'A new and hopeful type of social organism': Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt's New Deal [0.03%]
“一种新的充满希望的社会有机体”——胡克斯、克劳瑟和霍格本笔下的罗斯福新政
Oliver Hill-Andrews
Oliver Hill-Andrews
The admiration of the Soviet Union amongst Britain's interwar scientific left is well known. This article reveals a parallel story. Focusing on the biologists Julian Huxley and Lancelot Hogben and the scientific journalist J.G. Crowther, I ...
Tremoring transits: railways, the Royal Observatory and the capitalist challenge to Victorian astronomical science [0.03%]
震颤的旅程：铁路、皇家天文台与维多利亚时代资本主义对天文学科学的挑战
Edward J Gillin
Edward J Gillin
Britain's nineteenth-century railway companies traditionally play a central role in histories of the spread of standard Greenwich time. This relationship at once seems to embody a productive relationship between science and capitalism, with...
'The want of a proper Gardiner': late Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as intermediaries of medical and scientific knowledge [0.03%]
《缺乏合适的园丁：作为医学和科学知识媒介的乔治晚期苏格兰植物园园丁》
Clare Hickman
Clare Hickman
Often overlooked by historians, specialist gardeners with an expert understanding of both native and exotic plant material were central to the teaching and research activities of university botanic gardens. In this article various interrela...
Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital [0.03%]
朱利安·特雷维利安、沃尔特·麦克莱和埃里克·古特曼：在玛德斯莱医院划定精神病学与艺术的界限
Eilís Kempley
Eilís Kempley
In 1938, doctors Eric Guttmann and Walter Maclay, two psychiatrists based at the Maudsley Hospital in London, administered the hallucinogenic drug mescaline to a group of artists, asking the participants to record their experiences visually...
The pharmakon of 'If': working with Steven Shapin's A Social History of Truth [0.03%]
关于“如果”的药剂——与Steven Shapin的《真理的社会史》对话
Michael Wintroub
Michael Wintroub
Whilst the 'local culture' of experimental natural philosophy in seventeenth-century England drew on 'resources' supplied by the gentlemanly identity of men like Robert Boyle, this culture found much of its distinctiveness in a series of ex...
Vittoria Feola
Vittoria Feola
This essay aims to reappraise Agnes Arber's contribution to the history of science with reference to her work in the history of botany and biology. Both her first and her last books (Herbals, 1912; The Mind and the Eye, 1954) are classics: ...
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other [0.03%]
口述历史学家和科学史家可以相互学习些什么
Paul Merchant
Paul Merchant
This paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach auto...
Cécile Morette and the Les Houches summer school for theoretical physics; or, how Girl Scouts, the 1944 Caen bombing and a marriage proposal helped rebuild French physics (1951-1972) [0.03%]
塞西尔·莫雷特和理论物理学安布瓦兹暑期学校；以及，如何通过女童子军、卡昂轰炸事件（1944年）与一次求婚重建法国物理界（1951—1972）
Pierre Verschueren
Pierre Verschueren
The aftermath of the Second World War represented a major turning point in the history of French and European physical sciences. The physicist's profession was profoundly restructured, and in this transition the role of internationalism cha...
Fashioned in the light of physics: the scope and methods of Halford Mackinder's geography [0.03%]
以物理之光照亮的时尚：霍华德·麦金德地理学的范围与方法
Emily Hayes
Emily Hayes
Throughout his career the geographer, and first reader in the 'new' geography at the University of Oxford, Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) described his discipline as a branch of physics. This essay explores this feature of Mackinder's though...
Marius Stan
Marius Stan
In a review of recent Newton scholarship, H. Floris Cohen charges that my paper is not a 'case of worthwhile innovation, or even of any innovation at all'. I beg to differ.