Picturing the moon: Hevelius’s and Riccioli’s visual debate

This article investigates the maps of the moon produced in the mid-seventeenth century by Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli (1598-1671) and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), whose cartographic projects competed for widespread acceptance. Although Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647) was applauded for its many detailed, self-engraved pictures of the moon, his cartography and proposed nomenclature were supplanted by Riccioli’s as offered in Almagestum novum (1651), in spite of the latter’s simplistic pictures and promotion of geocentric cosmology. Exploring this paradox through pictorial analysis, three types of images common to both Selenographia and Almagestum novum are compared, employing an analytical tool developed by Svetlana Alpers in The art of describing (1983). A focus on this debate exposes the tensions evoked by new technologies of vision and competing cultures of visual epistemology in seventeenth-century astronomy. As both selenographers grappled with questions about the role of representation and what kinds of knowledge could be generated visually, the successes and failures of their competing projects present implications for the course of visual astronomy, as well as for our understanding of the use of ‘visual technologies’ in a period of controversy.     

雍正皇帝与永明延寿禅师

从雍正视永明延寿为历代禅德之最,视永明延寿为心心相印者,极为重视永明延寿著作之刊刻流布及以永明延寿思想为其评判的标准与依据等方面,可以见出雍正皇帝与延寿禅师在禅学思想上的密切联系。进而根据清初社会状况及佛教尤其是禅宗演变的大背景,就雍正对永明延寿禅师的极力推崇与高度评价的原因及影响作出系统分析。     

清末民初"废庙兴学"的历史人类学考察

清末民初,伴随着中国文化及乡村教育现代化的步伐,中国乡村社会曾兴起一股"废庙兴学"之风。其最初只是一种有知之士个人在民间的自发行为;清末新政将其作为教育改革的重要内容,在全国广泛推行(实际上只是部分地区执行);民国初年,"废庙兴学"进入了一个高潮期,对推进乡村教育发挥了一定作用,但遇到了宗教文化和乡村传统势力等重重阻力。"废庙兴学"是一个多面体,它既有促进国民教育、提高民众教育程度的积极作用,又扩大了我国民间宗教文化自身的影响,加强了宗教文化的发展与壮大;也可能成为激化民众社会矛盾、危害国民教育的有效实施,其消极影响不可低估。     

滇东牛头山地区早震旦世沉积相及大地构造环境

野外调查和室内分析表明,牛头山地区陆良组、牛头山组应属下震旦统,其沉积相类型自下而上可划分为辫状河相、河口湾相、浅海相、滨海相、浅海相及三角洲相。“牛头山古陆”在早震旦世是不存在的。牛头山地区当时为被动大陆边缘。     

早孕妇女蜕膜中淋巴细胞抗原的分析

检测早孕蜕膜中淋巴细胞抗原的表达。以几种抗淋巴细胞表面标志的单克隆抗体,采用花环标记、碱磷酶抗碱磷酶（ＡＰＡＡＰ）法,对２３例早孕蜕膜组织中的淋巴细胞进行测定。早孕蜕膜淋巴细胞中ＣＤ３＋、ＣＤ４＋、ＣＤ１６＋及Ｂ细胞百分率（ｘ±ｓ）分别为２９．５２±６．８０％、２３．６０±４．８０％、２０．９１±４．０６％、１．０７±１．００％、７．８１±２．５６％,ＣＤ４／ＣＤ８为１．２±０．２,ＣＤ３－淋巴细胞呈大颗粒淋巴细胞（ＬＧＬ）形态。早孕蜕膜中存在较多ＣＤ３－、ＣＤ１６－形态呈ＬＧＬ的ＮＫ细胞,ＣＤ４＋细胞与ＣＤ８＋细胞的比值较正常外周血明显降低。     

经济预警方法研究综述

追溯经济预警系统发展的历史，重点阐述了目前经常使用的经济预警方法，包括景气指数法、ARCH法、基于概率模式分类法、判别式分折法和人工神经网络预警方法，最后指出对经济进行预警应该注意的问题和进一步深入研究的方向。     

A new species of Gobiconodon （Triconodonta, Mammalia） and its implication for the age of Jehol Biota

A new species of Gobiconodon is found from the Yixian Formation of western Liaonlng, China. The new taxa,G zofiae sp. nov., has a confluent opening for branches Ⅱand Ⅲ of the trigeminal nerve on the anterior lamina of the petrosal. G zofiae sp. nov. is similar to Repenomamus in having an ossified Meckel‘s cartilage connecting the lower jaws and ear region. The new species, with enlarged I^1/I1, posteriorly located infraorbital foramen and four mental foramina,distinctly differs from the other species of Gobiconodon. The new material indicates that Gobiconodon has four, not five,upper molariforms. The presence of Gobiconodon in Jchol Biota makes it possible to correlate Jehol Biota with faunas in eastern Asia and North America, and suggests the age of the Yixian Formation to be Early Cretaceous.     

Microstructure and functional morphology of the Early Cambrian problematical fossil Rhombocorniculum

Rhombocorniculum cancellatum from the Lower Cambrian of southern Shaanxi Province (South China) is represented by the dextral and sinistral tooth-like sclerites (both in nearly equal numbers), indicating that the body plan of the organism with these sclerites probably was bilaterian. The main feature of the microstructure of the sclerites is the presence of longitudinally arranged, mutually contiguous hollow tubules, the shared walls consisting of microcrystalline apatite. In transverse cross sections, the sclerite wall mainly exhibits a spongy structure, with pore size decreasing adapically. Functional morphological analysis indicates that the sclerites serve as a defensive rather than a grasping function.     

Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications

Analysis of the taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of the Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform indicates that species of Tsunyidiscus and Hupeidiscus can be used for biostratigraphic correlation. T. aclis occurs only in the lower Qiongzhusian, T. armatus occurs in the lower and middle Qiongzhusian, while T. niutitangensis and T. tingi occur mainly in the middle and upper Qiongzhusian, with only T. tingi extending upward into the lower Canglangpuian. H. orientalis first appears in the upper Qiongzhusian, reaching peak abundance in the lower Canglangpuian and becoming extinct above the Drepanuroides Zone. Biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic correlations indicate that the limestone in the lower part of the Mingxinsi Formation, the Upper Member of Jiumenchong Formation, and the upper part of the Middle Member of the Huangbailing Formation, can be correlated with each other as Hupediscus, an index fossil of the lower Canglangpuian, is abundant in all these units. The lower part of the Niutitang and Jiumenchong formations in eastern Guizhou, which mainly represent Qiongzhusian strata, can be correlated with the Lower Member of the Huangbailing Formation. The basal part of the Niutitang Formation, which may be equivalent to the Upper Meishucunian Shiyantou Formation in eastern Yunnan, is very condensed. Well-preserved sponge faunas and non-mineralized fossils in the lower part of the Niutitang and Hetang formations are not older than Qiongzhusian in age.     

Initial organic geochemical investigation on Late Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian sediments in the Yangtze region, China

Totally 19 samples of typical Upper Proterozoic-Lower Cambrian sedimentary rocks were collected and analyzed for an organic geochemical investigation. Almost all these rocks have high TOCs, super-maturities and similar biomarker distribution. As an exception, however, the Sinian Nantuo Tillite shows much lower TOCs and little phytane and pristane in comparison with those in other strata, which implies a very faint photosynthetic process, and a restricted euphotic zone and quite limited sunlight within the sedimentary water column during the Sinian glaciation age in the western Yangtze region providing an evidence for palaeo-oceanic environment of the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth age.