Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany [0.03%]
以图识人：德国殖民地的人类学知识生产与视觉图像的运用
Marissa H Petrou
Marissa H Petrou
In this paper, I discuss the development and use of images employed by the Dresden Royal Museum for Zoology, Anthropology and Ethnography to resolve debates about how to use visual representation as a means of making ethnographic knowledge....
Petra Svatek
Petra Svatek
In Vienna, the close of the First World War and the period of the peace negotiations in Paris saw an enormous boom of ethnic-geographic research approaches and ethnic map-making. This process continued with the appointment of the Viennese g...
The history of transdisciplinary race classification: methods, politics and institutions, 1840s-1940s [0.03%]
跨越学科的种族分类的历史(1840年代-1940年代)：方法、政治和机构
Richard McMahon
Richard McMahon
A recently blossoming historiographical literature recognizes that physical anthropologists allied with scholars of diverse aspects of society and history to racially classify European peoples over a period of about a hundred years. They cr...
The past as a work in progress [0.03%]
史学无定论
Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara
Originating as a presidential address during the seventieth birthday celebrations of the British Society for the History of Science, this essay reiterates the society's long-standing commitment to academic autonomy and international coopera...
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain [0.03%]
英国的菲莉丝·M·图基·凯里奇与听力计标准化科学
Jaipreet Virdi,Coreen McGuire
Jaipreet Virdi
The provision of standardized hearing aids is now considered to be a crucial part of the UK National Health Service. Yet this is only explicable through reference to the career of a woman who has, until now, been entirely forgotten. Dr Phyl...
Cuts and the cutting edge: British science funding and the making of animal biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh [0.03%]
削减与前沿：20世纪80年代爱丁堡的英国科学资金与动物生物技术的发展
Dmitriy Myelnikov
Dmitriy Myelnikov
The Animal Breeding Research Organisation in Edinburgh (ABRO, founded in 1945) was a direct ancestor of the Roslin Institute, celebrated for the cloning of Dolly the sheep. After a period of sustained growth as an institute of the Agricultu...
Alexander Wragge-Morley
Alexander Wragge-Morley
In this essay, I examine Robert Boyle's strategies for making imperceptible entities accessible to the senses. It is well known that, in his natural philosophy, Boyle confronted the challenge of making imperceptible particles of matter into...
John Dalton and the origin of the atomic theory: reassessing the influence of Bryan Higgins [0.03%]
约翰·道尔顿与原子学说的起源——对布瑞安·希金斯影响的再评估
Mark I Grossman
Mark I Grossman
During the years 1814-1819, William Higgins, an Irish chemist who worked at the Dublin Society, claimed he had anticipated John Dalton in developing the atomic theory and insinuated that Dalton was a plagiarist. This essay focuses not on Wi...
Steffen Ducheyne,Pieter Present
Steffen Ducheyne
In this article, we discuss the development of the concept of a 'law' (of nature) in the work of the Dutch natural philosopher and experimenter Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761). Since Van Musschenbroek is commonly described as one of th...
The politics of cognition: liberalism and the evolutionary origins of Victorian education [0.03%]
维多利亚时代的教育：认知、政治与自由主义的起源
Matthew Daniel Eddy
Matthew Daniel Eddy
In recent years the historical relationship between scientific experts and the state has received increasing scrutiny. Such experts played important roles in the creation and regulation of environmental organizations and functioned as agent...