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The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus. 帕拉塞尔苏斯笔下的彩虹、风、闪电、热和冷的魅学。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2333038

Didier Kahn

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Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus's Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropology in the light of Lutheran biblical hermeneutics. Paracelsus 的《Astronomia Magna》（1537/8）和匿名的《Astrologia Theologizata》（1617）中的异端微观世界：从路德会圣经诠释学的角度看帕拉塞尔苏斯的人类学。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2333935

Dane T Daniel, Charles D Gunnoe

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Tentzel and the elephant in the room. Inconsistencies in the history of nature and history of humans (not) being discussed when 'fossils' were found in Thuringia in 1695.

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483296

Susanne Friedrich

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The 'tale' of a termometro cinquantigrado kept at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge.

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483304

Elisabetta Rossi

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Normal and abnormal rhythms in the search for biological clocks: an epistemological gap between early twentieth-century biology and experimental psychology.

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483311

Jole Shackelford

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Hamitic race theory and African cattle classification, 1868-1971.

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2449858

Tad Brown

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Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history. 天文学和宇宙学中的反物质：早期历史。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2449861

Helge Kragh

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The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained. 时间轴的晚期起源，或：三个悖论的解释。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-03 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2289524

Christoph Lüthy

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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's 'Sur la nature de l'eau': an annotated English translation. 安托万-洛朗-拉瓦锡的《Sur la nature de l'eau》：注释英译本。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2289531

Liz Kambas

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Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna. 在大自然的海洋中航行：Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi 在现代早期的博洛尼亚。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2305331

Noemi Di Tommaso

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