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Moving scientific knowledge from the laboratory to the theatre: Humphry Davy's Lecture practice at the Royal Institution, 1801–1812 将科学知识从实验室搬到剧院：1801-1812 年汉弗莱-戴维在皇家学院的演讲实践

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0086

Frank A. J. L. James

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Protean Forms in Humphry Davy's Notebooks 汉弗莱-戴维笔记本中的变形形式

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0090

Sharon Ruston

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‘Space Weather Sentinels’: Halley and the evolution of geospace science 空间天气哨兵哈雷和地球空间科学的演变

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0088

Alice E. Oates

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The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s 两个城市的规模：17 世纪 20 年代巴黎和伦敦的地理格局

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0073

Michael Heffernan

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Losing foreignness: Johann Sigismund Elsholtz on the meaning of plants in the pleasure gardens of Berlin 失去异国情调：约翰-西吉斯蒙德-埃尔肖尔茨谈柏林游园中植物的意义

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0068

Tracy Wietecha

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Nineteenth-century Japanese and British science in context: an introduction to transnational-comparative studies 十九世纪日本和英国科学背景：跨国比较研究导论

Notes and Records Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0055

Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi

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