William Thomas
William Thomas
The concept of 'science' occupies a distinctive place within our rhetorical inheritance. Tangential to science's actual practices and institutions, this rhetoric holds that science comprises an arsenal of techniques, or a pervasive mentalit...
Cold War aviation: American technology transfer and the construction of Turkey's first international civilian airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, 1944-1953 [0.03%]
冷战时期的航空：美国技术转让与土耳其伊斯坦布尔耶德勒科伊第一个国际民用机场的建设，1944-1953年
Tanfer Emin Tunc,Gokhan Tunc
Tanfer Emin Tunc
With the economic and political support of the United States, in July 1947, Turkey signed contracts with the Westinghouse Electric International Company and J.G. White Engineering Corporation to construct its first international civilian ai...
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal [0.03%]
当苏格兰医学收治印度魔法：詹姆斯·埃斯戴尔医师的 mesmerism外科手术在十九世纪中叶的孟加拉地区
Kapil Raj
Kapil Raj
In order to explore the ways knowledge travels across spatial and cultural boundaries, this article focuses on the intriguing case of the Edinburgh-trained Scottish surgeon James Esdaile (1808-59), who, after practising conventional surgery...
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives [0.03%]
影响力的作用：期刊编辑在塑造早期气候变化叙述中的作用
Robert Naylor,Eleanor Shaw
Robert Naylor
The role of editorial staff in shaping early climate change narratives has been underexplored and deserves more attention. During the 1970s, the epistemological underpinnings of the production of knowledge on climate change were contested b...
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century [0.03%]
奥斯曼帝国十九世纪的医学与阿拉伯文学创作
Nicole Khayat,Liat Kozma
Nicole Khayat
The selection of nineteenth-century Arabic texts on medical education, medicine and health demonstrates the significant link between the revival of the Arabic language and literary culture of the nineteenth century, known as the nahda, and ...
Floris Winckel
Floris Winckel
The Glaisher snowflakes (1855) are amongst the most recognizable images of snow crystals produced in the nineteenth century. Made with the intent of compiling a comprehensive record of snow crystal forms, they also appeared in a variety of ...
Dmitry V Arzyutov,David G Anderson
Dmitry V Arzyutov
This article examines the role of primary ethnographic materials - of field notes, letters and photographs - and even of the shelves and bookcases - in building accounts of the human condition. We trace the lives of incomplete and not-yet-f...
Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state [0.03%]
论文评述：技术政治、发展及南非国家遗留问题
Anne Heffernan
Anne Heffernan
It has been thirty years since the end of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Those decades have been marked by single-party dominance under the African National Congress (ANC), and the expansion of democratic rights and public goo...
Steven French
Steven French
Given how thoroughly the history of quantum physics has been excavated, it might be wondered what these two hefty volumes by a physicist (Duncan) and a historian (Janssen) bring to the table. Aside from their inclusion of a wide range of re...
Antonio Stoppani's 'Anthropozoic' in the context of the Anthropocene [0.03%]
安东尼奥·斯托帕尼的《人类世》与当下的“人类世”概念
Eugenio Luciano,Elena Zanoni
Eugenio Luciano
The figure of Antonio Stoppani (1824-91), an Italian priest, geologist and patriot, has re-emerged in the last decade thanks to discussions gravitating around the 'Anthropocene' - a term used to designate a proposed geological time unit def...