Ambition, 'failure' and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry [0.03%]
ambition,“失败”与实验室:20世纪英国布里斯托尔的科学精神病学中心
Rebecca Wynter
Rebecca Wynter
This article will reveal how local scientific determination and ambition, in the face of rejection by funders, navigated a path to success and to influence in national policy and international medicine. It will demonstrate that Birmingham, ...
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence
Robert Maxwell Young's first book Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), written from 1960 to 1965, still merits reading as a study of the naturalization of mind and its relation to social thought in Victorian Britain....
Voyaging towards the future: the brig Rurik in the North Pacific and the emerging science of the sea [0.03%]
走向未来:北方太平洋上的鲁里克号brig船与海洋科学的兴起
Alexandra Bekasova
Alexandra Bekasova
This article explores the networking activities of Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Adam von Krusenstern, his close collaborator. The visionary Russian statesman and the celebrated navigator were deeply involved in northern exploration. They fu...
'Research sharing' using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist [0.03%]
“研究共享”与社交媒体:在线会议体验以#BSHSGlobalHist为例
Jemma Houghton,Alexander Longworth-Dunbar,Nicola Sugden
Jemma Houghton
In February 2020, the British Society for the History of Science hosted its first entirely digital conference via Twitter, with the dual goals of improving outreach and engagement with international historians of science, and exploring meth...
Tim Boon,Charlotte Sleigh
Tim Boon
In 2020, the BSHS hosted two major online events, the first of their kind in our collective experience. The first, a Twitter conference, was planned and accomplished before COVID-19 had quite been established as a serious global issue. The ...
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency [0.03%]
危机中的创新:在大流行和气候紧急情况下的会议和学术研究反思
Sam Robinson,Megan Baumhammer,Lea Beiermann et al.
Sam Robinson et al.
It is a cliché of self-help advice that there are no problems, only opportunities. The rationale and actions of the BSHS in creating its Global Digital History of Science Festival may be a rare genuine confirmation of this mantra. The glob...
JosÉ Antonio Alonso-PavÓn,Jocelyn CheÉ-Santiago,Martha LucÍa Granados-Riveros et al.
JosÉ Antonio Alonso-PavÓn et al.
Natural history in the physician's study: Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), Steven Blankaart (1650-1705) and the 'paperwork' of observing insects [0.03%]
自然史与医师的研究:扬·斯瓦默丹(1637-1680),斯蒂文·布拉卡特(1650-1705)和观察昆虫的“文件工作”
Saskia Klerk
Saskia Klerk
While some seventeenth-century scholars promoted natural history as the basis of natural philosophy, they continued to debate how it should be written, about what and by whom. This look into the studios of two Amsterdam physicians, Jan Swam...
The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain [0.03%]
电影生物学家:20世纪30年代英国的自然历史影片和知识的共同生产过程
Max Long
Max Long
This article analyses the production and reception of the natural history film series Secrets of Nature (1919-33) and its sequel Secrets of Life (1934-47), exploring what these films reveal about the role of cinema in public discourses abou...
The place of Edward Gresham's Astrostereon (1603) in the discussion on cosmology and the Bible in the early modern period [0.03%]
爱德华格雷沙姆的《Astrostereon》(1603)在早期现代宇宙学和圣经讨论中的地位
Barbara Bienias
Barbara Bienias
This article situates Edward Gresham's Astrostereon, or A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603), a little-known English astronomical treatise, in the context of the cosmo-theological debate on the reconciliation of heliocentrism wit...