Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon [0.03%]
全球化的比较：黎巴嫩基因实验室的建立与瓦解
Elise K Burton
Elise K Burton
This paper examines two moments in the globalization of human genetics, focusing on the American University of Beirut as a site of interaction between American, European and Middle Eastern scientific actors and research subjects. In the int...
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology [0.03%]
笛卡尔论消化中的发酵：阐发机械论、类比与目的论
Carmen Schmechel
Carmen Schmechel
Fermentation is a cornerstone phenomenon in Cartesian physiology, accounting for processes such as digestion or blood formation. I argue that the previously unrecognized conceptual tension between the terms 'fermentation' and 'concoction' r...
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps [0.03%]
看不见的图谱：知识、可信性与早期现代洞穴地图中的地球景观
Johannes Mattes
Johannes Mattes
This paper examines cave environments as unique spaces of knowledge production and shows how visualizations of natural cavities in maps came to be powerful tools in scientific reasoning. Faced with the challenge of limited vision, mapmakers...
'The troubles of collecting': William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain's nineteenth-century world [0.03%]
'收集的困境'——威廉·亨利·哈维与19世纪英帝国世界中的自然历史采集实务
John McAleer
John McAleer
In recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in the logistical challenges and difficulties encountered by those responsible for the collection, preservation and safe transport of specimens from the field to the museum o...
Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research [0.03%]
适应不稳定状况：罗斯林研究所如何以及为何在猪基因组研究的国际网络中扮演了重要角色
James W E Lowe
James W E Lowe
From the 1980s onwards, the Roslin Institute and its predecessor organizations faced budget cuts, organizational upheaval and considerable insecurity. Over the next few decades, it was transformed by the introduction of molecular biology an...
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain [0.03%]
R.A.费希尔，优生学，以及战间英国的家庭补贴运动
Alex Aylward
Alex Aylward
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) is today remembered as a giant of twentieth-century statistics, genetics and evolutionary theory. Alongside his influential scientific contributions, he was also, throughout the interwar years, a prominent f...
Denis Papin's digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation [0.03%]
德尼•帕平的消化器及其在欧洲的十八世纪流通问题
Marco Storni
Marco Storni
The digester, invented by Denis Papin in the 1680s, was a rudimentary pressure cooker used to soften hard bodies by boiling them at high pressure. In this paper, I propose a reassessment of Papin's work on the digester, arguing that his res...
'Impossible to provide an accurate estimate': the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875-1881 [0.03%]
提供准确的估算不可能”:1875-1881年奥斯曼公共债务的兴趣计算
Daniel A Stolz
Daniel A Stolz
When the Ottoman Empire defaulted on its public debt in 1875, British bondholders launched a campaign to win government intervention on their behalf. This article interprets the unprecedented success of this campaign as a matter of knowledg...
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel [0.03%]
酒精是热带药物吗？维多利亚时代和爱德华时代热带旅行中对气候、刺激物和身体的科学理解
Edward Armston-Sheret,Kim Walker
Edward Armston-Sheret
This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa drank alcohol and wrote about drink between c.1850 and...