Illustrating natural history: images, periodicals, and the making of nineteenth-century scientific communities [0.03%]
插图版自然史：图像、期刊与十九世纪科学社团的形成
Geoffrey Belknap
Geoffrey Belknap
This paper examines how communities of naturalists in mid-nineteenth-century Britain were formed and solidified around the shared practices of public meetings, the publication and reading of periodicals, and the making and printing of image...
Reading and writing the scientific voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross [0.03%]
阅读与书写科学之旅：菲茨罗伊、达尔文和约翰·克鲁尼丝·罗斯
Katharine Anderson
Katharine Anderson
An unpublished satirical work, written c.1848-1854, provides fresh insight into the most famous scientific voyage of the nineteenth century. John Clunies Ross, settler of Cocos-Keeling - which HMS Beagle visited in April 1836 - felt that Ro...
Sex in the laboratory: the Family Planning Association and contraceptive science in Britain, 1929-1959 [0.03%]
实验室内的性研究：英国人口生育协会与避孕科学研究（1929—1959）
Natasha Szuhan
Natasha Szuhan
Scientific and medical contraceptive standards are commonly believed to have begun with the advent of the oral contraceptive pill in the late 1950s. This article explains that in Britain contraceptive standards were imagined and implemented...
A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and gardening in the early twentieth century [0.03%]
走进生物乌托邦：二十世纪初期的流派、基因与园艺学
Jim Endersby
Jim Endersby
The early decades of the twentieth century were marked by widespread optimism about biology and its ability to improve the world. A major catalyst for this enthusiasm was new theories about inheritance and evolution (particularly Hugo de Vr...
Relocating anti-racist science: the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race and economic development in the global South [0.03%]
移风易俗：联合国教科文组织1950年《关于种族的声明》与全球南方国家的发展经济
Sebastián Gil-Riaño
Sebastián Gil-Riaño
This essay revisits the drafting of the first UNESCO Statement on Race (1950) in order to reorient historical understandings of mid-twentieth-century anti-racism and science. Historians of science have primarily interpreted the UNESCO state...
A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766-1799 [0.03%]
平常乏味的事物：1766年至1799年的兽医学教育
Kit Heintzman
Kit Heintzman
In the late eighteenth century, the Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort was renowned for its innovative veterinary education and for having one of the largest natural history and anatomy collections in France. Yet aside from a recent interest in t...
Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world's first public museum, 1753-1768 [0.03%]
标本、卡片和系统：丹尼尔·索兰德与世界上第一座公共博物馆的自然分类学（1753—1768）
Edwin D Rose
Edwin D Rose
The British Museum, based in Montague House, Bloomsbury, opened its doors on 15 January 1759, as the world's first state-owned public museum. The Museum's collection mostly originated from Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose vast holdings we...
Blood money: Harvey's De motu cordis (1628) as an exercise in accounting [0.03%]
《血债血偿——哈维1628年的会计作业》
Michael J Neuss
Michael J Neuss
William Harvey's famous quantitative argument from De motu cordis (1628) about the circulation of blood explained how a small amount of blood could recirculate and nourish the entire body, upending the Galenic conception of the blood's moti...
Fenneke Sysling
Fenneke Sysling
This paper looks at phrenological charts as mediators of (pseudo-)scientific knowledge to individual clients who used them as a means of self-assessment. Phrenologists propagated the idea that the human mind could be categorized into differ...
Utopian biologies [0.03%]
乌托邦生物学
Jim Endersby
Jim Endersby
In 1924, the British biologist J.B.S. Haldane acknowledged that anyone who tried to predict where science was taking us was obliged to mention H.G. Wells, since '[t]he very mention of the future suggests him'. Nevertheless, Haldane complain...