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Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930 鸡头和庞尼特方块:雷金纳德·庞尼特和可视化在剑桥早期遗传学研究中的作用，1900-1930

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.014

M. Green

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Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments 振镜和科学仪器的许多生命

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.008

C. Connelly, Hasok Chang

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Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum 在惠普尔博物馆发现仿古科学仪器

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.010

B. Jardine

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What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville 《领事，受过教育的猴子》教给我们的关于20世纪早期的数学、学习和杂耍的知识

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.012

C. Wylie

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Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe 神圣的天文学吗?惠普尔星盘上的星空之外

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.002

S. Falk

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Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’sMusci Britannici 观察标本:爱德华·霍布森的《大英博物馆》

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-01 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.006

A. Secord

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