World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869-1900) [0.03%]
世界丝绸网：帕多瓦蚕桑站与国际技术昆虫学的流通（1869—1900）
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
This article examines the rise and global influence of sericulture experimental stations from 1869 to 1900, framing them as an international 'World Wide Silk Web'. Focusing on the Padua sericulture station as a case study, the essay traces ...
An 'unholy' alchemy: the nineteenth-century European medico-scientific encounter with opium smoking and the circulation of knowledge [0.03%]
“不圣洁”的炼金术：19世纪欧洲医学科学界对鸦片烟的研究及知识传播
Matthew Perkins-McVey
Matthew Perkins-McVey
Today, the story of the opium trade is an almost archetypal representation of the social, economic and military power dynamics at play in the colonial world. But few, if any, are aware that the European encounter with Chinese opium smoking ...
Meteorologists, sunspotters and journalists: the demise of long-range weather forecasting in the USSR, 1970s [0.03%]
气象学家、太阳黑子观察家和记者：苏联长期天气预报的衰落，20世纪70年代
Marc Elie
Marc Elie
This article contends that meteorology endured a severe crisis in the USSR in 1972. During a devastating drought this year, meteorology lost its reliability as a science able to forecast the weather many weeks and months in advance. Many pr...
Eric J Richards
Eric J Richards
In the 1950s, Alan Durrant of the University College Wales began a series of experiments to investigate the inheritance of environmental effects in plants, forging an unexpected connection to the controversial hereditary theories of Trofim ...
A science museum 'to rival South Kensington': historicizing the industrial city and galvanizing 'modern' science in post-war Manchester [0.03%]
一座可与南肯辛顿比肩的“科学博物馆”：战后曼彻斯特的工业城市历史化以及推进“现代”科学
Erin Beeston
Erin Beeston
This paper shows how the Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (GMMSI) was shaped by actors' experiences with the history of science and technology. The museum began under the leadership of scientist-historians at the University...
The politics of 'the politics of display': a nuclear-energy gallery, a science museum in the 1980s and a debate about patronage [0.03%]
关于展示的政治：“核电能源展馆”、二十世纪八十年代的“科学博物馆”以及一场关于资助的争论
Harry Parker
Harry Parker
This article examines a controversy over a nuclear-energy gallery at the Science Museum, London, in the early 1980s. It uses this case to explore the wider politicization of museums at this time, and thus the politicization of the display o...
Alexander Stoeger
Alexander Stoeger
Redcliffe Salaman's Scheme for Raising Virus-Free Potato Stocks: professionalization, institutionalization and regulation in interwar Britain's plant virus research [0.03%]
红克利夫·萨拉曼的无病毒马铃薯种薯培育方案：英国战间期植物病毒研究的专业化、制度化和规范化
João P R Joaquim
João P R Joaquim
This article examines Redcliffe N. Salaman's (1874-1955) efforts to establish a national system for producing virus-free seed potatoes in 1930s Britain. It explores how scientific authority was mobilized to reshape agricultural practices an...
Imperialism in the academy: the Royal Society, C.V. Raman and the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934-1970) [0.03%]
学术帝国主义：英国皇家学会、C.V.拉曼与印度科学研究所（1934—1970）
George Bailey
George Bailey
In 1934 C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, founded the Indian Academy of Sciences in an attempt to create a single unified national scientific society for India. Instead, due to actions of Raman, the Royal Society and other Britis...
Prognosis and scientific imagination in the work of Jane Webb Loudon (1800-1858) [0.03%]
简·韦布·劳顿(1800-1858)的作品中的预言与科学想象
John Lidwell-Durnin
John Lidwell-Durnin
Prognosis is an important aspect of any scientific culture. Speculation and imagination about future knowledge, social organization and technology pervade the practice of science and lend it aim and direction (or at least the appearance of ...