Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics [0.03%]
小宠物的仪器：下游调查，领土自然史和统计学的诞生
Svit Komel
Svit Komel
William Petty's work has usually been regarded as an epistemic break in the history of statistical and politico-economic thought. In this paper, I argue that Petty's statistical notions stemmed from the natural-historical techniques he orig...
'The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like': measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management [0.03%]
“mensuration（注：测量学的一个术语，在此没有直接对应的中文专业词汇，故保留原词）这个词听上去就像出自工程师之口”：十九世纪河流管理中计量与工程权威性的体现
Rachel Dishington
Rachel Dishington
Measurement was vital to nineteenth-century engineering. Focusing on the work of the Stevenson engineering firm in Scotland, this paper explores the processes by which engineers made their measurements credible and explains how measurement,...
The end of an era [0.03%]
一个时代的终结
Peter J Bowler
Peter J Bowler
These volumes conclude a series initiated in 1974, marking almost fifty years of effort by a huge cohort of scholars. This review is thus a valedictory for the whole series as well as an account of what we have learned from the most recent ...
Scientizing the 'environment': Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences [0.03%]
“环境”的科学化：Solly Zuckerman与环境科学学院理念的形成
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda
In 1960 Sir Solly Zuckerman proposed the idea of an interdisciplinary department of 'environmental sciences' (ENV) for the newly established University of East Anglia (UEA). Prior to this point, the concept of 'environmental sciences' was l...
A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of Vestiges in Russia [0.03%]
达尔文之前的伏尔格斯：俄国的翻译与接受
Alexander V Khramov
Alexander V Khramov
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers, a Scottish publisher and popular writer, was one of the most influential evolutionary works in the pre-Darwinian age. This article examines the circumstances in which this trea...
'The goddess that we serve': projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893-1914 [0.03%]
"我们所服务的女神"——国际化学会议中建构的国际科学界（1893—1914）
Geert Somsen
Geert Somsen
The emergence of conferences in the late nineteenth century significantly changed the ways in which the international scientific community functioned and experienced itself. In the early modern Republic of Letters, savants mainly related th...
Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference [0.03%]
性、科学与策划的社群：世界性改革联盟1929年大会探究
Laura C Forster
Laura C Forster
This article interrogates the scientific conference as a means by which the organizers of the World League for Sexual Reform's 1929 conference attempted to marshal the 'scientific spirit' in order to present progressive sexual reform as a r...
Charlotte Bigg,Jessica Reinisch,Geert Somsen et al.
Charlotte Bigg et al.
Hundreds of thousands of conferences have taken place since their first appearance in the late eighteenth century, yet the history of science has often treated them as stages for scientific practice, not as the play itself. Drawing on recen...
Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden [0.03%]
小领域发展：国际科学基金会及其通往瑞典的道路
Jenny Beckman
Jenny Beckman
This paper examines the crowded landscape of conferences and organizations within which the International Foundation for Science (IFS) was shaped in the early 1970s. The IFS aimed to support scientists from developing countries, circumventi...
The Pugwash scientists' conferences, Cyrus Eaton and the clash of internationalisms, 1954-1961 [0.03%]
潘瓦科学家会议、 Cyrus Eaton 与国际主义的碰撞（1954—1961）
Waqar H Zaidi
Waqar H Zaidi
This paper examines the contest between Canadian American industrialist Cyrus Eaton and the Pugwash scientists' leadership for influence over the early Pugwash scientists' conferences. Eaton's activism has generally been dismissed in the hi...