Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837-1852) [0.03%]
档案中的数学——解构史学与现代几何的形成(1837—1852)
Nicolas Michel,Ivahn Smadja
Nicolas Michel
This essay explores the research practice of French geometer Michel Chasles (1793-1880), from his 1837 Aperçu historique up to the preparation of his courses on 'higher geometry' between 1846 and 1852. It argues that this scientific pursui...
Revolutionary electricity in 1790: shock, consensus, and the birth of a political metaphor [0.03%]
1790年的电学革命：“冲击”、“共识”与政治隐喻的诞生
Samantha Wesner
Samantha Wesner
The 1790 Fête de la fédération in the early French Revolution evoked the memory of the taking of the Bastille while tamping down on the simmering social forces that had erupted on 14 July 1789. How to do both? As an official architect pu...
'A method for safe transmission': the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club [0.03%]
《安全传送的方法》——美国邮政显微学会的载玻片标本
Lea Beiermann
Lea Beiermann
In the 1870s, microscopy societies began to proliferate in the United States. Most of these societies attracted microscopists from surrounding cities, but the American Postal Microscopical Club, modelled on the British Postal Microscopical ...
'Ancient lore with modern appliances': networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851-1853 [0.03%]
《古代传说与现代设备》：网络、专业知识及开放北极海的形成（1851—1853）
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund,John Woitkowitz
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
This article provides a transnational analysis of the campaigns for the organization of expeditions to the central Arctic region by the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the Prussian cartographer August Petermann between 1851 and 1853....
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939-1949 [0.03%]
前沿气氛：1939—1949年旧中国气象机构在西藏的观测与遗憾
Mark E Frank
Mark E Frank
Across Tibet during the 1940s, young Han Chinese weather observers became stranded at their weather stations, where they faced illness, poverty and isolation as they pleaded with their superiors for relief. Building on the premise that Chin...
Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine [0.03%]
基因的数字化：人类孟德尔遗传学与生物医学电子出版的谱系学研究
Michael F McGovern
Michael F McGovern
Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM), a computerized catalogue of human genetic disorders authored and maintained by cardiologist and medical genetics pioneer Victor A. McKusick, played a major part in demarcating between a novel biomedical s...
'Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two': British discussions of revolving storms [0.03%]
“香港受得起一兩個颱風”——英國輿論對旋轉風暴的討論
Chi Chi Huang
Chi Chi Huang
This article examines the way in which the British press reported on typhoons that affected Hong Kong during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Typhoons were a significant element in the narration of the British Empire, featuring...
'Seeing with one's own eyes' and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics [0.03%]
亲见云室——威尔逊云室在物理教学中的历史
Eugenio Bertozzi
Eugenio Bertozzi
In 1911 the Wilson cloud chamber opened new possibilities for physics pedagogy. The instrument, which visualized particles' tracks as trails of condensed vapour, was adopted by physicists to pursue frontier research on the Compton effect, t...