Studies in the History of Natural Sciences

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2021 Vol. 40,No. 1Published:25 March 2021

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The Soviet Commission on the History of Knowledge and the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology
JIN Junkai, TANG Wenpei
The participation of the Soviet Union in the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology held in London...
2021, 40 (1): 1-18

A Newly Discovered Set of Twelve Constellations of the China Zodiac
CHEN Jiujin, WANG Rongbin
In ancient China, since there was the concept and classification of the so called twelve constellations of the Chinese zodiac, the...
2021, 40 (1): 19-36

The Transmission and Preliminary Development of the Chemical Concept Catalysis in Modern China
LI Zhiliang
Catalysis, in Chinese “cuihua” (催化), was transmitted to China in the second half of the 19^th century. In ...
2021, 40 (1): 37-48

Analysis of the Knowledge of the History of Western Science in Gezhi Shuyuan Keyi
ZHAO Yunbo, DENG Jing
Gezhi shuyuan keyi (格致书院课艺,the Shanghai Polytechnic Prize Essay Competition) are important historical data about the...
2021, 40 (1): 49-61

A Review and Discussion of Plague in Northern China from 1917-1918
FENG Xiang
The plague that broke out in Suiyuan at the end of 1917 lasted several months and spread to many provinces. It was not completely ...
2021, 40 (1): 62-76

“Leaving Some Wiggle Room” and “Pursuing Cooperation”: China-US Scientific and Technological Exchanges in Earthquake from 1971 to 1979
ZHANG Jingfei
In the process of normalization of China-US relations, scientific and technological exchanges came first, and played an important ...
2021, 40 (1): 77-90

The Reason for Setting the Intercalary Month and the Method for Determining the Positions of the Sun and Moon in the Vedic Calendar
LÜ Peng, JI Zhigang
The Vedic calendar, called the Vedāngajyotisa, is a mathematical astronomy system that appeared in about the 9th century BC in Ind...
2021, 40 (1): 91-104

A New Discussion on the Use of Magnetic Declination for Longitude Measurement by Athanasius Kircher, Martino Martini and Edmond Halley in Early Modern Europe
DAI Biyun
In the 1630s and 40s, Athanasius Kircher used the Jesuit Global Network to observe and collect magnetic declination data at many l...
2021, 40 (1): 105-114

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Notes on the Development of the Discipline of the History of Science and Technology
ZHANG Baichun
Chinese historians have achieved a great deal in their research on the history of science and technology since the 1950s. However,...
2021, 40 (1): 115-119

The Definition and Classification of Traditional Handicrafts
HUA Jueming
This paper scientifically defines traditional handicrafts from the four dimensions of design or creativity, materials, production,...
2021, 40 (1): 120-129