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Eugenio Garin Fra '500 e '600: Scienze Nuove, Metodi
Nuovi, Nuove Accademie. (Italian)
[Between 500 and 600: New Science, New
Methods, New Academies] . . . . . . . . 3--23
Silvio A. Bedini The Galilean Jovilabe . . . . . . . . . 25--46
Edoardo Proverbio and
Giuliano Bertuccioli On a Singular Chinese Portable Sundial 47--58
Tiziano Arrigoni Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani. (Italian)
[Towards an Archive of Correspondence of
Italian Scientists] . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Anonymous Indice delle Abbreviazioni. (Italian)
[List of abbreviations] . . . . . . . . 62--131
Anonymous Indice Alfabetico Dei Mittenti e Dei
Destinatari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--139
Paolo Brenni and
Massimo Misiti Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 141--184
Anthony J. Turner Loge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 189--202
Massimo Bucciantini Book Review: \booktitleIsis cumulative
bibliography 1966--1975. A bibliography
of the history of science formed from
ISIS critical bibliographies 91--100
indexing literature published from 1965
through 1974. Edited by John Neu.
London-Bronx, N.Y., Mansell in
conjunction with the History of Science
Society 1980--1985, 2 voll. . . . . . . 203--204
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: C. A. Russell (editor),
Recent Developments in the History of
Chemistry, London, the Royal Society of
Chemistry 1985, 333 pp. . . . . . . . . 205--207
Thomas B. Settle Book Review: Giovanni Bordiga, Govanni
Battista Benedetti, Filosofo e
Matematico Veneziano del secolo XVI
(Reprinted from the Atti dell'Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Tomo
Lxxxv, 1925--1926, Parte II, pp.
585-754), with an annotated
bibliographical update by Pasquale
Ventrice, Venice, Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1985 . . . . . 207--209
Renato Romano Book Review: M. Pavone, Introduzione al
pensiero di G. B. Hodierna, 2 voll.,
Modica, Setim-Editrice 1982, 419 pp. L.
30.000. M. Pavone, La vita e le opere di
Giovan Battista Hodierna, Ragusa,
Didattica Libri Eirene Editrice 1986,
436 pp. s.i.p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
Cesare Maffioli Book Review: Henk Th. Van Veen and
Andrew P. Mccormick, \booktitleTuscany
and the Low Countries: an introduction
to the sources and an inventory of four
Florentine libraries, Firenze, Centro di
1985, 182 pp. (Italia e i Paesi Bassi.
Serie edita a cura dell'Istituto
Universitario Olandese di Storia
dell'Arte di Firenze, 2) . . . . . . . . 213--216
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Frederic Lawrence Holmes,
Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. An
Exploration of Scientific Creativity,
Madison, The University of Wisconsin
Press 1985, 565 pp. (Wisconsin
Publications in the History of Science
and Medicine Number 4) . . . . . . . . . 216--220
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Dorothy A. Stansfield,
\booktitleThomas Beddoes M.D.
1760--1808. Chemist, Physician,
Democrat, Dordrecht--Boston--Lancaster,
D. Reidel Publishing Company 1984, 306
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Dorinda Outram, Georges
Cuvier. Vocation, Science and Authority
in Post-Revolutionary France,
Manchester, Manchester University Press
1984, 299 pp., \pounds 25 . . . . . . . 222--225
Lanfranco Belloni Book Review: Guido Tagliaferri, Storia
della fisica quantistica: Dalle origini
alla meccanica ondulatoria, Milano,
Franco Angeli 1985, 459 pp., L. 32.000 226--227
Mara Miniati Istituzioni Scientifiche e Musei . . . . 229--230
Mara Miniati Book Review: Regione Marche --- Centro
Per I Beni Culturali, Guida ai Musei
delle Marche, a cura di Pietro Zampetti,
Milano, Electa 1985, 132 pp. . . . . . . 230--231
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Universit\`a di Bologna,
Bologna. Musei di Veterinaria, Bologna,
Edizioni Calderini 1985, vii-95 pp., no
bibliography, no index of names,
illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Ferdinando Abbri Scienze Fisico-Matematiche . . . . . . . 232--233
Stefano Caroti Book Review: \booktitleMathemata.
Festschrift für Helmuth Gericke,
herausgegeben von Menso Folkerts und Uta
Lindgren, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner
Verlag 1985, 742 pp. (Boethius. Texte
und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der
exacten Wissenschaften, Bd. XII) . . . . 233--234
Renato G. Mazzolini Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: John D. Spillane, the
Doctrine of the Nerves: Chapters in the
history of neurology, Oxford, Oxford
University Press 1981, xii + 468 pp.,
\pounds 25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Mary A. B. Brazier, A
History of Neurophysiology in the 17th
and 18th Centuries: From Concept to
Experiment, New York, Raven Press 1984,
xiv + 230 pp., \$81.00} . . . . . . . . 236--236
Stefano Caroti Medio Evo e Rinascimento. (Italian)
[Middle Ages and Renaissance] . . . . . 237--237
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Egbert P. Bos,
\booktitleMarsilius of Inghen: Treatises
on the Properties of Terms. A First
Critical Edition of the Suppositiones,
Ampliationes, Appellationes,
Restrictiones and Alienationes with
Introduction, Translation, Notes and
Appendices,
Dordrecht--Boston--Lancaster, D. Reidel
Publishing Company 1983, 274 pp., ind.
dei nomi, dei termini e dei manoscritti,
bibl., appendici (Sinthese Historical
Library, 22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Stefano Caroti Book Review: A. Goddu, \booktitleThe
Physics of William Ockham, Leiden-Köln,
E. J. Brill 1984, 243 pp., ind. nomi e
materie (Studien und Texte zur
Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters,
hrsg. von A. Zimmermann, B. XVI) . . . . 238--239
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Jorge J. E. Gracia,
Introduction to the Problem of
Individuation in the Early Middle Ages,
München-Wien, Philosophia Verlag 1984,
302 pp., bibl., ind. dei nomi, delle
materie e dei termini (Analytica,
Investigations in Logic, Ontology and
the Philosophy of Language) . . . . . . 239--240
Stefano Caroti Book Review: E. Paschetto, Pietro
d'Abano medico e filosofo, Firenze,
Nuovedizioni Enrico Vallecchi 1984, 358
pp., ind. dei nomi, delle fonti
manoscritte, ill., appendici . . . . . . 240--240
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Les quatre éléments dans la
culture médiévale. Actes du Colloque des
25, 26, 27 mars 1982, publiés par les
soins de D. Buschinger et A. Crepin,
Goeppingen, Kuemmerle Verlag 1983, 308
pp., ill. (Goeppinger Arbeiten zur
Germanistik, Université de Picardie,
Centre d'études Médiévales, 386) . . . . . 241--241
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Danielle Jacquart, Claude
Thomasset, \booktitleSexualité et savoir
médical au Moyen Age, Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France 1985, 269 pp.,
no bibliography, no index of names . . . 242--242
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Katharine Park,
\booktitleDoctors and Medicine in Early
Renaissance Florence, Princeton, N.J.,
Princeton University Press, xii-298 pp.,
bibliography, index of names, index of
doctors and their families, tables . . . 242--243
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Alberto Elena,
\booktitleLas quimeras de los cielos.
Aspectos epistemológicos de la revolución
copernicana, (Spanish) [Chimeras of
heaven. Epistemological aspects of the
Copernican revolution]. Madrid, Siglo
XXI de España Editores 1985, viii-237
pp., bibliography pp. 197-227, index of
matters and of names . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Donald B. Tower, Hensing,
1719: An Account of the First Chemical
Examination of the Brain and the
Discovery of Phosphorus Therein, New
York, Raven Press 1983, xvi + 407 pp.,
\$47.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Pietro Corsi Secoli XVII--XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Pietro Corsi Book Review: M. Bortolotti, V.
Lanzarini, Inventario del Museo
ostetrico Giovan Antonio Galli, Bologna,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Bologna,
Archivio Storico 1985, Preliminary
Publication in 300 copies, 41 pp., no
index, no bibliography . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Augusto Placanica, Il
filosofo e la catastrofe. un terremoto
del Settecento, Torino, Giulio Einaudi
editore 1985, 244 pp. (Biblioteca di
cultura storica 155) . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Bruno Belhoste,
\booktitleCauchy 1789--1857. Un
mathématicien légitimiste au XIXe
si\`ecle, (French) [Cauchy, 1789--1857:
a legitimist mathematician in the
Nineteenth Century] Paris, Belin 1985,
224 pp., index, no bibliography
(Collection Un savant, une époque,
directed by J. Dhombres) . . . . . . . . 246--247
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Luigi Cerruti, Uomini ed
idee della chimica classica, a cura di
Carlo Bicchi, Milano, Eurobase S.p.A.
1985, 88 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Patrizia Bellardone,
Miscellanea Quintino Sella. Citt di
Biella, Biblioteca Civica 1984, 216 pp.,
no bibliography, no index . . . . . . . 248--248
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Maria-José Baguena
Cervellara et al., Estudios sobre la
medicina y la ciencia valencianas.
Siglos XVI--XIX, foreword by José López
Piñero, Valencia, Catedra de Historia de
la Medicina 1985, pp. 193, bibliography
and index of names; pp. 179--193,
bibliography of studies in the history
of science and medicine produced by the
history of medicine group at The
University of Valencia (Cuadernos
Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y
de la Ciencia, XXVIII Serie A ---
Monografas) [ISBN 84-600-4005-4] . . . . 248--249
Ilario Principe Book Review: Vladimiro Valerio, l'Italia
nei manoscritti dell'Officina
Topografica conservatinella Biblioteca
Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli, Istituto
Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici 1985,
112 pp., s.i.p. (il volume pu essere
ottenuto direttamente dall'Istituto,
viale Calascione 7, 80132 Napoli) . . . 249--250
Pietro Corsi Book Review: José M. Lopez Piero et. al.,
\booktitleCajal y la medicina Valenciana
de su tiempos, 1833--1887. (Spanish)
[Cajal and the medicine of his time,
Valencia, 1833--1887]. Guida de la
expsicion 5--21 diciembre 1983,
Valencia, Cultura Universitria Popular,
40 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Anonymous Studi Sovietici di Storia della Scienza,
1985 (a cura dell'Accademia delle
Scienze dell'URSS) . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
Mara Miniati Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 257--xii
Mara Miniati Vent'Anni Dopo: Immagine di un Recupero iii-5
Pamela Neville The Printer's Copy of Commandino's
Translation of Archimedes, 1558 . . . . 7--12
Paolo Gozza La Musica Nella Filosofia Naturale Del
Seicento in Italia . . . . . . . . . . . 13--47
Maurizio Torrini $ \ll $ Et Vidi Coelum Novum Et Terram
Novam $ \gg $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--77
Bernard R. Goldstein The Making of Astronomy in Early Islam 79--92
Antonio Borrelli Carteggio di Domenico Cotugno . . . . . 93--101
Paul Weindling German--Soviet Co-Operation in Science:
the Case of the Laboratory for Racial
Resarch, 1931--1938 . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
Renato G. Mazzolini Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 111--137
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Robert M. Young,
\booktitleDarwin's Metaphor. Nature's
Place in Victorian Culture, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press 1985, xx +
341 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Gerrit A. Lindeboom, Dutch
Medical Biography. A biographical
Dictionary of Dutch Physicians and
Surgeons 1475--1975. Amsterdam, Rodopi
1984, xiii + 2243 columns (i.e. 1122 pp.
+ xxxi), Hfl. 295, ISBN 90-6203-676-7 147--148
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Paulus Venetus, Logica
Parva, Translation of the 1472 Edition
with Introduction and Notes by Alan R.
Perreiah, the Catholic University of
America Press, Philosophia Verlag,
Washington--München, Wien 1984 ($ \ll $
Analytica. Investigation in Logic,
Ontology and the Philosophy of Language
$ \gg $ ), 372 pp., bibl. ind. nomi e
soggetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Gabriele Baroncini Book Review: Jacopo Zabarella, De
methodis libri quatuor. Liber de
regressu, a cura di C. Vasoli, Bologna,
Clueb 1985, xxviii + 193 pp. . . . . . . 149--153
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Peter Alexander, Ideas,
Qualities and Corpuscles. Locke and
Boyle on the external world, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press 1985, 336 pp. 153--155
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Walter Bernardi, Le
Metafisiche dell'Embrione. Scienze della
vita e filosofiada Malpighi a
Spallanzani (1672--1793), Firenze, Leo
S. Olschki Editore 1986, 503 pp. ($ \ll
$ Biblioteca di storia della scienza n.
24 $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--158
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Stefan Winkle, Johann
Friedrich Struensee. \booktitleArzt,
Aufklärer und Staatsmann. Beitrag zur
Kultur-, Medizin- und Seuchengeschichte
der Aufklärungszeit, Stuttgart, Gustav
Fischer Verlag 1983, 655 pp. . . . . . . 158--160
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Peter R. De Clercc (Ed.),
\booktitleNineteenth-Century Scientific
Instruments and their Makers, Papers
presented at the Fourth Scientific
Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 23--24
October 1984. Leiden 1985, Rodopi
Amsterdam 1985. ($ \ll $ Nieuwe
Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de
Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der
Natuurwetenschappen N$^\circ $ 17 $ \gg
$ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Ingeborg Schnack (ed.), Der
Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich Carl von
Savigny und Stephan August Winkelmann
(1800--1804) mit Dokumenten und Briefen
aus dem Freundeskreis gesammelt,
herausgegeben und kommentiert von
Ingeborg Schnack. (Veröffentlichungen der
Historischen Kommission für Hessen, 23.
Hessische Briefe des 19. Jahrhunderts,
vol. 3) Marburg, N. G. Elwert 1984, 533
pp. + 4 illustrations. Cloth: DM 95,--;
paper: DM 90,-- . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--165
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Mario A. di Gregorio, T. H.
Huxley's Place in Natural Science, New
Haven and London, Yale University Press
1984, xxi-253 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
Stefania Nicasi Book Review: Patrizia Guarnieri,
\booktitleIndividualit\`a difformi,
Milano, Franco Angeli 1986 . . . . . . . 167--170
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Sigmund Freud, Sintesi
delle nevrosi di traslazione, un
manoscritto inedito a cura e con un
saggio di Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, Torino,
Boringhieri 1968, 121 pp., L. 20.000
(trad. it. di Übersicht der
Übertragungsneurosen, Frankfurt, Fischer
Verlag 1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172
Paul Weindling Book Review: Willie Pearson, Jr., Black
Scientists, White Society, and Colorless
Science: A Study of Universalism in
American Science, Millwood, Ny, New York
City and London: Associated Faculty
Press 1985, viii + 201 pp. . . . . . . . 173--174
Ferdinando Abbri Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 175--175
Stefano Carotin Book Review: \booktitleCatalogo di
manoscritti filosofici nelle biblioteche
italiane, vol. 5: Cesena, Cremona,
Lucca, S. Daniele del Friuli, Teramo,
Terni, Trapani, Udine, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki Editore 1985 (Unione Accademica
Nazionale. $ \ll $ Corpus Philosophorum
Medii Aevii, Subsidia $ \gg $, V), 365
pp., indice degli incipit, nomi e opere
anonime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Mara Miniati Book Review: Istituto di Fisica Generale
Applicata --- Storia della Fisica,
1726--1799 Catalogo della corrispondenza
degli Astronomi di Brera, volume I, a
cura di Agnese Mandrino, Guido
Tagliaferri, Pasquale Tucci. Milano,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano 1986,
427 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Francesca Sofia, Una
biblioteca ginevrina del Settecento: I
libri del giovane Sismondi, Roma,
Edizioni dell'Ateneo e Bizzarri 1983
(Istituto di Storia Moderna. Facolt\`a
di Lettere e Filosofia. Universit\`a di
Roma. $ \ll $ Storia $ \gg $, 11), 297
pp., indice degli autori . . . . . . . . 177--178
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Paolo Brenni Book Review: \booktitleIl teatro di
filosofia sperimentale di Giovanni
Poleni, a cura di Gian Antonio Salandin
e Maria Pancino, Padova, edizioni Lint
1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Ezio Ragozzino, Edvige
Schettino, \booktitleLa collezione degli
antichi apparecchi dell'Istituto di
Fisica: Gli strumenti ottici
(1840--1890), Napoli, Universit\`a degli
Studi di Napoli, Facolt\`a di Scienze
M.F.N. 1984 Meccanica dei fluidi e
termologia (1840--1900), Napoli,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Napoli,
Facolt\`a di Scienze M.F.N. 1984
Elettricit\`a e magnetismo (1835--1900),
Napoli, Universit\`a degli Studi di
Napoli, Facolt\`a di Scienze M.F.N. 1985 179--180
Stefano Caroti Scienze Matematico-Fisiche . . . . . . . 180--181
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Margaret Alic,
\booktitleHypatia's Heritage. A History
of Women in Science from Antiquity to
the Late Nineteenth Century, London, the
Women's Press 1986, X + 230 pp. . . . . 181--182
Stefano Caroti Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Vittorio D. Catapano, Le
Reali Case de' Matti nel Regno di
Napoli, Napoli, Liguori 1986, 351 pp.,
L. 28.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Edward Shorter, La
tormentata storia del rapporto
medico-paziente, Milano, Feltrinelli
1986, 231 pp., L. 27.000 (trad. it. di
Bedside Manners. The Troubled History of
Doctors and Patients, New York, Simon
and Schuster 1985) . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Mario Galzigna, Conoscenza
e dominio. Le scienze della vita tra
filosofia e storia, post-fazione di
Jacques Roger, Verona, Bertani 1985, 226
pp., L. 15.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Stefania Ragazzini Botanica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Stefania Ragazzini Book Review: \booktitleErbari e
Iconografia botanica. Storia delle
Collezioni dell'Orto Botanico
dell'Universit\`a di Torino. A cura di
Franco Montacchini con la collaborazione
di Giuliana Forneris e Carla Martoglio.
Appendice a cura di Silvana Pettenati,
Torino, U. Allemandi e C. 1986, Catalogo
della Mostra, Torino, febbraio--maggio
1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Stefano Caroti Medio Evo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 188--188
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Henry Chadwick, Boezio. La
consolazione della musica, della logica,
della teologia, della filosofia,
Bologna, Societ\`a editrice il Mulino
1986 ($ \ll $ Collana di testi e studi.
Filosofia $ \gg $ ), 358 pp.,
bibliografia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Per-Gunnar Ottoson,
Scholastic Medicine and Philosophy,
Napoli, Bibliopolis 1984, 322 pp.,
bibliografia, index rerum . . . . . . . 189--190
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVII--XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fabio Todesco, Riforma
della metafisica e sapere scientifico:
saggio su J. H. Lambert (1728--1777).
Milano, Franco Angeli, 330 pp. (in corso
di stampa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John L. Heilbron, Alle
origini della fisica moderna. Il caso
dell'elettricit\`a, Bologna, il Mulino
1984, 454 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--198
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 199--215
C. J. Scriba Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--xii
Ugo Baldini Additamenta Galilaeana . . . . . . . . . 3--36
Christoph Meinel Natur Als Moralische Anstalt Die
Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica Des
Franz Reinzer, S.J., Ein
Naturwissenschaftliches Emblembuch Aus
Dem Jahre 1698 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--94
A. J. Turner Greco--Egyptian Zodiacs From a
Gallo--Romano Site . . . . . . . . . . . 95--110
Edvige Schettino Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 111--124
Renato G. Mazzolini Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Anonymous I Gruppo di Studenti . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous 2. Schmidt, Dietrich Wilhelm . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous 3. Meier (Meyer), Johann Ludolph
Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous 4. Bielcke, Georg Gotthelf . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous 5. Busmann, Conrad Moritz Christian . . 136--136
Anonymous 6. Marcard, Jacob Nicolaus . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous 7. Rollin, Christian Jeremias . . . . . 137--138
Anonymous 8. Taube, Hartwig Wilhelm Ludwig . . . . 138--138
Anonymous 9. Fickel, Christoph . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous 10. Berckelmann, Matthias Ludwig Rudolph 139--139
Anonymous 11. Winkler (Winckler), Adolph Bernhard 140--140
Anonymous 12. Denecke, Friedrich August . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous 13. Hugo, August Ludwig Von . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous 14. Oschwald, Johannes Heinrich . . . . 141--142
Anonymous 15. Loeber, Gotthold Ernst . . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous 16. Willig (Willich), Christian Ludwig 142--143
Anonymous 17. Taube, Daniel Johann . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous 18. Schmitt (Schmidt), Georg Conrad
(Konrad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous 19. Schóbinger, David Christoph . . . . . 144--145
Anonymous 20. Orville, Abraham D' . . . . . . . . 145--146
Anonymous 22. Meckel, Johann Friedrich . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous 23. Vosse, Joachim . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous 24. Langhans, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Anonymous 25. Walbaum, Johann Julius . . . . . . . 148--149
Anonymous 26. Zinn, Johann Gottfried . . . . . . . 149--150
Anonymous 27. Noreen, Johannes . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous 28. Steding, Carl Gerhard . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous 29. Aurivillius, Samuel . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous 30. Klaerich, Friedrich Wilhelm . . . . 151--152
Anonymous 31. Asch, Georg Thomas Von . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous 32. Albrecht, Johann Melchior Friederich 153--153
Anonymous 33. Zimmermann, Johann Georg . . . . . . 153--154
Anonymous 34. Himsel, Nicolaus Von . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous 35. Stirtz, Peter Joseph . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous 36. Remus, Georg Ernst . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous 37. Gesenius, Otto . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous 38. Swainston, Allen . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous 39. Castell, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Anonymous 40. Sproegel, Johann Adrian . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous 41. Hammerschmidt, Johannes Andreas . . 158--159
Anonymous 42. Walstorff (Walstorf, Walsdorf),
Johann Dietrich . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous 43. Vaetterli (Vtterli), Johann Jacob 159--160
Anonymous 44. Brunn, Johann Heinrich Von . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous 45. Dehtleef (Detleef, Dehtleef), Peter 161--161
Anonymous 46. Kuhlemann, Johann Christoph . . . . 161--162
Anonymous 47. Rhades, Joachim Jacob . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous 2. Kohen (Cohn), Lehmann Isaac . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous 3. Cropp, Friedrich Ludwig Christian . . 164--164
Anonymous 4. Grumbrecht, Johannes Justus . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous 5. Frsen, Joachim . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous 6. Pappelbaum, Georg Christoph . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous 7. Richers, Arnold Julius Johann . . . . 166--167
Anonymous 8. Berger, Johann Justus Von . . . . . . 167--168
Anonymous 10. Henrici, Robert Stephan . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous 11. Oeder, Georg Christian Von . . . . . 168--169
Anonymous 12. Foelix (Felix), Johannes Jacob . . . 169--169
Anonymous 13. Roloff (Rolof), Christian Ludwig . . 170--170
Anonymous 14. Droysen, Julius Friedrich . . . . . 170--171
Anonymous 15. Runge, Johann Georg . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous 16. Evers, Emanuel Johannes Albert . . . 171--171
Anonymous 17. Duntze (Dunze), Arnold . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous 19. Andersch, Karl (Carl) Samuel . . . . 173--192
Anonymous Indice Alfabetico degli Studenti . . . . 194--194
Antonio Estacio Dos Reis List of Old Globes in Portugal . . . . . 195--201
Willem D. Hackmann Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 203--213
Roberta Lanfredini and
Stefano Casati Corso di Aggiornamento Sulla Filosofia
della Scienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: \booktitleTime, Science,
and Society in China and the West. The
Study of Time V, ed. by J. T. Fraser, N.
Lawrence and F. C. Haber, Amherst, The
University of Massachusetts Press 1986,
262 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Margaret J. Osler, Paul
Lawrence Farber (editors), Religion,
Science, and Worldview. Essays in Honor
of Richard S. Westfall, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press 1985, xv +
350 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Michela Pereira Book Review: \booktitleAlchimia. La
tradizione in Occidente secondo le fonti
manoscritte e a stampa, a cura di Mino
Gabriele, Edizioni La Biennale ---
Realizzazione Electa Editrice 1986, 90
pp., L. 30.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--230
Mario Biagioli Book Review: Brian Vickers (ed.), Occult
and Scientific Mentalities in the
Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press 1984, 408 pp. . . . . . 230--236
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jerry Weinberger, Science,
Faith, and Politics. Francis Bacon and
the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age. A
Commentary on Bacon's Advancement of
Learning, Ithaca and London, Cornell
University Press 1985, 342 pp. . . . . . 236--241
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Steven Shapin, Simon
Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump.
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental
Life, Princeton, Princeton University
Press 1985, xiv + 440 pp. . . . . . . . 241--244
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Guenter B. Risse,
\booktitleHospital life in Enlightment
Scotland. Care and teaching at the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh, Cambridge
University Press 1986 (Cambridge History
of Medicine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Stefano Casati Book Review: Roberto Finzi (a cura di),
Le meteore e il frumento: clima,
agricoltura, meteorologia a Bologna nel
'700, Bologna, il Mulino 1986, 387 pp. 247--249
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Lazzaro Spallanzani,
Edizione nazionale delle opere. Parte
prima Carteggi, vol. I, Carteggi con
Abboretti \ldots Bondi, a cura di
Pericle di Pietro, Modena, Enrico Mucchi
Editore 1984; vol. II, Carteggio con
Charles Bonnet \ldots, 1984; vol. III,
Carteggi con Borbone \ldots Comino
\ldots, 1985; vol. Iv, Carteggi con
Comparetti \ldots Fortis \ldots, 1985;
vol. V, Carteggi con Fossombroni \ldots
Lucchesini \ldots, 1985 . . . . . . . . 249--252
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Heusser Peter, Der
Schweizer Arzt und Philosoph Ignaz Paul
Vital Troxler (1780--1866). Seine
Philosophie, Anthropologie und
Medizintheorie (Basler Veröffentlichungen
zur Geschichte der Medizin und der
Biologie, hrsg. von H. Buess, Fasc.
XXXIX), Basel/Stuttgart, Schwabe Co.
1984, xvi + 350 pp., 1 illustr. Paper
SFR 38/DM 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Friedrich Gottlieb Welker,
\booktitleWerk und Wirkung. Vorträge,
gehalten auf der Welcker-Tagung in der
Werner-Reimers-Stiftung in Bad Homburg
vom 5.--7. November 1984 (I) und zur
Eröffnung der Ausstellung \em Friedrich
Gottlieb Welcker (1784--1868):
Philologe, Archäologe und
Oberbibliothekar in Bonn in der
Universitätsbibliothek Bonn am 5.
November 1984 (II) herausgegeben von
William M. Calder III, Adolf Kühnken,
Wolfgang Kullmann, Günther Pflugg.
(Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische
Philologie, Einzelschriften, Heft 49).
Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag 1986,
viii + 293 pp. + illustrations. Paper DM
58,- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
John C. Greene Book Review: Charlotte M. Porter,
\booktitleThe Eagle's Nest. Natural
History and American Ideas, 1812--1842,
Alabama, University of Alabama Press
1986, 251 pp. illustrated . . . . . . . 255--257
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Jacques Lonard, Archives du
corps. La sant au XIXe si\`ecle, Rennes,
d. Ouest France 1986, 329 pp. . . . . . 257--258
Joan L. Richards Book Review: Sean O'Donnell,
\booktitleWilliam Rowan Hamilton:
Portrait of a Prodigy, Boole Press
Dublin 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Sander L. Gilman,
\booktitleDifference and Pathology.
Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and
Madness, Ithaca and London, Cornell
University Press 1985 . . . . . . . . . 259--262
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Valeria P. Babini, Fernanda
Minuz, Annamaria Tagliavini, La donna
nelle scienze dell'uomo. Immagini del
femminile nella cultura scientifica
italiana di fine secolo, Milano, F.
Angeli 1986, 175 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Renato G. Mazzolini Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 265--266
Massimo Bucciantini Book Review: \booktitleLa biblioteca
periodica. Repertorio dei giornali
letterari del Sei--Settecento in Emiliae
in Romagna. Volume primo: 1668--1726,
(Italian) [The periodical library.
Repertoire of literary journals of the
Sixteenth--Eighteenth Century in Emiliae
in Romagna. Volume One: 1668--1726], a
cura di Martino Capucci, Renzo Cremante
e Giovanna Gronda, Bologna, Il Mulino
1985, 550 pp. (Cultura e vita civile nel
Settecento) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Massimo Bucciantini Book Review: \booktitleLe edizioni dei
testi filosofici e scientifici del'500 e
del'600. Problemi di metodo e
prospettive di ricerca, a cura di G.
Canziani e G. Paganini, Milano, Angeli
1986, 228 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Massimo Bucciantini Book Review: Robin E. Rider --- Henry E.
Lowood, Guide to sources in Northern
California for history of science and
technology, Berkeley, Office for History
of Science and Technology, University of
California 1985, iv, 194 pp. (Berkeley
Papers in History of Science, 10) . . . 268--269
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Werner Sackmann,
\booktitleBiographische und
bibliographische Materialien zur
Geschichteder Mikrobiologie un zur
bakteriologischen Nomenklatur (Marburger
Schriften zur Medizingeschichte), Bd.
16, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Verlag
Peter Lang 1985, 412 pp. . . . . . . . . 269--269
Mara Miniati Book Review: Emilie Savage-Smith,
\booktitleIslamicate Celestial Globes:
their history, construction and use ---
with a chapter on iconography by Andrea
P. A. Belloli, Washington, D.C.,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, 354
pp. (Smithsonian Studies in History and
Tecnology --- Number 46) . . . . . . . . 270--270
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleFuturinsieme.
Percorso storico di tecnologie
cinematografiche e televisive in vista
di un futurocomune, Milano, Ente Fiera
Milano 1986, 63 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: J. Needham,
\booktitleScienza e civilt in Cina. Vol.
III: la matematica e le scienze del
cielo e della terra, Torino, Einaudi
1985-86, pp. 1115, in due tomi, L.
60.000 + 70.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Mara Miniati Book Review: Dino Bravieri, Scampoli,
Firenze, Osservatorio Ximeniano 1986,
235 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Wilfried Schroeder, Das
Phaenomen des Polarlichts.
