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《科学》 第391卷 第6788期 · 2026年2月26日 · 中文解读

挑战者:激进的反叛者如何改变思想史

The challengers · Philip Ball
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本文评论了玛丽亚·波波娃的新书《穿越》,该书通过詹姆斯·库克、玛丽·雪莱、多萝西·霍奇金等人物,探讨了那些挑战时代正统观念的思想家们的生活与贡献。
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Radical rejectors of orthodoxy take center stage in a rich history of ideas Philip Ball TRAVERSAL | In June 1769, navigator James Cook and Charles Green, the astronomer accompany- ing him on his round-the-world voyage, observed the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun from the island of Tahiti. Cook’s scientific crew, which also included naturalist Joseph Banks, had been commissioned by the Royal Society to record the transit, the parallax of which could supply a measure of Earth’s distance from the Sun. “Long before we had fathomed the oceans,” writes Maria Popova, “we would know the dis- tance between our world and its star.” …
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