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Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge. 新大陆的炼银术：实用知识史上的一个奇点。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231185027

Saul Guerrero, David Pretel

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Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay. 采矿知识：十九世纪康沃尔电气科学与粘土的争议。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231189965

Edward J Gillin

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Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. 在洛斯阿拉莫斯执行曼哈顿计划。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231187011

Aimee Slaughter

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Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985-1995). 超越绿色化学：通过 Sanfte Chemie 进行激进的环境改造（1985-1995 年）。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231194801

Marcin Krasnodębski

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The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science. 威尔逊山小径上的骡子乔治-埃勒里-黑尔、美国科学宇宙学和美国科学宇宙学。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231179330

Kendrick Oliver

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George Howard Darwin and the "public" interpretation of The Tides. 乔治-霍华德-达尔文和《潮汐》的 "公众 "解读。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231181548

Edwin D Rose

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A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner's secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain. 人类的恩人？华纳船长的秘密与维多利亚时代早期英国的发明政治。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231157953

Zak Leonard

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Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual-visual mesh of early modern botany. 作为手稿的标本馆：文字学、人种植物学和早期现代植物学的文字-视觉网状结构。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231181285

Bettina Dietz

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Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake. 地下雷暴朱塞佩-萨维里奥-波利和电地震。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-07 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231178142

Salvatore Esposito

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The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 科学的边界线：十七世纪至十九世纪西方对中国昆虫白蜡的探索与研究。

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History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/00732753231180264

Xue Jiang, Tao Shi

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