Geschichtsschreibung,
Forschungsergebnisse und Probleme,
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
Darmstadt 1984 (Ertraege der Forschung,
Bd. 218), 156 pp., bibl., ind., ill . . 272--273
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleStoricit\`a e
attualit\`a della cultura scientifica
einsegnamento delle scienze, a cura del
C.I.D.I. di Firenze, Firenze,
Marietti-Manzuoli 1986, 260 pp. . . . . 273--273
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Margaret Rowbottom and
Charles Susskind, Electricity and
Medicine: History of their Interaction,
San Francisco, San Francisco Press 1984,
303 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Peter J. Bowler, Evolution:
the history of an idea, Berkeley, Los
Angeles, London, University of
California Press 1984, xiv, 412 pp.,
\$11,95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Richard W. Southern, Robert
Grosseteste. the Growth of an English
Mind in Medieval Europe, Oxford,
Clarendon Press 1986, 337 pp., bibl.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Heinrich Schipperges, Der
Garten Der Gesundheit. Medizin im
Mittelalter, München-Zürich, Artemis
Verlag 1985, 296 pp., bibl., ill . . . . 276--277
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Ann G. Carmichael,
\booktitlePlague and the poor in
Renaissance Florence,
Cambridge--London--New York--New
Rochelle--Melbourne--Sidney, Cambridge
University Press 1986 (Cambridge History
of Medicine, eds. Charles Wabster and
Charles Rosemberg), 180 pp., bibl., ind 277--278
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: A. Rupert Hall, La
rivoluzione nella scienza. 1500--1750,
Milano, Feltrinelli 1986, 438 pp. . . . 278--278
Stefano Caroti Book Review: John Cottingham,
\booktitleDescartes, Oxford, Basil
Blackwell 1986, 171 pp., bibl., ind . . 278--279
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleUna politica per
le Terme: Montecatini e la Val di
Nievole nelle riforme di Pietro
Leopoldo. Atti del Convegno di studi,
Siena, Edizioni Periccioli 1985, 275
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Nicolas Rousseau,
Connaissance et langage chez Condillac,
Genve, Librairie Droz 1986 (Histoire des
ides et critique littraire, vol. 242),
467 pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleIl terremoto di
Riminie della costa romagnola: 25
dicembre 1786 --- Analisi e
interpretazione. A cura di Emanuela
Guidoboni, Graziano Ferrari, Bologna,
SGA (Societ\`a di Geofisica Applicata,
s.a.) 1986, 293 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Aa.Vv., Documenti per una
storia della scienza senese, Siena,
Accademia delle scienze di Siena detta
dei Fisiocritici, Memorie n. 2, 1985,
939 pp. Lire 60.000 . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Emil du Bois-Reymond
(1818--1896) \booktitleAnton Dohrn
(1840--1909) Briefwechsel, herausgegeben
von Christiane Groeben in Zusammenarbeit
mit Klaus Hierholzer mit einer
historischen Einführung von Ernst Florey,
Berlin, Springer Verlag 1985, xliv + 322
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleL'et\`a del
positivismo, (Italian) [The Age of
Positivism], a cura di Paolo Rossi,
Bologna, Il Mulino 1986, 491 pp. . . . . 283--284
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: T. Tornitore, Storia delle
sinestesie. Le origini dell'audizione
colorata, Genova, Universit di Genova
1986, 63 pp., s.i.p. . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Robert P. Mcintosh, the
background of ecology. Concept and
theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press 1985, XIII, 383 pp., \pounds
30,00, \$39,50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--xii
J. V. Field Linear Perspective and the Projective
Geometry of Girard Desargues . . . . . . 3--40
Stillman Drake Galileos Constant . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
Ferdinando Abbri Il Misterioso Spiritus Salis . . . . . . 55--88
Pietro Corsi The Heritage of Dugald Stewart: Oxford
Philosophy and the Method of Political
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--144
Solange Grillot L'Emploi Des Objectifs Italiens
l'Observatoire De Paris la Fin Du 17me
Si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--155
Maria Teresa Monti Inediti di Pietro Moscati. Un Episodio
Del Dibattito Italiano
Sull'Insensibilita della Dura Madre . . 157--170
Edoardo Proverbio Historic and Critical Comment on the
Risposta of R. J. Boscovich to a
Paragraph in a Letter by Prince Kaunitz 171--226
Anonymous Index of Names of Persons . . . . . . . 227--227
Massimo Bucciantini George Sarton e Aldo Mieli: Bibliografia
e Concezioni della Scienza a Confronto.
(Italian) [George Sarton and Aldo Mieli:
Bibliography and Conceptions of Science
in comparison] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239
Lorenzo Bianchi Convegno Internazionale su Giovan
Battista Della Porta . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
Emilio Panella Book Review: Thabit Ibn Qurra,
\booktitleOeuvres d'astronomie. Texte
tablié et traduit par Régis Morelon,
Paris, Les Belles Lettres 1987,
cxlii-321-xv pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Norbert Klatt Book Review: Theophrast Von Hohenhein,
genannt Paracelsus, Theologische und
Religionsphilosophische Schriften. Bd.
III: Dogmatische und polemische
Einzelschriften. Bearbeitet von Kurt
Goldammer (Smtliche Werke, 2. Abteilung,
Bd. III), Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner
Verlag 1986, liv + 299 pp. . . . . . . . 255--256
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Eric J. Aiton, Leibniz. A
biography, Bristol Boston, Adam Hilger
1985, xiv + 307 pp., bibl., index, illus 256--257
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Derek Gjertsen, the Newton
Handbook, London and New York, Routledge
Kegan Paul 1986, xiv-665 pp., bibl.,
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.),
Wissenschaften im Zeitalter der
Aufklärung. Aus Anlaß des 250 jährigen
Bestehens des Verlages Vandenhoeck
Ruprecht. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck Ruprecht
1985, 282 pp., DM 34 . . . . . . . . . . 259--262
Walter Bernardi Book Review: \booktitleCatalogo del
Fondo Haller della Biblioteca Nazionale
Braidense di Milano, a cura di Maria
Teresa Monti, Milano, Franco Angeli
Editore 1983--1986, Parte I voll.
I--III, Parte II voll. I--III . . . . . 262--266
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Wilfrid Blunt, Linn.
\booktitleLe prince des botanistes,
(French) [The prince of botanists].
Paris, Belin 1986, 350 pp. . . . . . . . 266--268
Antonio Borrelli Book Review: Domenico Cotugno, Opere.
Antologia a cura di Antonio Iurilli.
Commento ai testi di Rita Maria Rossini.
Presentazione di Giuseppe De Benedictis,
Manduria, Piero Lacaita editore 1986
(Prestige. Scritti di Varia Umanit, 2) 268--270
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William F. Bynum, Roy
Porter (editors), Medical Fringe Medical
Orthodoxy 1750--1850, London, Croom Helm
1987, 274 pp. (the Wellcome Institute
Series in the History of Medicine) . . . 271--272
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: William F. Bynum, Roy
Porter, Michael Shepherd (eds.), The
Anatomy of Madness. Essays in the
History of Psychiatry, London and New
York, Tavistock Publications 1985, 2
vols., I. People and Ideas, 316 pp. II.
Institutions and Society, 283 pp. . . . 273--276
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: \booktitleGoethe und die
Romantik. Briefe mit Erluterungen.
Herausgegeben von Carl Schüddekopf und
Oskar Walzel. (Schriften der
Goethe-Gesellschaft, 13)
Photo-mechanical Reprint of the original
edition Weimar, 1898 in two volumes.
Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat der DDR 1984 276--277
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ludmilla Jordanova
(editor), Languages of Nature. Critical
Essays on Science and Literature.
Foreword by Raymond Williams, New
Brunswick, Rutgers University Press
1986, 351 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--280
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: David Kohn (ed.), The
Darwinian Heritage. Princeton, Princeton
University Press 1985, 1139 pp. . . . . 280--282
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: George W. Stocking, Jr.
(ed.), Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and
Others. Essays on Culture and
Personality, Madison, University of
Wisconsin Press 1986, 259 pp. . . . . . 282--285
Marco Santambrogio Book Review: Jean Van Heijenoort,
Selected Essays. Napoli, Bibliopolis
1985, 166 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--289
Mara Miniati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 291--291
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Mara Miniati Book Review: Vladimiro Valerio,
Historiographic and numerical notes on
the Atlante Farnese and its celestial
sphere. estr. da Der Globusfreund nr.
35--37, Wien 1987, pp. 97--124 . . . . . 292--292
Paolo Brenni Book Review: L. Von Mackensen,
Feinmechanik aus Kassel 225 Jahre F. W.
Breithaupt Sohn (Festschrift und
Austellungsbegleiter), Kassel, Georg
Wenderoth Verlag 1987, 85 pp. . . . . . 293--293
Paolo Brenni Book Review: P. Ronne, A. B. W. Nielsen,
\booktitleDevelopment of the Ion X-ray
Tube. Copenhagen, the Foundation of Poul
Lundbeck, Eng. M. Sc., C. A. Reitzel
Publishers 1986 (Acta Historica
Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicalium,
Vol. 35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Stefano Caroti Cartografia Storica . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Mara Miniati Book Review: M. A. Martullo Arpago, L.
Castaldo Manfredonia, I. Principe, V.
Valerio (a cura di), Fonti cartografiche
nell'Archivio di Stato di Napoli. Napoli
1987, 164 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Mara Miniati Book Review: Istituto Italiano Per Gli
Studi Filosofici, Catalogazione, Studio
e conservazione della cartografia
storica, a cura di Vladimiro Valerio.
Napoli, nella sede dell'Istituto 1987,
117 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Stefano Caroti Astronomia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Mara Miniati Book Review: Aa.Vv.,
\booktitleAstronomia e astrofisica in
URSS. A cura di Livio Gratton. Bari,
Edizioni Dedalo 1987, 166 pp. . . . . . 297--298
Stefano Caroti Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Richard P. Steiner (ed.),
Folk Medicine. the Art and the Science,
Washington Dc, American Chemical Society
1986, viii + 223 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Actes du 110e Congrés
National des Sociétés Savantes.
(Montpellier, 1985). Section d'histoire
des sciences et des techniques. Tome II.
Histoire de l'École Médicale de
Montpellier. Colloque, Paris, C.T.H.S.
1985, 365 pp, ill . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: William Lefanu. A
Bibliography of Edward Jenner. Second
edition, Winchester, St Paul's
Bibliographies 1985, xvi-160 pp.,
\pounds 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Claudio Pogliano Psicologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Ferdinando Abbri Sociologia della Scienza . . . . . . . . 304--306
Stefano Caroti Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 306--306
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Rainer Jehl, Melancholie
und Acedia. Ein Beitrag zu Anthropologie
und Ethik Bonaventuras, Paderborn ---
München --- Wien --- Zürich, Ferdinand
Schoening 1985 (Münchener
Universitäts-Schriften,
Veroeffentlichungen des
Grabmann-Institutes, N.F. 32), 323 pp.,
bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Selected Works of Ramn
Llull (1232--1316), Edited and
Translated by Antony Bonner, N.J.,
Princeton University Press 1985, 2
voll., 1329 pp., bibl., ind., ill . . . 307--308
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Eugenio Randi, Il sovrano e
l'orologiaio. Due immagini di Dio nel
dibattito sulla potentia absoluta fra
XIII e XIV secolo, Firenze, La Nuova
Italia Editrice 1987, 191 pp., bibl.
ind. (Pubblicazioni della Facolt di
Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universit\`a di
Milano, Cxxi. Sezione a cura del
Dipartimento di Filosofia, 11) . . . . . 308--309
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Erich Kleineidam,
\booktitleUniversitas Studii
Erffordiensis. Überblick über die
Geschichte der Universität Erfurt. Teil
I: Spaetmittelalter 1392--1460, Leipzig,
St. Benno Verlag Gmbh 1985, 480 pp.,
bibl., ind. (Erfurter Teologische
Studien, Bd. 14) . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Armando F. Verde O.P., Lo
studio Fiorentino 1473--1503. Ricerche e
Documenti. Volume Quarto. La vita
universitaria, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
Editore 1985, 3 tomi, 1546 pp., bibl . . 310--312
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Kurt Goldammer,
\booktitleParacelsus in neuen
Horizonten. Gesammelte Aufsätze, (German)
[Paracelsus new horizons]. Wien, Verband
der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften
Österreichs 1986 (Salzburger Beiträge zur
Paracelsusforschung; Folge 24), 400 pp. 312--313
Stefano Caroti Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Silvia Parigi Book Review: George Berkeley,
\booktitleDialoghi tra Hylas e
Philonous, a cura di P. F. Mugnai,
Roma/Bari, Laterza 1987, xxx-148 pp. . . 314--314
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Engelbert Kaempfer, Phoenix
Persicus. Die Geschichte der
Dattelpalme. Einleitung, bersetzung aus
dem Lateinischen und Bearbeitung von
Wolfgang Muntschick, Marburg,
Basilisken-Presse 1987, 227 pp. . . . . 315--315
Stefano Casati Book Review: Walter Tega, Arbor
scientiarum. Enciclopedia e sistemi in
Francia da Diderota Comte. Bologna, il
Mulino 1984, 406 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Piero di Giovanni (a cura
di), \booktitleLa tradizione
illuministica in Italia. (Italian) [The
tradition of Enlightenment in Italy].
Palermo, Palumbo 1986, 294 pp. . . . . . 317--317
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Justus Von Liebig,
\booktitleBriefe an Vieweg,
herausgegeben und bearbeitet von
Margarete und Wolfgang Schneider,
Braunschweig/Wiesbaden, Friedr. Vieweg
Sohn 1986, xviii + 437 pp. . . . . . . . 317--318
Paolo Brenni Book Review: \booktitleUn siécle
d'électricité dans le monde. Actes du
premier colloque international
d'histoire de l'électricité, organisé par
l'A.H.E.F. A cura di F. Cardot. Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France 1987,
444 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 321--334
C. J. Scriba Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--xii
Thomas Frangenberg Egnatio Danti's \booktitleOptics.
Cinquecento Aristotelianism and the
Medieval Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 3--38
Claudio Pogliano Un Esperto Laico d'Anime: Marin Cureau
de la Chambre (1596--1669) . . . . . . . 39--54
Giulio Barsanti Le Immagini della Natura: Scale, Mappe,
Alberi 1700--1800 . . . . . . . . . . . 55--125
Peter De Clercq The 's Gravesande Collection in the
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden . . . . . . . . 127--137
Antonello La Vergata Theodicy and Nature's Economy . . . . . 139--152
Mara Miniati Due Antichi Globi . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Marco Beretta Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 157--161
A. Mandrino and
G. Tagliaferri and
P. Tucci Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
Renato G. Mazzolini Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 177--188
Silvio A. Bedini Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Jürgen Renn Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 193--241
Daniela Mugnai Carrara Book Review: Per-Gunnar Ottosson,
Scholastic Medicine and Philosophy. A
Study of Commentaries on Galen's Tegni
(ca. 1300--1400), Napoli, Bibliopolis,
Edizioni di Filosofia e Scienze 1984,
322 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Germana Ernst Book Review: \booktitleAstrology,
Science and Society. Historical Essays,
ed. by Patrick Curry, the Boydell Press
1987, ix + 302 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 244--250
Michela Pereira Book Review: Die Alchemie in der
europäischen Kultur- und
Wissenschaftsgeschichte [Vorträge
gehalten anlässlich des 16 Wolfenbütteler
Symposions vom 2 bis 5 April 1984 in der
Herzog August Bibliothek] hrsg. von
Christoph Meinel. Wiesbaden,
Harrassowitz 1986 (Wolfenbütteler
Forschungen Bd 32), 356 pp., s.i.p. . . 250--254
Mara Miniati Book Review: Sandra Giovannini ---
Gabriella Mancini, La Farmacia di Santa
Maria Novella. Firenze, Becocci Editore
1987, 32 pp. (Biblioteca de $ \ll $ Lo
Studiolo $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Mario Biagioli Book Review: Zygmunt Wa\'zbi\'nski,
l'Accademia Medicea del Disegno a
Firenze nel Cinquecento, 2 Vols.,
Firenze, Olschki 1987, 557 pp. . . . . . 256--259
Daniela Mugnai Carrara Book Review: A. Waer, R. K. French, I.
M. Lonie (Eds), the Medical Renaissance
of the Sixteenth Century, Cambridge,
University Press 1985, xvi + 349 pp. . . 259--262
Luisa Simonutti Book Review: H. Bots, H. Hillenaar, J.
Janssen, J. Van Der Korst & L. Van
Lieshout, De $ \ll $ Biblioth\`eque
Universelle et Historique $ \gg $
(1686--1693). Een periodiek als trefpunt
van geletterd Europa. Amsterdam,
Apa-Holland Universiteits Pers 1981,
xvi, 399 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264
Gerard L'E. Turner Book Review: Silvio A. Bedini, Clockwork
Cosmos: Bernard Facini and the Farnese
Planisferologio, Citt\`a del Vaticano,
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 1985, 221
pp., L. 40.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--266
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: \booktitleHistorie du
concept d'esp\`ece dans les sciences de
la vie, (French) [History of the concept
of space in the life sciences], Paris,
Éditions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac
1987, 324 pp. s.i.p. . . . . . . . . . . 266--269
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Andrew E. Benjamin,
Geoffrey N. Cantor, John R. R. Christie
(eds), the Figural and the Literal.
Problems of language in the history of
science and philosophy 1630--1800,
Manchester, Manchester University Press
1987, viii + 229 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Ines Crispini Book Review: Paolo Manganaro,
l'Antropologia di Kant, Napoli, Guida
1983, 290 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Linda L. Clark, Social
Darwinism in France, The University of
Alabama Press 1984, xi + 261 pp. . . . . 277--280
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: John M. O'Donnell, the
Origin of Behaviorism. American
Psychology, 1870--1920, New York and
London, New York University Press 1985,
xii + 299 pp., \$40} . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Mario Biagioli Book Review: Alexandre Koyré, De la
mystique \`a la science, P. Redondi
(ed.). Paris, Éditions de l'École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 1986,
227 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Eugen Bleuler, Dementia
praecox o il gruppo delle schizofrenie,
presentazione dell'edizione italiana di
Luigi Cancrini, Roma, La Nuova Italia
Scientifica 1985, 365 pp., L. 42.500 . . 284--285
Marco Segala Book Review: Robert Muir Wood, the Dark
Side of the Earth, London, Allen & Unwin
1985, II ed., 1986, x + 246 pp. . . . . 286--291
Stefano Caroti Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 293--294
Mara Miniati Book Review: A. Mandrino, G.
Tagliaferri, P. Tucci (a cura di),
Inventario di archivio dell'Osservatorio
Astronomico di Brera 1726--1917. Milano,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano,
Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata,
Sezione di Storia della Fisica 1987, 270
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Mara Miniati Book Review: Robert P. Multhauf ---
Gregory Good, A Brief History, of
Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the
Collections of the National Museum of
American History. Washington, D.C.,
Smithsonian Institution Press 1987, 87
pp. (Smithsonian Studies in History and
Technology. Number 48) . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Mara Miniati Storia della Scienza . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Mara Miniati Book Review: Robert Halleux et Pascal
Lef\`ebvre, \booktitleÉtudier l'histoire
des sciences et des techniques.
Bruxelles, Apps éditions 1987, 153 pp.
[ISBN 2-87192-006-0] . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Christian Hünemörder (a cura
di), Wissenschaftsgeschichte heute.
Ansprachenund wissenschaftliche Vorträge
zum 25 jäbrigen Bestehen des Instituts für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften,
Mathematik und Technik der Universität
Hamburg. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag
1987, 123 pp. ($ \ll $ Beiträge zur
Geschichte der Wissenschaft und der
Technik, Heft 20 $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . 297--298
Mara Miniati Cartografia Storica . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Mara Miniati Matematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Vincenzo Cappelletti,
Federico Di Trocchio (a cura di), De
Sedibus, et Causis. Morgagni nel
Centenario. Roma, Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana 1986, 393 pp. ($
\ll $ Acta Encyclopaedica 6 $ \gg $ ) 300--301
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Marc Aug\`e e Claudine
Herzlich, Il sense del male.
Antropologia, storia e sociologia della
malattia, ed. it. a cura di Francesco
Maiello. Milano, Il Saggiatore 1986, 272
pp., L. 38.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Allen G. Debus, Chemistry,
Alchemy and the New Philosophy,
1550--1700. Studies in the History of
Science and Medicine. London, Variorum
Reprints 1987, xii + 320 pp. . . . . . . 302--304
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Academiae Analecta.
Brussel, Paleis der Academiën 1986, 128
pp. ($ \ll $ Mededelingen van de
Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen,
Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België,
Klasse der Wetenschappen, Jaargang 48,
Nr. 4, 1986 $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Irene Strube,
\booktitleGeorg Ernst Stahl. Leipzig,
BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft
1984, 82 pp., ill. ($ \ll $ Biographien
hervorragender Naturwissenschaftler
(German) [Biographies of outstanding
scientists, engineers and physicians],
Techniker und Mediziner Band 76 $ \gg $
) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Francisco Varela, Scienza e
tecnologia della cognizione. Direzioni
emergenti (traduzione di Stefano Isola).
Firenze, Hopeful Monster 1987, pp. 90 306--307
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Pierre Alexandre, Le climat
en Europe au Moyen Âge. Contribution \`a
l'histoire des variations climatiques de
1000 \`a 1425, d'apr\`es les sources
narratives de l'Europe occidentale.
Paris Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales 1987, pp. 827,
bibl., grafici, tavole e carte . . . . . 307--308
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Olga Weijers, Terminologie
des universités au XIIIe si\`ecle. Roma,
Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1987 (Lessico
Intellettuale Europeo, XXXIX), pp. 437 308--309
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Dietrich Von Freiberg,
Opera omnia. Tomus Iv. Schriften zur
Naturwissenschaft. Briefe, mit einer
Einleitung von Loris Sturlese.
Herausgegeben von Maria Rita
Pagnoni-Sturlese, Rudolf Rehn, Loris
Sturlese und William A. Wallace.
Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag 1985
(Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii
Aevi, Band II, 4), pp. 380, ind . . . . 309--311
Sandra Plastina Book Review: L'Aristotelisme au XVIe
si\`ecle, $ \ll $ Études philosophiques $
\gg $, 1986, n. 3, pp. 281--405 . . . . 312--313
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Rita Sturlese,
Bibliografia, censimento e storia delle
antiche stampe di Giordano Bruno.
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki 1987 (Istituto
Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento,
Quaderni di $ \ll $ Rinascimento $ \gg
$, VI), pp. 224 . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Massimo Luigi Bianchi,
Signatura rerum. Segni, magia e
conoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz. Roma,
Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1987 (Lessico
Intellettuale Europeo, Xliii), pp. 199,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Stefano Caroti Book Review: \booktitleConvegno
celebrativo del IV centenario della
nascita di Federico Cesi (Acquasparta,
7--9 ottobre 1985). (Italian)
[Conference celebrating the fourth
centenary of the birth of Federico Cesi
(Acquasparta 7--9 October 1985)]. Roma,
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1986
(Atti dei Convegni lincei, 78), pp. 352,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--319
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Bruno Basile, l'invenzione
del vero. La letteratura scientifica da
Galilei ad Algarotti. Roma, Salerno
Editrice 1987, 245 pp., ind. (Studi e
Saggi, 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tiziano Arrigoni,
\booktitleUno scienziato nella Toscana
del Settecento. Giovanni Targioni
Tozzetti. Firenze, Edizioni Gonnelli
1987, viii + 174 pp. ($ \ll $Documenti
inediti di cultura toscana volume IX $
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Mauro Falzoni Book Review: Villes et territoires
pendant le période napoléonienne (France
et Italie). Actes du colloque organisé
par l'École Française de Rome et
l'Assessorato alla culturade la ville de
Rome, avec la partécipation de la Maison
des sciences de l'homme (Paris) (Rome 3,
4 et 5 mai 1987). Rome, École française de
Rome 1987, 556 pp. (Collection de l'École
française de Rome, 96) . . . . . . . . . 322--324
Anonymous Book Review: Alessandro Pascolini,
Dall'infinitamente grande
all'infinitamente piccolo. Viaggio nel
cuore della materia. Venezia, Arsenale
Editrice 1987, 108 pp. . . . . . . . . . 325--336
C. J. Scriba Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--354
J. V. Field What Is Scientific About a Scientific
Instrument? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--26
Antonio Nardi La Quadratura della Velocit\`a . . . . . 27--64
Silvia Parigi La Quaestio di Barrow: Un'Aporia della
Visione Tramite Lenti. (Italian) [The
question of Barrow: a test of vision
through lenses] . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--69
Paola Antoniotti Gioacchino Taddei, 1792--1860 . . . . . 71--100
Giuseppe Bruzzaniti La Struttura Del Tempo Fisico . . . . . 101--147
Margarida Archinard Les Cadrans Solaires Rectilignes . . . . 149--181
Simone Contardi Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 183--187
Anonymous Indice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--191
José M. López Piñero Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 193--207
Renato G. Mazzolini Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 209--225
Timothy L. Alborn Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 227--250
Pietro Corsi International Summer School in History
of Science (Berkeley--Bologna--Upsala) 251--252
William R. Shea Book Review: B. V. Subbarayappa and K.
V. Sarma (eds.), Indian Astronomy. A
Source Book. Bombay, Nehru Centre 1985,
xliv + 338 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Silvio Maracchia Book Review: Aa.Vv., l'alba dei numeri,
a cura di Tina Bovi e Wilma di Palma.
Bari, Edizioni Dedalo 1987, 152 pp.,
Lit. 24.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--259
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Mirko D. Grmek, Le malattie
all'alba della civilt\`a occidentale,
Bologna, Il Mulino 1985, 599 pp. (Ed.
originale: Les maladies \`a l'aube de la
civilisation occidentale, Paris, Payot
1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Giuseppe Penso, La medicina
romana. l'arte di Esculapio nell'antica
Roma, Saronno, Ciba-Geigy Ed. 1985, 607
pp. (Ed. originale: La médecine romaine.
l'art d'Esculape dans la Rome antique,
Paris, R. Dacosta 1984) . . . . . . . . 261--262
Miquel Forcada Nogués Book Review: \booktitleDe astronomia
Alfonsi Regis. Barcelona, Universidad de
Barcelona, Instituto $ \ll $ Mill\`as
Vallicrosa $ \gg $ de Historia de la
Ciencia Arabe 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
Vittoria Perrone Compagni Book Review: Picatrix. The Latin version
of the G\=ayat Al-ak\=\im edited by
David Pingree (Text, Introduction,
Appendices, Indices), the Warburg
Institute, University of London 1986 ($
\ll $ Studies of the Warburg Institute $
\gg $, vol. 39), 326 pp. . . . . . . . . 266--268
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Amos Funkenstein,
\booktitleTheology and the Scientific
Imagination from the Middle Ages to the
Seventeenth Century, Princeton,
Princeton University Press 1986, xii +
421 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--272
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Giovanni Artico di Porcia,
Notizie della vita, e degli studi del
Kavalier Antonio Vallisneri, Bologna,
Patron 1986, 244 pp., L. 20.000 . . . . 272--275
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: \booktitleDesedibus, et
causis. Morgagni nel centenario. (Latin
and Italian) [Depressed, and the causes.
The centenary of Morgagni]. A cura di V.
Cappelletti e F. Di Trocchio, Istituto
dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 1986. ($ \ll
$ Acta Enciclopaedica $ \gg $, 6), 393
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--279
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Giorgio Tonelli, La pensée
philosophique de Maupertuis. Son milieu
et ses sources. Edition posthume par
Claudio Cesa, Hildesheim, Georg Olms
Verlag 1987, 144 pp. ($ \ll $ Studien
und Materialien zur Geschichte der
Philosophie $ \gg $, 25) . . . . . . . . 279--282
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: Ideologiae scienza
nell'opera di Paolo Frisi (1728--1784),
a cura di Gennaro Barbarisi, Milano,
Franco Angeli 1987, vol. I, 473 pp.;
vol. II, 706 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Danilo Barsanti, Leonardo
Rombai, Leonardo Ximenes, uno scienziato
nella Toscana lorenese del Settecento,
Firenze, edizioni medicea 1987, 241 pp.,
L. 20.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Anand C. Chitnis,
\booktitleThe Scottish Enlightenment &
Early Victorian English Society,
London--Sydney--Dover (New Hampshire),
Croom Helm 1986, 201 pp. . . . . . . . . 287--289
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roy Porter,
\booktitleMind-forg'd Manacles. A
history of madness in England from the
Restoration to the Regency, London, the
Athlone Press 1987, xii + 412 pp. . . . 289--293
Vladimiro Giacché Book Review: R. Heckmann, H. Krings, R.
W. Meyer (a cura di), Natur und
Subjektivität. Zur Auseinandersetzung mit
der Naturphilosophie des jungen
Schelling. Referate, Voten und
Protokolle der II. Internationalen
Schelling-Tagung Zürich 1983,
Stuttgart--Bad Cannstatt,
Frommann-Holzboog 1985 ($ \ll $
Problemata $ \gg $ 106), 391 pp. . . . . 293--298
Elio Matassi Book Review: \booktitleHegel und die
Naturwissenschaften (Heraus. von Michael
John Petry), Stuttgart--Bad Cannstatt,
F. Frommann Verlag--G. Holzboog 1987,
562 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--301
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: George W. Stocking Jr.,
Victorian Anthropology, New York, the
Free Press 1987, xvii + 429 pp.,
\$26.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Patrizia Guarnieri,
l'Ammazzabambini. Legge e scienza in un
processo toscano di fine Ottocento,
Torino, Einaudi (Microstorie, n. 15)
1988, 225 pp., L. 22.000 . . . . . . . . 304--306
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Saul Benison, A. Clifford
Barger, Elin L. Wolfe, Walter B. Cannon.
The Life and Times of a Young Scientist,
Cambridge (Mass.) and London, the
Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press 1987, vii + 520 pp., \$35.95} . . 306--309
Marco Segala Book Review: Martin Schwarzbach,
\booktitleAlfred Wegener, the Father of
Continental Drift, Science Tech
Publishers, Madison, Wi,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York 1986,
pp. xx + 241. Traduzione inglese di
Carla Love di: Alfred Wegener und die
Drift der Kontinente, Wissenschaftliche
Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1980 310--315
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Stephen Jay Gould, Time's
Arrow, Time's Cicle. Myth and Metaphor
in the Discovery of Geological Time,
Cambridge Mass. and London, Harvard
University Press 1987, xiii + 222 pp. 315--318
Stefano Caroti Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 319--319
E. Calvo Labarta Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Mara Miniati Book Review: Roser Puig Aguilar, Los
Tratados de Construcción y Uso de la
Azafea de Azarquiel. Madrid, Instituto
Hispano-Arabe de Cultura 1987 ($ \ll $
Cuadernos de Ciencias $ \gg $ 1), 132
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Sergi Bassols Merc\`e Viladrich I Grau, \booktitleEl $
\ll $ Kit\`ab al-'amal bi-l-asurl\=ab $
\gg $ (Libre de l'ús de l'astrolabi)
d'Ibn al-Samh. Estudi i Traducció,
Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
Mem\`ories de la secció
Hist\`orico--Arqueol\`ogica XXXVI, 1986,
158 págs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Mara Miniati Book Review: La lente. Storia, scienza,
curiosit\`a attraverso la collezione
Fritz Rathschüler. Genova, Ecig-Edizioni
Culturali Internazionali Genova 1988,
198 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleMusica
ex-machina. 3000 anni di macchine
musicali automatiche dall'arpaeolia al
computer musicale. (Italian) [Music
ex-machina. 3000 years of machines.
Automatic music to computer music of
Arpaeolia] Roma, Fondazione Oriele
Sotgiu di Ghilarza 1987, 75 pp. . . . . 324--324
Mara Miniati Book Review: John Paul Kurdyla Jr., When
Music was Magic. History, Phonographs
and Gramophones from 1879 to 1939.
Padova, John Paul Kurdyla Jr. 1987, 215
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Mara Miniati Cartografia Storica . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Ferdinando Abbri and
Stefano Casati Istituzioni Scientifiche . . . . . . . . 325--327
Donatella Lippi Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Giorgio Cosmacini, Storia
della Medicina e della Sanit\`a in
Italia, Bari, Laterza 1987 (III ed.),
448 pp., L. 40.000 . . . . . . . . . . . 328--329
G. Mazzolini Renato Book Review: Karl Enigk,
\booktitleGeschichte der Helminthologie
im deutschsprachigen Raum. Stuttgart-New
York, Gustav Fischer Verlag 1986, xviii
+ 356 pp., DM. 58,- . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
G. Mazzolini Renato Book Review: Rudolph Wagner,
\booktitleSamuel Thomas von Soemmerrings
Leben und Verkehr mit seinen
Zeitgenossen. (German) [Samuel Thomas
Soemmerring's life and interaction with
contemporaries]. Herausgegeben,
eingeleitet und mit einem
Personenregister versehen von Franz
Dumont. (Soemmering-Forschungen, Bd. II)
Stuttgart-New York, Gustav Fischer
Verlag 1986, 747 pp., DM. 118,- . . . . 330--330
G. Mazzolini Renato Book Review: Georg Büchner: 1813--1837;
Revolutionär, Dichter, Wissenschaftler.
Katalog der Ausstellung Mathildenhöhe,
Darmstadt, 2. August--27. September
1987. Basel--Frankfurt am Main,
Strömfeld/Roter Stern 1987, 432 pp. . . . 330--331
G. Mazzolini Renato Book Review: Claudia Heurkamp, Der
Aufstieg Der Ärzte im 19. Jahrhundert.
Vom gelehrten Stand zum professionellen
Experten: Das Beispiel Preußens.
