intended significance o...
The social life of precision instruments: artisans' trials in early-modern England, 1550-1700 [0.03%]
精巧仪器的社会生活——英国早期现代手工工匠的探索历程（1550—1700）
Boris Jardine
Boris Jardine
This paper examines the role of mathematical instrument makers in establishing a public culture of precision measurement in early-modern England. I argue that this culture was promoted through trials and demonstrations, in the context of wh...
How to ensure a chronometer's accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users [0.03%]
论计时器的精准性——约西亚·埃默里制造的计时器及其使用者
Rossella Baldi
Rossella Baldi
Precision was not a quality expected from ordinary watches in the eighteenth century, which required specific maintenance to function correctly. The precautions to be taken to ensure the accuracy of pocket chronometers, whose going would in...
Stahl in France: an unknown Latin translation of the Zufällige Gedancken und nützliche Bedencken über den Streit, von dem so genannten Sulfure (1718) owned by Étienne-François Geoffroy, Jean Hellot and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier [0.03%]
法国的施塔尔：Étienne-François Geoffroy、Jean Hellot和Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier收藏的《Zufällige Gedancken und nützliche Bedencken über den Streit, von dem so genannten Sulfure》（1718）佚名拉丁文译本
Marco Beretta
Marco Beretta
This essay focuses on an unknown Latin translation of Georg Ernst Stahl's treatise on the nature of sulfur (Zufällige Gedancken und Nützliche Bedencken über den Streit von dem so genannten Sulfure). The original edition, published in 171...
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results [0.03%]
牛津数学式微了吗？一场关于考试成绩的争论（1855）
Christopher D Hollings
Christopher D Hollings
Between December 1855 and March 1856, a public dispute raged, in British national newspapers and locally published pamphlets, between two teachers at the University of Oxford: the mathematical lecturer Francis Ashpitel and Bartholomew Price...
David Brewster's and William Herschel's experiments on inflection that delivered the coup de grâce to Thomas Young's ether distribution hypothesis [0.03%]
戴维·布鲁斯特和威廉·赫歇尔关于折射的实验终结了托马斯·杨的以太分布假说
Olivier Morizot
Olivier Morizot
In his 'Theory of Light and Colours', presented to the Royal Society in November 1801, Thomas Young defended a mechanical explanation of the coloured fringes observed outside of the shadow of an opaque object - the so-called 'colours by inf...
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667-1742 [0.03%]
流行起来的精确性：巴黎天文台（1667—1742）的精确文化
David Aubin
David Aubin
This article maps out the lexical landscape of precision from the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century and investigate the various meanings of precision, both as a word and a concept, within the Paris Observatory and beyond. It ...
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt's Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler [0.03%]
精确之求：洛伦兹·伊奇施塔特《调和天文运动表》（1644）及开普勒之后的天体预测学说研究
Richard L Kremer
Richard L Kremer
In the century between the creation of the first large, European astronomical observatory by Tycho Brahe in the 1580s and the national observatories of France and England in the 1660-1670s, astronomers constructed ever more sets of tables, ...
The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800-1910 [0.03%]
精准的承诺与陷阱：约1800至1910年物理大地测量中的随机误差和系统误差
Miguel Ohnesorge
Miguel Ohnesorge
This article discusses the ways in which nineteenth-century geodesists reflected on precision as an epistemic virtue in their measurement practice. Physical geodesy is often understood as a quintessential nineteenth-century precision scienc...