Galileo's legacy: a critical edition and translation of the manuscript of Vincenzo Viviani's Grati Animi Monumenta [0.03%]
伽利略的遗产:文森佐·维维安尼的手稿《Grati Animi Monumenta》批判版及英译版
Stefano Gattei
Stefano Gattei
Having been found 'vehemently suspected of heresy' by the Holy Office in 1633, at the time of his death (1642) Galileo's remains were laid to rest in the tiny vestry of a lateral chapel of the Santa Croce Basilica, Florence. Throughout his ...
'A very diadem of light': exhibitions in Victorian London, the Parliamentary light and the shaping of the Trinity House lighthouses [0.03%]
“极为璀璨的光环”:维多利亚时代伦敦的展览、议会灯光法案及英国港航会灯塔的设计建造
Stephen Courtney
Stephen Courtney
In the midsummer of 1872 a lighthouse apparatus was installed in the Clock Tower of the House of Commons. The installation served the practical function of communicating at a distance when the House was sitting, but also provided a highly v...
'Transporting thought': cultures of balloon flight in Britain, 1784-1785 [0.03%]
“思想传输”——英国热气球飞行文化的起始(1784-1785)
Caitlín Róisín Doherty
Caitlín Róisín Doherty
The balloon has long drifted through popular discourse as a symbol of an Enlightenment attitude towards discovery and a Romanticized image of rationality. This article uses two accounts of early British balloon voyages, both published in 17...
Discipline building in Germany: women and genetics at the Berlin Institute for Heredity Research [0.03%]
德国的学科建设:柏林遗传研究所的女性与基因学研究
Ida H Stamhuis,Annette B Vogt
Ida H Stamhuis
The origin and the development of scientific disciplines has been a topic of reflection for several decades. The few extensive case studies support the thesis that scientific disciplines are not monolithic structures but can be characterize...
Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion [0.03%]
儿童知识:物质性、文本与科学史——跨学科圆桌讨论
Felix Rietmann,Mareike Schildmann,Caroline Arni et al.
Felix Rietmann et al.
This round table discussion takes the diversity of discourse and practice shaping modern knowledge about childhood as an opportunity to engage with recent historiographical approaches in the history of science. It draws attention to symmetr...
Needham at the crossroads: history, politics and international science in wartime China (1942-1946) [0.03%]
岔路口的尼达姆:战争时期的中国历史、政治与国际科学(1942—1946)
Thomas Mougey
Thomas Mougey
In 1946, the British biochemist Joseph Needham returned from a four-year stay in China. Needham scholars have considered this visit as a revelatory period that paved the way for his famous book series Science and Civilization in China (SCC)...
How lives became lists and scientific papers became data: cataloguing authorship during the nineteenth century [0.03%]
从生活到清单、从科学论文到数据:19世纪的作者目录编制工作
Alex Csiszar
Alex Csiszar
The Catalogue of Scientific Papers, published by the Royal Society of London beginning in 1867, projected back to the beginning of the nineteenth century a novel vision of the history of science in which knowledge was built up out of discre...
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s-1880s) [0.03%]
柏伯尔人系谱与法国阿尔及利亚(19世纪六七十年代至八九十年代)史前考古学和颅相学的政治立场
Bonnie Effros
Bonnie Effros
Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa. Although they attracted considerably less attention among their cohor...
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Despite its prominent position in today's medical research, popular culture and everyday life, cancer's history is relatively unwritten. Compared to the other great 'plagues' - cholera, tuberculosis or tropical fevers, to name but a scant h...