(Kritische Studien zur
Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 68)
Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1985,
409 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Lippi Donatella Book Review: Luigi Capasso, Salute e
malattie nell'evoluzione umana, Chieti
1987, 87 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Lippi Donatella Book Review: Luigi Capasso, l'origine
delle malattie, Chieti 1985, pp. 397 . . 333--334
Lippi Donatella $ \ll $ Journal of Paleopathology $ \gg
$, 1987, vol. 1, n. 1. . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Abbri Ferdinando Book Review: Oeuvres de Lavoisier ---
Correspondance. Publiée sous les auspices
du Comité Lavoisier de l'Académie des
Sciences. Avant-Propos de Alain Horeau,
Introduction de Michelle Goupil.
Fascicule Iv 1784--1786, Paris, Éditions
Belin 1986, xv + 351 pp. . . . . . . . . 335--336
Parigi Silvia Psicologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Richard L. Gregory, La
mente nella scienza, Milano, Est
Mondadori 1985, 421 pp. . . . . . . . . 338--339
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Humberto Maturana,
Francisco Varela, \booktitleL'albero
della conoscenza. Un nuovo meccanismo
per spiegare le radici biologiche della
conoscenza umana, (Italian) [The tree of
knowledge. A new mechanism to explain
the biological roots of human
knowledge]. Presentazione di Mauro
Ceruti, Milano, Garzanti 1987, 207 pp. 339--339
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Paul Watzlawick (a cura
di), La realt\`a inventata. Contributi
al costruttivismo, Milano, Feltrinelli
1988, 281 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Howard Gardner, La nuova
scienza della mente. Storia della
rivoluzione cognitiva, Milano,
Feltrinelli 1988, 472 pp. . . . . . . . 341--341
Parigi Silvia Epistemologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Caroti Stefano Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 342--343
Caroti Stefano Book Review: H. L. L. Busard, the
Mediaeval Latin Translation of Euclid's
$ \ll $Elements$ \gg $, Stuttgart, Franz
Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH 1987
(Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur
Geschichte der Exakten Wissenschaften,
XV), 411 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Caroti Stefano Book Review: Giulio D'Onofrio, Fons
scientiae. La dialettica nell'Occidente
tardo-antico, Napoli, Liguori Editore
1986 (Nuovo Medioevo, 31), 346 pp., ind 344--345
Caroti Stefano Book Review: Adelard of Bath. An English
Scientist and Arabist of the Early
Twelfth Century, ed. by Ch. Burnett,
London, the Warburg Institute 1987
(Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts,
XIV), 208 pp., ill., ind . . . . . . . . 345--347
Caroti Stefano Book Review: Walter Burleigh, Von der
Reinheit der Kunst der Logik. Erster
Traktat. Von den Eigenschaften der
Termini, übers. und mit Einf. und Anmerk.
hrsg. von P. Kunze, Hamburg, Felix
Meiner Verlag 1988 (Philosophische
Bibliothek, 401), 269 pp., bibl., ind 347--348
Caroti Stefano Book Review: Olaf Pluta, Die
philosophische Psychologie des Peter von
Ailly, Amsterdam, Verlag B. R. Grüner
1987 (Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie,
6), xxxix + 150 pp., bibl., ind . . . . 348--349
Caroti Stefano Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi, Avicenna
in Renaissance Italy. The $ \ll $ Canon
$ \gg $ and Medical Teaching in Italian
Universities after 1500, Princeton,
Princeton University Press 1987, 410
pp., ill., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Caroti Stefano Book Review: \booktitleDer Weg der
Naturwissenschaft von Johannes von
Gmunden zu Johannes Kepler, (German)
[The Way of Science from Johannes of
Gmunden to Johannes Kepler],
herausgegeben von G. Hamann und H.
Grössing, Wien, Verlag der
Österreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften 1988 (Österreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Philosophisch-historische Klasse,
Sitzungsberichte, 497), 214 pp., ill.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Casati Stefano Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Filippo Mignini,
\booktitleArs imaginandi. Apparenza e
rappresentazione in Spinoza, (Latin and
Italian) [Art of imagination. Appearance
and representation in Spinoza], Napoli,
Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 1981, 438
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Abbri Ferdinando Book Review: Alan Charles Kors and Paul
J. Korshin (eds.), Anticipations of the
Enlightenment in England, France and
Germany, Philadelphia, University of
Pennsylvania Press 1987, viii + 290 pp. 354--356
Abbri Ferdinando $ \ll $ Nouvelles de la République des
Lettres $ \gg $, VI, 1986, n. 2, Napoli,
Prismi 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Anthony C. Grayling,
Berkeley: the Central Arguments, London,
Duckworth 1986, xii-218 pp. . . . . . . 357--358
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Daniel E. Flage,
\booktitleBerkeley's Doctrine of
Notions: A reconstruction based on his
Theory of Meaning, London & Sydney, Croom
Helm 1987, 226 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Miniati Mara Book Review: Franz Pesendorfer, La
Toscana dei Lorena. un secolo di governo
granducale. Firenze, Sansoni Editore
1987 ($ \ll $ Biblioteca Storica $ \gg $
), 191 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Miniati Mara Book Review: Dino Bravieri, P. Filippo
Cecchi: scritti e strumenti. Firenze,
Osservatorio Ximeniano 1988, 85 pp. . . 359--360
Miniati Mara Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 361--377
C. J. Scriba Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--390
Maria Losito Il IX Libro Del De Architectura di
Vitruvio Nei Commentari di Daniele
Barbaro (1556--1567) . . . . . . . . . . 3--42
John Hedley Brooke Science and the Secularisation of
Knowledge: Perspectives on Some
Eighteenth Century Transformations . . . 43--65
David J. Boullin An Iconographic Study of Sandglasses . . 67--85
Salvo D'Agostino La Classificazione degli Strumenti
Scientifici . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
Edoardo Proverbio Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 93--150
Anonymous Alphabetical Index of Addressees . . . . 151--153
Anonymous Alphabetical Index of Senders . . . . . 154--159
Francesco Barbieri and
Carla Fiori L'Ultima Lettera di Ruffini a Cauchy . . 161--163
Renato G. Mazzolini Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 165--176
Luigi Belloni Commemorazione di Andrea Corsini . . . . 177--190
Paola Giacomoni Goethe e la Cultura Scientifica . . . . 191--203
Stefano Casati and
Silvia Collini and
Antonella Vannoni Convegno Internazionale su Lamarck e Il
Lamarckismo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William A. Cole, Chemical
Literature 1700--1860. A Bibliography
with Annotations, Detailed Descriptions,
Comparisons and Locations, London-New
York, Mansell Publishing Limited 1988,
xxiii + 582 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Mara Miniati Book Review: Joseph Needham, Wang Ling,
Derek J. De Solla Price,
\booktitleHeavenly clockwork. The great
astronomical clocks of medieval China.
Second edition with Supplement by John
H. Combridge. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press 1986, 266 pp. . . . . . 218--220
Daniela Lamberini Book Review: Pier Luigi Bassignana (a
cura di), Le macchine di Valturio nei
documenti dell'archivio storico Amma.
Presentazione di Sergio Ricossa,
contributi di Guido Amoretti, Pier Luigi
Bassignana, Ferruccio Gambaruto,
Vittorio Marchis, Alessandro
Vitale-Brovarone, Torino, Umberto
Allemandi & C. editore 1988, 176 pp.,
indice dei nomi, Lxiv tavole a colori,
50 ill. b. e n . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--225
Germana Ernst Book Review: J. D. North,
\booktitleHoroscopes and History.
London, The Warburg Institute 1986, pp.
xii-232 ($ \ll $ Warburg Institute
Surveys and Texts $ \gg $, XIII) . . . . 225--226
Mara Miniati Book Review: Penelope Gouk, the Ivory
Sundials of Nuremberg 1500--1700.
Cambridge, Whipple Museum of the History
of Science 1988, 144 pp. . . . . . . . . 226--228
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: \booktitleChine ciel et
terre: 5000 ans d'inventions et de
découvertes. Gent, Imschoot 1988, 438 pp,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Clara Silvia Roero Book Review: G. W. Leibniz,
Mathematischer Naturwissenschaftlicher
und Technischer Briefwechsel, Zweiter
Band 1676--1679, Berlin, Akademie Verlag
1987, pp. 1013 + 40 . . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Parigi Silvia Book Review: Ruggiero Giuseppe
Boscovich, \booktitleLettere ad Anton
Mario Lorgna 1765--1785, a cura di Ugo
Baldini e Pietro Nastasi, Roma,
Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta
dei Xl 1988, 142 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
Franco Crispini Book Review: \booktitleCharles Dedeyan,
Diderot et la pensée anglaise, Firenze,
Leo S. Olschki Editore 1987, 365 pp. . . 237--242
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Robert G. W. Anderson,
Christopher Lawrence (Eds.), Science,
Medicine and Dissent: Joseph Priestley
(1733--1804), London, Wellcome Trust/
Science Museum 1987, xi + 105 pp. . . . 242--245
Martin Guntau Book Review: Rudolf Stichweh,
\booktitleZur Entstehung des modernen
Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.
Physik in Deutschland 1740--1890,
Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1984,
559 S. (ISBN 3-518-57688-7) . . . . . . 245--247
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Claude Bénichou e Claude
Blanckaert (a dura di),
\booktitleJulien-Joseph Virey,
naturaliste et anthropologue. Paris,
Vrin 1988, pp. 291, FF 129 . . . . . . . 247--250
Carmela Morabito Book Review: Girolamo De Liguori,
Materialismo inquieto. Bari, Laterza
1988, 238 pp., L. 31.000 . . . . . . . . 250--252
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Gillian Beer,
\booktitleDarwin's plots. Evolutionary
narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and
Nineteenth-Century fiction, London,
Boston, Melbourne and Henley, Ark
Paperbacks 1983, xi, 303 pp. . . . . . . 253--254
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Marjorie Grene (ed.),
\booktitleDimensions of Darwinism.
Themes and counter-themes in
Twentieth-Century evolutionary theory,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press;
Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences
de l'Homme 1983, pp. ix, 336 . . . . . . 254--256
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Ernst Haeckel,
\booktitleDas System der Medusen. Erster
Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Mit
einem Atlas von vierzig Tafeln. Reprint
of the original two volumes (vol. 1 =
text, vol. 2 = atlas) published in Jena:
1880, with an Epilogue (in German and
English) by Georg Uschmann (Dokumente
zur Geschichte von Naturwissenschaft,
Medizin und Technik, 9) Jena: Veb Gustav
Fischer Verlag 1986 . . . . . . . . . . 256--259
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Renzo E. Scossiroli (a cura
di), \booktitleI primi passi della
genetica. Scoperta e riscoperta delle
leggi di Mendel sull'ereditariet\`a dei
caratteri, (Italian) [The first steps of
genetics. Discovery and rediscovery of
the laws of Mendel's inheritance of
characteristics]. Milano, Jaka Book
1987, 108 pp., L. 15.000 . . . . . . . . 259--260
Carl Ipsen Book Review: Robert N. Proctor, Racial
hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University
Press 1988, 414 pp. including
appendixes, bibliography, notes, index +
43 figures, US\$34.95 (cloth)} . . . . . 261--265
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Mara Miniati Book Review: Alan Stimson, \booktitleThe
Mariner's Astrolabe. A survey of known,
surviving sea astrolabes. Utrecht, Hes
Publishers 1988, 191 pp., 1 tav. f.t . . 267--268
Mara Miniati Book Review: Roberto Panicali, Orologi e
orologiai del Rinascimento italiano. La
scuola urbinate / l'horlogérie d'intërieur
italienne au XVIe siécle et l'École du
Duch d'Urbino / Sixteenth Century
Italian Chamber clocks and the Urbino
School. Urbino, Quattro Venti 1988, 145
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Mara Miniati Book Review: Paolo Francesco Forlati,
Segnatempo $ \ll $ veronensis $ \gg $.
Verona, Grafiche Fiorini 1987, 163 pp. 269--270
Mara Miniati Book Review: Maya Hambly, Drawing
Instruments 1580--1980. London,
Sotheby's Publications 1988, 206 pp. . . 270--270
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleLa Misura del
Tempo dall'orologio solare all'orologio
atomico. (Italian) [The measure of time
from the sundial to the atomic clock].
Milano, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e
della Tecnica 1988, 98 pp., L. 40.000 270--271
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleOrologi negli
arredi del Palazzo Reale di Torino e
delle residenze sabaude. (Italian)
[Watches in the furnishings of the Royal
Palace of Turin and the Savoy
residences] Milano, Fabbri Editori 1988,
367 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Mara Miniati Book Review: Henrique Morize,
Observatorio Astronomico --- um século de
historia (1827--1927). Rio de Janeiro,
Museu de Astronomia e Ciencias Afins
1987, 179 pp. (Coleçao Documentos de
Historia da Ciencia, 1) . . . . . . . . 272--272
Mara Miniati Book Review: Agnese Visconti, I 150 anni
del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di
Milano (1838--1988). Milano, Museo
Civico di Storia Naturale 1988, 51 pp. 272--273
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Giorgio e Michele
Bellagarda, Storia Illustrata dell'Arte
Dentaria. Torino, Edizioni Minerva
Medica 1987, 367 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Heinrich Schipperges, Il
giardino della salute. La medicina nel
medioevo. Milano, Garzanti 1988, 273
pp., L. 19.500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Donatella Lippi Book Review: C. Coury, La medicina
dell'America precolombiana, Saronno,
Ciba-Geigy Edizioni 1987 (Ed. originale:
La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne,
Paris, R. Dacosta 1969 e 1982, 305 pp.) 274--276
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: \booktitleDi sana pianta.
Erbari e taccuini di sanit\`a. Le radici
della nuova farmacologia. (Italian)
[From scratch: herbals and notebooks on
health. The roots of the new
pharmacology]. Modena, edizioni Panini
1988, 159 pp., L. 30.000 . . . . . . . . 276--277
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Penso, Le piante
medicinali nell'arte e nella storia,
Saronno, Ciba-Geigy Edizioni 1986 (Ed.
originale: Les plantes médicinales dans
l'art et l'histoire, Paris, Ed. R.
Dacosta 1986, 300 pp.) . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Giorgio Cosmacini, La
Medicina e la sua storia, Milano,
Rizzoli 1989, 236 pp., L. 32.000 . . . . 278--279
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ronald L. Numbers (ed.),
Medicine in the New World. New Spain,
New France, and New England, Knoxville,
The University of Tennessee Press 1987,
175 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--281
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Peter N. Stearns (ed.),
Expanding the Past: A Reader in Social
History. Essays from the $ \ll $ Journal
of Social History $ \gg $, New
York-London, New York University Press
1988, x + 394 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda
Outram (ed.s), Uneasy Careers and
Intimate Lives. Women in Science
1789--1979, with a Foreword by Margaret
W. Rossiter, New Brunswick-London,
Rutgers University Press 1987, xv + 365
pp. ($ \ll $ the Douglass series on
women's lives and the meaning of gender
$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Francis Paul Prucha,
\booktitleThe Indians in American
Society. From the Revolutionary War to
the Present, Berkeley--Los Angeles,
University of California Press 1988, x +
127 pp. ($ \ll $ A Quantum Book $ \gg $
) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd,
Scienza folclore ideologia. Le scienze
della vita nella Grecia antica. Torino,
Boringhieri 1987 ($ \ll $ Societ\`a
antiche $ \gg $ ), 225 pp., bibl., ind 287--288
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Christian Wildberg,
\booktitleJohn Philoponus' Criticism of
Aristotele's Theory of Aether.
Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter 1988
($ \ll $ Peripatoi.
Philo-logisch-historische Studien zum
Aristotelismus $ \gg $, Bd. 16), 274
pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Gilbert de Poitiers et ses
contemporains. \booktitleAux origines de
la$ \ll $Logica modernorum$ \gg $. Actes
du septi\`eme symposium européen
d'histoire de la logique et de la
sémantique médiévales. Centre d'Études
Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale de
Poitiers. Poitiers 17--22 juin 1985,
edité par Jean Jolivet et Alain de
Libera. Napoli, Bibliopolis 1987 ($ \ll
$ History of Logic $ \gg $, V), 481 pp.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Marilyn McCord Adams,
William Ockham. Notre Dame, Indiana,
University of Notre Dame Press 1987 ($
\ll $ Publications in Medieval Studies.
The Medieval Institute. University of
Notre Dame $ \gg $, XXVI/1--2), 2 voll.,
1402 pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Jole Agrimi, Chiara
Crisciani, Edocere medicos. Medicina
scolastica nei secoli XIII--XV. Napoli,
Guerini e associati 1988 (Istituto
Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, $ \ll
$ Hippocratica civitas $ \gg $, II), 309
pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Luca Bianchi,
\booktitleL'inizio dei tempi.
Antichit\`a e novit\`a del mondo da
Bonaventura a Newton, (Italian) [The
beginning of time. Antiquity and news of
the world from Bonaventure to Newton].
Firenze, L. S. Olschki Editore 1987 ($
\ll $ Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza
$ \gg $, 26), 113 pp., ind . . . . . . . 298--299
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Rapporti tra le
Universit\`a di Padova e Bologna.
Ricerche di filosofia, medicinae
scienza. Omaggio dell'Universit\`a di
Padova all'$ \ll $Alma Mater$ \gg $
bolognese nel suo nono centenario, a
cura di Lucia Rossetti. Trieste,
Edizioni Lint 1988 (Centro per la Storia
dell'Universit\`a di Padova. $ \ll $
Contributi $ \gg $, 20), 439 pp., ill.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Paolo Malanima, I piedi di
legno. Una macchina alle origini
dell'industria medievale, Milano, Franco
Angeli 1988 ($ \ll $ Studi e ricerche
storiche $ \gg $, 110), 149 pp., ill.,
bibl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Silvia Parigi Book Review: John W. Yolton,
\booktitlePerceptual Acquaintance from
Descartes to Reid, Oxford, Basil
Blackwell 1984, x-248 pp. . . . . . . . 303--304
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Jonathan Dancy, Berkeley:
An Introduction, Oxford and New York,
Basil Blackwell 1987, 165 pp. . . . . . 304--305
Mara Miniati Book Review: Bossi M.--Tucci P. (eds.),
Bicentennial commemoration of R. G.
Boscovich. Milano, September 15--18,
1987. Proceedings. s.l., Edizioni
Unicopli 1988, 281 pp. . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Mara Miniati Book Review: Danilo Barsanti, Stanislao
Canovai e Gaetano Del Ricco. Il
sodalizio umano e scientifico di due
scolopi fiorentini fra XVIII e XIX
secolo. Firenze, Osservatorio Ximeniano
1988, 105 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Harold B. Carter, Sir
Joseph Banks 1743--1820, London, British
Museum (Natural History) 1988, xi + 671
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Mara Miniati Book Review: Renato Pasta, Scienza
politica e rivoluzione. l'opera di
Giovanni Fabbroni (1752--1822)
intellettuale e funzionario al servizio
dei Lorena, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
Editore 1989, 639 pp. . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Marco Beretta Book Review: Roberto Matocchi, La 'belle
époque ' dell'atomo. Ricerche sulla
vittoria dell'atomismo del primo
novecento, Milano, Franco Angeli Editore
1988, 315 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franco Soresini, La radio
--- Wireless sets. Milano, Be-Ma
Editrice 1988, 141 pp. ($ \ll $
Itinerari d'immagini $ \gg $, 14) . . . 311--311
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 313--350
Gabriele Baroncini Note Sulla Formazione Del Lessico della
Metafora Machina Mundi . . . . . . . . . 3--30
J. V. Field and
R. Lunardi and
T. B. Settle The Perspective Scheme of Masaccio's
Trinity Fresco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--118
Marco Beretta Gli Scienziati Italiani e la Rivoluzione
Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--146
A. Mandrino and
G. Tagliaferri and
P. Tucci G. B. Amici's Telescopes for Brera
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--164
Mario De Gregorio Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 165--211
Anonymous Indice Cronologico . . . . . . . . . . . 212--214
Anonymous Indice Alfabetico . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
Carl Fredrick Scheffer I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Antonio Catellacci II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
William Thomson III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Vincenzo Dandolo IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
Lazzaro Spallanzani V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Lazzaro Spallanzani VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Giacomo Barzellotti VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Giovanni Fabbroni VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Giovanni Fabbroni IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
Guillaume Antoine Benot Capelle X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Charles Philibert De Lasteyrie Du Saillant XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Barthelemy Faujas De Saint Fond XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Andr Thouin XIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Pierre Henry Hippolyte Bodard XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--237
Rene Just Hauy XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Stefano Borson XVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Giovanni Battista Mazzoni XVII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Giovanni Battista Mazzoni XVIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
Paolo Savi XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Augustin Pyramus De Candolle XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--248
Marinella Calisi L'Origine delle Collezioni Scientifiche
del Museo Astronomico e Copernicano in
Roma alla Fine del XIX Secolo . . . . . 249--263
Anonymous Documenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--302
Ferdinando Abbri The Chemical Revolution: a Critical
Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--315
Gerard L'E. Turner Book Review: J. A. Bennett, the Divided
Circle: A History of Instruments for
Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying.
Oxford, Phaidon-Christie's 1987, 224
pp., 260 illustrations, \pounds 45.00 317--318
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William R. Shea (Ed.),
\booktitleRevolutions in Science. Their
Meaning and Relevance. Canton, Science
History Publications/U.S.A. 1988, pp. xi
+ 291 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--321
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ingrid Merkel, Allen G.
Debus (Ed.s), Hermeticism and the
Renaissance. Intellectual History and
the Occult in Early Modern Europe.
Washington, the Folger Shakespeare
Library, London and Toronto, Associated
University Presses 1988, 438 pp. (Folger
Books) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--326
Charles Webster Book Review: \booktitleParacelsus und
Paracelsisten: Vorträge 1984/85.
Salzburger Beiträge zur
Paracelsusforschung, Folge 25, (German)
[Paracelsus and Paracelsists: Lectures
1984/85. Salzburg Paracelsus
contributions to research, Episode 25],
Verband der wissenschaftlichen
Gesellschaft Österreichs, Vienna 1987,
190 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Carlo Sarti, \booktitleI
fossili e il diluvio universale. Le
collezioni settecentesche del Museo di
Geologia e Paleontologia
dell'Universit\`a di Bologna. Bologna,
Pitagora 1988, xvi + 189 pp., L. 25.000 327--330
Javier Ordoez and
Alberto Elena Book Review: Horacio Capel, Joan Eugeni
Snchez, Omar Moncada, \booktitleDe Palas
a Minerva. La formación científica y la
estructura institucional de los
ingenieros militares en el siglo XVIII.
Barcellona-Madrid, Libros de Serbal
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas 1988, 390 pp. . . . . . . . . 330--331
Marco Beretta Book Review: Tore Frngsmyr (Ed.),
Science in Sweden, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences 1739--1989. Canton,
Ma, Science History Publications 1989,
viii + 291 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: Serge Borsa, Claude-Ren
Michel, \booktitleGli ospedali in
Francia nel XIX secolo, a cura di Cesare
Stevan. Milano, Edizioni Unicopli 1987,
209 pp. (ed. originale: \booktitleLa vie
quotidienne des Hôpitaux en France au
XIXe si\`ecle, Paris, Hachette 1985) . . 333--335
Marco Beretta Book Review: W. Strube, Der historische
Weg der Chemie, von der Urzeit bis zur
industriellen Revolution. Leipzig, Veb
Deutscher Verlag fr Grundstoffindustrie
1984--1986, 2 voll., 188 e 219 pp. . . . 335--336
Elena Castellani Book Review: Klaus Mainzer, Symmetrien
der Natur. Ein Handbuch zur Natur-und
Wissenschaftsphilosophie. Berlin/New
York, De Gruyter 1988, xi-739 pp. . . . 336--343
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: F. Fenner, D. A. Henderson,
I. Arita, Z. Jezek, I. D. Ladnyi,
Smallpox and its Eradication. Geneva,
World Health Organization 1988, 1464 pp. 343--345
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Pierre Huard, Zensetsou
Ohya, Ming Wong, La medicina giapponese
dalle origini ai nostri giorni. Milano,
Ciba-Geigy 1988, 312 pp. . . . . . . . . 345--346
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Mara Miniati Book Review: Musiques mécaniques. Musée
Savoisi en Chambry 1er décembre 1988--1er
mars 1989. Chambry, Nallet 1988, 198
pp., fig. + 1 disco 45 giri . . . . . . 347--348
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Alfonso Pulchinotta, Storia
illustrata della senologia. Fra scienza
e mito. Saranno, Ciba-Geigy Edizioni
1989, 573 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Patrizia Guarnieri Book Review: Salvatore Trinchese, Opere,
a cura di Guido Cimino. Roma-Napoli,
Edizioni Theoria 1989, 326 pp. . . . . . 349--350
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Israel Rosenfield,
l'invenzione della memoria. Milano,
Rizzoli 1989, 248 pp. . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Ferdinando Abbri Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Carl-Wilhelm Scheele-Ehrung
1986, Akademie der Wissenschaften der
Ddr. Institut fur Theorie, Geschichte
und Organisation der Wissenschaft.
Berlin 1987 (Kolloquien 62), 231 pp. . . 354--356
Marco Beretta Book Review: A. Greiner, H. Klare (a
cura di), Chemiker ber Chemiker,
Wahlvorschlge zur Aufnahme von Chemikern
in die Berliner Akademie 1822--1925.
Berlin, Akademie Verlag 1986, 253 pp. 356--357
Giulio Barsanti Botanica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Stefano Caroti Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 358--359
Stefano Caroti Book Review: John D. North, Stars, Minds
and Fate. Essays in Ancient and Medieval
Cosmology. London and Ronceverte, the
Hambledon Press 1989, 429 pp., ill. ind.
John D. North, the Universal Frame.
Historical Essays in Astronomy Natural
Philosophy and Scientific Method. London
and Ronceverte, the Hambledon Press
1989, 384 pp., ill. ind . . . . . . . . 359--360
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Claude Lafleur, Quatre
introductions la philosophie au XIIIe
siécle. Textes critiques et tude
critique. Montral-Paris, Institut
d'Études Médiévales de Montréal ---
Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin 1988,
428 pp., ill., bibl., ind. (Universiteé
de Montréal. Publications de l'Institut
d'Études Médiévales, XXIII) . . . . . . . . 360--361
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Pietro Nastasi (a cura di),
Atti del Convegno Il Meridione e le
Scienze (secoli XVI--XIX). Palermo,
14--16 Maggio 1985. Palermo, Tipografia
Luxograph 1988, 621 pp. (Istituto
Gramsci Siciliano, Acta 1) . . . . . . . 363--364
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Clelia Pighetti,
\booktitleL'Influsso scientifico di
Robert Boyle nel tardo '600 italiano.
Milano, Franco Angeli 1988, 275 pp.
(Filosofia e scienza nel Cinquecento e
nel Seicento) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: André Robinet, \booktitleG.
W. Leibniz Iter Italicum (Mars 1689-Mars
1690). La dynamique de la République des
Lettres. Nombreux textes inédits.
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore 1988,
viii + 493 pp. (Accademia Toscana di
Scienze e Lettere `La Colombaria', Studi
XC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleCultura e
societ\`a nel Settecento lorenese.
Arezzoe la Fratenita dei laici.
(Italian) [Culture and society in
Eighteenth Century Lorraine. Arezzoe of
the Brotherhood of Laity]. Firenze,
Olschki Editore 1988, 310 pp.
(Biblioteca Storica Toscana. Sezione di
storia del Risorgimento, a cura della
Societ\`a Toscana di Storia del
Risorgimento 14) . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Mara Miniati Book Review: Agnese Visconti,
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
(1707--1788). Milano, Museo Civico di
Storia Naturale di Milano 1988, 35 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Stefano Casati Book Review: Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica, \booktitleMallet's
macroseismic survey on the Neapolitan
earthquake of 16th December 1857.
Emanuela Guidoboni and Graziano Ferrari
editors. Bologna, Sga 1987. Voll. 4 . . 369--369
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: George Levine (Ed.), One
Culture. Essays in Science and
Literature. With the assistance of Alan
Rauch. Madison, The University of
Wisconsin Press 1987, viii + 359 pp.
(Science and Literature) . . . . . . . . 370--372
Anonymous Attivit Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze I . . . . . . . 373--382
Dario Generali Pubblichiamo qui di seguito le
considerazioni di Dario Generali sulla
recensione di Giulio Barsantia G. A. di
Porcia, Notizie della Vita, e degli
Studi del Kavalier Antonio Vallisneri
(Nuncius III, 1988, fasc. 2). Ad esse
segue la replica di Giulio Barsanti . . 383--387
Giulio Barsanti Alla Direzione di Nuncius . . . . . . . 387--398
Bernard R. Goldstein Galileo's Account of Astronomical
Miracles in the \booktitleBible: a
Confusion of Sources . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Stefano Casati Giuseppe Toaldo: la Luna, Il Saros e Le
Meteore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42
Brian Gee Faraday's Plight and the Origins of the
Magneto-Electric Spark . . . . . . . . . 43--69
Danielle Fauque Amici et le Principe de Duplication
d'Image: Le Micrométre d'Amici . . . . . 71--77
Ezio Vaccari Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 79--126
Zarko Muljaci\'c Per un Inventario Del Carteggio di
Alberto Fortis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--203
Renato G. Mazzolini Éloge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--238
Marco Segala Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
Marco Beretta Book Review: W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne e
R. Porter, Dizionario di storia della
scienza, Roma, Theoria 1988 (Ed.
originale Dictionary of the History of
Science, London, MacMillan Press 1981),
566 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Marco Beretta Book Review: Helge Kragh, An
introduction to the historiography of
science, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press 1987, viii + 235 pp. . . . . . . . 258--260
Piero Morpurgo Book Review: R. M. Thomson (ed.),
Alexander Nequam Speculum Speculationum,
Oxford, the British Academy 1988, xxiii
+ 507 pp. ($ \ll $ Auctores Britannici
Medii Aevi $ \gg $, XI) . . . . . . . . 260--262
Piero Morpurgo Book Review: J. K. Otte,
\booktitleAlfred of Sareshel's
Commentary on the Metheora of Aristotle,
Leiden 1988, viii + 131 pp. ($ \ll $
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte
des Mittelalters $ \gg $, XIX) . . . . . 262--265
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Jean-Claude Martzloff,
Histoire des Mathématiques Chinoises,
Paris, Masson 1988, 375 pp. . . . . . . 265--268
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Anthony Pagden,
\booktitleLa caduta dell'uomo naturale.
L'indiano d'America e le origini
dell'etnologia comparata, Torino,
Einaudi 1989, xxvi + 300 pp. ($ \ll $
Einaudi Paperbacks 197 $ \gg $ ) . . . . 269--271
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Rachel Laudan, From
Mineralogy to Geology. The Foundation of
a Science, 1650--1830, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press
1987, xii + 278 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
Luisa Simonutti Book Review: Nicholas Tyacke,
Anti-Calvinists. The Rise of English
Arminianism, c. 1590--1640, Oxford,
Clarendon Presso 1987, 305 pp. . . . . . 275--276
Mara Miniati Book Review: Centre Regional De
Publication De Paris, Jean Picard et les
débuts de l'astronomie de précision au
XVIIe si\`ecle. Actes du colloque du
tricentenaire édités par Guy Picolet,
Paris, Éditions du Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique 1987, 382 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
Luisa Simonutti Book Review: \booktitleHenri Basnage de
Beauval en de $ \ll $ histoire des
ouvrages des savans$ \gg $, 1687--1709.
Verkennigen binnen de Republiek der
Letteren aan de vooravond van de
verlichting, (Dutch) [asnage Henri de
Beauval and the $ l l $Histoire des
ouvrages des savans$ \gg $ [history of
the works of scientists]: 1687--1709:
studies in the Republic of Letters on
the eve of lighting] uitgegeven door
Hans Bots, Amsterdam, Holland
Universiteits Pers, eerste druk 1976, 2
voll., s.p.i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Rainer Baasner, Das Lob der
Sternkunst. Astronomie in der deutschen
Aufklärung, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht 1987, 239 pp., ill.
