'Armed with the necessary background of knowledge': embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament [0.03%]
“拥有必要的知识背景”:在英国议会中建立科学审查机制
Emmeline Ledgerwood
Emmeline Ledgerwood
The unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have intensified the demands placed upon parliamentarians to scrutinize and evaluate evidence-based government proposals, making visible the parliamentary mechanisms that enable them ...
Craig Martin
Craig Martin
In the faculty of arts at the University of Padua in the years around 1600 professors debated the reliability of astrology, the existence of occult celestial influences, and the idea that celestial heat is present in living bodies. From the...
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a 'clearing house' for colonial plant material, 1891-1920 [0.03%]
重复的网络：作为“交换中心”的柏林植物学机构（1891-1920）
Katja Kaiser
Katja Kaiser
For centuries, herbarium specimens were the focus of exchange in global botanical networks. The aim was the 'complete' registration of the flora, for which 'complete' collections in botanical institutions worldwide were considered to be a n...
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity [0.03%]
爱因斯坦语言：马克斯·塔尔梅、本杰明·李·沃夫与语言相对论
Michael D Gordin
Michael D Gordin
This paper explores the significant - albeit little-known - impact that physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity had on the development of the science of linguistics. Both Max Talmey, a physician who played a key role in the develop...
'A remedy for this dread disease': Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain [0.03%]
“治疗这种可怕的疾病的方法”：阿奇勒·斯克拉沃、炭疽和20世纪初英国的血清疗法
James F Stark
James F Stark
In the years around 1900 one of the most significant practical consequences of new styles of bacteriological thought and practice was the development of preventive vaccines and therapeutic sera. Historical scholarship has highlighted how ap...
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene [0.03%]
驯鹿迁徙：人类世的阿拉斯加输油管系统、保护和利害关系感
Simone Schleper
Simone Schleper
This article engages with notions of conservation in the Anthropocene from a history-of-science perspective. It does so by looking at an iconic case of infrastructure development that since the 1970s continues to cause controversies amongst...
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape [0.03%]
早期柏林自然历史收藏风景中的拍卖会现象：重复品的出现与影响
Anne Greenwood MacKinney
Anne Greenwood MacKinney
The nineteenth-century museum and auction house are seemingly distinct spaces with opposing functions: while the former represents a contemplative space that accumulates objects of art and science, the latter provides a forum for lively sal...
'The object of sense and experiment': the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus [0.03%]
''感觉与实验的对象'：威廉·亨特对人体怀孕子宫调查中的感觉本体论研究
Richard T Bellis
Richard T Bellis
William Hunter's anatomical inquiry employed all of his senses, but how did his personal experiences with the cadaver become generalized scientific knowledge teachable to students and understandable by fellow practitioners? Moving beyond a ...
'Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation': the life of a quotation in biology [0.03%]
“不是出生、婚姻或死亡，而是卵裂”：生物学界的一条引语的生命历程
Nick Hopwood
Nick Hopwood
This history of a statement attributed to the developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert exemplifies the making and uses of quotations in recent science. Wolpert's dictum, 'It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation which is truly the ...
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c. 1920- c. 1950 [0.03%]
帝国昆虫学：Uvarov的飞蝗研究（约1920-1950年）
Michael Worboys
Michael Worboys
In this article, I explore how the twin forces of imperial and entomological power allowed Britain to shape locust research and control across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Imperial power came fro...