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...
Universal enough: the politics of nomenclature in seventeenth-century selenography [0.03%]
足够普遍的：十七世纪月面学中的命名政治问题
Nydia Pineda de Ávila
Nydia Pineda de Ávila
Selenography was both a practice and a tool which developed through optical instrumentation in the seventeenth century. As a practice, it was the process of creating composite graphical depictions of the Moon through skill and sustained tel...
Introduction: arguing about the stars on the southern side of the confessional divide [0.03%]
引言：在忏悔派南方的星空下争论
Rodolfo Garau,Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Rodolfo Garau
Arguing about the stars has rarely been more controversial and dangerous than in the early modern period in Europe, especially in Catholic countries, in a time when old and novel conceptions of the heavens, planetary models and theories of ...
Science 'subservient to profit'? William Jackson Hooker and the first Glasgow Botanic Gardens (1817-1841) [0.03%]
科学"屈从于利润"?威廉·杰克逊·胡克与第一个格拉斯哥植物园(1817-1841年)
Mélanie Cournil
Mélanie Cournil
This article examines the scientific legacy of the first Glasgow Botanic Gardens and the part they played in the global circulation of botanical knowledge, from their creation in 1817 to their relocation to the West End of Glasgow in 1841. ...
Innovation amidst post-socialist reform: Jonas Salk and the birth of the Sabin strains-derived inactivated polio vaccine in China [0.03%]
转型期的创新—— Jonas Salk 与中国脊灰索尔克灭活疫苗的研发
Tianyu Li,Chadwick Wang
Tianyu Li
As an industrial science, vaccinology is susceptible to changing social, economic and political frameworks. This article reconstructs the history of the birth of the Sabin strains-derived inactivated polio vaccine (sIPV) in China. The devel...
Paulo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4. £37.95 (hardcover). - ERRATUM [0.03%]
保罗·加卢奇：《意大利文艺复兴时期的机器》(马萨诸塞州剑桥:哈佛大学出版社,2020年)。296页。ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4。£37.95 (硬皮封面)
Renée Raphael
Renée Raphael
Published Erratum
British journal for the history of science. 2025 Jan 21:1. DOI:10.1017/S0007087424001390 2025
Regiomontanus's Paduan lecture of 1464, the Byzantine intellectual heritage and the Graeco-Arabic roots of astronomical studies in early modern Italy [0.03%]
1464年雷焦蒙塔努斯在帕杜阿的讲演，拜占庭文化遗产与早期现代意大利天文学研究的希腊—阿拉伯渊源
Alberto Bardi
Alberto Bardi
The inaugural lecture, or oration, delivered by Regiomontanus at the University of Padua in 1464 is deemed a document of remarkable significance in the history of science. Although it has attracted much scholarly attention, few efforts have...
Jacob Steere-Williams
Jacob Steere-Williams
In 1820 two French scientists - Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Jean Bienaimé Caventou - discovered and named the active alkaloid substance extracted from cinchona bark: quinine. The bark from the 'wondrous' fever tree, and its antimalarial pr...