(Abhandlungen der Akademie der
Wissenschaften in Göttingen.
Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse, 3.
Folge Nr. 40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Marco Beretta Book Review: Jeremy Adler, $ \ll $ Eine
fast magische Anziehungskraft $ \gg $.
Goethes Wahlvervandtschaften und die
Chemie seiner Zeit, München, Verlag C. H.
Beck 1987, 260 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 284--286
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ludmilla Jordanova,
\booktitleSexual Visions. Images of
Gender in Science and Medicine between
the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf
1989, xiii + 207 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Carmela Morabito Book Review: Mary A. B. Brazier, A
History of Neurophysiology in the 19th
Century, New York, Raven Press 1988, xvi
+ 265 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--292
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Tommaso Detti, Fabrizio
Maffi. Vita di un medico socialista,
Milano, Franco Angeli 1987, 311 pp. . . 292--295
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Christoph Kockerbeck,
Ernest Haeckels $ \ll $ Kunstformen der
Natur $ \gg $ und ihr Einfluß auf die
deutsche bildende Kunst der
Jahrhundertwende. Studie zum Verhältnis
von Kunst und Naturwissenschaften im
Wilhelminischen Zeitalter, Frankfurt am
Main, Peter Lang 1986, v + 246 pp., SFR
56,00 ($ \ll $ European University
Studies, Series XX $ \gg $, Vol. 194) 295--296
Marco Beretta Book Review: Héléne Metzger, \booktitleLa
méthode philosophique en histoire des
sciences. Textes 1914--1939, Paris,
Fayard 1987, 277 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 296--298
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Robert J. Russell, William
R. Stoeger S.J., George V. Coyne S.J.
(eds.), Physics, Philosophy and
Theology: a Common Quest for
Understanding, Vatican City State 1988,
419 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Paolo Bozzi, Fenomenologia
sperimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino 1989 ($
\ll $ Ricerca $ \gg $ ), 337 pp. . . . . 303--304
Luca Ciancio Book Review: S. Warren Carey, Theories
of the Earth and Universe. A History of
Dogma in the Earth Sciences, Stanford,
Stanford University Press 1988, xviii +
413 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: \booktitleCivilt\`a delle
macchine. Antologia di una rivista
1953--1957, a cura di Vanni Scheiwiller,
Milano, Libri Scheiwiller-Finmeccanica
1988, 529 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--308
F. W. P. Dougherty Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 309--309
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Roy Porter (a cura di),
Dizionario Biografico della Storia della
Medicina e delle Scienze Naturali.
Milano, Franco Maria Ricci editore 1989,
243 pp. Vol. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Luisa Simonutti Book Review: \booktitleLetteree carte
Magliabechi. Inventario cronologico a
cura di Manuela Doni Garfagnini, Roma,
Istituto storico italiano per l'etä
moderna e contemporanea 1988, xxii-651
pp., L. 45.000 ($ \ll $ Fonti per la
Storia d'Italia $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . 310--311
Mara Miniati Book Review: Livia Giacardi, Clara
Silvia Roero (a cura di), Bibliotheca
Mathematica. Documenti per la storia
della matematica nelle biblioteche
torinesi. Catalogazione di Giuseppe
Slaviero. Torino, Umberto Allemandi & C.
1987, 222 pp., fig., L. 50.000 . . . . . 312--312
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Dietrich Von Engelhardt
(compilor), Wissenschaftsgeschichte auf
den Versammlungen der Gesellschaft
Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
1822--1972. Bibliographie der Vorträge
und allgemeine Übersicht (Schriftenreihe
zu Geschichte der Versammlungen der
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und
Ärzte, Bd. 4). Stuttgart,
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
1987, 206 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Mara Mintati Book Review: Pier Luigi Bassignana (a
cura di), La cultura delle macchine dal
Medioevo alla rivoluzione industriale
nei documenti dell'Archivio storico
Amma. Testi di Andrea Barghini, Pier
Luigi Bassignana, Ferruccio Gambaruto,
Vittorio Marchis. Torino, Umberto
Allemandi & C. 1989, 109 pp. + 77 n.n.,
fig., L. 70.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Mara Miniati Book Review: Orazio Curti, Visione e
realt\`a. Le invenzioni di oggi sognate
secoli fa. Milano, Rizzoli 1989, 143
pp., fig., L. 70.000 . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Mara Miniati Book Review: Comune di Campogalliano,
Bilance Bascule Stadere. Modena,
edizioni il Bulino 1987, 69 pp., fig . . 315--315
Mara Miniati Book Review: Atti del Convegno di Studi
$ \ll $Architettura militare nell'Europa
del XVI secolo$ \gg $ Firenze, 25--28
Novembre 1986, a cura di Carlo Cresti,
Amelio Fara, Daniela Lamberini. Siena,
Edizioni Periccioli 1988, 448 pp. . . . 316--317
Mara Miniati Book Review: Amelio Fara, Il sistema e
la citt\`a. Architettura fortificata
dell'Europa moderna dai trattati alle
realizzazioni 1464--1794. Genova, Sagep
Editrice 1989, 267 pp., fig . . . . . . 317--318
Mara Miniati Book Review: Elena Tamagno, Fornaci.
Terre e pietre per l'ars aedificandi.
Con un saggio introduttivo di Roberto
Gabetti. Torino, Umberto Allemandi & C.
1987, 174 pp., fig., L. 85.000 . . . . . 318--318
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Huldrych M. Koelbing,
\booktitleStoria della terapia medica.
Momenti fondamentali. Milano, Edizioni
Ciba-Geigy 1989, 221 pp. . . . . . . . . 318--319
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Martin Weber, Georg
Christian Gottlieb Wedekind 1761--1831.
Werdegang und Schicksal eines Arztes im
Zeitalter der Aufkärung und der
Französischen Revolution (Mit einem
Anhang: Wedekinds Diatetikvorlesung von
1789/1790), Stuttgart-New York, Gustav
Fischer Verlag (Soemmerring-Forschungen.
Beitrage zur Naturwissenschaft und
Medizin der Neuzeit, Band Iv), 1988, 465
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Mirko D. Grmek, Aids.
Storia di una epidemia attuale, Bari,
Laterza 1989, 330 pp. (Titolo originale:
Histoire du Sida, Edition Payot, Paris
1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Udo Benzenhöfer,
\booktitleJohannes de Rupescissa Liber
de consideratione quintae essentiae
omnium rerum-deutsch. Studien zur
Alchemia medica des 15. bis 17.
Jahrhunderts mit kritischer Edition des
Textes, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag
Wiesbaden GmbH 1989, 213 pp. ($ \ll $
Heidelberger Studien zur Naturkunde der
frühen Neuzeit, Herausgegeben von
Wolf-Dieter Muller-Jahncke und Joachim
Telle. Band 1 $ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . 322--323
Marco Beretta Book Review: Ingrid KÄStner, Paracelsus.
Leipzig, Bsb B. G. Teubner 1985, 92 pp. 324--324
Marco Beretta Book Review: A. L. Lavoisier, Memorie
scientifiche. Metodo e linguaggio nella
nuova chimica (a cura di Ferdinando
Abbri). Roma, Theoria 1986, 204 pp. . . 325--325
Silvia Parigi Book Review: David H. Hubel, Occhio,
cervello e visione, Bologna, Zanichelli
1989 ($ \ll $ Nuovi classici della
scienza $ \gg $ ), 250 pp. . . . . . . . 326--326
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Aufstieg und Niedergang der
römischen Welt (ANRW). Geschichte und
Kultur Roms im Spiegelder neueren
Forschung. Teil II: Principat, Band 36:
Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 1.
Teilband: Philosophie (Historische
Einleitung, Platonismus). 2. Teilband:
Philosophie (Platonismus [Forts.];
Aristotelismus), Hrsg. von Wolfgang
Haase, Berlin-New York, Walter de
Gruyter 1987, 1322 pp. . . . . . . . . . 327--330
Stefano Casati Book Review: Francescanesimo e cultura
in Sicilia (Secc. XIII--XVI). Atti del
convegno internazionale di studio
nell'ottavo centenario della nascita di
San Francesco d'Assisi. Palermo, 7--12
marzo 1982, $ \ll $ Schede medievali $
\gg $, n. 12--13, gennaio--dicembre
1987, 491 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John Boswell,
\booktitleCristianesimo, tolleranza,
omosessualita. La Chiesa e gli
omosessuali dalle origini al XIV secolo,
(Italian) [Christianity, tolerance,
homosexuality. The Church and
homosexuals from its origin to the
fourteenth century] Milano, Leonardo
Editore 1989, 512 pp. . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Patrick Gautier Dalché, La $
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Hugues de Saint Victor. Texte Inédit avec
introduction et commentaire, Paris,
Études Augustiniennes 1988, 228 pp.,
bibl., ind., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Mara Miniati Book Review: Marja Mendera, La
produzione di vetro nella Toscana
bassomedievale. Lo scavo della vetreria
di Germagnana in Valdelsa. Firenze,
Edizioni all'insegna del Giglio 1989, 90
pp., fig., L. 25.000 ($ \ll $ Quaderni
del Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia
delle Arti Sezioni
archeologica--Universit\`a di Siena $
\gg $, 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Dennis E. Rhodes, Gli
annali tipografici fiorentini del XV
secolo, Prefazione di Roberto Ridolfi,
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki 1988 ($ \ll $
Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana $
\gg $, Cxiii), 149 pp., ill., ind . . . 337--337
Sandra Plastina Book Review: Silvana Seidel Menchi,
Erasmo in Italia 1520--1580, Torino,
Bollati Boringhieri 1987, 530 pp. . . . 338--341
Sandra Plastina Book Review: Michele Ciliberto, La ruota
del tempo. Interpretazione di Giordano
Bruno, Roma, Editori Riuniti 1986, 249
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William H. Huffman, Robert
Fludd and the End of the Renaissance,
London and New York, Routledge 1988, xii
+ 252 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Alan Bray, Homosexuality in
Renaissance England, 2nd ed., London,
the Gay Men's Press 1988, 156 pp. . . . 346--347
Mara Miniati Book Review: Enrico Gamba, Vico
Montebelli (a cura di), Galileo Galilei
e gli scienziati del Ducato di Urbino,
Urbino, QuattroVenti 1989, 79 pp., fig 348--348
Luisa Simonutti Book Review: François Laplanche,
l'Écriture, le sacré et l'histoire. Érudits
et politiques protestants devant la
Bible en France au XVIIe si\`ecle,
Amsterdam & Maarssen, Apa-Holland
University Press, Diffusion en France:
Presses Universitaires de Lille 1986,
xxxvi-1017 pp., 10 ill. (ISBN * 90 302
1012 5) (Sib 12), s.p.i . . . . . . . . 348--350
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: The Leibniz Renaissance.
International Workshop (Firenze, 2--5
giugno 1986), Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
Editore 1989, 305 pp. ($ \ll $
Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza $ \gg
$, Vol. 28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Marco Beretta Book Review: A. L. Lavoisier, De la
richesse territoriale du Royaume de
France, (Texte et documents présentés par
J. C. Perrot), Paris, Éditions du Comite
des Travaux historiques et scientifiques
1988, 269 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
Marco Beretta Book Review: Raffaele De Grada, Vita
Firenza, Dario Generali, La cultura a
Milano tra riformismo illuminato e
rivoluzione, Milano, Vangelista 1989,
149 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Gaudenzi --- R. Satolli,
Jean-Paul Marat. Scienziato e
rivoluzionario, Milano, Mursia 1989, 410
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Dorinda Outram, the Body
and the French Revolution. Sex, Class
and Political Culture, New Haven-London,
Yale University Press 1989, ix + 197 pp. 355--357
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: Teresa Isenburg,
Viaggiatori naturalisti italiani in
Brasile nell'Ottocento, Milano, Franco
Angeli 1989, 119 pp. ($ \ll $ Geografia
umana. Collana diretta da Lucio Gambi $
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franz Pesendorfer, Leopoldo
II di Lorena. La vita dell'ultimo
Granduca di Toscana (1824--1859),
Firenze, Sansoni Editore 1989, 446 pp.,
L. 75.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Mara Miniati Book Review: Leonardo Rombai, P.
Giovanni Inghirami. Astronomo, geodeta e
cartografo. $ \ll $ l'illustrazione
geografica della Toscana $ \gg $,
Firenze, Osservatorio Ximeniano 1989,
183 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Marco Beretta Book Review: Pelageya Kochina, Love and
mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya, Moscow,
Mir Publishers Moscow 1985, 340 pp. . . 360--360
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Donald E. Brown, Hierarchy,
History, and Human Nature. The Social
Origins of Historical Consciousness,
Tucson, The University of Arizona Press
1988, x + 384 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Anonymous Book Review: Primo Boselli, Il museo
della radio / the radio collector,
Firenze, Edizioni Medicea 1989, 345 pp.,
fig., L. 36.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--382
Giovanna Baroncelli and
Massimo Bucciantini L'Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . 5--52
Cecilia Trifogli Continuit\`a e Discontinuit\`a Delle
Grandezze Fisiche in Egidio Romano.
(Italian) [Continuity and discontinuity
of physical quantities in Giles of Rome] 53--73
Paolo Gozza Atomi, 'Spiritus', Suoni: Le
Speculationi di Musica (1670) Del
'Galileiano' Pietro Mengoli . . . . . . 75--98
Giulio Barsanti Storia Naturale Delle Scimmie 1600--1800 99--165
Claude Blanckaert La Thologie Naturelle De Louis-François
Jhan (1803--1871) . . . . . . . . . . . 167--204
Isaia Iannaccone Il Feng Shuie la Bussola Geomantica
Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . 205--219
Stillman Drake Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 221--228
Stefano Caroti La Biblioteca di Romelio Da Brescia
Magister Artium Et Medicine . . . . . . 229--248
Carlo Castellani Un'Edizione Computerizzata di Alcuni
Manoscritti di Lazzaro Spallanzani . . . 249--260
Anonymous Schede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--265
Silvia Parigi Alle Origini Dell'Et Moderna: Arti,
Magia, Scienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
Paolo Brenni Il Patrimonio Storico-Scientifico
Italiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--280
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Paul U. Unschuld,
Introductory readings in classical
Chinese medicine. Dordrecht, Kluwer
Academic Publishers 1988, pp. 463,
US\$54.00, UK\pounds 47.00 } . . . . . . 281--283
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Ivan Garofalo, Erasistrati
fragmenta, Pisa, Giardini Editori e
Stampatori 1988, ix + 215 pp.
(Biblioteca di studi antichi, 62) . . . 284--288
Alain Touwaide Book Review: P. Potter, Short Handbook
of Hippocratic Medicine, Québec, Les
Éditions du Sphinx 1988, 59 pp. 4
planches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--290
Dulce Liars Vilaplana Book Review: Barnabas B. Hugues,
\booktitleRobert of Chester's Latin
Translation of al-khwrisms al Jabr.
(Al-kitb al-mukhtasar f hisb al-jabr
wa'l-muqbala / Liber algebre et
al-muchabala), Wiesbaden Stuttgart,
Franz Steiner Verlag 1989, 67 pp. + 6
pp. de gravures des trois manuscrits . . 290--294
Piero Morpurgo Book Review: Michela Pereira, the
alchemical corpus attributed to Raymond
Lull, London, the Warburg Institute ---
University of London 1989, 118 pp.
(Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts,
XVIII) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--297
Paola Potest Book Review: Francesca Salvemini,
\booktitleLa visione e il suo doppio. La
prospettiva tra arte e scienza,
(Italian) [Vision and its double.
Perspective through art and life
sciences], Bari, Laterza 1990, 182 pp.,
L. 24.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Marco Beretta Book Review: Walter Pagel, Paracelso.
Un'introduzione alla medicina filosofica
nell'et del Rinascimento. Introduzione
di Eugenio Garin, traduzione di Michele
Sampaolo, Milano, Il Saggiatore 1989,
xxii + 404 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . 298--301
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: Richard S. Westfall, Essays
on the Trial of Galileo, Vatican City,
Vatican Observatory Publications
(Special Series, Studi Galileiani, Vol.
1, No. 5); and Notre Dame (Indiana),
University of Notre Dame Press 1989, 103
pp., paperback, \$9.95} . . . . . . . . 301--307
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Harold J. Cook, the Decline
of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart
London, Ithaca and London, Cornell
University Press 1986, 310 pp. . . . . . 307--311
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Hunter,
Establishing the New Science. The
Experience of the Early Royal Society,
Woodbridge, the Boydell Press 1989, xiv
+ 382 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: M. Hunter --- S. Schaffer
(eds.), Robert Hooke. New Studies,
Woodbridge, the Boydell Press 1989, x +
310 pp., 39.50 pounds . . . . . . . . . 313--316
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Richard S. Westfall,
Newton, a cura di A. Serafini, Torino,
Einaudi 1989, 2 voll., xx + 959 pp.
(Biblioteca di cultura storica 179) . . 316--318
Javier Ordoez and
Alberto Elena Book Review: Horacio Capel, Joan Eugeni
Snchez, Omar Moncada, \booktitleDe Palas
a Minerva. La formacin científica y la
estructura institucional de los
ingenieros militares en el siglo XVIII,
Barcelona-Madrid, Libros del
Serbal-Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas 1988, 390 pp. 318--320
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Renato Pasta, Scienza
politica e rivoluzione. l'opera di
Giovanni Fabbroni (1752--1822)
intellettuale e funzionario al servizio
dei Lorena, Firenze, Olschki Editore
1989, xx + 639 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 320--323
Marco Beretta Book Review: Rapports \`a l'Empereur sur
les progrés des sciences, des lettres et
des arts depuis 1789: vol. I,
Jean-Baptiste Delambre, Sciences
Mathématiques, présentation et notes de
Jean Dhombers, 333 pp.; vol. II, Georges
Cuvier, Chimie et Sciences de la Nature,
présentation et note sous la direction de
Yves Laissus, 333 pp., Paris, Éditions
Belin 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Marco Beretta Book Review: Giovanni Santinello (a cura
di), Storia delle storie generali della
filosofia, vol. 3, Il secondo
Illuminismo e l'et Kantiana, Padova,
Editrice Antenore 1988, 2 tomi, xxi +
1057 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--328
Renato G. Mazzolini Book Review: Manfred Wenzel (ed.),
Goethe und Soemmerring. Briefwechsel
1784--1828. (Soemmerring-Forschungen,
Bd. V), Stuttgart --- New York, Gustav
Fischer Verlag 1988, 179 pp., 23 ill.,
DM. 58,- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Marco Beretta Book Review: Bettina Haupt,
Deutschsprachige Chemielehrbcher
(1775--1850), Stuttgart, Deutscher
Apotheker Verlag 1987, xiii + 424 pp. 330--331
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: David N. Livingstone,
\booktitleDarwin's forgotten defenders.
The encounter between evangelical
theology and evolutionary thought, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, William Eerdmans
Publishing Company; Edinburgh, Scottish
Academic Press 1987, xii + 210 pp.,
\pounds 7,95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 332--336
Pietro Redondi Book Review: Anastasios Brenner,
\booktitleDuhem. Science, réalité et
apparence, Préface de Maurice Boudot,
Paris, J. Vrin 1990, 249 pp. . . . . . . 337--340
Carmela Morabito Book Review: Vittorio Somenzi, Tra
fisica e filosofia, Abano Terme, Piovan
Editore 1989, 338 pp. . . . . . . . . . 340--343
Michele Vista Book Review: Robert M. Hazen,
Superconduttori. Storia di una scoperta,
Milano, Edizioni di comunit 1989, 269
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345
Ferdinando Abbri Biografie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Brian McGuinness,
\booktitleWittgenstein. Il giovane
Ludwig (1889--1921), (Italian)
[Wittgenstein. The young Ludwig
(1889--1921)]. Milano, Il Saggiatore
1990, xiii + 473 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Mara Miniati Book Review: Enrico Miotto, Giuseppe
Tagliaferri, Pasquale Tucci,
\booktitleLa strumentazione nella storia
dell'Osservatorio astronomico di Brera,
(Italian) [Instrumentation in the
history of the Astronomical Observatory
of Brera], Milano, Edizioni Unicopli
1990, 121 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Ferdinando Abbri Istituzioni Scientifiche . . . . . . . . 352--353
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fabrizio Bonoli (a cura
di), Il Museo di Astronomia, s.n.t., 8
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--353
Mara Miniati Storia della Tecnologia . . . . . . . . 354--354
Mara Miniati Book Review: Massimo Squillacciotti (a
cura di), \booktitleLavoro, industria e
cultura. Storia delle trasformazioni sul
territorio aretino (Italian) [Labor,
industry and culture. History of
transformations in the territory of
Arezzo], Perugia, Electa/Editori Umbri
Associati 1990, 171 pp., fig . . . . . . 354--354
Marco Beretta Cartografia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Donatella Lippi Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Donatella Lippi Book Review: J. J. Cocheton, J. Guerre,
H. Pequignot, \booktitleStoria
illustrata della gastroenterologia,
Editiemme 1989, 526 pp. (Edizione fuori
commercio realizzata per la Glaxo Spa.
Titolo originale \booktitleHistoire
illustré de l'hepato-gastroentrologie de
l'Antiquit\`e \`a nos jours, Parigi, R.
Dacosta 1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Huldrych M. Koelbing,
Storia della Terapia Medica. Momenti
fondamentali, Ciba-Geigy Ed., 1989, 221
pp. (Tit. Orig. Die aerztliche Therapie:
Grundzuge ihrer Geschichte, Darmstadt,
Wiss. Buchges 1985) . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Donatella Lippi Book Review: L. Sterpellone, La Medicina
Etrusca. Demoiatria di un'antica civilt,
Ciba-Geigy Ed. 1990, 198 pp. . . . . . . 361--363
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Luigi L. Barbieri, Il
Dottor Antonio Maria Valsalva e la sua
Manovra, Bologna, Clueb 1990, 166 pp.
(L. 25.000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roy Porter --- Dorothy
Porter, in Sickness and in Health. The
British Experience 1650--1850, London,
Fourth Estate 1988, 324 pp. . . . . . . 364--365
Stefano Berni Book Review: Filippo M. Ferro (a cura
di), \booktitlePassioni della mente e
della storia, (Italian) [Passions of the
mind and history]. Milano, Vita e
Pensiero 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Arnaldo Cherubini,
\booktitleMedici scrittori d'Europa e
d'America, Roma, Antonio Delfino Editore
1989, 344 pp., L. 90.000 . . . . . . . . 367--368
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Thomas A. Ban, Code-Dd.
Valutazione e diagnosi dei disturbi
depressivi, Padova, Liviana Editrice
1989, 153 pp. (L. 28.000) (Code-Dd.
Composite Diognostic Evaluation of
Depressive Disorders, 1929) . . . . . . 368--369
Marco Beretta Alchimia e Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Stefano Caroti Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 370--372
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Francisco
Marquez-Villanueva, Carlos Alberto Vega
(eds.), \booktitleAlfonso X of Castile
the Learned King (1221--1284). An
International Symposium, Harvard
University, 17 November 1984, Cambridge,
Department of Harvard University 1990,
165 pp., ill., ind. (Harvard Studies in
Romance Languages, 43) . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Patrick Curry, Prophecy and
Power. Astrology in Early Modern
England, Cambridge, Polity Press 1989,
238 pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Richard Davenport-Hines,
Sex, Death and Punishment. Attitudes to
sex and sexuality in Britain since the
Renaissance, London, Collins 1990, xv +
439 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
Marco Beretta Book Review: Peter Jones (ed.),
Philosophy and Science in the Scottish
Enlightenment, Edinburgh, John Donald
Publisher Ltd. 1988, vii + 230 pp. . . . 379--379
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: Nicole Dhombres, Les
savants en rvolution 1789--1799, Cité des
Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris,
Calmann-Lvi 1989, 180 pp. . . . . . . . 380--380
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Graeme Tytler, Physiognomy
in the European novel. Faces and
fortunes, Princeton, New Jersey,
Princeton University Press 1982, ix +
436 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Mara Miniati Book Review: Danilo Barsanti, P.
Giovanni Giovannozzi. Uno scolopio tra
fede e libert\`a, religione e patria
(1860--1928), Firenze, Osservatorio
Ximeniano 1990, 217 pp., fig . . . . . . 382--382
Mara Miniati Book Review: Marco Segala, \booktitleLa
favola della terra mobile. La
controversia sulla teoria della deriva
dei continenti, (Italian) [The fable of
mobile Earth. The controversy over the
drift theory of the continents].
Bologna, Il Mulino 1990, 340 pp. . . . . 382--383
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 385--394
Giuseppe Olmi Molti Amici in Vari Luoghi: Studio della
Natura e Rapporti Epistolari nel Secolo
XVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--31
Alberto Elena Baconianism in the Seventeenth-Century
Netherlands: a Preliminary Survey . . . 33--47
Paola Potest La Questione Del Contagium Vivum e la
Genesi Del Concetto di Ambiente Nella
Medicina Tra XVII e XVIII Secolo . . . . 49--67
Maurizio Mamiani and
Emanuela Trucco and
Emanuela Trucco Newton e I Fenomeni della Vita . . . . . 69--96
Claudio Pogliano La Fisiologia in Italia Fra Ottocento e
Novecento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Pepe Luigi Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 123--134
Roberto Mantovani and
Flavio Vetrano Inventario Del Carteggio Scientifico
Inviato Allo Scolopio Alessandro
Serpieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--160
Anonymous Lettere di Alessandro Serpieri a Filippo
Cecchi. (Italian) [Letters from
Alessandro Serpieri to Filippo Cecchi] 161--161
Anonymous Indice Analitico . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--166
Urban Wrakberg Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
Isabella Truci Acquisto di Due Manoscritti Magalotti di
Provenienza Ginori-Venturi . . . . . . . 171--174
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 175--175
R. W. Home Report on Australia (1989) . . . . . . . 176--190
Marco Beretta Lavoisier Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 191--203
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tore Frngsmyr (Ed.),
\booktitleSolomon's House Revisited. The
Organization and Institutionalization of
Science, Canton Mass., Science History
Publications 1990, xiv + 350 pp. (Nobel
Symposium 75) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--208
Marco Beretta Book Review: Matti Klinge (ed.),
Helsingfors Universitet (1640--1990), 2
voll., Helsinki, Frlagsaktiebolaget
Otava, 1988-89, 740 + 931 pp., ill . . . 209--211
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: David A. King,
\booktitleIslamic Mathematical
Astronomy, London, Variorum Reprints,
1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: François Ellenberger,
\booktitleHistoire de la géologie. Tome
I: Des anciens \`a la premi\`ere moitié
du XVIIe siécle, (French) [History of
Geology. Volume I. From the ancients to
the first half of the 17th Century].
Paris, Technique et Documentation ---
Lavoisier, 1988, 352 pp. (Petite
Collection d'Histoire des Sciences) . . 213--214
Marco Beretta Book Review: Heinz Goerke,
\booktitleMedizin und Technik. 3000
Jahre Ärztliche Hilfsmittel für Diagnostik
und Therapie, (German) [Medicine and
technology. 3000 years of medical aid
for diagnosis and therapy]. München,
Callwey, 1988, 284 pp., ill . . . . . . 215--216
Marco Beretta Book Review: David Oldroyd, Storia della
filosofia della scienza, trad. it. di
Libero Sosio, Milano, Il Saggiatore,
1989, 540 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--218
Michela Pereira Book Review: Piero Morpurgo, Filosofia
della natura nella Schola Salernitana
del secolo XII, Prefazione di Enrique
Montero Cartelle, Bologna, Clueb, 1990,
245 pp., L. 35.000 . . . . . . . . . . . 218--221
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John C. Briggs, Francis
Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature,
Cambridge Mass., Harvard University
Press, 1989, xvi + 285 pp. . . . . . . . 221--223
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Giuliana Mocchi, Idea,
mente, specie. Platonismo e scienza in
Johannes Marcus Marci (1595--1667),
Soveria Mannelli (Cz), Rubbettino
Editore, 1990, 314 pp. (Collana di
storia delle idee) . . . . . . . . . . . 223--226
Eberhard Knobloch Book Review: G. W. Leibniz, \booktitleLa
naissance du calcul différentiel, 26
articles des \booktitleActa Eruditorum,
introduction, traduction et notes par
Marc Parmentier. Paris, 1989. 180 Ff. 226--228
Calogero Farinella Book Review: Aa.Vv., Cristina di Svezia.
Scienza ed alchimia nella Roma barocca,
Bari, Dedalo, 1990, 272 pp. . . . . . . 228--233
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: John Christie, Sally
Shuttleworth, (eds.), Nature
transfigured, 1700--1900, Manchester and
New York, Manchester University Press,
1989, ISBN O-7190-2567-2, 225 pp.,
\pounds 29.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 233--236
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Max Milner, La
fantasmagoria. Saggio sull'ottica
fantastica, introduzione di A.
Pizzorusso, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989,
263 pp. (Saggi 363) . . . . . . . . . . 236--239
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tore Frangsmyr, J. L.
Heilbron, Robin E. Rider (eds.),
\booktitleThe Quantifying Spirit in the
18th Century, Berkeley--Los Angeles,
University of California Press, 1990,
viii + 411 pp. (Uppsala studies in
history of science 7) . . . . . . . . . 239--242
Marco Beretta Book Review: Aa.Vv., La expedicion
botanica al verreinato del Peru
(1777--1788), Barcellona-Madrid, Lunwerg
Editores, 1988, 2 voll., 179 + 181 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--246
Marco Segala Book Review: Stefano Fabbri Bertoletti,
Impulso formazione e organismo. Per una
storia del concetto di Bildungstrieb
nella cultura tedesca, Firenze, Olschki,
1990, 245 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--249
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Leonardo Rombai, P.
Giovanni Inghirami. Astronomo, geodeta e
cartografo. l'illustrazione geografica
della Toscana, Firenze, Osservatorio
Ximeniano, 1989, 185 pp.; Danilo
Barsanti, P. Giovanni Antonelli. Scienza
e fede nel Risorgimento, Firenze,
Osservatorio Ximeniano, 1989, 127 pp.;
Danilo Barsanti, P. Giovanni
Giovannozzi. Uno scolopio tra fede e
libert\`a, religione e patria
(1860--1929), Firenze, Osservatorio
Ximeniano, 1990, 218 pp. . . . . . . . . 249--251
Marco Segala Book Review: Crosbie W. Smith --- M.
Norton Wise, Energy and Empire. A
Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1989, xxvi + 866 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 251--254
Barbara Volkmar Book Review: Wolfgang U. Eckart,
Deutsche Arzte in China 1897--1914.
Medizin als Kulturmission im Zweiten
Deutschen Kaiserreich, Stuttgart, New
York, Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1989, 230
pp., ill., DM 58. (Medizin in Geschichte
und Kultur, Bd. 16) . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Marco Segala Book Review: Theodore Redpath, Ludwig
Wittgenstein. A Student's Memoir,
London, Duckworth, 1990, 109 pp. . . . . 257--260
Marco Segala Book Review: Homer E. Le Grand,
\booktitleDrifting Continents and
Shifting Theories. The modern revolution
in geology and scientific change,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1990 (I ed. 1988), vi + 313 pp. . . . . 260--264
Marco Segala Book Review: John A. Stewart, Drifting
Continents and Colliding Paradigms.
Perspectives on the Geoscience
Revolution, Bloomington Indianapolis,
Indiana University Press, 1990, xiii +
285 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--269
Massimo Stanzione Book Review: Roger Penrose,
\booktitleThe Emperor's New Mind.
Concerning Computers, Minds, and the
Laws of Physics, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1989 . . . . . . . . . 269--272
Paul Weindling Book Review: Burghard Weiss, Wie finde
ich Literatur zur Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaft und der Technik,
Berlin, Berlin Verlag, Arno Spitz, 1990,
454 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Marco Beretta Book Review: Ove Hagelin (ed.), Rare and
Important Books in the Library of the
Swedish Society of Medicine. A
Descriptive and Annotated Catalogue,
Stockholm, Svenska Läkaresällskapet, 1989,
176 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Giuliano Cantoni,
Alessandro Leoncini, Francesca Vannozzi,
l'archivio dell'Universit\`a di Siena.
