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For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science. 《人类理性的历史：对洛林·达斯顿的采访》，2024年巴尔赞现当代科学史奖。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425101039

Luca Sciortino

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Diagnosing the dead: post-mortem examinations and medical ship culture in the Royal Navy. 诊断死者：英国皇家海军的验尸和医疗船文化。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425101040

Manon C Williams

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Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives - ERRATUM. 影响的气氛：期刊编辑在塑造早期气候变化叙述中的作用-勘误。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000408

Robert Naylor, Eleanor Shaw

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The British and Brazilian expeditions and the 1919 total solar eclipse: regimes of labour and degrees of invisibility. 英国和巴西的探险和1919年的日全食：劳动制度和隐形程度。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000305

Ana Simões, Hugo Soares, Luís Miguel Carolino

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To write or not to write: the literary strategies of British civil engineers in the late eighteenth century. 写还是不写：18世纪后期英国土木工程师的文学策略。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000445

Ellen Packham

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Showcasing Germany in space: the lives and afterlives of Cold War rocket stars Sigmund Jähn and Ulf Merbold. 在太空中展示德国：冷战火箭明星西格蒙德Jähn和乌尔夫·默博尔德的生前和死后。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000329

Tilmann Siebeneichner

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The trope of the microscope in nineteenth-century India. 19世纪印度的显微镜比喻。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000366

David Arnold

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Crossing boundaries, forging unity: nuclear medicine and science diplomacy in Cold War Europe. 跨越国界，锻造团结：冷战时期欧洲的核医学与科学外交。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000317

Johannes Mattes, Cécile Philippe

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The prophet business: Arthur C. Clarke, Sri Lanka and the making of a global space persona. 先知事业：亚瑟·c·克拉克、斯里兰卡和全球太空人物的塑造。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000299

David Skogerboe, David Baneke

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A family moss craze: learning, reading and skill development in a botanical and domestic network in early nineteenth-century England and Wales. 家庭苔藓热潮：19世纪早期英格兰和威尔士植物学和家庭网络中的学习、阅读和技能发展。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000378

Brad Scott

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