The most brutal of human skulls: measuring and knowing the first Neanderthal [0.03%]
最野蛮的人类头骨——测量并解读第一个尼安德特人遗址
Paige Madison
Paige Madison
A fossilized skeleton discovered in 1856 presented naturalists with a unique challenge. The strange, human-looking bones of the first recognized Neanderthal confronted naturalists with a new type of object for which they had no readily avai...
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Despite much excellent work over the years, the vast history of scientific filmmaking is still largely unknown. Historians of science have long been concerned with visual culture, communication and the public sphere on the one hand, and wit...
Gregory Radick
Gregory Radick
When it comes to knowledge about the scientific pasts that might have been - the so-called 'counterfactual' history of science - historians can either debate its possibility or get on with the job. Taking the latter course means re-engaging...
Travancore's magnetic crusade: geomagnetism and the geography of scientific production in a princely state [0.03%]
Travancore的磁性战役——一个土邦的地理学与科学生产中的地磁学
Jessica Ratcliff
Jessica Ratcliff
In 1840 the raja of Travancore, Swathi Thirunal, would offer his government's assistance to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and its plan for a global system of magnetic observations. Over the next thirty years, the tw...
A capital Scot: microscopes and museums in Robert E. Grant's zoology (1815-1840) [0.03%]
《罗伯特·格兰特的显微镜和博物馆里的 zoology（1815-1840）》
Tom Quick
Tom Quick
Early nineteenth-century zoology in Britain has been characterized as determined by the ideological concerns of its proponents. Taking the zoologist Robert E. Grant as an exemplary figure in this regard, this article offers a differently nu...
Jim Endersby
Jim Endersby
Between 1916 and 1927, botanists in several countries independently resolved three problems that had mystified earlier naturalists - including Charles Darwin: how did the many species of orchid that did not produce nectar persuade insects t...
Parasites, politics and public science: the promotion of biological control in Western Australia, 1900-1910 [0.03%]
寄生虫、政治与公共科学：20世纪初西澳大利亚生物防治的推广(1900—1910)
Edward Deveson
Edward Deveson
Biological control of arthropods emerged as a scientific enterprise in the late nineteenth century and the orchard industry of California was an early centre of expertise. In 1900, as the Australian colonies prepared for federation, each ha...
J.G. Crowther's War: Institutional strife at the BBC and British Council [0.03%]
Crowther的斗争：BBC和英国文化协会内部纷争
Allan Jones
Allan Jones
Science writer, historian and administrator J.G. Crowther (1899-1983) had an uneasy relationship with the BBC during the 1920s and 1930s, and was regarded with suspicion by the British security services because of his left politics. Neverth...
Heredity, evolution and development in their (epistemic) environment at the turn of the nineteenth century [0.03%]
19世纪末（认识论）环境下的遗传、进化与发育学说
Federica Turriziani Colonna
Federica Turriziani Colonna
During the early 1870s a young zoologist who worked as a Privatdozent delivering lectures at different Prussian universities invested much of his family wealth and solicited his fellows' contributions to establish a research facility by the...
Jenny Bulstrode
Jenny Bulstrode
For geologists and antiquaries of the late 1850s debates over ancient stone tools were frustrated by a lack of accepted criteria. The artefacts were hard to interpret. It was not self-evident how to judge whether they were ancient or modern...