Inventario della sezione storica, Siena,
La Nuova Italia editrice, 1990, 311 pp.,
L. 20.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Marco Beretta Book Review: Lexicon der Renaissance,
(Herausgegeben von Günter Gurst,
Siegfried Hoyer, Ernst Ullmann und
Christa Zimmermann), Leipzig, VEB
Bibliographisches Institut, 1989, 798
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Marco Beretta Book Review: Ove Hagelin (ed.),
\booktitleThe Art of writing and
drawing. A Selection of One Hundred
Books from the Ekström Collection,
Stockholm, the National Library for
Psychology and Education, 1987, 232 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Mara Miniati Book Review: Emilio Borchi, Renzo Macii,
Marina Parisi, \booktitleIl barometro.
Storia e applicazioni nell'Osservatorio
Ximeniano. Firenze, Osservatorio
Ximeniano 1990, 140 pp., fig . . . . . . 277--277
Mara Miniati Book Review: Jean Matricon, Julien
Roumette, l'invention du temps, Paris,
Éditions de la Cité des Sciences et de
l'Industrie, 1989, 125 pp., fig., F. F.
140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleL'Aventure du
métre. Paris, C.N.A.M. --- Musée National
des Techniques, 1989, 103 pp., fig . . . 278--279
Marco Beretta Book Review: Karin Johanivisson, A Life
of Learning. Uppsala University during
Five Centuries, Uppsala, Uppsala
University Press, 1989, 133 pp., ill . . 279--280
Mara Miniati Book Review: Andrea Guintini, Dalla
Lyonnaise alla Fiorentinagas 1839--1989.
Bari, Editori Laterza, 1990, xii + 268
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Mara Miniati Book Review: Claudio Pogliano,
Pharmakon. Storia dello Psicotropismo.
Verona, Casamassima, 1990, 362 pp., fig 280--281
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Antje Krug, Medicina nel
mondo classico, Firenze, Giunti Ed.,
1990, 270 pp., L. 35.000 (tr. it. di
Heilkunst und Heilkult. Medizin in der
Antike, München, O. Beck, 1985) . . . . . 281--282
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Thierry Bardinet,
\booktitleDents et machoires dans les
représentations religieuses et la
pratique médicale de l'Egypte ancienne,
(French) [Teeth and jaws in religious
representations and medical practices of
ancient Egypt], Roma, Ed. Pontificio
Istituto Biblico, 1990, xxiii + 280 pp.,
L. 31.500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Giuseppe Penso, Parassiti,
Microbi e Contagi nella Storia
dell'Umanit. Ciba-Geigy Edizioni, 1990,
547 pp., fig. L. 90.000 . . . . . . . . 283--284
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Santa Maria Nuova
in Firenze. Memorie, testimonianze,
prospettive, VII Centenario della
fondazione dell'Ospedale. Atti delle
giornate celebrative, Firenze, Il
Fiorino, 1990, 300 pp. . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Francesca Vannozzi (a cura
di), \booktitleLa storia della
psichiatria e degli ospedali
psichiatrici in Toscana nell'Ottocento,
Siena, Tipografia della Provincia, 1990,
243 pp., ed. fuori commercio . . . . . . 285--286
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Lanmarco Laquidara, Per una
storia della sanit nell'Ottocento
Preunitario Apuano. Massa Carrara,
S.E.A., (per conto della Soc.
Internazionale Dante Alighieri), 181
pp., fig., ed. fuori commercio . . . . . 286--287
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Arnaldo Cherubini,
Francesca Vannozzi, Previdenza di
malattia e malattie sociali dall'Unit
alla prima guerra mondiale, Roma,
Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale,
1990, 257 pp., ed. fuori commercio . . . 287--288
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: \booktitleActes du 4e
colloque des conservateurs des musées
d'histoire des sciences médicales. 7 au
10 septembre 1988: Pavia--Milano, Lyon,
Collection Fondation Marcel Merieux,
1990, 327 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 288--290
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleBulletin for the
History of Chemistry, V, 1989. Ambix,
XXXVI, 1989, n. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Alessandra Tarabochia
Canavero, (a cura di), l'infinita via.
Ragione, natura e trinit da Anselmo a
Tommaso, Bergamo, Pierluigi Lubrina,
1990, 272 pp., bibl., ind. (Quodlibet.
Ricerche e strumenti di filosofia
medievale, 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Loris Sturlese, Storia
della filosofia tedesca nel Medioevo.
Dagli inizi alla fine del XII secolo,
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1990, 241 pp.,
bibl., ind. (Accademia Toscana di
Scienze e Lettere 'La Colombaria',
Studi, Cv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Johannes Sharpe, Quaestio
super universalia, a cura di Alessandro
D. Conti, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1990,
375 pp., bibl., ind. (Unione Accademica
Nazionale. Corpus Philosophorum Medii
Aevi. Testi e studi IX) . . . . . . . . 293--294
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Luca Bianchi, Eugenio
Randi, Le verit dissonanti. Aristotele
alla fine del Medioevo, prefazione di
Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri,
Bari, Laterza, 1990, 194 pp., ind.
(Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna, 991) . . 294--295
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Luca Bianchi, \booktitleIl
vescovo e i filosofi. La condanna
parigina del 1277 e l'evoluzione
dell'aristotelismo scolastico, (Italian)
[The bishop and the philosophers. The
condemnation of Paris of 1277 and the
scholastic evolution of
Aristotelianism]. Bergamo, Pierluigi
Lubrina, 1990, 280 pp., bibl., ind.
(Quodlibet. Ricerche e strumenti di
filosofia medievale, 6) . . . . . . . . 295--296
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Barbara Faes De Mottoni, (a
cura di), Aegidii Romani Opera Omnia. I.
Catalogodei manoscritti (457-505). 1/5*.
Repubblica Federale di Germania
(Monaco), Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1990,
350 pp., ind., app. (Unione Accademica
Nazionale. Corpus Philosophorum Medii
Aevi, Testi e Studi, X) . . . . . . . . 296--298
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Atti del Convegno
Internazionale di Studi su Bernardino
Telesio, Cosenza, Accademia Consentina,
1990, 221 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William R. Shea, Antonio
Spadafora (editors), Creativity in the
Arts and Science, Canton Ma, Science
History Publications, 1990, xviii + 187
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Marco Segala Book Review: Michael J. Crowe, the
Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750--1900.
The Idea of Plurality of Worlds from
Kant to Lowell, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1988, xxii + 680 pp. 301--301
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Peter Hulme, Ludmilla
Jordanova (Eds.), the Enlightenment and
its Shadows, London-New York, Routledge,
1990, 232 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Marco Beretta Book Review: Horst Bergman und Eberhard
Zwink, \booktitleEmanuel Swedenborg ---
1688--1772. Naturforscher und Kundiger
der Überwelt, Stuttgart, Württembergische
Landesbibliothek, 1988, 168 pp., ill . . 303--304
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: \booktitleLa via Vandelli
strada Ducale del Settecento da Modena a
Massa --- Dal Frignano alla Garfagnana e
al Ducato di Massa, a cura di M.
Pellegrini e F. M. Pozzi, Modena,
Artioli Editore 1989, pp. 157 . . . . . 304--305
Mara Miniati Book Review: Sandro Cardinali, Luigi
Pepe (a cura di), Alfonso Bonfioli
Malvezzi. Viaggio in Europa e altri
scritti, Ferrara, Universit\`a degli
Studi di Ferrara, 1988, lv + 321 pp.
(Annali dell'Universit\`a di Ferrara
(Nuova Serie) Sezione III --- Filosofia,
vol. II, n. 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleChanges
d'influences scientifiques et techniques
entre pays Europëens de 1780 \`a 1830,
Paris, Éditions du CTHS, 1990, 171 pp.
(Colloques du C.T.H.S., V) . . . . . . . 305--307
Donatella Lippi Book Review: A. Pansini, \booktitleVan
Gogh. Il suo genio e la sua malattia,
Firenze, Stampa Nazionale, 1990, 111 pp. 307--308
Mara Miniati Book Review: Bruno P. F. Wanrooij,
Storia del pudore. La questione sessuale
in Italia 1860--1940. Venezia, Marsilio
Editori, 1990, 234 pp. . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Mara Miniati Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 311--347
Susana Gomez The Bologna Stone and the Nature of
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v-32
Franco Palladino Sulla Teoria Delle Proporzioni nel
Seicento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--81
Rodolfo Taiani L'Acqua e la Sua Anima: Il Contributo
della Scienza Chimica allo Sfruttamento
delle Fonti di Acqua Minerale nella
Prima Met\`a del XIX Secolo. (Italian)
[Water and its Soul: The Contribution of
Chemistical Science to the Exploitation
of Mineral Water Sources in the First
Half of the Nineteenth Century] . . . . 83--107
George Saliba A Sixteenth-Century Drawing of an
Astrolabe Made by Khaf\=\if Ghul\=am
'Al\=\i B. '\=\is\=a (c. 850 A.D.) . . . 109--119
Mauro Agnoletti Documenti di Archeologia Forestale: Le
segherie idrauliche della Valle del
Piave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--143
Francesco Barbieri and
Marina Zuccoli Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 145--155
Mario Biagioli Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 157--169
Ezio Vaccari Storia della Terra e Tempi Geologici in
Uno Scritto Inedito di Giovanni Arduino:
la $ \ll $Risposta
Allegorico--Romanzesca$ \gg $ a Ferber 171--188
Anonymous Risposta Allegorico Romanzesca di
Voniangi Riduano, Osservatore
Longobardo, al Celebre Orittologo
Viaggiatore Signor Giovanni --- Giacomo
Ferber del Collegio Metallico di Svezia,
Sopra la Genesi Della Presente Faccia
della Terra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--212
Aldo Cecconi Il Congresso degli Scienziati Italiani a
Firenze (1841). (Italian) [The Congress
of Italian Scientists in Florence
(1841)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--278
Alain Touwaide Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 279--293
Nadine Tanio Gendering the History of Science . . . . 295--305
Marco Segala Catastrofismo e Localismo: a Proposito
Della Controversia Sulla Teoria della
Deriva Dei Continenti . . . . . . . . . 307--323
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Maria Michela Sassi, La
scienza dell'uomo nella Grecia antica ($
\ll $Nuova Cultura$ \gg $, 6), Torino,
Bollati Boringhieri, 1988, 250 pp., ill 325--330
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Carmélia Opsomer, Index de
la pharmacopée du Ier au Xe si\`ecle,
Hildesheim, Zürich et New York
(Olms-Weidmann), 1989, 2 voll., lxx-viii
+ 824 pp. ($ \ll $Alpha-Omega, Reihe A:
Lexika-Indizes-Konkordanzes zur
klassischen Philologie$ \gg $, CX) . . . 330--333
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Medicinae
Pliniiconcordantiae curantibus A. R.
Corsini et M. P. Segoloni Hildesheim,
Zürich et New York, Olms-Weidmann, 1989,
viii + 351 pp. ($ \ll $Alpha-Omega,
Reihe A: Lexika-Indizes-Konkordanzen zur
klassischen Philologie$ \gg $, Ci) . . . 334--336
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Joseph Needham,
\booktitleDialogue des civilisations
Chine-Occident. Pour une histoire
oecumenique des sciences (a cura di G.
Métailié), Éditions La Découverte, Paris,
1991, ii + 367 pp., 165 Ff . . . . . . . 337--340
Michela Pereira Book Review: Constantine of Pisa, the
book of the secrets of alchemy,
Introduction, critical edition,
translation and commentary by Barbara
Obrist, Leiden-New York--Köln, E. J.
Brill, 1990, 339 pp., con indicie
bibliografia. ($ \ll $Collection des
Travaux de l'Academie Internationale
d'Histoire des Sciences$ \gg $, t. 34) 340--342
William R. Shea Book Review: Eugenio Garin, Umanisti
artisti scienziati. Studi sul
Rinascimento italiano. Roma, Editori
Riuniti, 1989, 333 pp. . . . . . . . . . 342--345
Michael H. Shank Book Review: Armin Gerl,
\booktitleTrigonometrisch-astronomisches
Rechnen kurz vor Copernicus: Der
Briefwechsel Regiomontanus-Bianchini,
Boethius, Band XXI, Stuttgart, Franz
Steiner Verlag, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
Germana Ernst Book Review: I Guicciardinie le scienze
occulte. L'oroscopo di Francesco
Guicciardini. Lettere di alchimia,
astrologia e cabala a Luigi
Guicciardini, a cura di Raffaella
Castagnola, premessa di Eugenio Garin,
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki editore, 1990,
vii-397 pp. (Istituto Nazionale di studi
sul Rinascimento, Studi e Testi, XIX) 348--351
Michela Pereira Book Review: Alchemy revisited.
Proceedings of the International
Conference on the History of Alchemy at
The University of Groningen, 17--19
April 1989, edited by Z. R. W. M. von
Martels, Leiden-New
York--Kòbenhaven--Köln, E. J. Brill, 1990,
284 pp., con bibliografia e indice. ($
\ll $Collection des Travaux de
l'A-cadémie Internationale d'Histoire des
Sciences$ \gg $, t. 33) . . . . . . . . 351--353
Gabriel Gohau Book Review: Georg Agricola, Bermannus
(le mineur) --- un dialogue sur les
mines, Introduction, texte établi et
commenté par Robert Halleux et Albert
Yans, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1990,
185 pp. + 2 cartes. (Coll. $ \ll
$Science et humanisme$ \gg $ ) . . . . . 353--355
Silvia Parigi Book Review: John Cottingham, Cartesio,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991, 217 pp. ($ \ll
$Universale Paperbacks$ \gg $, 253) . . 355--357
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Gilles Deleuze, La piega.
Leibniz e il Barocco, Torino, Einaudi,
1990, 206 pp. ($ \ll $Biblioteca di
cultura filosofica$ \gg $ 52) . . . . . 357--359
Silvia Parigi Book Review: George Berkeley, De motu, a
cura di Mariapaola Fimiani, Salerno,
Edizioni 10/17, 1989, 211 pp. . . . . . 359--361
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Ernst Mayr, Storia del
pensiero biologico. Diversit\`a,
evoluzione, eredit\`a, a cura di P.
Corsi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri,
1990, xv + 932 pp. a . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: G. S. Rousseau,
Enlightenment Borders. Pre- and
post-modern discourses. Medical,
scientific, Manchester and New York,
Manchester University Press, 1991, xv +
359 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--369
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: John Gascoigne, Cambridge
in the Age of the Enlightment. Science,
religion and politics from the
Restoration to the French Revolution,
Cambridge University Press, 1989, xi +
358 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--373
Mara Miniati Book Review: T. N. Clarke, A. D.
Morrison-Low, A. D. C. Simpson, Brass &
Glass. Scientific Instrument Making
Workshops in Scotland as illustrated by
instruments from the Arthur Frank
Collection at the Royal Museum of
Scotland.s.l., National Museums of
Scotland, 1989, 320 pp., ill . . . . . . 373--374
Mara Miniati Book Review: Anthony J. Turner,
\booktitleFrom pleasure and profit to
science and security: Étienne Lenoir and
the transformation of precision
instrument-making in France, 1760--1830.
Cambridge, the Whipple Museum of the
History of Science, 1989, 107 pp., fig 374--376
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: A. J. Cain, Constantine
Samuel Rafinesque Schmalz on
classification. A translation of the
early works by Rafinesque with
introduction and notes, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, 1990, 240 pp.,
$ \ll $Tryonia$ \gg $, n. 20 . . . . . . 376--378
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Stanislao Cannizzaro, Sunto
di un corso di filosofia Chimica.
Commento e nota storica di Luigi
Cerruti. Introduzione di Leonello
Paoloni, Palermo, Sellerio Editore,
1991, 286 pp. ($ \ll $Biblioteca
siciliana di storia e letteratura$ \gg $
27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Germana Pareti, La
tentazione dell'occulto. Scienza ed
esoterismo nell'et\`a vittoriana,
Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1990, 297
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Robert Ackerman, J. G.
Frazer. His Life and Work, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1987, Ill.,
x + 348 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Lectures on the History of
Psychiatry (The Squibb Series), ed. by
R. M. Murray, T. H. Turner, London,
Gaskell --- the Royal College of
Psychiatrists, 1990, xi + 223 pp. . . . 383--387
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij Book Review: Paul Weindling, Health,
Race and German Politics between
National Unification and Nazism
1870--1945, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1989, 641 pp. . . . . 387--389
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Kurt Danziger, Constructing
the subject. Historical origins of
psychological research, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1990, 249
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--393
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Alexander Vucinich, Darwin
in Russian thought, Berkeley-Los
Angeles-London, University of California
Press, 1988, x + 468 pp. (ISBN
0-520-06283-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--396
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Aleksandr R. Lurija, un
mondo perduto e ritrovato, prefazione di
O. Sacks, postfazione di L. Mecacci,
Roma, Editori Riuniti, 19912, (19731),
xvii-186 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--399
Bruno Alessandro Book Review: J. Roche (ed.), Physicists
look back. Studies in the history of
physics, Bristol-New York, Adam Hilger,
1990, 393 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--403
Ferdinando Abbri Storia della Scienza . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
Mara Miniati Book Review: $ \ll $Impact science et
société$ \gg $, nn. 159 e 160, 1990, pp.
213-319; 323-436 . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Mara Miniati Book Review: Emilio Borchi, Renzo Macii,
Alcuni strumenti del Liceo Machiavelli
di Lucca, Lucca, Maria Pacini Fazzi
editore, 1991, 61 pp., fig . . . . . . . 409--410
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Mara Miniati, Strumenti
Scientifici della Collezione Carrand,
Firenze, Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
1991, 70 pp., ill. ($ \ll $Lo specchio
del Bargello$ \gg $ n. 31) . . . . . . . 410--411
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleStrumenti
ritrovati. Materiali della ricerca
scientifica in Piemonte tra Settecento e
Ottocento. (Italian) [Tools discovered.
Materials of scientific research in the
Piedmont region between the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Century]. Torino, Regione
Piemonte --- Assessorato ai Beni
Culturali e Ambientali, 1991, 77 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleIstituto
Nazionale di Geofisica, Tromometri,
avvisatori, sismografi. Osservazioni e
teorie dal 1850 al 1880. A cura di
Graziano Ferrari. Bologna, ed. SGA
Storia-Geofisica-Ambiente, 1991, 139
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Mara Miniati Book Review: Elisabetta Calanchi, La
collezione degli strumenti del Museo di
Antropologia. Bologna, Editrice Clueb,
1991, 127 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Ferdinando Abbri Storia della Tecnica . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleProgetto Techne,
Culture e strumenti del lavoro. La ruota
idraulica. Brescia, Editrice la Scuola,
1989, 5 fasc., fig. . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Stefano Casati Storia Dell'Architettura . . . . . . . . 416--416
Ferdinando Abbri Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. Pontecorvo, Storia delle
vaccinazioni. Dalle origini ai giorni
nostri, Saronno, Ciba-Geigy Ed., 1991,
151 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Bonadonna,
\booktitleDonne in Medicina, (Italian)
[Women in Medicine], Milano, Rizzoli,
1991, 323 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Gerhard H. Müller,
\booktitleJohann Adam Pollich
(1741--1780), `Medicinae Doctor' und
Pflanzengeograph der Pfalz. Eine Studie
anhand bisher unbekannter Briefe.
Dokumente und Schriften, (German)
[Johann Adam Pollich (1741--1780),
`Medicinae Doctor' and plant geographer
of the Palatinate. A study based on
previously unknown letters], Bad
Dürkheim, Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde,
Selbstverlag der $ \ll $Pollichia$ \gg
$, 1990, 176 pp. ($ \ll $Pollichia$ \gg
$-Buch n. 21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Vincenzio Chiarugi,
\booktitleDella pazzia in genere, e in
specie, (Italian) [On insanity in
general, and in species], ristampa
anastatica dell'ed. Carlieri, 1793--94.
Introduzione di F. M. Ferro e G.
Riefolo. Firenze, Vecchiarelli Editore,
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. B. Giordano, Storia
dell'Ospedale di Fregionata nel secolo
XIX ed inventario del suo archivio
storico dal 1813 al 1942, Roma, A.
Delfino Editore, 1991, 251 pp. . . . . . 421--422
Silvia Parigi Astronomia e Ottica . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Ibn Al-Haytham,
\booktitleOptics, Translated with
Introduction and Commentary by A. I.
Sabra, London, the Warburg
Institute-University of London, 1989, 2
voll., pp. ix-367 e ix-246 . . . . . . . 423--424
Stefano Casati Book Review: Alessandro Braccesi,
Esplorando l'universo. Dalle conquiste
degli antichi greci all'astronomia dei
nostri giorni. Bologna, Zanichelli,
1988, pp. 292, (Le Ellissi) . . . . . . 425--425
Ferdinando Abbri Alchimia e Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . 425--427
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antonio di Meo (a cura di),
Storia della Chimica. Dalla Ceramica del
Neolitico all'et\`a della Plastica,
Venezia, Marsilio Editore, 1990, viii +
335 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Suzanne Colnort-Bodet, Le
Code Alchimique Dévoilé. Distillateurs.
Alchymistes et Symbolistes, Paris,
Librarie Honoré Champion, Editeur, 1989,
xv + 388 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleLes atomes. Une
anthologie historique, Textes choisis,
présntés et annotés par Bernadette
Bensaude-Vincent et Catherine Kounelis,
Paris, Press Pocket, 1991, 334 pp. . . . 430--430
Stefano Caroti Antichit\`a, Medioevo e Rinascimento . . 430--431
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Aufstieg und Niedergang der
römischen Welt (ANR W) Geschichte und
Kultur Roms im Spiegelder neueren
Forschung. Teil II: Principat. Bd. 36:
Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 3.
Teilband: Philosophie (Stoizismus) e 4.
Teilband: Philosophie (Epikureismus,
Skeptizismus, Kynismus, Orphica;
Doxographica), hrsg. W. Haase, Walter de
Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1989 e 1990 431--434
Michela Pereira Book Review: Marsilio Ficino,
\booktitleLettere --- (I) Epistolarum
familiarum liber I, a cura di Sebastiano
Gentile, Firenze, Leo. S. Olschki
Editore, 1990, ccxcix + 322. (Istituto
Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento,
Carteggi umanistici) . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Michela Pereira Book Review: M. Markowski, Astronomica
et astrologica cracoviensia ante annum
1550, Leo S. Olschki editore, Firenze
1990, xxxv + 377 pp. ISBN 88-222-3743-9;
ISSN 0394-4409 (Istituto Nazionale di
Studi sul Rinascimento, Studi e Testi,
XX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: David C. Lindberg, Robert
S. Westman, Reappraisals of the
Scientific Revolution, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1990,
xx-viii + 551 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 436--438
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek,
Alle de Brieven. Uitgegeven,
ge\"\illustreerd en van aantekeningen
voorzien door een Commissie van
Nederlandse Geleerden (The Collected
Letters. Edited, illustrated and
annotated by a Committee of Ducth
scientists), Deel (Part) XII, Lisse,
Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., 1989, 441 pp. 438--439
Marco Segala Book Review: M. Feingold (ed.), Before
Newton. The life and times of Isaac
Barrow, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1990, xii + 380 pp. (ISBN
0-521-30694-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Z. Ciuffoletti, L. Rombai
(a cura di), La Toscana dei Lorena.
Riforme, Territorio, Societ\`a, Firenze,
Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1989, 670 pp. ($
\ll $Biblioteca Storica Toscana$ \gg $
19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--442
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Peter Dear (editor), the
Literary Structure of Scientific
Argument. Historical Studies,
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1991, vii + 211 pp. . . . . . . . 442--444
Marco Segala Book Review: F. W. J. Shelling, Ideas
for a philosophy of nature, Cambridge,
Cambridge University, Press, 1988, xxvi
+ 294 pp. ($ \ll $Texts in German
Philosophy$ \gg $ ) (ISBN 0-521-35733-0) 444--444
Tiziano Arrigoni Book Review: Alain Corbin, l'invenzione
del mare, Venezia, Marsilio Editori,
1990, 365 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--446
Marco Segala Book Review: David B. Wilson (ed.), The
correspondence between Sir George
Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson,
Baron Kelvin of Largs, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2 voll.,
1990, lvi + 783 pp. ISBN 0-521-32831-4 446--447
Stefano Casati Book Review: Pisa, Biblioteca
Universitaria --- Ministero Per I Beni
Culturali e Ambientali, Pisa, ottobre
1839. Il primo congresso degli
scienziati italiani. Catalogo della
mostra bibliografica in occasione del
congresso nazionale $ \ll $Prospettive
della scienza e condizione umana alle
soglie del 2000$ \gg $, Pisa, Litografia
Tacchi, 1989, 172 pp. . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Arnaldo Cherubini,
Beneficenza e Solidariet\`a. Assistenza
pubblica e Mutualismo operaio.
1860--1900. Milano, Franco Angeli, 1991,
400 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
Marco Segala Book Review: Lewis Samuel Feuer,
Einstein e la sua generazione. Nascita e
sviluppo di teorie scientifiche,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 1990 ($ \ll $Le
occasioni$ \gg $ 35) ISBN 88-15-02809-9
(tr. it. di Gianfranco Ceccarelli di
Einstein and the Generations of Science,
New Brunswick, Transaction, Inc., 1982) 449--450
Paola Papini Book Review: Halton Arp, \booktitleLa
contesa sulle distanze cosmiche e le
quasar. (Italian) [The dispute over
cosmic distances and quasars] Milano,
Jaca Book, 1989, 218 p. ($ \ll $Di
fronte e attraverso$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . 450--451
Mara Miniati Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 453--465
Marco Beretta Pubblichiamo qui di seguito le
considerazioni di Mino Gabriele sulla
scheda di Marco Beretta a M. Gabriele,
Le incisioni Alchemico-Metallurgiche di
Domenico Beccafumi ($ \ll $Nuncius$ \gg
$, V, fasc. 2). Ad esse segue la replica
di Marco Beretta . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--493
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Guidobaldo Dal Monte and the Archimedean
Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--34
José M. López Piñero The Pomar Codex (ca. 1590): Plants and
Animals of the Old World and from the
Hernandez Expedition To America . . . . 35--52
Carlo Castellani I Rapporti Tra Spallanzani e Girardi e
Le $ \ll $Osservazioni Anatomiche
Intorno al Pipistrelli$ \gg $ di Michele
Girardi. (Italian) [The Relationships
Between Spallanzani and Girardi and the
$ \ll $Anatomical Observations of Bats$
\gg $ by Michele Girardi] . . . . . . . 53--91
Ezio Vaccari Geologia e Attivit\`a Mineraria in
Italia Settentrionale Tra Settecento Ed
Ottocento: l'Influenza della $ \ll
$Scuola di Freiberg$ \gg $ su Alcuni
Scienziati Italiani 1 . . . . . . . . . 93--107
Giacomo Scarpelli 'Nothing in Nature That Is Not Useful'
the Anti-Vaccination Crusade and the
Idea of \em Harmonia Naturae in Alfred
Russel Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--130
A. J. Turner Melchisedech Thevenot, the Bubble Level,
and the Artificial Horizon . . . . . . . 131--145
Raffaele A. Bernabeo and
Stefano Arieti and
Donatella Lippi and
Bonifacio Pistacchio Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 147--166
Menso Folkerts and
Andreas Kühne and
Michael Segre Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Luca Ciancio Report on the Conference $ \ll
$Non-Verbal Communication in Science
Prior to 1900$ \gg $ (Trento, 1st--3rd
October 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--179
Antonello La Vergata Ricordo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
Ferdinando Abbri Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Piero Morpurgo Federico II e Le Scienze: un Convegno di
Storia Della Scienza Medievale . . . . . 207--217
Paolo Brenni Il Restauro della Collezione di
Apparecchi di Fisica Del Liceo Visconti
di Roma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
Erik Hornung Book Review: Marshall Clagett, Ancient
Egyptian Science. A Source Book, Vol. I:
Knowledge and Order, American
Philosophical Society, Philadelphia,
1989 ($ \ll $Memoirs of the American
Philosophical Society$ \gg $, Vol. 184),
15 + 736 pp., ca. 150 figs., US\$60} . . 223--225
Stefano Caroti Book Review: \booktitleThe Second Sense.
Studies in Hearing and Musical Judgement
from Antiquity to the Seventeenth
Century, ed. by Charles Burnett, Michael
Fend and Penelope Gouk, the Warburg
Institute, London, 1991 ($ \ll $Warburg
Institute Surveys and Texts$ \gg $,
XXII), 245 pp., ind., bibl., ill . . . . 225--227
Michele Vista Book Review: \booktitleAtti del III
convegno nazionale di storia e
fondamenti della chimica. F. Abbri ---
F. Crispini (a cura di), Cosenza,
Edizioni Brenner, 1991, 402 pp. . . . . 227--231
Mara Miniati Book Review: Isaia Iannaccone, Adolfo
Tamburello (a cura di), Dall'Europa alla
Cina: contributi per una storia
dell'Astronomia, Napoli, Universit\`a
degli Studi $ \ll $Federico II$ \gg $,
Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli,
1990, 256 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
Giuseppe Olmi Book Review: Wilma George --- Brunsdon
Yapp, the Naming of the Beasts. Natural
history in the medieval bestiary,
London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 1991,
xiv + 231 pp., ill., bibl., ind . . . . 238--240
Marco Beretta Book Review: Michelle Goupil, Du Flou au
clair? Histoire de l'affinité chimique de
Cardan \`a Prigogine, Paris, Édition du
Comité des Travaux Historiques et
Scientifiques, 1991, 348 pp., ill . . . 240--242
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gerard l'E. Turner,
Scientific Instruments and Experimental
Philosophy 1550--1850, Aldershot,
Hampshire, Variorum, 1990, xii + 329
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Questions d'histoire de la
médecine. Actes du 113e Congr\`es
National des Sociétés Savantes
(Strasbourg, 5--9 avril 1988). Section
d'histoire des sciences et des
techniques, Éditions du C.T.H.S., Paris,
1991, 113 pp., bibl., ill . . . . . . . 244--245
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Allen G. Debus, the French
Paracelsians. the Chemical Challenge to
Medical and Scientific Tradition in
Early Modern France, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1991, xvi +
247 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--248
Sandra Plastina Book Review: Atti del convegno
internazionale di studi su Bernardino
Telesio, Cosenza, Accademia Cosentina,
1990, 220 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--253
Giulio Maltese and
Giorgio Dragoni Book Review: Gerard l'E. Turner,
\booktitleGod bless the microscope,
Oxford, Royal Microscopical Society,
1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi Book Review: Paul Hulton, F. Nigel
Hepper & Ib Friis, Luigi Balugani's
Drawings of African Plants. From the
collection made by James Bruce of
Kinnaird on his travels to discover the
source of the Nile 1767--1773. New
Haven, the Yale Center for British Art
--- Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema, 1991, 140
pp., 16 fig., 330 tav. (di cui 48 a
colori) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
Marco Beretta Book Review: L. C. Rookmaaker, the
Zoological Exploration of Southern
Africa 1650--1790. Rotterdam, A. A.
Balkema, 1989, xii + 368 pp., ill . . . 258--260
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William R. Shea,
\booktitleThe Magic of Numbers and
Motion. The Scientific Career of René
Descartes, Canton Mass., Science History
Publications, 1991, xiii + 371 pp. . . . 260--262
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Edwin Banfield, Barometer
Makers and Retailers 1660--1900,
Trowbridge, Baros Book, 246 pp. . . . . 263--263
Mara Miniati Book Review: Archivio di Stato di
Firenze, La Toscana dei Lorena nelle
mappe dell'Archivio di Stato di Praga.
Memorie ed immagini di un Granducato.
Catalogo e mostra documentaria Firenze,
31 maggio-31 luglio 1991. Roma,
Ministero per i Beni Culturali e
Ambientali, Ufficio Centrale per i Beni
Archivistici, 1991, 430 pp., fig . . . . 264--267
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Paul U. Unschuld,
\booktitleForgotten Traditions of
Ancient Chinese Medicine, Brookline
Massachusetts, Paradigm Publication,
1990, 403 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--270
Marco Beretta Book Review: Robert Darnton and Daniel
Roche (Editors), Revolution in Print.
