James E Strick
James E Strick
What are cells? How are they related to each other and to the organism as a whole? These questions have exercised biology since Schleiden and Schwann (1838-1839) first proposed cells as the key units of structure and function of all living ...
Mordechai Feingold
Mordechai Feingold
Long ago, George Sarton set down criteria for reviewers. In addition to insisting on the need to compose 'faithful' reviews, he cautioned against four types of unfit reviewers: the 'egoist', the 'obscure' reviewer, the one who is noncommitt...
'X-rays don't tell lies': the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936-1945 [0.03%]
“x射线不会说谎”——医学研究委员会与呼吸系统残疾测量（1936—1945）
Coreen McGuire
Coreen McGuire
During the first half of the twentieth century, the mining industry in Britain was subject to recurrent disputes about the risk to miners' lungs from coal dust, moderated by governmental, industrial, medical and mining bodies. In this envir...
London 1600-1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice [0.03%]
伦敦(1600-1800)：自然知识与人工技艺的社群
Jim Bennett,Rebekah Higgitt
Jim Bennett
This essay introduces a special issue of the BJHS on communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London. In seeking to understand the rise of a learned and technical culture within a growi...
Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London [0.03%]
伦敦十七世纪后半叶实用数学家及其数学实践
Philip Beeley
Philip Beeley
Mathematical practitioners in seventeenth-century London formed a cohesive knowledge community that intersected closely with instrument-makers, printers and booksellers. Many wrote books for an increasingly numerate metropolitan market on t...
Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific [0.03%]
捕鲸情报：新闻、事实以及美国在太平洋的探险活动
Felix Lüttge
Felix Lüttge
This paper investigates the history of a discursive figure that one could call the intelligent whaler. I argue that this figure's success was made possible by the construal and public distribution of whaling intelligence in an important cur...
An experimental community: the East India Company in London, 1600-1800 [0.03%]
实验社区：东印度公司时期的伦敦（1600-1800）
Anna Winterbottom
Anna Winterbottom
The early East India Company (EIC) had a profound effect on London, filling the British capital with new things, ideas and people; altering its streets; and introducing exotic plants and animals. Company commodities - from saltpetre to tea ...
Trade, knowledge and networks: the activities of the Society of Apothecaries and its members in London, c.1670-c.1800 [0.03%]
药事学会与伦敦药剂师的知识、网络及贸易(约1670-1800年)
Anna Simmons
Anna Simmons
This article explores the activities of the Society of Apothecaries and its members following the foundation of a laboratory for manufacturing chemical medicines in 1672. In response to political pressures, the guild created an institutiona...
'Greenwich near London': the Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [0.03%]
Greenwich近伦敦：伦敦地区皇家天文台与它的伦敦社会网络（17-18世纪）
Rebekah Higgitt
Rebekah Higgitt
Built in Greenwich in 1675-1676, the Royal Observatory was situated outside the capital but was deeply enmeshed within its knowledge networks and communities of practice. Scholars have tended to focus on the links cultivated by the Astronom...
Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation [0.03%]
天然知识公司：作为大都会公司的皇家学会
Noah Moxham
Noah Moxham
This article attempts to think through the logic and distinctiveness of the early Royal Society's position as a metropolitan knowledge community and chartered corporation, and the links between these aspects of its being. Among the knowledg...