A tradition from the ancestors [0.03%]
祖先的传统
James A Secord
James A Secord
The study of the history of science is widely understood to be undergoing a profound and much-needed transformation, from a subject focused on Europe to one encompassing the entire world. Yet the aims of the field have always been global. D...
Experimental bioclimatology and prospects of agricultural modernization at the CNRS phytotron, France, 1953-1988 [0.03%]
法国国家科研中心植物工厂的实验生物气候学与农业现代化展望,1953-1988年
Lucie Gerber
Lucie Gerber
Built in Gif-sur-Yvette in the 1950s, the phytotron of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique provided plant physiologists with a set of enclosed growth rooms in which several climatic constituents of the environment could be simu...
Salim Al-Gailani
Salim Al-Gailani
Paul Lucier
Paul Lucier
Picturing evolution [0.03%]
描绘进化过程
Jim Endersby
Jim Endersby
Johann Christoph Sturm's eclectic scientific method and his indebtedness to Francis Bacon [0.03%]
约翰·克里斯托夫·斯图尔姆的博采众长的科学方法及对弗朗西斯·培根的继承关系
Christian Henkel
Christian Henkel
In this paper, I argue that Johann Christoph Sturm's eclectic scientific method reveals an unexpected indebtedness to Francis Bacon's thought. Sturm's reception of Bacon is particularly surprising given that the German academic context in t...
Humus gnosis: soil fertility, research and funding in the life of Sir Albert Howard [0.03%]
腐殖质知识:霍华德爵士生命中的土壤肥力,研究和资金问题
Tad Brown
Tad Brown
Sir Albert Howard helped popularize the idea of translating 'Eastern' practice into 'Western' science in the field of agriculture. His approach to composting has been foundational to organic farming and counterposed with the field of agricu...
Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge [0.03%]
占星术是普遍的吗?早期的现代全球化和传统知识的瓦解
Luís Campos Ribeiro
Luís Campos Ribeiro
The maritime expansion of the early modern period and the discovery of new continents necessitated a profound revision in traditional cosmology, bringing into question the millennia-old practices that were framed around that cosmology. Amon...
Darwin's scientific gardener: John Scott, the 'physiological test' and the importance of character in Victorian science [0.03%]
达尔文的科学园丁:约翰·斯科特,“生理测试”以及维多利亚时代科学中性格的重要性
Ian Hesketh
Ian Hesketh
This essay examines the working relationship between Charles Darwin and the Edinburgh gardener John Scott that developed in the wake of the publishing of the Origin of Species (1859). As the essay shows, Darwin sought to utilize Scott's hor...
Meteorology, weather and war in South East Asia: Malaya c. 1940-1960 [0.03%]
东南亚的气象、天气和战争:1940-1960年左右的马来亚
Fiona Williamson
Fiona Williamson
This article interrogates the positioning of British colonial meteorology in Malaysia and Singapore from the 1940s to 1960. This period spanned a global conflict and an internecine war, effecting profound sociopolitical changes from which n...