The Press in France 1775--1800, Berkeley
and Los Angeles, University of
California Press, 1989, xv + 351 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Paolo Brenni Book Review: \booktitleCuriosity
perfectly satisfied. Faraday's travels
in Europe 1813--1815. A cura di B.
Bowers e L. Symons. IEE History of
Technology Series 16, Peter Peregrinus
Ltd in association with the Science
Museum, London, 1991, 168 pp. (ISBN
0-86341-234-3) ($ \ll $IEE History of
Technology Series$ \gg $, 16) . . . . . 272--274
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: History, humanity and
evolution. Essays for John C. Greene,
edited by James R. Moore, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1989, xii +
429 pp., (ISBN 0-521-33511-6) . . . . . 274--278
Marco Segala Book Review: Peter M. Harman,
\booktitleThe scientific letters and
papers of James Clerk Maxwell,
1846--1862, vol. I, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1990, xxviii + 748 pp.
(ISBN 0-521-25625-9) . . . . . . . . . . 278--281
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Daniel Pick,
\booktitleFaces of degeneration. A
European disorder, c. 1848--1918,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press ($
\ll $Ideas in Context$ \gg $ ), 1989, vi
+ 275 pp., L. 27,50 (\$39,50) (ISBN
0-521-36021-8)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--284
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: \booktitleThe
Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume
6, 1856--1857, a cura di Frederick
Burkhardt e Sydney Smith, Cambridge & New
York, Cambridge University Press, 1990,
xxxii + 673 pp., L. 35.00 / \$49.50
(ISBN 0-521-25586-4)} . . . . . . . . . 284--286
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Bruno P. F. Wanrooij,
Storia del pudore. La questione sessuale
in Italia 1860--1940, Venezia, Marsilio
Editori, 1990, 234 pp. . . . . . . . . . 286--289
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Mara Miniati Book Review: E. Ragozzino, R.
Rinzivillo, E. Schettino, I microscopia
del passato. Una introduzione allo
studio delle qualit\`a ottiche e
meccaniche dei microscopi del museo,
Napoli, Cuen, 1991, 72 pp., fig . . . . 291--292
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Aa.Vv., \booktitleLes
mécanismes du génie, Editéur responsable
Europalia Dr. Robert De Smet, Charleroi,
1991, 426 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Kenneth Lyall, Electrical
and Magnetic Instruments, Catalogue 8,
Cambridge, the Whipple Museum of the
History of Science, 1991, 136 pp. . . . 293--294
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Ronald Edward Zupko,
Revolution in Measurement: Western
European Weights and Measures Since the
Age of Science, Philadelphia, the
American Philosophical Society, 1990,
547 pp., ind., app., ill . . . . . . . . 294--294
Mara Miniati Book Review: Comune di Pesaro-Cassa di
Risparmio Di Pesaro, La terra e le sue
copie. Leonardo, Raffaello, Boscovich,
la cartografia del ducato e della
legazione di Urbino, a cura di Enrico
Gamba e Vico Montebelli, Urbino,
Quattroventi, 1991, 95 pp., fig . . . . 295--295
Mara Miniati Book Review: Wilma di Palma, Aspetti
della Cultura Matematica a Roma dal I al
VI secolo d.C., Roma, Fratelli Palombi
Editori, 1991, 27 pp., fig. (Comune di
Roma, Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di
Coordinamento Didattico, 40) . . . . . . 295--296
Marco Segala Book Review: Laurie M. Braun --- Max
Dresden --- Lillian Hoddeson (eds.),
Pions to quarks. Particle physics in the
1950s, New York, Cambridge University
Press, 1989, xxxii + 734 pp. (ISBN
0-521-30984-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lilia Capocaccia Orsini,
Giorgio Doria, Giuliano Doria (a cura
di), 1492--1992 Animali e piante dalle
Americhe all'Europa, Genova, Sagep
Editrice, 1991, 323 pp., fig . . . . . . 297--298
Mara Miniati Book Review: Irma B. Jaffe, Gianni
Eugenio Viola, Franca Rovigati (eds.),
Imagining the New World. Columbian
Iconography, Roma, New York, Istituto
della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991, xi +
234 pp. fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Fabio Garbari, Lucia
Tongiorgi Tomasi, Alessandro Tosi,
Giardino dei Semplici, l'orto botanico
di Pisa dal XVI al XX secolo, Pisa,
Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, 1991, 397
pp., ed. fuori commercio . . . . . . . . 299--300
Mara Miniati Book Review: Oceania. Collezione
dell'Oceania del Museo di Antropologia e
d'Etnografia dell'Universit\`a di
Padova, Padova, Editime, 1991, 58 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Antonello La Vergata Biologia e Medicina . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: La naissance de la vie. Une
anthologie, Textes choisies et présentés
par Jean-Louis Fischer, Paris, Presses
Pocket (Agora. Les classiques,
Collection dirigée par Olivier Amiel),
1991, 296 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Ars Medica. La
Medicina nell'antica Roma, Catalogo
della Mostra, Milano, RCS Rizzoli
Corriere della Sera, 1991, 64 pp., tav 303--304
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Les Écoles Médicales \`a Rome
--- Actes du 2\`eme Colloque Int. sur
les textes médicaux latins antiques,
Lausanne, septembre 1986, ed. prép. par.
P. Mudry et J. Pigeaud, Publications de
la Fac. des Lettres --- Un. Lausanne
---, XXXIII, Nantes, 1991, 317 pp. . . . 304--304
Donatella Lippi Book Review: P. Micoli-M. Rotoli,
\booktitleI capelli nell'antico Egitto.
--- Patologia, terapia, cosmesi nei
testi medici, Bergamo, Bolis Ed., 1991,
115 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Giuseppe Penso, La medicina
medioevale, Milano, Ciba Geigy edizioni,
1991, 608 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Bonifacio Pistacchio, Lo
stomaco nella storia della medicina,
Bologna, Collana scientifica Wassermann,
edizioni Golfond, 1991, 139 pp., fig.,
ed. fuori commercio . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. Toussaint-Samat, Storia
naturale e morale dell'alimentazione,
Firenze, Sansoni, 1991, pp. 901 (Ed. or.
Histoire naturelle & morale de la
nourriture, Paris, 1987) . . . . . . . . 307--308
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Francesco Raspadori (a cura
di), I maestri di medicina ed arti
dell'Universit\`a di Ferrara 1390--1950,
Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1991 ($ \ll
$Pubblicazioni dell'Universit\`a di
Ferrara$ \gg $, II), 295 pp. . . . . . . 308--309
Lanmarco Laquidara Book Review: Alessandro Dini, Vita e
organismo. Le origini della fisiologia
sperimentale in Italia, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki editore, 1991, 207 pp. . . . . . 309--310
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Michele Pontecorvo, Storia
delle vaccinazioni, dalle origini ai
nostri giorni, Milano, Ciba-Geigy ed.,
1991, 151 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Giovanni Battista Giordano,
Storia dell'ospedale di Fregionaia, nel
secolo XIX ed inventario del suo
archivio storico dal 1813 al 1942, Roma,
Delfino editore, 1991, pp. 251 . . . . . 311--311
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Luciano Sterpellone, Mozart
tra medici e medicine, Cinisello Balsamo
--- Mi --- Ediz. Paoline, 1991, pp. 177,
L. 22.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Mara Miniati Book Review: Claudio Pogliano,
Pharmakon. Storia dello Psicotropismo.
Secondo volume, s.l., Casamassima
Editore, 1991, 373-730 pp., fig . . . . 313--313
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Francesca Vannozzi (a cura
di), l'assistenza pubblica nella Siena
di fine '800, Milano, Electa, 1991, 81
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Lanmarco Laquidara Book Review: Domenico De Napoli, La
sanit\`a militare in Italia durante la
prima guerra mondiale, Roma, Apes
editrice, 1989, 321 pp. . . . . . . . . 314--314
Lanmarco Laquidara Book Review: Patrizia Guarnieri, La
storia della psichiatria. un secolo di
studi in Italia, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
ed., 1991, 53 + 102 pp. . . . . . . . . 314--315
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Pedro Laín Entralgo,
Antropologia Medica, Cinisello Balsamo,
Edizioni Paoline, 1988, 444 pp., L.
22.000 (tit. or. Antropología médica,
Barcelona, Salvat. Ed., 1984) . . . . . 315--316
Lanmarco Laquidara Book Review: Giovanni Berlinguer,
\booktitleQuestioni di vita. Etica,
scienza, salute, Einaudi, 1991, ($ \ll
$Gli struzzi$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Marco Beretta Book Review: Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Brev,
Utgivna med kommentarer av Jan Trofast.
Del I., Lund, Wallin & Dalholm
Boktryckeri, 1991, 307 pp., ill . . . . 317--318
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Donald J. Cram, From Design
to Discovery, Washington Dc, American
Chemical Society, 1990, xxi + 146 pp. ($
\ll $Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams.
Autobiographies of Eminent Chemists, 3$
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Guy Beaujouan, Par raison
de nombres. l'art du calcul et les
savoirs scientifiques médiévaux, Great
Yarmouth, Variorum, 1991, XII + 300 pp.,
ind., ill. ($ \ll $Collected Studies
Series$ \gg $ CS 344) . . . . . . . . . 319--321
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Daniela Mugnai Carrara, La
biblioteca di Nicol\`o Leoniceno. Tra
Aristotele e Galeno: cultura e libri di
un medico umanista, Leo S. Olschki,
Firenze, 1991 ($ \ll $Accademia toscana
di scienze e lettere `La Colombaria'.
Studi$ \gg $, Cxviii), 247 pp., ind . . 321--322
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Victor E. Thoren, the Lord
of Uraniborg. A Biography of Tycho
Brahe, with contributions by John R.
Christianson, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1990, xii + 523 pp. 322--324
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: José Pardo Tom\`as,
\booktitleCiencia y Censura. La
Inquisición Española y los Libros
Científicos en los Siglos XVI y XVII,
Madrid, Consejo Superior de
Investigationes Científicas, 1991, xxiv +
390 pp. ($ \ll $Estudios sobre la
Ciencia, 13$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Mark Kulstad, Leibniz on
Apperception, Consciousness, and
Reflection, München, Philosophia Verlag,
1991, 183 pp., ind., bibl. ($ \ll
$Analytica$ \gg $ ). . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Susanna ÅKerman, Queen
Christina of Sweden and Her Circle. The
transformation of a Seventeenth-Century
Philosophical Libertine, Leiden, E. J.
Brill, 1991, xv + 399 pp. ($ \ll
$Brill's Studies in Intellectual
History, 21$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 327--330
Marco Segala Book Review: Margaret C. Jacob, the
Newtonians and the English Revolution
1689--1720, II ed., New York, Gordon and
Breach, 1990, 288 pp. ($ \ll $Classics
in the History and Philosophy of
Science$ \gg $ ), 7 (ISBN 2-88124-400-9) 330--331
Mara Miniati Book Review: Charles De Brosses,
\booktitleLettres famili\`eres. Texte
établi par Giuseppina Cafasso.
Introduction, notes et bibliographie par
Letizia Norci Cagiano de Azevedo. Préface
de Giovanni Macchia. Séjour \`a Florence.
Naples, Centre Jean Bérard, 1991, pp.
407-462, 1 fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Franco Arato, Il secolo
delle cose. Scienza e storia in
Francesco Algarotti, Genova, Marietti,
1991, 173 pp. ($ \ll $Ricerche Studi
Strumenti --- Letteratura, 25$ \gg $ ) 331--332
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Rainer Baasner, Abraham
Gotthelf Kästner, Aufklärer (1719--1800),
Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1991, vi +
683 pp. ($ \ll $Frühe Neuzeit, Band 5$
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
Schelling, \booktitleLa filosofia della
natura (1797--1801). Brani scelti a cura
di Carlo Tatasciore, Napoli, Edizioni $
\ll $Il Tripode$ \gg $, 1990, 144 pp. 334--334
Anonymous Book Review: Delfina Dolza, Essere
figlie di Lombroso. Due donne
intellettuali tra '800 e '900, Milano,
Franco Angeli, 1990, 239 pp. . . . . . . 334--350
Ugo Baldini Boscovich e la Tradizione Gesuitica in
Filosofia Naturale: continuit\`a e
Cambiamento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--68
Eric Apfelstadt Christopher Columbus, Paolo Dal Pozzo
Toscanelli and Ferno De Roriz: New
Evidence for a Florentine Connection . . 69--80
Mario Biagioli Filippo Salviati: a Baroque Virtuoso . . 81--96
Stefano Berni Vincenzio Chiarugi . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
Mara Miniati Un Nuovo Orologio Notturno . . . . . . . 115--117
Ferdinando Abbri $ \ll $Commercio di Libri e Produzioni
Naturali$ \gg $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--139
Luca Ciancio Contributo All'Inventario Del Carteggio
di Alberto Fortis . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
Anonymous Indice Alfabetico Dei Mittenti e Dei
Destinatari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Marco Ciardi Teorie Senza Esperimenti . . . . . . . . 161--193
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography of the
International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 195--195
R. H. Vermij Report on the Netherlands (1989--1992) 196--208
Isaia Iannaccone Sinologia Ed Epistemologia: Orientamenti
Metodologici Nello Studio della Storia
della Scienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--230
Stefano Caroti Nuove Prospettive della Storiografia di
Storia Della Scienza Medievale: Le
Proposte di John E. Murdoch . . . . . . 231--252
Paolo Brenni Una Mostra su Giuseppe Belli . . . . . . 253--255
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Giovanni Delfino, Eudes
Lanciotti, Gianfranco Liguri e Massimo
Stefani, Biologia e medicina. Biology &
medicine. Dizionario enciclopedico di
scienze biologiche e mediche,
italiano-inglese, inglese-italiano,
Bologna, Zanichelli, 1990, vi + 1719
pp., L. 80.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
Marco Segala Book Review: Robert K. Merton, Sulle
spalle dei giganti, Bologna, Il Mulino,
1991, 294 pp. ($ \ll $Le occasioni$ \gg
$, 42) ISBN 88-15-03267-3 (On the
Shoulders of Giants, New York, the Free
Press, 1965, 19852) . . . . . . . . . . 260--263
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Robert I. Curtis,
\booktitleGarum and Salsament.
Production and Commerce in Materia
Medica, Leiden, New York, Kòbenhavn, Köln,
E. J. Brill, 1991, xv + 226 pp., 8 pl.,
n/bl. ($ \ll $Studies in Ancient
Medicine$ \gg $, 3) (ISBN 90-04-09423-7) 263--265
Stefano Caroti Book Review: \booktitleGli studi di
filosofia medievale fra Otto e
Novecento. Contributo a un bilancio
storiografico. Atti del convegno
internazionale Roma, 21--23 settembre
1989, a cura di Ruedi Imbach e Alfonso
Maier\`u, Roma, Edizioni di storia e
letteratura, 1991, 425 pp., ind. ($ \ll
$Storia e letteratura. Raccolta di studi
e testi$ \gg $, 179) . . . . . . . . . . 265--268
Mara Miniati Book Review: John E. Burnett, Alison D.
Morrison-Low, $ \ll $Vulgar and
mechanick$ \gg $. The Scientific
Instrument Trade in Ireland 1650--1921,
Dublin, Mount Salus Press Limited, 1989,
166 pp., fig. ($ \ll $Royal Dublin
Society Historical Studies in Irish
Science and Technology$ \gg $, Number
Eight) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Elena Maugini Book Review: Fabio Garbari --- Lucia
Tongiorgi Tomasi --- Alessandro Tosi,
Giardino dei Semplici. l'Orto botanico
di Pisa dal XVI al XX secolo, Pisa,
Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, Pacini,
1991, 397 pp., 323 tavv . . . . . . . . 270--273
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Julian Martin, Francis
Bacon, the State, and the reform of
Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1992, xiv + 236 pp. 273--275
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Marie Boas Hall,
\booktitlePromoting Experimental
Learning. Experiment and the Royal
Society, 1660--1727, Cambridge--New
York, Cambridge University Press, 1991,
xiii + 207 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: Michel Blay, La Naissance
de la mécanique analytique. La science du
mouvement au tournant des XVIIe et
XVIIIe si\`ecles, Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France, 1992, 414 pp.,
Ff 315 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--280
Pietro Redondi Book Review: Nicolas-Claude Fabri De
Peiresc, \booktitleLettres \`a Cassiano
dal Pozzo (1626--1637), editées et
commentées par J.-F. Lhote et D. Joyal,
preface de J. Guillerme,
Clermont-Ferrand, Éditions Adosa, 1989,
277 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--285
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Antonio Vallisneri,
Epistolario. 1679--1710, vol. I, a cura
di Dario Generali, Milano, Franco
Angeli, 1991, 639 pp. ($ \ll $Filosofia
e Scienza nel Cinquecento e nel
Seicento. Testi$ \gg $, 9) . . . . . . . 285--290
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jan Golinski, Science as
Public Culture. Chemistry and
Enlightenment in Britain, 1760--1820,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1992, xii + 342 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 290--294
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Alessandro Dini, Vita e
organismo. Le origini della fisiologia
sperimentale in Italia, Firenze,
Olschki, 1991, 213 pp., L. 43.000 . . . 294--296
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: James E. Crimmins, Secular
Utilitarianism. Social Science and the
Critique of Religion in the Thought of
Jeremy Bentham, Oxford, Clarendon Press,
1990, 348 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--299
Ines Crispini Book Review: Elio Matassi, Eredit\`a
hegeliane. Da Cieszkowski e Gans a
Ritter, Napoli, Morano Editore, 1991,
313 pp. ($ \ll $Nobilt\`a dello spirito$
\gg $, 29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Alvar Ellegård,
\booktitleDarwin and the general reader.
The reception of Darwin's Theory of
Evolution in the British periodical
press, 1859--1872. With a new foreword
by D. L. Hull, Chicago and London, The
University of Chicago Press, 1990, 394
pp., ISBN 0-226-20487-1 . . . . . . . . 302--304
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: J. Reardon-Anderson, the
Study of Change. Chemistry in China,
1840--1949, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1991, xix + 444 pp. 304--309
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: \booktitleCatalogo del
fondo Giovanni Battista Palletta. A cura
di G. Marsala e L. Panzeri. Introduzione
di G. Cosmacini, Milano, Editrice
Bibliografica, 1991. ($ \ll $Fonti e
strumenti$ \gg $, 17), xx + 155 pp. . . 310--312
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Filippo Parlatore, Mie
memorie, a cura di Agnese Visconti,
Palermo, Sellerio editore, 1992, 482
pp., 32 illustrazioni fuori testo, lire
50.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Paolo Mantegazza, Lezioni
di antropologia (1870--1910), Firenze,
Societ\`a Italiana di Antropologia e
Etnologia, 1989, 2 voll. di complessive
916 pp., s.i.p. . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--316
Stefano Berni Book Review: Gustavo Micheletti, I
Pensieri sordi e l'inconscio, Roma,
Borla, 1991, 357 pp., L. 28.000 . . . . 316--319
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Metaphors in the history of
psychology, edited by D. E. Leary,
Cambridge--New York, Cambridge
University Press, 1990, xiii + 380 pp. 319--323
Paolo Artuso Book Review: M. Arbib --- M. Hesse, La
costruzione della realt\`a, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 1992, 420 pp. E. Bellone, Saggio
naturalistico sulla conoscenza, Torino,
Bollati Boringhieri, 1992, 135 pp. . . . 323--330
Stefano Caroti Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 331--332
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Mara Miniati Book Review: Marinella Calisi, Guida
alla visita del Museo Astronomico e
Copernicano di Roma, Roma, Osservatorio
Astronomico e Museo Astronomico e
Copernicano, 1991, 145 pp., fig . . . . 333--333
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleXIX sajandi
alguse füüsika riistu Tartu Ülikooli
Ajaloomuuseumis. (Estonian) [XIX century
physics utensils. Tartu University
History Museum]. Tartu, 1989, 78 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Mara Miniati Book Review: David J. Bryden,
\booktitleNapier's Bones. A History and
Instruction Manual, London, Harriet
Wynter Ltd., 1992, 23 pp., fig . . . . . 334--334
Stefano Caroti Matematica e Fisica . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleOltre il
compasso. La geometria delle curve, a
cura di Franco Conti e Enrico Giusti,
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 1992, 73
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Marco Segala Book Review: Peter Coveney --- Roger
Highfield, La freccia del tempo. Viaggio
attraverso uno dei grandi misteri della
scienza, Milano, Rizzoli, 1991, 455 pp. 336--336
Ferdinando Abbri Antropologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Alain Touwaide Biologia e Medicina . . . . . . . . . . 338--339
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Theophrastus, De causis
plantarum, Books III--IV, Edited and
translated by Benedict Einarson & George
K. K. Link, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard
University Press, London, W. Heinemann,
1990, vi + 361 pp. ($ \ll $Loeb
Classical Library$ \gg $, 474).
Theophrastus, De causis plantarum, Books
V-Vi, Edited and translated by Benedict
Einarson & George K. K. Link, Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, London,
W. Heinemann, 1990, vii + 465 pp. ($ \ll
$Loeb Classical Library$ \gg $, 472) . . 340--341
Alain Touwaide Book Review: J. T. Vallance, the lost
Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, xi + 162
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Maconi, Storia della
Medicina e della Chirurgia, Milano, Casa
Ed. Ambrosiana, 1991, 374 pp. L. 55.000 343--344
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Hertzka e W. Strehlow,
\booktitleManuale della Medicina di
Santa Ildegarda, Bolzano, Casa Ed.
Athesia, 1992, 342 pp. (Tit. orig.:
\booktitleHandbuch der
Hildegard-Medizin, Freiburg, H. Bauer
Kg, 1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Daniela Mugnai Carrara Book Review: Stefano Caroti, I codici di
Bernardo Campagna. Filosofia e medicina
alla fine del sec. XIV, Manziana (Roma),
Vecchiarelli Editore 1991, ix + 275 pp. 345--347
Donatella Lippi Book Review: K. Bergdolt, Krankheit und
Therapie bei Petrarca, Die Kritik am
Medizin und Naturwissenschaft im
italienischen Fruehhumanismus, Weinheim,
VCH, Acta Humaniora, 1992, 364 pp., DM
168 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Stefano Casati Book Review: Arthur Schnitzler,
Paracelso a cura di Paola Maria Filippi,
Faenza, Moby Dick, 1991, 124 pp. ($ \ll
$I libri dello Zelig$ \gg $, 14) . . . . 349--349
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Magherini --- V. Biotti,
l'isola delle Stinche e i percorsi della
follia a Firenze nei secoli XIV--XVIII,
Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie, 1992, 187
pp., figg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--351
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ordine Ospedaliero di San
Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli,
Archivio Storico Del Comune di Firenze,
l'Archivio dell'Ospedale di San Giovanni
di Dio di Firenze (1604--1890),
Inventario a cura di Lucia Sandri,
Cernusco s/N (Milano), Edizioni
Fatebenefratelli, 1991, 306 pp., fig.,
L. 25.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Donatella Lippi Book Review: \booktitleActes du 4e
colloque des conservateurs des musées
d'histoire des sciences medicales, 7 au
10 septembre 1988, Pavia-Milano, Lyon,
Fond. Mérieux, 1990, 327 pp. . . . . . . 352--353
Daniela Mugnai Carrara Book Review: \booktitleClinical
Consultations and Letters by Ippolito
Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti and
Other Physicians. University of Bologna
ms. 2089-1. Translated and annotated
with an introductory analysis by Saul
Jarcho, Boston, the Francis A. Countway
Library of Medicine, 1989, lxix + 356
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Le cere ostetriche
romane di Giovan Battista Manfredini,
Roma, Quasar, 1991, 101 pp. . . . . . . 355--356
Marco Segala Book Review: Antonio Cadeddu, Dal mito
alla storia. Biologia e medicina in
Pasteur, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1991,
296 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Donatella Lippi Book Review: F. Antonini --- S.
Magnolfi, l'et\`a dei capolavori.
Creativit\`a e vecchiaia nelle arti
figurative, Venezia, Marsilio Ed., 1991,
243 pp., L. 80.000 . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Marie Annette Brown, Gail
M. Powell-Cope, Caring for a Loved One
with Aids. The Esperiences of Families,
Lovers, and Friends, Seattle and London,
The University of Washington Press 1992,
vii + 64 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Mara Miniati Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Hans-Werner Schütt, Eilhard
Mitscherlich. Baumeister am Fundament
der Chemie, München, R. Oldenbourg
Verlag, 1992, 198 pp. ($ \ll $Deutsches
Museum. Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue
Folge$ \gg $, Band 8) . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Stefano Caroti Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 361--362
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleEl Legado
Cientifico Andalusi. Museo Arqueologico
Nacional, Madrid Abril Junio, 1992,
s.n.t., 340 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Stefano Caroti Book Review: D. S. Chambers, A
Renaissance Cardinal and His Wordly
Goods: the Will and Inventory of
Francesco Gonzaga (1444--1483), London,
the Warburg Institute, University of
London, 1992, 257 pp., app., ill.,
bibl., ind. ($ \ll $Warburg Institute
Surveys and Texts$ \gg $, XX) . . . . . 363--363
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: José A. García-Diego,
Alexander G. Keller, Giovanni Francesco
Sitoni. Ingeniero rinacentista al
servicio de la Corona de España, Madrid,
Fundacion Juanelo Turriano --- Editorial
Castelia, 1990, 231 pp. . . . . . . . . 363--364
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Christoph Meinel, Die
Bibliothek des Joachim Jungius. Ein
Beitrag zur Historia litteraria der
frühen Neuzeit, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 1992, 224 pp., app., ill.,
ind. ($ \ll $Veröffentlichung der Joachim
Jungius Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,
Hamburg$ \gg $, 67) . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVI--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--368
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Stillman Drake, Galileo:
Pioneer Scientist,
Toronto-Buffalo-London, University of
Toronto Press, 1990, xviii + 261 pp. . . 368--369
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Luigi Neri, George
Berkeley. Filosofia e critica dei
linguaggi scientifici, Presentazione di
Antonio Santucci, Bologna, Clueb, 1991,
xiv + 241 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Mara Miniati Book Review: Bruno Corti,
\booktitleArcheologia Industriale,
Brescia, Icmai-Il Coltello di Delfo,
1991, 298 pp., fig., L. 120.000 . . . . 370--372
Stefano Casati Book Review: \booktitleStoria
dell'industria elettrica in Italia. 1.
Le origini. 1882--1914, (Italian)
[History of the electricity industry in
Italy. 1. Origins. 1882--1914] a cura di
Giorgio Mori, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 1992,
1022 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Gunnar Broberg och Mattias
Tydén, \booktitleOönskade i folkhemmet.
Rashygien och sterilisering i Sverige,
(Swedish) [Unwanted people in the home.
Eugenics and sterilization in Sweden],
Värnamo, Gidlunds Bokförlag, 1991, 219 pp. 373--376
Mara Miniati Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 377--409
Jacques Roger History of Science: Problems and
Practices. History of Science (S),
History of Mentalities, Micro-History 3--26
Umberto Barcaro Un'Analisi della $ \ll $Bizzarria$ \gg $
di Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
Cesare S. Maffioli Sul Filo Delle Acque . . . . . . . . . . 41--74
Marco Beretta Chemists in the Storm: Lavoisier,
Priestley and the French Revolution . . 75--104
Rossana Tazzioli Fisica e $ \ll $Filosofia Naturale$ \gg
$ in Riemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--120
Roberto Maiocchi Un'Infanzia Difficile: la Teoria della
Dissociazione Elettrolitica nel XIX
Secolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--167
Loredana Franco The Old Globes in Friuli--Venezia Giulia
(Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--195
Paolo Brenni Il Meteorografo di Padre Angelo Secchi 197--247
Franco Palladino Le Lettere di Giuseppe Peano nella
Corrispondenza di Ernesto Ces\`aro.
(Italian) [The Letters of Giuseppe Peano
in the Correspondence of Ernesto
Ces\`aro] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--281
Alexander Ziwet and
Giuseppe Peano Appendice I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Alexander Macfarlane and
Giuseppe Peano Appendice II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Silvia Bertini A Catalogue of English, French, Italian
and German Scientific Instruments Makers
From 1750 To 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
Guido Gori and
Massimo Misiti La Biblioteca della Fondazione Scienza e
Tecnica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
Ferdinando Abbri and
Antonello La Vergata Yvette Conry (1930--1992) . . . . . . . 299--304
Vincenzo Greco and
Giuseppe Molesini and
Franco Quercioli Esame Ottico Dei Cannocchiali di Galileo 305--311
Massimo Bucciantini and
Anna C. Citernesi and
Fabio Guidi Bce un Formato Comune Per Lo Scambio di
Dati Tra Bibliografie di Storia della
Scienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Wesley M. Stevens (Ed.),
Bibliographical Access to Medieval and
Renaissance Manuscripts: A Survey of
Computerized Data Bases and Information
Services, New York-London, the Haworth
Press Inc., 1992, 196 pp., ind . . . . . 321--322
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Catalogodi manoscritti
filosofici nelle biblioteche italiane.
Volume 6. Atri, Bergamo, Cosenza,
Milano, Perugia, Pistoia, Roma, Siena,
Firenze, Olschki, 1992, 381 pp., ind.
dei mss., degli incipit, dei nomi e
delle opere anonime ($ \ll $Unione
Accademica Nazionale. Corpus
philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, VII$
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Mara Miniati Book Review: Mary Holbrook, Science
preserved. A directory of scientific
instruments in collections in the United
Kingdon and Eire. London, Hmso, 1992,
271 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Marco Segala Book Review: David C. Lindberg,
\booktitleThe beginning of Western
science. The European scientific
tradition in philosophical, religious,
and institutional context, 600 B.C. to
A.D. 450, Chicago, The University of
Chicago Press, 1992, xviii + 455 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-226-48231-6 . . . . . . . . 324--327
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Aufstiegund Niedergang der
Römischen Welt (Anr W). Geschichte und
Kultur Roms im Spiegelder neueren
Forschung. Teil II: Principat, Bd. 36,
5: Philosophie (Einselne Autoren;
Doxographica); Bd. 36, 6: Philosophie
(Doxographica [Forts.]), hrsg. von W.
Haase, Berlin-New York, Walter De
Gruyter, 1992, 3249-3792 e 3793-4411
pp., indici . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michela Pereira, l'Oro dei
Filosofi. Saggio sulle idee di un
alchimista del Trecento, Spoleto, Centro
Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo,
1992, 265 pp. ($ \ll $Biblioteca di
Medioevo Latino$ \gg $, 7) . . . . . . . 328--330
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Tullio Gregory, Mundana
sapientia. Forme di conoscenza nella
cultura medievale, Roma, Edizioni di
storia e letteratura, 1992, 480 pp.,
app. ind., ($ \ll $Storia e letteratura.
Raccolta di studi e testi, 181$ \gg $ ) 330--334
Michela Pereira Book Review: William R. Newman (ed.),
They $ \ll $Summa Perfectionis$ \gg $ of
Pseudo-Geber. A Critical Edition,
Translation and Study, E. J. Brill,
Leiden-New York--Kòbenhaven--Köln, 1991,
vi + 785 pp., ISBN 90-04-09464-4 . . . . 334--341
Mara Miniati Book Review: Steven A. Lloyd, Ivory
Diptych Sundials 1570--1750, with
Introductions by Penelope Gouk and A. J.
Turner, Harvard, the Collection of
Historical Scientific Instruments,
Harvard University, 1992, 169 pp., fig 341--342
Giuliana Mocchi Book Review: Ivana Gambaro,
\booktitleAstronomia e tecniche di
ricerca nelle lettere di G. B. Riccioli
ad A. Kircher, Quaderni del Centro di
studio sulla storia della tecnica del
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 15,
Genova, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--345
Michele Vista Book Review: Giovanni Del Turco,
Epulario e segreti var\^\i. Trattati di
cucina toscana nella Firenze seicentesca
(1602--1636), a cura di A. Evangelista,
Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1992, lxvi + 170
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: G. W. Leibniz, Saemtliche
Schriften und Briefe, Siebente Reihe,
erster Band, mathematische Schriften,
edited by E. Knobloch and Walter S.
