Finding revelation in anthropology: Alexander Winchell, William Robertson Smith and the heretical imperative [0.03%]
在人类学中寻找启示：亚历山大·温切尔、威廉·罗伯逊·史密斯与异端教义命令
David N Livingstone
David N Livingstone
Anthropological inquiry has often been considered an agent of intellectual secularization. Not least is this so in the sphere of religion, where anthropological accounts have often been taken to represent the triumph of naturalism. This met...
Making Kew Observatory: the Royal Society, the British Association and the politics of early Victorian science [0.03%]
建立邱园天文台：英国皇家学会、英国科学协会与维多利亚早期的科学政治
Lee T Macdonald
Lee T Macdonald
Built in 1769 as a private observatory for King George III, Kew Observatory was taken over in 1842 by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). It was then quickly transformed into what some claimed to be a 'physical ob...
Natalie Lawrence
Natalie Lawrence
This paper explores the assimilation of the flightless dodo into early modern natural history. The dodo was first described by Dutch sailors landing on Mauritius in 1598, and became extinct in the 1680s or 1690s. Despite this brief period o...
Weathering the empire: meteorological research in the early British Straits Settlements [0.03%]
风雨帝国：早期英国海峡殖民地的气象学研究
Fiona Williamson
Fiona Williamson
This article explores meteorological interest and experimentation in the early history of the Straits Settlements. It centres on the establishment of an observatory in 1840s Singapore and examines the channels that linked the observatory to...
Phrenology, heredity and progress in George Combe's Constitution of Man [0.03%]
乔治·康比的《人的构造》中的颅相学、遗传性和发展进程
Bill Jenkins
Bill Jenkins
The Constitution of Man by George Combe (1828) was probably the most influential phrenological work of the nineteenth century. It not only offered an exposition of the phrenological theory of the mind, but also presented Combe's vision of u...
By the late nineteenth century the submarine telegraph cable industry, which had blossomed in the 1850s, had reached what historians regard as technological maturity. For a host of commercial, cultural and technical reasons, the industry se...
Towards a Trans-national Industrial Hazard History: Charting the Circulation of Workplace Dangers, Debates and Expertise [0.03%]
跨国工业危险史：勾勒工作场所危险、争论和专业知识的传播路径
Christopher Sellers,Joseph Melling
Christopher Sellers
The shock of the odd [0.03%]
奇之震撼
Boris Jardine
Boris Jardine
The Arabic original of (ps.) Māshā'allāh's Liber de orbe: its date and authorship [0.03%]
(Mps.)Māshā'allāh的Liber de或be的阿拉伯原文：其日期和作者身份
Taro Mimura
Taro Mimura
Liber de orbe, attributed to Māshā'allāh (d. c.815), a court astrologer of the Abbasid dynasty, was one of the earliest Latin sources of Aristotelian physics. Until recently, its Arabic original could not be identified among Arabic works...
Sinanthropus in Britain: human origins and international science, 1920-1939 [0.03%]
英国的北京人：1920-1939年的智人与国际科学界
Chris Manias
Chris Manias
The Peking Man fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian in north-east China in the 1920s and 1930s were some of the most extensive palaeoanthropological finds of the twentieth century. This article examines their publicization and discussion in Br...