Directions of precision: George Graham's instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks [0.03%]
精准的方向：乔治·格雷厄姆的摆钟天文钟制作说明书
Luís Tirapicos
Luís Tirapicos
In the 1720s two Jesuit astronomers working at the court of King João V of Portugal, in Lisbon, received several instruments produced by the best makers in London, Paris and Rome. With the crucial help of the Portuguese diplomatic network ...
Dana Jalobeanu
Dana Jalobeanu
The instrumental character of Francis Bacon's natural and experimental histories was often noted, but never fully investigated. In this paper I aim to reconstruct the theoretical and methodological background which supports this feature. I ...
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century [0.03%]
关于精确性的标准：18世纪的导航仪器评估
Richard Dunn
Richard Dunn
This paper explores discussions centred on the activities of the British Board of Longitude to consider the ways in which some men of science, instrument makers and others thought about questions of precision and accuracy, both in principle...
Inventing the language of Things: the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England [0.03%]
发明物的语言：17世纪英国科学报道的出现
Plamena Panayotova
Plamena Panayotova
As a style of writing and a form of communication, the modern scientific report enables the creation, sharing and continuous updating of natural knowledge in such a manner that the idiosyncrasies of ordinary language are reduced to a minimu...
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing's construction of machine intelligence [0.03%]
伽利略共振：图灵构建机器智能实验作用的研究
Bernardo Gonçalves
Bernardo Gonçalves
In 1950, Alan Turing proposed his iconic imitation game, calling it a 'test', an 'experiment', and the 'the only really satisfactory support' for his view that machines can think. Following Turing's rhetoric, the 'Turing test' has been wide...
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918-1931 [0.03%]
气象视角下的主权认知——青岛观象台事件中的中日交涉（1918—1931）
Xiao Liu
Xiao Liu
Concentrating on the Qingdao Observatory, this paper will explore the role of scientific facility in asserting China's sovereignty during the first half of the twentieth century. Although scholars have explained the efforts of China's inter...
Gabriele Vanin
Gabriele Vanin
In 1614, the German astronomer Simon Mayr published his claim about the discovery of Jupiter's satellites. In his treatise Mundus Jovialis, Mayr made his assertion in a convoluted but unequivocal manner, earning resentment from Galileo Gali...
A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility [0.03%]
一个棱镜的悖论：Accademia del Cimento的技术人员、他们的仪器及他们（不）可见性的问题
Cristiano Zanetti
Cristiano Zanetti
The brief life of the Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667), the first known society with a purely experimental programme,1 is entangled with the most surprising advancements in the history of scientific instruments of that century, from the te...
The two 'strongest pillars of the empiricist wing': the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916-1939) [0.03%]
经验主义学派的“两大最强柱石”：菲利普·弗兰克与理查德·冯·米塞斯书信中的维也纳学圈、德国学术界及流亡问题（1916—1939）
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
ABSTRACTThis paper is divided into a surveying and argumentative part and a slightly longer documentary part, which is meant to verify or at least make more plausible claims made in the first part. The first part deals in broad outline with...
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment [0.03%]
挪威气候学、学者共和国与北欧启蒙运动
Siobhan Moira Ryan
Siobhan Moira Ryan
Although natural philosophers of Enlightenment Europe shared common ideals, like reliance on reason and natural philosophy, to promote what they deemed to be progress; there were national differences in attitude and disciplinary focus. This...