Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps [0.03%]
皮普斯岛作为太平洋的踏脚石：早期内图上岛屿争夺战的一个案例
Katherine Parker
Katherine Parker
This paper will investigate how geographic features were recorded on maps in the eighteenth century in order to outline the construction of geographic knowledge by British mapmakers. Due to practical and economic factors, early modern carto...
Imperial vernacular: phytonymy, philology and disciplinarity in the Indo-Pacific, 1800-1900 [0.03%]
《帝国俗语：1800-1900年印度太平洋的植物名称学、文字学与学科地位》
Geoff Bil
Geoff Bil
This essay examines how Indo-Pacific indigenous plant names went from being viewed as instruments of botanical fieldwork, to being seen primarily as currency in anthropological studies. I trace this attitude to Alexander von Humboldt, who d...
The 'genie of the storm': cyclonic reasoning and the spaces of weather observation in the southern Indian Ocean, 1851-1925 [0.03%]
“风暴中的精灵”：印度洋南部海域气象观测的旋风式推理与空间（1851—1925）
Martin Mahony
Martin Mahony
This article engages with debates about the status and geographies of colonial science by arguing for the significance of meteorological knowledge making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mauritius. The article focuses on how ...
A hard nut to crack: nutmeg cultivation and the application of natural history between the Maluku islands and Isle de France (1750s-1780s) [0.03%]
一枚难取的果实：十九世纪四五十年代从马鲁古群岛到法兰西岛的肉豆蔻种植及自然史运用
Dorit Brixius
Dorit Brixius
One of France's colonial enterprises in the eighteenth century was to acclimatize nutmeg, native to the Maluku islands, in the French colony of Isle de France (today's Mauritius). Exploring the acclimatization of nutmeg as a practice, this ...
Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius [0.03%]
战争与奇迹：乔治·埃弗哈德·鲁姆普修斯的岛际信息网络
Genie Yoo
Genie Yoo
How did one man living on an island come to acquire information about the rest of the vast archipelago? This article traces the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius (1627-1702), an employee of the Dutch East India Co...
Sebestian Kroupa,Stephanie J Mawson,Dorit Brixius
Sebestian Kroupa
This Introduction offers a conceptualization of the Indo-Pacific, its islands and their place within the history of science. We argue that Indo-Pacific islands present a remarkable combination of social, political and spatial circumstances,...
From corps to discipline, part one: Charles d'Almeida, Pierre Bertin and French experimental physics, 1840-1880 [0.03%]
从学院到学科（上）：夏尔·达尔梅达与皮埃尔·贝尔坦笔下的法国物理学实验，1840—1880年
Daniel Jon Mitchell
Daniel Jon Mitchell
Academic careers in French science during the mid-nineteenth century were made within the Université de France, an integrated state system of secondary and higher education controlled by a centralized Parisian educational administration. A...
Lorenz Oken (1779-1851): Naturphilosophie and the reform of natural history - ERRATUM [0.03%]
洛伦茨·奥肯（1779-1851）：自然哲学与自然科学改革
Andrea Gambarotto
Andrea Gambarotto
Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum [0.03%]
卫生从设计开始：十九世纪卫生博物馆里的清洁教育与卫生组装
Hilary Buxton
Hilary Buxton
In 1878, amid a rapidly proliferating social interest in public health and cleanliness, a group of sanitary scientists and reformers founded the Parkes Museum of Hygiene in central London. Dirt and contagion knew no social boundaries, and t...
Rothschild reversed: explaining the exceptionalism of biomedical research, 1971-1981 [0.03%]
颠倒的罗特希尔德家族：解释生物医学研究的独特性（1971—1981）
Stephen M Davies
Stephen M Davies
The 'Rothschild reforms' of the early 1970s established a new framework for the management of government-funded science. The subsequent dismantling of the Rothschild system for biomedical research and the return of funds to the Medical Rese...