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Queries and quaestiones: Edward Lhwyd between Natural History and Natural Philosophy. 问与问：爱德华·路德在自然史与自然哲学之间。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-30 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2676567

Flynn Allott

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From ambition to restraint the WMO, atomic energy, and UN institutional rivalry in the early Cold War. 从野心到克制世界气象组织、原子能和冷战初期联合国机构的竞争。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-20 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2661915

Maria Rentetzi

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De Tellescopiis Stellarum (1666). Was Galileo experimenting with four-lens terrestrial telescopes by 1630? 《星象望远镜》（1666）。伽利略是在1630年试验四透镜地面望远镜吗？

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2661195

José María Moreno Madrid

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Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries. 艾萨克·牛顿关于粒子间力和以太问题的物理学。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2664526

John Henry

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Magnetic margins: insights from the digital descriptive census of William Gilbert's De Magnete. 磁边缘：洞察威廉·吉尔伯特的《论磁》的数字描述普查。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2638942

Christoph Sander

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Method and Melancholy: Aristotle and the defence against Cartesian estrangement. 方法与忧郁：亚里士多德与对笛卡儿异化的辩护。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2026.2638933

Ofer Gal, Victor D Boantza

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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 : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2449861

Helge Kragh

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'Made in the Galleries of His Most Serene Highness, Florence'. Conflicts in instrument invention at the Medici court: the pendulum clock, and the Accademia del Cimento. 佛罗伦萨至尊殿下画廊制造"。美第奇宫廷乐器发明的冲突：摆钟和手工艺学院。

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Annals of Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2426814

Cristiano Zanetti

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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 : 2026-04-01 Epub 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 : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483311

Jole Shackelford

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