Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's 'Sur la nature de l'eau': an annotated English translation [0.03%]
安东尼· Laurent拉瓦锡的《论水的本质》：带注释的英文译本
Liz Kambas
Liz Kambas
On November 14th, 1770, the young chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) read his 'Sur la nature de l'eau' to the Académie des Sciences. Eventually published in the Académie's journal in 1773, the two-part memoire challenged a wide...
Arthur Harris,Liba Taub
Arthur Harris
We explore the extent to which ancient Greek authors formulated concepts that approximate or encompass our modern notions of precision and accuracy. First, we focus on estimates and measurements of geographic features, astronomical times an...
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660-1710 [0.03%]
水与光之间的声音：早期声学中的图像与类比（1660-1710）
Leendert van der Miesen
Leendert van der Miesen
Sounds are heard, sometimes even felt, but in most cases they remain unseen. This ephemeral and invisible nature of sound was already considered a problem when the science of acoustics took form in the seventeenth century. The fact that sou...
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...