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Front Cover 封面

IF 0.5 3区哲学

Osiris Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1086/701207

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Acknowledgments 致谢

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1086/700309

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Index 指数

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1086/700983

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Compound Interest Corrected: The Imaginative Mathematics of the Financial Future in Early Modern England 复利修正:近代早期英国金融未来的想象数学

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699236

William Deringer

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Introduction: The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism 引言:科学与资本主义纠缠的历史

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699170

Lukas Rieppel, Eugenia Y. Lean, William Deringer

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The Microbial Production of Expertise in Meiji Japan 日本明治时期的微生物生产技术

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699405

Victoria Lee

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“Safe Driving Depends on the Man at the Wheel”: Psychologists and the Subject of Auto Safety, 1920–55 “安全驾驶取决于驾驶人”：心理学家与汽车安全主题，1920-55

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699550

L. Vinsel

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引用次数: 4

Starting up Biology in China: Performances of Life at BGI 在中国开创生物学：华大基因的生命表现

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699235

Hallam Stevens

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Sugar Machines and the Fragile Infrastructure of Commodities in the Nineteenth Century 糖机与19世纪脆弱的商品基础设施

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699234

D. Singerman

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Making the Chinese Copycat: Trademarks and Recipes in Early Twentieth-Century Global Science and Capitalism 制作中国复制品：二十世纪初全球科学和资本主义的商标和配方

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Osiris Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/699920

Eugenia Y. Lean

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