'Like nets or cobwebs': Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction [0.03%]
“如同网或蜘蛛网”——肯厄尔姆·迪格比、艾萨克·牛顿与稀化问题
John Henry
John Henry
This article aims to bring out the problematic nature of condensation and rarefaction for early modern natural philosophers by considering two historically significant attempts to deal with it, first by Sir Kenelm Digby in his Treatise on B...
Computing as sugar? The sweet and the bitter of social histories of computing [0.03%]
甜蜜与苦涩：社会视野下的计算历史
Jonnie Penn
Jonnie Penn
Gordon Barrett,Claire Edington,Aya Homei et al.
Gordon Barrett et al.
Horizontal Chemistry [0.03%]
横向化学
Michelle DiMeo,Andrew Gregory,Frank A J L James et al.
Michelle DiMeo et al.
In 1976 Raymond Williams commented, 'Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.' Such implied difficulty has not prevented Bloomsbury Academic, since the 2000s, from publishing around forty series of ...
Gordon Barrett,Aya Homei
Gordon Barrett
This special issue brings together a diverse set of cases from Asia with the aim of decentring established historical narratives about science diplomacy. With a critical perspective bringing together the bodies of literature in the fields o...
'Down pythons' throats we thrust live goats': snakes, zoos and animal welfare in nineteenth-century Britain [0.03%]
“把活山羊塞入蟒蛇的嘴里”：19世纪英国的动物园、蛇和动物保护
Helen Cowie
Helen Cowie
In nineteenth-century Britain, captive snakes in menageries and zoological gardens were routinely fed with live prey - primarily rabbits, pigeons and guinea pigs. From the late 1860s, this practice began to generate opposition on animal wel...
'Who can tell me what potable water means?' The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy [0.03%]
“谁能告诉我什么是饮用水？”意大利19世纪辩论中关于水利基础设施的水质评估
Salvatore Valenti
Salvatore Valenti
How water is perceived and represented has an impact on the relationships between a given society and its water infrastructure. Historians have identified a shift in the perception of water during the nineteenth century, which was connected...
Gordon Barrett,Claire Edington,Aya Homei et al.
Gordon Barrett et al.
Gordon Barrett (GB): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor).
Technology diplomacy in early Communist China: the visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 1952 [0.03%]
中共早期的技术外交：1952年的京江分洪工程参观之行
Yue Liang
Yue Liang
This article focuses on the 1952 visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project, the first large-scale water infrastructure built on the Yangzi river after the founding of the People's Republic of China, by a foreign delegation from the Asi...
The 'Courant Hilton': building the mathematical sciences at New York University [0.03%]
《库朗希尔顿酒店》：在纽约大学建立数学科学
Brit Shields
Brit Shields
This essay explores how mid-twentieth-century mathematicians at New York University envisioned their discipline, cultural identities and social roles, and how these self-constructed identities materialized in the planning of their new acade...