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'Undeterred by Aristotle's demonstrations': parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265. “不被亚里士多德的论证所吓倒”：1265年一篇被遗忘的书信体论文中的视差和彗星距离。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2495796

C Philipp E Nothaft

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Alexander N. Aksakov and the domestication of 'scientific spiritualism' in Imperial Russia, 1865-1875. 亚历山大·n·阿克萨科夫和“科学唯心论”在俄国帝国的驯化，1865-1875。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2495306

Nikolai Krementsov

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Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization. 野马：鞑靼人的战争与文明史。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2490050

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

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Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature. 动物关系：人类史和自然史导论。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2487020

Dániel Margócsy

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Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur by Celio Calcagnini: scientific context and translation. Celio Calcagnini的《土地运动》：科学语境与翻译。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483301

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Alberto Bardi

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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. 坦泽和房间里的大象。当“化石”于1695年在图林根州被发现时，自然历史和人类历史的不一致性（没有）被讨论。

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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. 剑桥惠普尔博物馆保存的五量子流的“故事”。

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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. 寻找生物钟中的正常和异常节律：20世纪早期生物学和实验心理学之间的认识论差距。

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

Jole Shackelford

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