'A place of great trust to be supplied by men of skill and integrity': assayers and knowledge cultures in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London [0.03%]
“一个由技能高超且诚实的人补给的值得信赖之地”：伦敦十六至十七世纪检验师的知识文化
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
This article suggests that institutional workshops of assay were significant experimental sites in early modern London. Master assayers at Goldsmiths' Hall on Foster Lane, in the heart of the city, and at the Royal Mint, in the Tower, made ...
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world [0.03%]
为什么亚里士多德认为蜜蜂是神一般的存在？论自然界中的比例、三元性和秩序感
Daryn Lehoux
Daryn Lehoux
Concluding his discussion of bee reproduction in Book 3 of Generation of Animals, Aristotle makes a famous methodological pronouncement about the relationship between sense perception and theory in natural history. In the very next sentence...
Life cycle of a star: Carl Sagan and the circulation of reputation [0.03%]
Carl Sagan与声望的传播——以明星生命周期为例
Oliver Marsh
Oliver Marsh
It is a commonplace in the history of science that reputations of scientists play important roles in the stories of scientific knowledge. I argue that to fully understand these roles we should see reputations as produced by communicative ac...
Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain [0.03%]
insect编辑学：自然历史期刊和19世纪英国科学社团的形成
Matthew Wale
Matthew Wale
This article addresses the issue of professionalization in the life sciences during the second half of the nineteenth century through a survey of British entomological periodicals. It is generally accepted that this period saw the rise of p...
Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett
Nevil Maskelyne, the Cambridge-trained mathematician and later Astronomer Royal, was appointed by the Royal Society to observe the 1761 transit of Venus from the Atlantic island of St Helena, assisted by the mathematical practitioner Robert...
Francis Bacon's doctrine of idols: a diagnosis of 'universal madness' [0.03%]
弗朗西斯·培根的偶像学说——对“普遍疯狂”的诊断
S V Weeks
S V Weeks
The doctrine of idols is one of the most famous aspects of Bacon's thought. Yet his claim that the idols lead to madness has gone almost entirely unnoticed. This paper argues that Bacon's theory of idols underlies his diagnosis of the conte...
Fabrizio Baldassarri
Fabrizio Baldassarri
In this article, I argue that the French philosopher René Descartes was far more involved in the study of plants than has been generally recognized. We know that he did not include a botanical section in his natural philosophy, and sometim...
David Stack
David Stack
Although often presented as an essential, ahistorical or innate psychological entity, the notion of a 'scientific mind' is ripe for historical analysis. The growing historical interest in the self-fashioning of masculine identities, and mor...
Xiaoxing Jin
Xiaoxing Jin
Darwinian ideas were developed and radically transformed when they were transmitted to the alien intellectual background of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. The earliest references to Darwin in China appeared in the 1870s...
H Floris Cohen
H Floris Cohen
In his biography of Isaac Newton, which forms the most recent production in this flourishing genre, Niccolò Guicciardini states as his first point of departure that Newton's work arose not from 'attempts to answer questions that came to hi...