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...
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...