Shaul Katzir
Shaul Katzir
In his recent authoritative Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva has claimed that earlier authors had invoked the principle of conservation of living force only in cases of a system returning to an earlier state, or of o...
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany [0.03%]
论冲突的多种历史：19世纪德国的科学与宗教叙事
Christoffer Leber,Claus Spenninger
Christoffer Leber
The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion leading to relentless hostility between the two emerged in the nineteenth century and has become a powerful narrative of modernity. Most historians of science trace the origins...
Mary Pickard Winsor
Mary Pickard Winsor
Species that died without leaving descendants Darwin called 'utterly extinct'. They far outnumber the ancestors of all living things, so they resemble the dark matter of modern cosmology, which far outweighs visible matter. He realized in 1...
Newton's 'De Aere et Aethere' and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics [0.03%]
牛顿的《论空气和以太》与他物理学中微粒间力的引入
John Henry
John Henry
As well as the mathematically-supported celestial mechanics that Newton developed in his Principia, Newton also proposed a more speculative natural philosophy of interparticulate forces of attraction and repulsion. Although this speculative...
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks [0.03%]
坦噶尼喀的殖民地鼠类控制及其生态框架的应用
Jia Hui Lee
Jia Hui Lee
ABSTRACTAt the end of the 1920s, Tanganyika Territory experienced several serious rodent outbreaks that threatened cotton and other grain production. At the same time, regular reports of pneumonic and bubonic plague occurred in the northern...
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain [0.03%]
肥沃的培养基：英国大众显微镜的兴起、衰落与更替
Nathan Edward Charles Smith
Nathan Edward Charles Smith
This paper examines the rise and fall of the British popular microscopy movement during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. It highlights that what is currently understood as microscopy was actually two inter-related ...
Luís Campos Ribeiro
Luís Campos Ribeiro
While the link between navigation and astronomy is quite evident and its history has been extensively explored, the prognosticatory element included in astronomical knowledge has been almost completely left out. In the early modern world, t...
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue [0.03%]
展示出来的科学外交：冷战时期的原子能展览：特刊导言
Maria Rentetzi,Donatella Germanese
Maria Rentetzi
Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy - a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill. Atomic mobile exhibitions are seen he...
Donatella Germanese
Donatella Germanese
The organization of the mobile atomic exhibition, Mostra Atomica, designed by the United States Information Service to travel through Italy in 1954-55, had to meet technical, scientific, artistic, and political challenges. The head of the g...
The photographers' gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960-1965) [0.03%]
摄影师的目光：拉丁美洲的移动放射性同位素展览（1960-1965）
Gisela Mateos,Edna Suárez-Díaz
Gisela Mateos
During the IAEA's Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition (1960-1965) through the eventful roads of five Latin American countries (Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia), a variety of photographs were taken by an unknown Mexican official p...