Contro, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1990,
xl + 954 pp. --- Dritte Reihe, dritter
Band, mathematischer
naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer
Briefwechsel, edited by H. Breger,
Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1991, Lx + 896
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--351
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, the
Janus faces of genius. The role of
alchemy in Newton's thought, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press 1991 (p.
1992), xii + 359 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 351--355
Anna Toscano Book Review: Franco Crispini, Recuperi.
Brevi tratti di storia intellettuale,
Cosenza, Edizioni Brenner 1992, vi + 169
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
Stefano Fabbri Bertoletti Book Review: Gunter Mann --- Franz
Dumont (Hrsgs.) Die Natur des Menschen.
Probleme der physichen Anthropologie und
Rassenkunde (1750--1850), Stuttgart-New
York, G. Fischer Verlag 1990, 457 pp.,
(Soemmerring-Forschungen, VI) . . . . . 357--360
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Evan M. Melhado & Tore
Frängsmyr (eds.), \booktitleEnlightenment
Science in the Romantic Era. The
Chemistry of Berzelius and its Cultural
Setting, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press 1992, xiv + 246 pp., ill. ($ \ll
$Uppsala Studies in History of Science$
\gg $, 10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--363
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleThe
Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Vol.
1, 1811--1831, a cura di Frank A. J. L.
James, London, Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 1991, 673 pp. Ill . . . . . . 363--364
Marco Segala Book Review: Abraham Pais,
\booktitleNiels Bohr's Times, in
physics, philosophy, and polity, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1991, xvii + 565 pp.
ill. (ISBN 0-19-852049-2) . . . . . . . 364--367
Roberto Maiocchi Book Review: David Favrholdt,
\booktitleNiels Bohr's philosophical
background, Copenhagen, the Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1992,
147 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370
Mara Miniati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 371--371
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ernesto Milano, Giulia
Luppi, Libra. La bilancia nei codici
estensi. Immagini e modelli di strumenti
di pesatura, Modena, Biblioteca Estense,
Museo della Bilancia, Il Bulino edizioni
d'arte, 1991, 57 pp., fig . . . . . . . 372--373
Mara Miniati Book Review: Klaus Schillinger, Joachim
Schardin, Vermisste Instrumente und
Uhren des mathematisch-physikalischen
Salons Dresden, Leipzig, E. A. Seemann
Kunstverlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1992, 44
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Mara Miniati Book Review: G. Paltrinieri, Le
meridiane: da S. Petronio a S. Giuseppe
di Brescia, $ \ll $L'Astrofilo.
Bollettino dell'Unione Astrofili
Bresciani$ \gg $, Brescia, 18--1991, 32
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Mara Miniati Book Review: E. Borchi, R. Macii,
\booktitleSul telescopio a riflessione,
(Italian) [On the reflecting telescope],
Firenze, Osservatorio Ximeniano, 1992,
126, pp., fig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lorella Grossi, Collezione
Albertazzi-Dazzani. Biblioteca Comunale
di Castenaso Casa Bondi 11 Settembre/31
Ottobre 1992, Campogalliano, Museo della
Bilancia, 1992, 63 pp., fig. ($ \ll $I
libri delle bilance$ \gg $ 1) . . . . . 374--375
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franco Foresta Martin,
Scienza in citt\`a. Guida ai luoghi e ai
musei scientificidi Roma, Milano,
Amministrazione Provinciale di Roma,
Electa, 1992, 151 pp., fig . . . . . . . 375--375
Ferdinando Abbri Storia della Tecnica . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitle$ \ll $Quaderni
di storia della tecnologia$ \gg $, a
cura di Vittorio Marchis, Torino,
Editrice Levrotto & Bella, 1991 . . . . . 376--377
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleReinhold R.
Angersteins resor genom Ungern och
Österrike 1750, sammanställda och
kommenterade av Marianne Fornander,
(Swedish) [Reinhold R. Angerstein's
travels through Hungary and Austria
1750, collected and commented by
Marianne Fornander], Stockholm,
Jernkontorets Bergshistoria utskott 1992
($ \ll $ serie H$ \gg $, 50) 290 pp. . . 377--378
Mara Miniati Book Review: Luisa Dolza, Vittorio
Marchis, Michelangelo Vasta, \booktitleI
privilegi industriali come specchio
dell'innovazione nel Piemonte
Preunitario 1814--1855, (Italian)
[Privileges as a mirror of industrial
innovation in the pre-unification
Piedmont 1814--1855]. Torino, la Rosa,
1992, 143, pp., L. 22.000 ($ \ll
$Innovazione e storia$ \gg $ ) . . . . . 378--378
Ferdinando Abbri Istituzioni Scientifiche . . . . . . . . 378--380
Marco Segala Storia Delle Idee . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Sverker SÖRlin,
Naturkontraktet. Om naturumgängets
idéhistoria, Stockholm, Carlssons
Bokförlag, 1991, 293 pp. . . . . . . . . 381--383
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Biologia e Medicina . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Mara Miniati $ \ll $Quaderni internazionali di storia
della medicina e della sanit\`a$ \gg $,
Ciso Toscano, Anno I, n. 1, 1992. . . . 384--385
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Luciano Sterpellone,
\booktitleLa Medicina nei francobolli,
(Italian) [Medicine in stamps], Saronno,
Ciba-Geigy Ed., 1992, 323 pp. . . . . . 385--386
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Alfonso Pluchinotta, Storia
illustrata della proctologia, Saronno,
Ciba-Geigy Ed., 1992, 321 pp. . . . . . 386--387
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Emiliano Panconesi e
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida,
\booktitleLorenzo il Magnifico in salute
e in malattia. Firenze, A. Bruschi ed.,
1992, L. 20.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi,
Clemente Mazzotta, Angela Chiantera,
Paola Altieri (a cura di), Medicina per
le donne nel Cinquecento, Torino, Utet,
1992, 124 pp., ed. fuori commercio, fig 388--388
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Vittorio A. Sironi, Le
officine della salute. Storia del
farmaco e della sua industria in Italia.
Bari, Laterza, 1992, 274 pp. (L. 45.000) 388--390
Ferdinando Abbri Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--392
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XIV--XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ugo Baldini, Legem impone
subactis. Studi su filosofia e scienza
dei Gesuiti in Italia. Roma, Bulzoni
editore, 1992, 601 pp., L. 78.000 ($ \ll
$Universit\`a degli Studi G. D'Annunzio
di Chieti, Collana dell'Istituto di
Filosofia$ \gg $, n.s. 3) . . . . . . . 393--394
Marco Segala Book Review: F. W. J. Schelling, Primo
abbozzo di un sistema di filosofia della
natura, a cura di Gigliola Grazi, Roma,
Cadmo editore, 1989, 382 pp. . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 395--408
Eugenio Garin Galileo: Gli Scandali della Nuova
'Filosofia' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v-430
Giovanna Baroncelli Intorno All'Invenzione della Spirale
Geometrica. Una Lettera Inedita di
Torricelli a Michelangelo Ricci.
(Italian) [On the invention of the
geometric spiral. An Unpublished Letter
of Torricelli to Michelangelo Ricci] . . 14--606
Lodewijk Woltjer The Limits of the Universe . . . . . . . 431--441
Carlo Sarti Giuseppe Monti and Palaeontology in
Eighteenth Century Bologna . . . . . . . 443--455
Brigitte Marin Les Traits d'Hygi\`ene Publique
(1784--1797) de Filippo Baldini, Médecin
\`a la Cour De Naples: Culture Médicale
et Service du Roi . . . . . . . . . . . 457--486
Yvette Conry Comment a-t-on pu Tre No-Lamarckien en
France (1843--1930)? . . . . . . . . . . 487--520
Gerhard H. Müller and
Klaus Wenig Kants Verhaltnis Zur Descendenztheorie:
Anton Dohrns Probevorlesung 1868 in
Jena. (German) [Kant's relationship to
the theory of descent: Anton Dohrn's
1868 trial lecture in Jena] . . . . . . 521--528
Anton Dohrn Kants Verhältnis Zur Descendenztheorie.
(German) [Kant's relationship to the
theory of descent] . . . . . . . . . . . 529--553
Gustina Scaglia Instruments Perfected for Measurements
of Man and Statues Illustrated in Leon
Battista Alberti's \booktitleDe Statua 555--596
Silvio A. Bedini A Marine Quadrant by Bernardo Facini . . 597--599
Tiziano Arrigoni Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 607--610
A. Mark Smith and
Bernard R. Goldstein The Medieval Hebrew and Italian Versions
of Ibn Mu'Dh's on Twilight and the
Rising of Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
Bernard R. Goldstein II. The Hebrew Text . . . . . . . . . . 614--626
A. Mark Smith III. The Italian Text . . . . . . . . . 628--630
Anonymous [Tractato Deli Crepuscoli e Dele
Ascensioni Dele Nuvole] . . . . . . . . 631--643
George N. Vlahakis A Note on the Penetration of Newtonian
Physics in Greece . . . . . . . . . . . 645--656
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Tomaso Poggio, l'occhio e
il cervello. Che cosa significa Vedere.
Roma-Napoli, Theoria, 1991, 124 pp. . . 657--669
Marco Segala Contro Newton: Retorica, Scienza e
Metafisica Nella Farbenlehre di Goethe.
(Italian) [Against Newton: Rhetoric,
science and metaphysics in Goethe's
science of color] . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688
M. Berni and
P. Brenni and
F. Guidi and
M. Miniati and
G. di Pasquale and
F. Principe and
A. Giatti and
F. Vannozzi Sic, un Programma Per la Catalogazione
Degli Strumenti Scientifici di Interesse
Storico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--696
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Marco Beretta, A History of
Non-Printed Science. A Select Catalogue
of the Waller Collection, Uppsala,
Uppsala University Library, 1993, 200
pp., ill. (Acta Bibliothecae R.
Universitatis Upsaliensis, vol. XXXI) 699--701
Mara Miniati Book Review: Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini
(a cura di), Dalla Scienza medica alla
pratica dei corpi. Fonti e manoscritti
marciani per la Storia della Sanit,
Padova, Neri Pozza, Editore, 1993, 192
pp., fig. (Fonti per la Storia della
Sanit, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--703
Giulio Maltese Book Review: Gerard l'E. Turner the
Great Age of the Miscrope, Bristol, Adam
Hilger, 1989, 379 pp. . . . . . . . . . 703--705
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Änne Bäumer,
\booktitleGeschichte der Biologie, Band
1. Biologie der Antike bis zur
Renaissance, Band 2. Zoologie der
Renaissance, (German) [History of
Biology. Volume 1. Biology of Antiquity
through the Renaissance. Volume 2.
Zoology of the Renaissance] Frankfurt
a.M., Peter Lang, 1991 . . . . . . . . . 705--709
Juan Casanovas Book Review: I. Iannaccone, Misurare il
cielo: l'antica astronomia cinese,
Napoli, 1991, 218 pp. . . . . . . . . . 709--710
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleLes techniques
mini\`eres de l'antiquité au XVIIIe
siécle, (French) [Mining techniques from
Antiquity to the 18th Century], Paris,
édition du Comité des Travaux Historiques
et Scientifiques 1992, 601 pp., ill . . 710--712
Sandra Plastina Book Review: \booktitleFilosofia scienza
e astrologia nel tre cento europeo, a
cura di Graziella Federici Vescovini e
Francesco Barocelli, Padova, Il
Poligrafo, 1992, 222 pp. . . . . . . . . 712--717
Mara Miniati Book Review: Benito Brunelli, Cinzia
Bucchioni, Maria Pia Torricelli, Il
patrimonio librario antico della
Biblioteca d'Ingegneria, Bologna,
Biblioteca Centrale G. P. Dore, [1992],
210 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--718
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Bruce T. Moran (ed.),
\booktitlePatronage and Institutions.
Science, Technology and Medicine at the
European Court, 1500--1750. Woodbridge,
Suffolk, the Boydell Press, 1991, 261
pp. ISBN 0-85115-285-6 . . . . . . . . . 718--720
Anna Toscano Book Review: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus
Nuncius, a cura di Andrea Battistini,
traduzione italiana di Maria Timpanaro
Cardini, Venezia, Letteratura universale
Marsilio, 1993, 247 pp. (Esperia,
Collana dei Classici Italiani) . . . . . 720--722
Giuliana Mocchi Book Review: G. S. Roussau, \booktitleLa
medicina e le Muse, (Italian) [Medicine
and the Muses], a cura di Antonello la
Vergata, Firenze, la Nuova Italia, 1993,
pp. v + 165 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--728
Marco Beretta Book Review: Wolf Lepenies, Natura e
scrittura. Autori e scienziati nel XVIII
secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992, 131
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--730
Marco Ciardi Book Review: R. W. Home, Electricity and
Experimental Physics in 18th-Century
Europe, London, Variorum, 1992, xii +
396 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--733
Marco Segala Book Review: Walter Bernardi, I fluidi
della vita. Alle origini della
controversia sull'elet-tricit animale,
Firenze, Olschki, 1992, 388 pp.
(Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza, 33) 733--736
Ezio Vaccari Book Review: Bernhard Fritscher,
Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie. Die
Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments
in der
Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse,
Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991,
346 pp. (Boethius Texte und Abhandlungen
zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der
Naturwissenschaften, Band XXV) . . . . . 737--739
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: David Knight, Humphry Davy.
Science Power, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992,
xiv + 218 pp. (Blackwell Science
Biographies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--742
Nicoletta Nicolini Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Technology, vol. 13, ed. Graham
Hollister-Short e Frank A. J. L. James,
Mansell, London e New York, 1991, xiii +
242 p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--745
Mara Miniati Book Review: Jim Benett, Robert Brain,
Kate Bycroft et al., Empires of Physics.
A Guide to the Exhibition. Cambridge,
Whipple Museum of the History of
Science, 1993, 110 pp., fig . . . . . . 745--748
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Darwinisme et socit, sous
la direction de Patrick Tort, Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France, 1992,
690 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--750
Gerhard H. Müller Book Review: Ilse Seibold, Der Weg zur
Biogeologie. Johannes Walther
1860--1937. Ein Forscherleben in Wandel
der deutschen Universität, Berlin,
Heidelberg, Springer, 1992, viii + 196
pp., ISBN 3-540-55341-X . . . . . . . . 750--752
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Luciano Mecacci, Storia
della psicologia del Novecento, Bari,
Laterza, 1992, xi + 554 pp., L. 48.000 752--754
Marco Segala Book Review: Kenneth Jinghwa Hs,
Challenger at sea: a ship that
revolutionized earth science, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 1992, xxxi +
417 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--757
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Le raccolte della
Colombaria. I. Incunabuli. Con un saggio
sulla Libreria Pandolfini, a cura di
Enrico Spagnesi, Firenze, Olschki 1993
(Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere
`La Colombaria'. 'Studi', CXX--VII), pp.
315, ill., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--760
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ove Hagelin (ed.), Rare and
Important Medical Books in the Library
of the Karolinska Institute. An
Illustrated and Annotated Catalogue,
Stockholm, Karolinska Institutes
Bibliotek, 1992, 212 pp. . . . . . . . . 760--760
Marco Segala Book Review: Kai Torsten Kanz,
Kielmeyer-Bibliographie. Verzeichnis der
Literatur von und ber den Naturforscher
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765--1844),
Stuttgart, Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
1991, 161 pp. (Quellen der
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 1) . . . . . . 760--761
Mara Miniati Book Review: Les Collections: fables et
programmes sous la direction de Jacques
Guillerme. Seyssel, Éditions Champ
Vallon, 1993, 364 pp. (Amphion, 4, Études
d'histoire des techniques) . . . . . . . 761--763
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Olaf Pedersen, Lovers of
Learning. A History of the Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences and Letters
1742--1992, Copenhagen, Munksgaard,
1992, 348 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--765
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleLa Collina di
Urania. Il Museo storico
dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di
Capodimonte. (Italian) [The Hill of
Urania. The Historical Museum of the
Astronomical Observatory of
Capodimonte]. Napoli, Elio de Rosa
editore, 1992, 111 pp., fig . . . . . . 765--765
Mara Miniati Book Review: Klaus Schillinger,
\booktitleSolare Brenngerte. Katalog.
Dresden, Staatlicher
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, 1992,
28 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--766
Mara Miniati Book Review: Laura Franchini, Strumenti
antichi di fisica di scuole napoletane.
Old Physics Instruments from Neapolitan
Schools. Napoli, Litografia Pesole
s.n.c., 1993, 46 pp., fig . . . . . . . 766--766
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Edwin Banfield, the Italian
Influence on English Barometers from
1780, Baros Book, Trowbridge (UK), 1993,
160 pp., ISBN 0-948382-07-4, \pounds
6.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--768
Marco Segala Book Review: Alexander Jacob, De naturae
natura. A study of idealistic
conceptions of nature and the
unconscious, Stuttgart, Steiner, 1992,
181 pp. (Kosmosophie. Forschungen und
Texte zur Geschichte des Weltbildes der
Naturphilosophie, der Mystik und des
Spiritualismus vom Sptmittelalter bis
zur Romantik, Band VII) . . . . . . . . 768--769
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Hunter and David
Wootton (eds.), Atheism from the
Reformation to the Enlightenment,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, viii +
307 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--771
Stefano Casati Book Review: Dario Camuffo, Clima e
uomo, Milano, Garzanti, 1990, 207 pp. 772--772
Marco Segala Book Review: William Dunham, Journey
through genius. the great theorems of
mathematics, New York, Wiley, 1990, xiii
+ 300 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--773
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michelle Goupil (ed.),
\booktitleLavoisier et la Révolution
chimique. Actes du Colloque tenu
l'occasion du bicentenaire de la
publication du Trait élémentaire de chimie
1789, Paris, Sabix --- École
polytechnique, 1992, viii + 372 pp., ill 773--776
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Gianni Michelon (a cura
di), Atti del Iv Convegno Nazionale di
Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica, Roma,
Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta
dei Xl, 1993 (Rendiconti, serie V, XVI,
parte II, 1992), pp. 103-529 . . . . . . 776--777
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Sherwin B. Nuland,
\booktitleI figli di Ippocrate. Storia
della medicina dagli antichi greci ai
trapianti d'organo, (Italian) [The sons
of Hippocrates. History of medicine from
the ancient Greeks to organ
transplants]. Milano, Mondadori, 1992,
pp. 498, L. 42.000 . . . . . . . . . . . 777--778
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Franco Voltaggio, l'arte
della guarigione nelle culture umane,
Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1992, 741
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--778
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., \booktitle\em Ars
Obstetricia Bononiensis (Catalogue and
videotape), Bologna, Clueb, 1988 . . . . 779--779
Marco Beretta Book Review: Peter Pomet, Der
aufrichtige Materialist und
Specerey-Hndler (Leipzig, 1717), VCH
Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, Weinheim, 1987,
21 + 901 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 780--780
Donatella Lippi Book Review: E. Bruzzone, Storia e
Medicina nella storiografia della peste,
Genova, Ecig, 1987, pp. 189, L. 19.000 780--781
Marco Beretta Book Review: J. Worth Estes, Dictionary
of Protopharmacology. Therapeutic
Practices, 1700--1850, Science History
Publications, Canton, Ma., 1990, xvii +
215 pp. Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--782
Donatella Lippi Book Review: V. Chiarugi, della pazzia
in genere, e in specie. Trattato
medico-analitico con una centuria di
osservazioni., ristampa della prima
edizione (Firenze, Carlieri 1793/94), a
cura di V. Andreoli e L. Bonuzzi, Roma,
Cic, 1991, pp. 353, L. 80.000 . . . . . 782--782
Donatella Lippi Book Review: A. Cherubini --- F.
Vannozzi, Previdenza di malattia e
malattie sociali dall'U-nit alla prima
Guerra Mondiale, Roma, 1990, pp. 257.
Ed. fuori commercio . . . . . . . . . . 783--783
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Gordon M. Shepherd,
Foundations of the neuron doctrine,
1991, New York, Oxford University Press,
338 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--784
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa. Vv., Civilt materiale e
letteratura nel mondo antico, Atti del
Seminario di studio, Macerata 28--29
giugno 1991, a cura di I. Mazzini,
Assisi, 1992, pp. 173, L. 40.000 . . . . 784--785
Stefano Caroti Book Review: \booktitleGlosses and
Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical
Texts. The Syriac, Arabic and Medieval
Latin Traditions, ed. by Charles
Burnett, London, the Warburg Institute
University of London, 1993 (Warburg
Institute Surveys and Texts, XXIII), pp.
192, bibl. ind. dei nomi, dei
manoscritti e degli incipit . . . . . . 785--786
Stefano Caroti Book Review: G. R. Evans, Philosophy and
Theology in the Middle Ages, London and
New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. 135,
bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--787
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Simo Knuuttila, Modalities
in Medieval Philosophy, London and New
York, Routledge, 1993 (Topics in
Medieval Philosophy), pp. 236, bibl.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--787
Stefano Caroti Book Review: L'insegnamento della
logicaa Bolognanel XIV secolo, a cura di
Dino Buzzetti, Maurizio Ferriani e
Andrea Tabarroni, Bologna, Istituto per
la storia dell'Universit\`a di Bologna,
1992 (Studi e memorie per la storia
dell'Universit\`a di Bologna, N. S.
VIII), pp. 645, app., ind . . . . . . . 788--789
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Gary Tomlinson, Music in
Renaissance Magic. Toward a
Historiography of Others, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1993, xvi + 291 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 789--791
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleIl lasciapassare
di Cesare Borgia a Vaprio d'Adda e il
viaggio di Leonardo in Romagna,
(Italian) [The pass of Cesare Borgia in
Vaprio d'Adda and the journey of
Leonardo in Romagna], Firenze, Giunti,
1993, 60 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 791--792
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Stephen A. McKnight (ed.),
Science, Pseudo-Science, and Utopianism
in Early Modern Thought, Columbia and
London, University of Missouri Press,
1992, xvi + 221 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 792--794
Marco Segala Book Review: Larry Stewart, the rise of
public science. Rhetoric, technology,
and natural philosophy in Newtonian
Britain, 1660--1750, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1992, xxxiv
+ 453 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794--795
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Christopher Mcintosh, the
Rose Cross and the Age of Reason.
Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in
Central Europe and its Relationship to
the Enlightenment, Leiden, E. J. Brill,
1992, viii + 200 pp., ill., (Brill's
Studies in Intellectual History, 29) . . 795--797
Simone Contardi Book Review: \booktitleIl filosofo nel
pozzo. La terra di Lazzaro Spallanzani
tra storia e scienza (Italian) [The
philosopher in the well. The land of
Lazzaro Spallanzani between history and
science], a cura di Paola Manzini,
Firenze, Olschki, 1990, pp. 109 . . . . 797--798
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Federico di Trocchio,
\booktitleLe bugie della Scienza. Perché
e come gli scienziati imbrogliano,
(Italian) [The Lies of Science. Why and
how scientists cheat], Milano, A.
Mondadori, 1993, pp. 364, ISBN
88-04-35111-X, L. 34.000 . . . . . . . . 798--802
Marco Segala Book Review: Byron Preiss --- Robert
Silverberg (Eds.), Dinosauri. Passato,
presente, futuro, Milano, Mondadori,
1992, 351 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 802--803
Paola Papini Book Review: Livio Gratton,
\booktitleOrigine ed evoluzione
dell'universo. Dal big-bang alle
galassie, (Italian) [Origin and
evolution of the universe. From the Big
Bang to galaxies]. Roma, La Nuova Italia
scientifica, 1992, 189 pp. . . . . . . . 803--803
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., \booktitleEducare
all'ascolto, a cura di Massimo Baldini,
Brescia, La Scuola Ed., 1988, 217 pp.,
L. 18.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--804
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 805--837
Paolo Rossi Immagini di Galileo . . . . . . . . . . 3--14
Massimo Bucciantini Dopo Il \booktitleSidereus Nuncius: Il
Copernicanesimo in Italia Tra Galileo e
Keplero. (Italian) [After the
\booktitleStarry Messenger:
Copernicanism in Italy from Galileo to
Kepler] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--35
Giorgio Stabile Linguaggio della Natura e Linguaggio
della Scrittura in Galilei. Dalla
Istoria Sulle Macchie Solari Alle
Lettere Copernicane. (Italian) [Language
of Nature and Language of Scripture in
Galileo. From the history of sunspots to
Copernican letters] . . . . . . . . . . 37--64
Pietro Redondi Dietro l'Immagine. Rappresentazioni di
Galileo Nella Cultura Positivistica . . 65--116
Pascal Duris Le Renouveau de la pensée Linnéenne en
France au XIXe Si\`ecle. (French) [The
renewal of Linnean thought in France in
the 19th Century] . . . . . . . . . . . 117--142
Antonello La Vergata Evolution and War, 1871--1918 . . . . . 143--163
David A. King and
Gerard L'E. Turner The Astrolabe Presented by Regiomontanus
To Cardinal Bessarion in 1462 . . . . . 165--206
Beate Ceranski Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 207--231
Anonymous Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
Henry Lowood Workshop on Bibliographic Control of
Sources for the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine: New Directions
and Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . 234--238
Wesley M. Stevens Sources and Resources for History of
Science To 1600 . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264
Claudio Pogliano Discorsi Inaugurali Nelle Facolt\`a
Mediche Italiane (1875--1925) . . . . . 265--294
William R. Shea Ricordo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Giorgio Bonsanti Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
Alain Touwaide Recherches récentes sur Hippocrate et le
\em Corpus Hippocraticum . . . . . . . . 305--319
Ferdinando Abbri A.-L. Lavoisier: Nuove Prospettive . . . 321--332
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Galen, on Semen, Edition,
translation and commentary by Philippe
de Locy, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1992,
291 pp. (= Corpus Medicorum Graecorum,
V, 3, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Nicoletta Palmieri,
\booktitleL'Antica versione latina del $
\ll $De Sectis$ \gg $ di Galeno (Pal.
lat. 1090), Pisa, Ets Editrice, 1992,
233 pp. ($ \ll $Testi e studi di cultura
classica$ \gg $, 7) . . . . . . . . . . 335--338
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Claude Domergue,
\booktitleLes mines de la péninsule
ibérique dans l'antiquité Romaine, Roma,
l'$ \ll $Erma$ \gg $ di Bretschneider,
1990, 625 pp., XXXII tavole, 53 figure,
6 carte geografiche ($ \ll $Collection
de l'École Française de Rome$ \gg $, 127) 338--342
Mara Miniati Book Review: Luigi Pepe (a cura di),
Copernico e la questione copernicana.
Opere della Pubblica Biblioteca di
Ferrara, Ferrara, Gabriele Corbo
Editore, 1993, 203 pp., fig . . . . . . 342--344
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Gianni Bedini, Fabio
Garbari (a cura di), I 400 anni
dell'Orto botanico di Pisa. l'orto
botanico: il passato chiave per il
futuro?, Atti del convegno
internazionale, Pisa, 11--12--13 ottobre
1991 (The 400 years of the Pisa Botanic
Garden. The botanic garden: is its past
the key to its future?, Proceedings of
the International Symposium, Pisa,
11--12--13 October 1991), $ \ll
$Museologia Scientifica$ \gg $, anno IX,
n. 1--4, gennaio--dicembre 1992, Verona,
1993, 460 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Bernard Joly, Rationalité de
l'alchimie au XVIIe si\`ecle, avec le
texte latin, la traduction et le
commentaire du Manuscriptum ad Federicum
de Pierre-Jean Fabre, Préface de
Jean-Paul Dumont, Paris, Vrin, 1992, 408
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--348
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Hunter (ed.),
Robert Boyle reconsidered, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1994, xvm +
231 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--352
Clara Silvia Roero Book Review: Enrico Pasini, Il reale e
l'immaginario. La fondazione del calcolo
infinitesimale nel pensiero di Leibniz,
Torino, Edizioni Sonda, 1993, 224 pp.,
L. 28.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--355
Luigi Pepe Book Review: Der Ausbau des Calculus
durch Leibniz und die Brüder Bernoulli,
Symposion der Leibniz-Gesellschaft und
der Bernoulli-Edition der
naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel,
15 bis 17 Juni 1987, herausgegeben von
Heinz-Jürgen Hess und Fritz Nagel, 1989,
175 pp. ($ \ll $Studia Leibnitiana$ \gg
$, Sonderheft 17) . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anna Toscano Book Review: Giulia Belgioioso, Cultura
a Napoli e Cartesianesimo. Scritti su G.
Gimma, P. M. Doria, C. Cominale, Lecce,
Congedo Editore, 1992, 459 pp. . . . . . 356--358
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Barbara Maria Stafford,
Body Criticism. Imaging the Unseen in
Englightenment Art and Medicine,
Cambridge Mass.-London, The MIT Press,
1991, xxi + 587 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
Marco Segala Book Review: Kathleen Wellman, La
Mettrie. Medicine, Philosophy, and
Enlightenment, Durham and London, Duke
University Press, 1992, xiv-342 pp.
(ISBN 0-8223-1204-2) . . . . . . . . . . 364--367
Marco Beretta Book Review: Giovanni Antonio Scopoli,
Dissertatio de diaeta litteratorum.
Traduzione di Domenico Magnino. Testi di
Gianguido Rindi e Carlo Violani, Pavia,
Cisalpino, 1991, 141 pp., Ill . . . . . 367--368
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tore Frängsmyr,
\booktitleSökandet efter Upplysningen. En
essä om 1700-talets svenskakulturdebatt,
(Swedish) [The search for Enlightenment.
An essay on the Swedish cultural debate
in the 1700s], Stockholm, Wiken, 1993,
200 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Marco Beretta, the
Enlightenment of Matter: the Definition
of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier,
Canton, Mass., Science History
Pubblications, 1993, xvi-396 pp., ill.
($ \ll $Uppsala Studies in the History
of Science$ \gg $, 15) . . . . . . . . . 371--377
Giorgio Israel Book Review: Paola Dess\`\i, l'ordine e
il caso. Discussioni epistemologiche e
logiche sulla probabilit\`a da Laplace a
Peirce, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989, 230
pp., L. 26.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
Jean Dhombres Book Review: Ivor Grattan-Guinness,
Convolutions in French Mathematics
1800--1840, Basel, Boston, Berlin,
Birkhäuser Verlag, 1990, 3 voll., 1602
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--386
Michele Vista Book Review: Christoph Meinel, Harmut
Scholz (Hrsg.), Die Allianz von
Wissenschaft und Industrie --- August
Wilhelm Hofmann: (1818--1892); Zeit,
Werk, Wirkung, Weinheim, Vhc, 1992, x +
375 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--389
Luigi Cerruti Book Review: Thomas Hapke, Die
Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie.
Hundert Jahre Wechselwirkung zwischen
Fachwissenschaft, Kommunikationsmedium
und Gesellschaft, Herzberg, Verlag
Traugott Bautz, 1990, 146 pp., 58
marchi, ISBN 3-88309-030-1 . . . . . . . 389--393
Gilberto Corbellini Book Review: Kenneth F. Kiple (editor),
the Cambridge World History of Human
Disease, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1993, xx-1176 pp., with Tables,
Figures and Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
Lucia Rositani Ronchi Book Review: Jürgen Teichmann,
\booktitleZur Geschichte der
Festkörperphysik. Farbzentrenforschung
bis 1940, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner
Verlag, 1988, 162 pp. ($ \ll $Boethius$
\gg $, Band XVII) . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Phillip V. Tobias, Olduvai
Gorge. Volume 4. The Skulls, Endocasts
and Teeth of Homo Habilis, preface by
Raymond A. Dart, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1991, 2 voll., xxxv +
921 pp., ill. (ISBN 0-521-20072-5) . . . 400--403
Marco Beretta Book Review: Aa.Vv., \booktitlel'Image
et la science, Paris, Comité des travaux
historiques et scientifiques, 1992, 425
pp., Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Strumenti Bibliografici
Catalogo di manoscritti filosofici nelle
biblioteche italiane. Volume 7. Novara,
Palermo, Pavia, a cura di G. M. Cao, C.
