Mainly known for its links to the periodical market and radical politics, this article recontextualizes the editorship of William Nicholson (1753–1815) in terms of its roots in the metropolitan natural philosophical circles of the second half of the 18th century as well as its impact on experimenters and men of science after 1797. The article argues that Nicholson's editorship of the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts was a means to expand his philosophical significance among natural philosophers at home and abroad—and was, in fact, a form of epistemological subversion that challenged the “Banksian Learned Empire.”

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将传统变成研究手段：威廉·尼科尔森（William Nicholson）（1753-1815）的编辑

本文主要以其与期刊市场和激进政治的联系而著称，从其在18世纪下半叶都市自然哲学界的渊源及其影响重新阐述了威廉·尼科尔森（1753-1815）的编辑背景关于1797年以后的实验者和科学界人士的文章。文章认为，尼科尔森（Nicholson）的《自然哲学，化学和艺术杂志》的编辑是一种在国内外国内外自然哲学家中扩大其哲学意义的手段-实际上，认识论颠覆的形式挑战了“波克斯学到的帝国”。