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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-08-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.101015

Matteo Colombo

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Vesalius and Pulicat: Skeletal imagery in seventeenth-century south India 维萨里和普利卡特：17世纪南印度的骨骼图像

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.101014

Dániel Margócsy , John Mathew

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Hoops, loops and eyewitness reliability: a history of biologically impossible aquatic monsters 环，环和目击者的可靠性：生物学上不可能的水生怪物的历史

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.101005

C.G.M. Paxton , A.J. Shine

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Introduction to Ceres: Gendered histories of agricultural and horticultural sciences 谷神星导论：农业和园艺科学的性别历史

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100995

Erela Teharlev Ben-Shachar , Donald L. Opitz

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The figure of Darwin in colloquial science 达尔文在通俗科学中的形象

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100993

Jamie Freestone

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Charles Bogue Luffman, Ina Higgins, and science at the Burnley School of horticulture in Melbourne, Australia, 1891–1919 1891-1919年，澳大利亚墨尔本伯恩利园艺学校的查尔斯·博格·拉夫曼、伊娜·希金斯和科学

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100994

Sandra E. Pullman

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100992

Harry Wels

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Review of Emma K. Sutton, William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 261 pp. ISBN 9780226828961 回顾艾玛K.萨顿，威廉詹姆斯，医学博士：哲学家，心理学家，医生。芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2023。261页，ISBN 9780226828961

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100990

Michela Bella

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100991

Isabella Clarke

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The gendering of agriculture in late nineteenth century colonial Hokkaido: The case of Kane Watanabe (1859–1945) 19世纪末殖民时期北海道农业的性别化——以渡边谦（1859-1945）为例

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Endeavour Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2025.100989

Setsu Tachibana

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