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World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869-1900) - CORRIGENDUM. 万维网：帕多瓦蚕桑养殖站和国际昆虫学技术流通(1869-1900)-勘误表。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-16 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102179

Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

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Bodies of knowledge: experience, commodification and labour in the imperial wildlife trade. 知识体系：帝国野生动物贸易中的经验、商品化和劳动力。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-02 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102180

Charlotte Marlene Hoes

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Caring for your creatures: Ram Brahma Sanyal and the Calcutta Zoo. 照顾你的动物：Ram Brahma Sanyal和加尔各答动物园。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1017/S000708742610212X

Oliver Hochadel

{"title":"Caring for your creatures: Ram Brahma Sanyal and the Calcutta Zoo.","authors":"Oliver Hochadel","doi":"10.1017/S000708742610212X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708742610212X","url":null,"abstract":"In 1892, Ram Brahma Sanyal (1850-1908), superintendent of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens (CZG), published A Handbook on the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal, securing him international renown. This article will ask how a 'native of India', subjected to the racial hierarchies of the British Empire, became a crucial reference in the global debate on zoo animal husbandry. How did a seemingly peripheral zoo such as the CZG become the site of extensive knowledge production on the nutrition, husbandry and veterinary care of captive animals? Sanyal's subordinated position at the zoo, which forced him to gather his observations daily as an animal keeper, enabled him to systematize his practical knowledge in the Handbook and to become a respected naturalist in British Bengal. His expertise was further enhanced by the CZG's role as a hub of the international animal trade where Sanyal oversaw shipments in all directions. The case of Sanyal and his Handbook points to the need to decentre zoo historiography away from understanding Western zoos as the sole pacemakers in the evolution of zoos. Rather, zoo management and what would later be called 'zoo biology' were knowledges created in the emerging global network of zoos around 1900.","PeriodicalId":46655,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149070503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The epistemology and politics of climate science. 气候科学的认识论与政治。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1017/S000708742610209X

Matthias Heymann, Dania Achermann

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'Work done by John Edmondston': labour, slavery and the making of natural history at the University of Edinburgh Museum, 1804-1824. “约翰·埃德蒙斯顿的作品”：1804-1824年爱丁堡大学博物馆的劳工、奴隶制和自然史的形成。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102088

Merle Patchett

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Travelling with isotopes: radiocarbon dating and the interdisciplinarization of climate science. 带着同位素旅行：放射性碳测年和气候科学的跨学科。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102076

Dania Achermann

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Embodied science and the politics of ice: masculinity and ideology in the 1928 German-Soviet Alai-Pamir expedition and the mapping of the Fedchenko glacier. 体现科学和冰的政治：1928年德苏阿莱-帕米尔探险队的男子气概和意识形态，以及费琴科冰川的地图。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-07-09 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102106

Tatyana V Bakhmetyeva

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Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums, patient protest and the twentieth-century medical-evangelical state in British India. 公共卫生的神圣历史：麻风病人收容所、病人抗议和20世纪英属印度的医学福音派国家。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102052

Shinjini Das

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The 'fancy of the private collector': Walter Rothschild's global animal procurement network and collaboration in the animal trade. “私人收藏家的幻想”：沃尔特·罗斯柴尔德的全球动物采购网络和动物贸易中的合作。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087426102064

Eleanor Larsson

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World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869-1900). 万维网：帕多瓦养蚕站和国际昆虫学技术流通（1869-1900）。

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British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-22 DOI: 10.1017/S000708742610199X

Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

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