Telegraphic code for fingerprints: How justice was denied to the innovator who helped ameliorate the criminal justice system [0.03%]
电报指纹编码：正义之迟到：刑事司法改革先驱者的未竟事业
Jasjeet Kaur,Gurvinder S Sodhi
Jasjeet Kaur
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, an Indian officer of the Bengal Police, sub-inspector Hem Chandra Bose (1867-1949) invented the telegraphic code system for fingerprints and published it in 1916. Sir Charles Stockley Collins of...
Escaping Nazi Germany: Jewish refugee dentists and their post-emigration careers in the United States of America [0.03%]
逃往美国的犹太难民牙医及其移民后的职业生涯
Lena Norrman,Dominik Gross
Lena Norrman
This study is the first to examine the collective of dental lecturers and scientists who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States of America. We pay special attention to the socio-demographic characteristics, emigration journeys, an...
Spatio-temporal patterns in the history of colonial botanical exploration in India [0.03%]
印度殖民植物探索历史中的时空模式
Rajasri Ray,Madhupreeta Muralidhar
Rajasri Ray
A study of Indian botany during the colonial period provides us with an interdisciplinary sphere covering science, politics, sociology, economics, and other associated domains. The presentation of this rich legacy to general readers often r...
Francisco Sánchez and the Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum: A sceptical approach [0.03%]
弗朗西斯科·桑切斯和数学确定性问题的质疑论视角
Helbert E Velilla-Jiménez
Helbert E Velilla-Jiménez
In this paper I analyse Francisco Sánchez's role in the Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum debate. Despite some studies on the philosophical and medical scepticism of Sánchez and, his extant letter with Christopher Clavius, a particip...
Rhythmic history: Towards a new research agenda for the history of health and medicine [0.03%]
节奏的历史：健康与医学史研究的新方向
Kristin D Hussey
Kristin D Hussey
Rhythm characterizes life on Earth. Daily physiological rhythms of eating and fasting, sleeping and waking, moving and resting, are common to almost all life forms which evolved under the solar light-dark cycle. Despite their ubiquity, hist...
Fake cells and the aura of life: A philosophical diagnostic of synthetic life [0.03%]
虚假细胞与生命光环：合成生命的哲学诊断学
Daphne Broeks,Yogi Hendlin,Hub Zwart
Daphne Broeks
Synthetic biology is often seen as the engineering turn in biology. Philosophically speaking, entities created by synthetic biology, from synthetic cells to xenobots, challenge the ontological divide between the organic and inorganic, as we...
Nurit Kirsh
Nurit Kirsh
During the last two decades, the history of science in Israel has attracted much scholarly attention. Historians of science, science and technology studies (STS) scholars, and Middle East/Israel studies experts have focused on specific scie...
Scott W Schwartz
Scott W Schwartz
Energy (in all its conceptualizations and connotations) is a glitch, a bug, an error. Energy is presented here as a roadblock in efforts to articulate and formulate a coherent physical model of the universe, as well as an impediment to achi...
Edward Guimont,Megan Baumhammer
Edward Guimont
In summer 2021, the Virtual History of Science, Technology, and Medicine group hosted two online panels on pseudoscience topics including Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, geohistory, alternate evolution, and forgeries. The panels discussed the rol...