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Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan's translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War Hong Kong. 政治与学术之间：许冠三翻译的《冷战中的进化》。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2547650

Yunrou Liu

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Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell's canal experiments of 1834-1835. 掀起波澜：约翰·斯科特·罗素1834-1835年运河实验的背景和后世。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2551062

David Pritchard

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50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations. 格拉斯曼50年的研究成果，未解决的问题和误解。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2548863

Hans-Joachim Petsche

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A natural history of the satyr: a dialectical history of myth and scientific observation since 1550. 《羊人的自然史：1550年以来神话与科学观察的辩证史》。

IF 0.9 3区哲学

Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2433643

Dániel Margócsy

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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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2490050

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

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Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Lars Montin (1723-1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (Hypoderma tarandi L.). 将历史写入自然经济：卡尔·林奈（1707-1778）和拉尔斯·蒙丁（1723-1783）对驯鹿鸣蝇的研究。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2514438

Linda Andersson Burnett, Hanna Hodacs, Staffan Müller-Wille

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Hamitic race theory and African cattle classification, 1868-1971. 哈米特人种理论和非洲牛的分类，1868-1971。

IF 0.9 3区哲学

Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2449858

Tad Brown

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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。

IF 0.9 3区哲学

Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483296

Susanne Friedrich

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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。

IF 0.9 3区哲学

Annals of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2487020

Dániel Margócsy

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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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