Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886-1953 [0.03%]
预料季风：南亚季节性天气预报的必要性和不可能性（1886—1953）
Sarah Carson
Sarah Carson
This article examines the most controversial of the activities of the India Meteorological Department (IMD): long-term seasonal forecasting for the South Asian subcontinent. Under the pressure of recurrent famines, in 1886 the imperial IMD ...
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c. 1883-1914 [0.03%]
just doing their job：晚清香港殖民地气象人员的工作与身份（1883—1914）
Fiona Williamson
Fiona Williamson
This article investigates the contribution made by indigenous employees to the work of the Hong Kong Observatory from its inception and into the early twentieth century. As has so often been the case in Western histories of science, the sig...
Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research [0.03%]
医学研究中的优先权：英国健康研究的一个关键事件中的精英动态学问题
Stephen M Davies
Stephen M Davies
Priorities in Medical Research (PMR) was published in 1988 by a select committee of the House of Lords. The report ushered in an era of NHS research and development (R & D) that lasted from 2001 to 2006. The inquiry's origins lay in concern...
Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835-1933 [0.03%]
论管理天文台：格林尼治天文台的纪律、秩序与无序（1835—1933）
Scott Alan Johnston
Scott Alan Johnston
This article presents a case study of life and work at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (1835-1933) which reveals tensions between the lived reality of the observatory as a social space, and the attempts to create order, maintain discipli...
The Society of Astrologers (c. 1647-1684): sermons, feasts and the resuscitation of astrology in seventeenth-century London [0.03%]
十七世纪伦敦占星术的复兴：布道、宴会与占星家协会(约1647-1684)
Michelle Pfeffer
Michelle Pfeffer
Before the Royal Society there was the Society of Astrologers (c.1647-1684), a group of around forty practitioners who met in London to enjoy lavish feasts, listen to sermons and exchange instruments and manuscripts. This article, drawing o...
James A Secord
James A Secord
The late 1960s witnessed a key conjunction between political activism and the history of science. Science, whether seen as a touchstone of rationality or of oppression, was fundamental to all sides in the era of the Vietnam War. This essay ...
Iwan Rhys Morus
Iwan Rhys Morus
Imagine a scene sometime in the 1750s in the depths of west Wales. This was wild country. Even a century later, George Borrow called it a 'mountainous wilderness … a waste of russet-coloured hills, with here and there a black craggy summit...
Crosbie Smith
Crosbie Smith
Following some years of declining health, Professor Maurice Crosland passed away on 30 August 2020 at the age of eighty-nine. Author of four influential scholarly monographs, Maurice played major roles in the British Society for the History...
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 1966 [0.03%]
不友好的守护者：印度首次核领导权更迭与1966年政策变化
Ji Yeon-Jung
Ji Yeon-Jung
This article, which focuses on the political decision making around the leadership of India's Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), shows how this process both decentralized scientific authority in India and led to changes in India's nuclear prog...
DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein in its original context [0.03%]
DNA的发现：弗里德里希·米歇尔论核蛋白（英语原文发表于1871年）
Kersten Hall,Neeraja Sankaran
Kersten Hall
In 1871, the Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher published the results of a detailed chemical analysis of pus cells, in which he showed that the nuclei of these cells contained a hitherto unknown phosphorus-rich chemical which he...