Casagrande, M. A. Casagrande-Mazzoli, D.
Ciccarelli, S. Gavinelli, S. Vecchio.
Premessa di C. Leonardi, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki, 1993, 319 pp., ind. dei mss.,
ind. degli incipit, ind. dei nomi e
delle opere anonime ($ \ll $Unione
Accademica Nazionale. Corpus
philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia$ \gg
$, VIII) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Eugenio Canone (a cura di),
Bibliothecae selectae. Da Cusano a
Leopardi, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
Editore, 1993, 631 pp., ill. ($ \ll
$Lessico Intellettuale Europeo$ \gg $,
Lviii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Mara Miniati Book Review: Livia Orlandi Frattarolo (a
cura di), Bologna e il Grand Tour, Roma,
Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1991,
46 pp. fig. Livia Orlandi Frattarolo,
Irene Ventura Folli, Esplorazioni in
biblioteca, Bologna, Analisi, 1991, 114
pp. fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Mara Miniati Book Review: Museologia Pietro A.
Valentino, l'immagine e la memoria.
Indagine sulla struttura del Museo in
Italia e nel mondo, Milano, Leonardo
Periodici s.r.l., 1993, 302 pp., fig.,
L. 50.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Mara Miniati Book Review: Strumentaria Giovanni
Paltrinieri, Astrolabi e volvelle. La
sfera celeste descritta su un piano, 39
pp., in $ \ll $L'Astrofilo. Bollettino
dell'Unione Astrofili Bresciani$ \gg $,
20, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Mara Miniati Book Review: Anita Mcconnell, R. B. Bate
of the Poultry 1782--1847. The Life and
Times of a Scientific Instrument Maker,
London, Scientific Instrument Society,
1993, 74 pp. fig. ($ \ll $Sis Monograph$
\gg $, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Mara Miniati Book Review: Bruno Carazza, Michele
Ceriana-Mayneri, \booktitlel'$ \ll
$Inventario delle machine$ \gg $ del
Gabinetto di Fisica di Torino, s.n.t.
[Torino, 1993], [84] pp. . . . . . . . . 410--411
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giulia Luppi (a cura di),
Bilance a bracci uguali/equal-arm
balances, Modena, Museo della
Bilancia/Il Bulino, 1993, 205 pp., fig.
($ \ll $Biblioteca del Museo della
Bilancia. Collezioni del Museo$ \gg $,
1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Luisa Dolza Book Review: Storia della Tecnologia
History of Technology, volume fourteen
(14) edited by Graham Hollister-Short
and Frank A. J. L. James, Londra,
Mansell, 1992, x + 182 pp. . . . . . . . 412--414
Mara Miniati Book Review: $ \ll $Quaderni di storia
della tecnologia$ \gg $, n. 3. Torino,
Editrice Levrotto & Bella, 1993, 193 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lili Cafarella, Antonio
Meloni, Cristoforo Colombo e la scoperta
della declinazione magnetica, Roma,
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, 1993,
21 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lili Cafarella, A. De
Santis, Antonio Meloni, Il catalogo
geomagnetico storico italiano. The
historical Geomagnetic Data Catalogue.
With an extended summary in English,
[Roma], Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica,
s.d., 160 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Mara Miniati Archivio Storico Amma, $ \ll $Le culture
della tecnica$ \gg $, settembre 1993. 417--417
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Storia Sociale E. Anthony
Rotundo, American Manhood.
Transformations in Masculinity from the
Revolution to the Modern Era, New York,
Basic Books, 1993, xiv + 382 pp. . . . . 418--420
Mara Miniati Book Review: Antropologia Aa.Vv.,
\booktitleLa science sauvage. Des
savoirs populaires aux ethnosciences,
(French) [Wild science. Popular
knowledge to ethnosciences]. Paris,
Éditions du Seuil, 1993, 212 pp., fig . . 420--421
Marco Beretta Book Review: Chimica Aa.Vv., Von der
Astronomie zur Alchemie, Rastatt,
Historische Bibliothek der Stadt
Rastatt, 1991, 273 pp. Ill . . . . . . . 421--422
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleLe tavole murali
di von Schroeder, (Italian) [The mural
tables of von Schroeder], Milano,
Electa, 1992, 89 pp., fig . . . . . . . 422--422
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina e Biologia Enrico
Marcovecchio, Dizionario Etimologico
Storico dei Termini Medici, Firenze, Ed.
Festina Lente, 1993, pp. 938 . . . . . . 422--423
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Galeno, Sull'ottima maniera
d'insegnare --- Esortazione alla
medicina, Testo e traduzione di Adelmo
Barigazzi, Berlin, Akademie Verlag,
1991, 172 pp. (= Corpus Medicorum
Graecorum V, 1, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Loris Premuda, Storia
dell'iconografia anatomica, Saronno, Ed.
Ciba, 1993, 385 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 425--426
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Le origini della
chirurgia italiana, Catalogo della
Mostra (Roma, dicembre 1993), Roma,
MBCA, 1993, 135 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Donatella Lippi Book Review: E. Haefliger e J.
Brun-Hool, \booktitleTavole delle
malerbe, Saronno, Ciba Edizioni, 1991,
xx pp., tavole . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Healing. Storia e
strategie del guarire, a cura di O.
Galeazzi, Firenze, Olschki, 1993, 362
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Donatella Lippi Book Review: V. C. Medvei, the History
of Clinical Endocrinology, New York,
Parthenon Publishing Group, 1993, 551
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--432
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Lanmarco Laquidara,
l'odontoiatria attraverso i secoli,
Siena, Ciso editore, 1993, 400 pp., L.
50.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--433
Donatella Lippi Book Review: L. Capasso, A. Capelli, Le
epidemie di peste in Abruzzo, dal 1348
al 1702, Cerchio (Aq), A. Polla Ed.,
1993, 102 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Roy Porter (ed.), The
medical history of water and spas,
London, Wellcome Institute for the
History of Medicine, 1990, 150 pp., fig 434--434
Lanmarco Laquidara Book Review: Francesca Vannozzi (a cura
di), Per una storia dell'insegnamento
della medicina legale nell'Universit\`a
di Siena, Siena, Ciso Editore, 1993, 200
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: John G. Howells (ed.),
\booktitleThe concept of schizophrenia:
historical perspectives, Washington,
American Psichiatric Press, 1991, 211
pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Mara Miniati Book Review: Maria Sibylla Merian,
\booktitleLa meravigliosa metamorfosi
dei bruchi, (Italian) [The wonderful
metamorphosis of caterpillars], a cura
di Maria Gregorio, prefazione di Giorgio
Celli, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1993,
212 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Francesco Carnevale, Gian
Bruno Ravenni (a cura di), Gaetano
Pieraccini medico del lavoro. La salute
dei lavoratori in Toscana all'inizio del
XX secolo, Firenze, Editoriale Tosca,
301 pp. fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Medioevo e Rinascimento
Brigitte Prévot, Bernard Ribémont, Le
cheval en France au Moyen Age. Sa place
dans le monde médiéval; sa médecine:
l'exemple d'un traité vétérinaire du XIVeme
si\`ecle, la $ \ll $Chirurgie des
chevaux$ \gg $, Orléans, Paradigme, 1994,
522 pp., ill., bibl., app. ($ \ll
$Medievalia$ \gg $ ). . . . . . . . . . 438--439
Stefano Caroti Book Review: M. J. F. M. Hoenen,
Marsilius of Inghen. Divine Knowledge in
Late Medieval Thought, Leiden --- New
York --- Köln, E. J. Brill, 1993, 287
pp., ind. bibl. ($ \ll $Studies in the
History of Christian Thought$ \gg $, L) 439--440
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Luciano Capra (a cura di),
Note di Torquato Tasso a $ \ll $De
Caelo$ \gg $ di Aristotele,
Ferrara-Roma, Gabriele Corbo Editore,
1993, 194 pp., ind. ($ \ll $Esami$ \gg
$, 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Daniela Lamberini Book Review: Numa Broc, La geografia del
Rinascimento, a cura di Claudio Greppi,
Modena, Edizioni Panini, 1989, 172 pp.,
ill. b.n., f.t. 15 br. Indici, ($ \ll
$Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali,
Ferrara$ \gg $, Saggi), Lit. 40.000 . . 441--441
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Augusta Buck (Hrsg.), Die
okkulten Wissenschaften in der
Renaissance, Wiesbaden, Otto
Harassowitz, 1992, 293 pp., ill. ind. ($
\ll $Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur
Renaissanceforschung. in Zusammenarbeit
mit dem Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für
Renaissanceforschung herausgegeben von
der Herzog August Bibliothek$ \gg $, Bd.
12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Donatella Lippi Book Review: P. Gavitt,
\booktitleCharity and children in
Renaissance Florence. The Ospedale degli
Innocenti, 1410--1536, Ann Arbor, The
University of Michigan Press, 1990, 330
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Mara Miniati Book Review: Owen Gingerich, Robert S.
Westman, the Wittich Connection:
Conflict and Priority in Late
Sixteenth-Century Cosmology,
Philadelphia, the American Philosophical
Society, 1988, 148 pp., fig. ($ \ll
$Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society$ \gg $ vol. 78,
Part 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Secoli XVI--XX Brian Harvey
Goodwin Wormald, Francis Bacon. History,
politics and science. 1561--1626,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1993, xii + 409 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
Mara Miniati Book Review: Milla Baldo Ceolin (ed.),
Galileo scientist. His Years at Padua
and Venice, s.l., Istituto Nazionale di
Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Dipartimento
di Fisica $ \ll $Galileo Galilei$ \gg $
dell'Universit\`a degli Studi di Padova,
[1993], 140 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Brian L. Merril (ed.),
\booktitleAthanasius Kircher
(1602--1680) Jesuit Scholar, Provo,
Utah, Friends of the Brigham Young
University Library, 1989, xxxvii + 74
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Marco Beretta Book Review: Alvaro Alonso Barba,
\booktitleArte de los metales (1640),
ristampa anastatica, Madrid, CSIC, 1992,
228 pp. Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
Marco Segala Book Review: Peter M. Harman --- Alan E.
Shapiro (eds.), The investigation of
difficult things. Essays on Newton and
the history of the exact sciences in
honour of D. T. Whiteside, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi +
531 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--454
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Alan E. Shapiro, Fits,
Passions, and Paroxysms. Physics,
method, and chemistry and Newton's
theories of colored bodies and fits of
easy reflection, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1993, xviii + 400 pp. 454--456
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antonio di Meo, Silvano
Tagliagambe (a cura di), Teorie e
filosofie della materia nel Settecento,
Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1993, x + 230 pp.
L. 50.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Paola Giacomoni, Le forme e
il vivente. Morfologia e filosofia della
natura in J. W. Goethe, Napoli, Guida
editori, 1993, 284 pp. ill. Lit. 35.000 458--459
Marco Segala Book Review: John Elbert Wilson,
Schellings Mythologie. Zur Auslegung der
Philosophie der Mythologie und der
Offenbarung, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt,
Frommann-Holzboog, 1993, 292 pp. ($ \ll
$Spekulation und Erfahrung$ \gg $, Abt.
2, Untersuchungen; Bd. 31) (ISBN
3-7728-1483-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Marco Segala Book Review: Eduard A. Tropp, Viktor Y.
Frankel, and Arthur D. Chernin,
\booktitleAlexander A. Friedmann: the
Man who Made the Universe Expand,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1993, x + 267 pp. (ISBN 0-521-38470-2) 460--461
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William R. Shea, Antonio
Spadafora (eds.), Interpreting the
World. Science and Society, Canton,
Mass., Science History Publications,
1992, XII + 218 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 463--468
Anonymous Pubblicazioni Ricevute . . . . . . . . . 469--476
Enrico Giusti Il Filosofo Geometra. Matematica e
Filosofia Naturale in Galileo . . . . . 485--498
David K. Hill Pendulums and Planes: What Galileo
Didn't Publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--515
Loredana Franco Vincenzo Coronelli: Vita e Opere.
Aggiornamenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--541
Germana Pareti Il Declino della Dottrina Del Blastema.
(Italian) [The Decline of the Doctrine
Of Blastema] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--558
Yvette Conry Lamarck, Penseur de Fronti\`ere.
(French) [Lamarck, frontier thinker] . . 559--592
Michael Bohr Englische Uhren Für Grossherzog Cosimo
III. Und Die Ankunft von Ignazio Hugford
am Hofe in Florenz'. (German) [English
clocks for Grand Duke Cosimo III. And
the arrival of Ignazio Hugford at the
Court in Florence] . . . . . . . . . . . 593--618
Anthony J. Turner Natural Philosophers, Mathematical
Practitioners and Timber in Later 17th
Century England . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--634
Giovanni di Pasquale Studio su un Gruppo di Compassi Romani
Provenienti Da Pompei . . . . . . . . . 635--644
Giuseppe Brusa L'Orologio Dei Pianeti di Lorenzo della
Volpaia. (Italian) [The planetary clock
of Lorenzo della Volpaia] . . . . . . . 645--669
Paolo Brenni Il Barometro Ritrovato . . . . . . . . . 670--676
Mara Miniati and
Vincenzo Greco and
Giuseppe Molesini and
Franco Quercioli Examination of An Antique Telescope . . 677--682
Anna Toscano Book Review: \booktitleCatalogo Delle
Carte di Giorgio Baglivi Conservate
Nella Waller Samling, Presso
Universitetsbiblioteket $ \ll $Carolina
Rediviva$ \gg $ di Uppsala . . . . . . . 683--738
Calogero Farinella Ricostruire la Biblioteca di Uno
Scienziato: Il Caso di A. M. Lorgna.
(Italian) [Rebuilding the library of a
scientist: the case of A. M. Lorgna] . . 739--758
Giorgia Foderá and
Francesca Martines and
Donatella Randazzo Cataloghi di Strumenti Scientifici Nella
Biblioteca Dell'Osservatorio Astronomico
di Palermo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--796
Brusa Maria Barbara Sul Rapporto Tra Strumenti e Teorie
Nella Storia Della Scienza . . . . . . . 797--807
Gilberto Corbellini Individuality and Disease in Garrod's
Theory of Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 809--817
Alain Touwaide Book Review: \booktitleStoria del
pensiero medico occidentale, a cura di
Mirko D. Grmek, Vol. 1: Antichit\`a e
medioevo, Roma & Bari, Laterza, 1993, 577
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--821
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Actes du colloque
international $ \ll $Les phytonymes
grecs et latins$ \gg $, tenu \`a Nice
les 14, 15 et 16 mai 1992 \`a la Faculté
des Lettres, Arts et Sciences humaines,
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
Nice, Université, 1993, 324 pp. ($ \ll
$Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis,
Centre de Recherches comparatives sur
les Langues de la Méditerranée ancienne$
\gg $, 12). Des hommes et des plantes
--- Plantes méditerranéennes, vocabulaire
et usages anciens, Table ronde
Aix-en-Provence, mai 1992, Edité par M.
C. Amouretti & G. Cornet,
Aix-en-Provence, Université, Service des
Publications, 1993, 174 pp. ($ \ll
$Cahier d'histoire des techniques$ \gg
$, 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--824
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Theophrastus of Eresus,
Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought&
Influence, edited and translated by
William W. Fortenbaugh, Pamela M. Huby,
Robert W. Sharples (Greek and Latin) and
Dimitri Gutas (Arabic), together with
Andrew D. Barker, John J. Keaney, David
D. Mirhady, David Sedley and Michael G.
Sollenberger. 2 vol. Part One: Life,
Writings, Various Reports, Logic,
Physics, Metaphysics, Theology,
Mathematics. Part Two: Phsychology,
Human Physiology, Living Creatures,
Botany, Ethics, Religion, Politics,
Rhetoric and Poetics, Music,
Miscellanea, Leyde, Brill, 1992, 465 &
705 pp. (= Philosophia antiqua, 54, 1 &
2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--827
Hamid Berrani Book Review: Angel C. López y López,
\booktitleKit\=ab f\=\i tart\=\ib
awq\=at al-gir\=asa wa-l-magr\=us\=at.
un tratado agrícola andalusí anónimo.
Edición, traducción y estudio con glosario
de\ldots Granada, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas. Escuela de
Estudios Arabes, 1990, 410 pp. . . . . . 828--829
Ahmad Alkuwaifi Book Review: Ma Angeles Navarro,
Ris\=ala f\=\i Awq\=at al-Sana. un
Calendario Anónimo Andalusí. Granada,
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, Escuela de Estudios Arabes,
1990, 284 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--831
Michela Pereira Book Review: \booktitleAlchimie et
Philosophie \`a la Renaissance, sous la
direction de Jean-Claude Margolin et
Sylvain Matton, Paris, Librairie
Philosophique J. Vrin, 1993, ($ \ll $De
Pétrarque \`a Descartes$ \gg $ Lvii),
ISSN 0418-4459, ISBN 2-7116-1172-8, 478
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--835
Michela Pereira Book Review: Cornelius Agrippa, De
occulta philosophia libri tres, edited
by Vittoria Perrone Compagni, Leiden, E.
J. Brill, 1992, 659 pp., ($ \ll $Studies
in the History of Christian Thought$ \gg
$, ed. by H. A. Oberman, vol. Xlviii),
ISBN 90-04-09421-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 835--837
Sandra Plastina Book Review: Giordano Bruno. Gli anni
napoletani e la $ \ll $ peregrinatio$
\gg $ europea. Immagini. Testi (Italian)
[Giordano Bruno. The years and the
Neapolitan European pilgrimage. Images.
Texts]. Documenti a cura di Eugenio
Canone, Cassino, Universit\`a degli
Studi di Cassino, 1992, 246 pp. + 8
tavole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--840
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Barbara Beigun Kaplan, $
\ll $Divulging of Useful Truths in
Physics$ \gg $. the Medical Agenda of
Robert Boyle, Baltimore and London, the
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993,
xii + 216 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--842
Anna Toscano Book Review: Edmé Mariotte,
\booktitleEssai de Logique. Suivi de
l'écrit intitulé 'Les principes du devoir
et des connaissances humaines' attribué a
Roberval, Paris, Fayard, 1992, 206 pp.
($ \ll $Corpus des Oeuvres de
Philosophie en Langue Française$ \gg $ ) 843--845
Anna Toscano Book Review: Franco Crispini, l'opinione
del bene. A. Shaftesbury tra ispirazioni
antiche e ragione moderna, Napoli,
Morano Editore, 1994, 166 pp. ($ \ll
$Collana di Filosofia$ \gg $ ) . . . . . 846--847
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John Stoye,
\booktitleMarsigli's Europe 1680--1730.
The Life and Times of Luigi Ferdinando
Marsigli, Soldier and Virtuoso, New
Haven and London, Yale University Press,
1994, xii + 356 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 847--849
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Lazzaro Spallanzani,
\booktitleI Giornali delle Sperienze e
Osservazioni, a cura di C. Castellani,
Firenze, Giunti, 1994, voll. 5 in 6 tt.
($ \ll $Biblioteca della Scienza
Italiana$ \gg $, 1) . . . . . . . . . . 849--856
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Cinzio Gibin, La geometria
della natura. Chioggia e I'Europa nella
vicenda intellettuale di Giuseppe Olivi
naturalista del Settecento, Padova, Il
Poligrafo, 1994, 173 pp. . . . . . . . . 856--859
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: \booktitleAlle soglie della
rivoluzione tecnologica. Josef Ressel:
un inventore a Trieste 1773--1993,
(Italian) [On the threshold of the
technology revolution. Josef Ressel: an
inventor in Trieste 1773--1993], a cura
di Valerio Staccioli, Trieste, Azienda
di Promozione Turistica, 1994, 184 pp. 859--862
Marco Ciardi Book Review: The Correspondence of
Michael Faraday. Volume 2, 1832--1840,
edited by Frank A. J. L. James, London,
the Institution of Electrical Engineers,
1993, lv + 807 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 862--865
Anonymous Book Review: Theodor M. Porter, Le
origini del moderno pensiero statistico
(1820--1900), Firenze, La Nuova Italia,
1993, xxxii + 349 pp. . . . . . . . . . 865--868
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giovanni Boato, Giuseppe
Bruzzaniti, Strumenti nella Fisica
dell'Ottocento, Genova, Sagep Editrice,
1993, 142 pp. fig . . . . . . . . . . . 868--868
Mara Miniati Book Review: Liceo Classico $ \ll $L.
Ariosto$ \gg $ Ferrara, Strumentaria.
Alla scoperta dell'antico laboratorio di
Fisica del Liceo Ariosto (1860--1924).
Ferrara-Poggio Renatico, Lions Club,
1993, 117 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 869--870
Paolo Garbolino Book Review: Ian Hacking, Il caso
domato, a cura di Simona Morini, Milano,
Il Saggiatore, 1994, xxx + 335 pp. . . . 870--873
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Atti del Convegno: La
fisica a Pavia nelle opere di Giuseppe
Belli, a cura di G. Bellodi e E. Rovida,
Pavia, Collana di Storia della Scienza
dell'Universit\`a di Pavia, 1994, 144
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--877
Marco Segala Book Review: Giacomo Scarpelli, Il
cranio di cristallo. Evoluzione della
specie e spiritualismo, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1993, 219 pp. ($ \ll $Saggi
scientifici$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 877--880
Paul Weindling Book Review: Elisabeth Crawford,
\booktitleNationalism and
internationalism in science, 1880--1939.
Four Studies of the Nobel Population,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1992, xii + 157 p. . . . . . . . . . . . 880--881
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Eugene Webb, the Self
Between. From Freud to the New Social
Psichology of France, Seattle-London,
University of Washington Press, 1993, xi
+ 268 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--883
Nadia Robotti Book Review: Joseph Agassi,
\booktitleRadiation Theory and the
Quantum Revolution,
Basel--Boston--Berlin, Birkhäuser Verlag,
1993, 178 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--885
Roberto Cordeschi Book Review: Marvin Minsky, La societ\`a
della mente, trad. it. di Giuseppe
Longo, Milano, Adelphi, 1989, 674 pp. 885--888
Giulio Peruzzi Book Review: Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W.
Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine
Westfall (eds.), Critical Assembly: A
Technical History of Los Alamos during
the Oppenheimer Years, 1943--1945,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1993, xv + 509 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 888--892
Stefano Caroti Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 893--894
Mara Miniati Book Review: Anita Bacci, Donatella
Parrini, Francesca Vannozzi, I documenti
dell'Accademia I. Verbali, memorie,
epistole ed atti dalla fondazione al
secolo XVIII. Siena, Accademia delle
Scienze di Siena della de' Fisiocritici,
1994, 261 pp. ($ \ll $Memorie$ \gg $, 5) 894--894
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: \booktitleI Manoscritti di
Pier Antonio Micheli conservati nella
Biblioteca Botanica dell'Universit\`a di
Firenze, (Italian) [The manuscripts of
Pier Antonio Micheli preserved in the
Library of Botany at The University of
Florence], catalogo a cura di Stefania
Ragazzini, presentazioni di Paolo
Galluzzi, Elena Maugini e Guido Moggi,
Milano, Giunta regionale toscana &
Editrice Bibliografica, 1993, 99 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--896
Mara Miniati Museologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--896
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--897
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giampaolo Gallo (a cura
di), Per una storia del vetro nel
Valdarno. Ivv 1952-92. Firenze, Ponte
alle Grazie, 1994, 187 pp., fig . . . . 897--898
Mara Miniati Book Review: Danuta Burczyk-Marona,
Scientific and teaching instruments in
the Jagiellonian Museum. Kraków,
Prowincjonalna Oficyna Wydawnicza
Exartim, 1993, 32 pp., fig. ($ \ll
$Collegium Maius$ \gg $, 3) . . . . . . 898--898
Mara Miniati Book Review: Emilio Borchi, Renzo Macii,
Gli antichi strumenti del gabinetto di
fisica. Empoli, Istituto Calasanzio,
1993, 204 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 899--899
Mara Miniati Book Review: Antichi elettrometri e
galvanometridel Dipartimento di Fisica
di Firenze. Firenze, 1992, 50 pp., fig.
(riproduzione in fotocopia). l'antico
gabinetto di Fisica di un Liceo
Classico. Firenze, Liceo Classico
Statale $ \ll $Dante$ \gg $, 1993, 57
pp., fig. (riproduzione in fotocopia) 899--900
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fausto Casi (a cura di),
Strumenti scientifici e macchine di
interesse storico della Usl di Arezzo.
Catalogo. Arezzo, Centro di
Catalogazione degli strumenti
scientifici di interesse storico, 1994,
182 pp. n.n., fig. (fotocopie rilegate) 900--901
Anna Giatti Book Review: Gigliola Terenna, Francesca
Vannozzi (a cura di), Inventario del
patrimonio dell'unit\`a sanitaria locale
30 --- area senese. Gli strumenti
scientifici. Siena, Tipografia Edizione
Cantagalli, 1994, 98 pp. . . . . . . . . 901--901
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Toby E. Huff, the rise of
early modern science. Islam, China, and
the West, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1993, xiv-410 pp., ill 902--904
Marco Segala Astronomia e Fisica . . . . . . . . . . 904--905
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Peter M. Harman, After
Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy,
Aldershot, Variorum, 1993, xii + 315 pp. 905--907
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Svante Lindqvist (editor),
\booktitleCenter on the Periphery.
Historical Aspects of 20th-Century
Swedish Physics. Marika Hedin and Thomas
Kaiserfeld Associate Editors, Canton MA,
Science History Publications, 1993, iv +
516 pp. ill. ($ \ll $Uppsala Studies in
History of Science$ \gg $, 17) . . . . . 907--909
Giulio Peruzzi Book Review: Enrico Bellone,
\booktitleSpazio e tempo nella nuova
scienza, (Italian) [Space and time in
the new science], Roma, la Nuova Italia,
1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--911
Alessandro Tosi Botanica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--912
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: \booktitleI Giardini dei
Semplici e gli Orti Botanici della
Toscana. In appendice saggi su Pietro
Andrea Mattioli, (Italian) [The Gardens
of the Plain and Botanical Gardens of
Tuscany. An appendix of essays by Pietro
Andrea Mattioli], a cura di Sara Ferri e
Francesca Vannozzi, Perugia, Giunta
regionale toscana & Quattroemme, 1993,
214 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--914
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Liana Palazzi Mariotti, Il
Giardino dei Semplici, un itinerario fra
le piante, aromatiche, medicinali,
velenose, esotiche, Firenze, Citt\`a di
Vita, 1993, 325 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 914--915
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: \booktitleI ritratti di
piante di Jacopo Ligozzi, (Italian) [The
portraits of plants by Jacopo Ligozzi],
a cura di Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi,
introduzione di Giuseppe Olmi, schede
botanico-farmacologiche di Sara Ferri,
Pisa, Pacini Editore, 1993, 198 pp., ill 915--916
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: 150-HCI. Collezioni
botaniche e ricerca scientifica. Atti
del convegno. Il significato delle
collezioni d'erbari oper. Il progresso
della ricerca scientifica (Botanical
collections and scientific research.
Proceedings of the meeting. The role of
the herbarium collections for the
progress of the botanical research),
Firenze, Museo Botanico
dell'Universit\`a, 1993, 849 pp., ill 916--918
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Pierangelo Lomagno,
\booktitleStorie di piante medicinali
eccellenti, (Italian) [Histories of
plants: excellent medicines], Saronno,
Ciba Edizioni, 1994, 199 pp. . . . . . . 918--919
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Medicina e Biologia . . . . . . . . . . 919--920
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Jole Agrimi --- Chiara
Crisciani, Les $ \ll $Consilia$ \gg $
médicaux, trad. de l'ital. par C. Viola,
Turnhout, Brepols, 1994, 106 pp., bibl.,
ind. ($ \ll $Typologie des sources du
moyen age occidental, fasc. 69$ \gg $ ) 920--921
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Kenneth J. Carpenter,
Protein and energy. A study of Changing
Ideas in Nutrition, Cambridge, Mass.,
Cambridge Univ. Press., 1994, 280 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--922
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., \booktitleDoctors
and ethics: the earlier historical
setting of professional ethics, edited
by A. Wear, J. Geyer-Kordesch and R.
French, Amsterdam---Atlanta, GA, Rodopi,
1993, 303 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--924
Ferdinando Abbri Antichita e Medioevo . . . . . . . . . . 924--925
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Alfonso Maier\`u,
\booktitleUniversity Training in
Medieval Europe, tr. and ed. by D. N.
Pryds, Leiden-New York--Köln, E. J.
Brill, 1994, 188 pp., bibl., ind. ($ \ll
$Education and Society in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, 3$ \gg $ ) . . . . 925--927
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Charles W. Jones, Bede, the
Schools and the $ \ll $Compotus$ \gg $,
ed. by W. M. Stevens, Aldershot,
Variorum, 1994, x + 356 pp., ind. ($ \ll
$Collected Studies Series, 436$ \gg $ ) 927--927
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Egidio Romano, Opera Omnia.
I. Catalogo dei manoscritti (1001--1075)
De Regimine principum. 1/11 Citt\`a del
Vaticano --- Italia, a cura di F. Del
Punta e C. Luna, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki, 1993, 420 pp., bibl., app.,
ind. ($ \ll $Unione Accademica
Nazionale. Corpus Philosophorum Medii
Aevi. Testi e studi, XII$ \gg $ ) . . . 927--928
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Ermete Trismegisto,
\booktitleDe triginta sex decanis, cura
et studio S. Feraboli, Translatio
Gallica capitum XXIV--XXV, cura et
studio S. Feraboli et S. Matton,
Turnholt, Brepols, 1994, 386 pp., bibl.,
ill., ind. ($ \ll $Corpus Christianorum
Continuatio Mediaevalis, Cxliv. Hermes
Latinus, Tomus Iv, pars I$ \gg $ ) . . . 928--929
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Marsilius von Inghen. Werk
und Wirkung. Aktendes Zweiten
Internationalen
Marsilius-von-Inghen-Kongresses, hrsg.
von S. Wielgus, Lublin, Redakcja
Wydawnictw Kul, 1993, 291 pp., ill.,
bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--931
Ferdinando Abbri Rinascimento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--933
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Aldo Manuzio tipografo.
1494--1515, catalogo a cura di Luciana
Bigliazzi, Angela Dillon Bussi,
Giancarlo Savino, Piero Scapecchi,
Firenze, Octavo Franco Cantini Editore,
1994, 239 pp., fig . . . . . . . . . . . 934--934
Mara Miniati Book Review: Enrico Giusti, Carlo
Maccagni (a cura di), Luca Pacioli e la
matematica del Rinascimento. Firenze,
Giunti, 1994, 108 pp., fig . . . . . . . 934--936
Michela Pereira Book Review: Resultate und Desiderate
der Paracelsus-Forschung, hrsg. von
Peter Dilg und Hartmut Rudolph, Franz
Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1993, 204 pp.
($ \ll $Sudhoffs Archiv Beihefte$ \gg $
31), ISBN 3-515-06096-0 . . . . . . . . 936--937
Mara Miniati Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--937
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Firenze dei grandi
viaggiatori, a cura di Franco Paloscia,
Casale Monferrato, Ed. Abete, 1994, 191
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--938
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: George J. Seidel,
\booktitleFichte's Wissenschaftslehre of
1794. A Commentary on Part 1, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University
Press, 1993, 126 pp. ($ \ll $Purdue
University Series in the History of
Philosophy$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 938--939
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Henri Poincaré, \booktitleIl
valore della scienza, a cura di Gaspare
Polizzi, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1994,
lii + 204 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--940
Michele Vista Book Review: Laylin K. James (ed.),
Nobel Laureates in Chemistry,
1901--1992. Washington, American
Chemical Society and the Chemical
Heritage Foundation, 1993, xviii + 798
pp. (History of Modern Chemical
Sciences) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940--942
Anna Toscano Book Review: Paolo Simoncelli, Storia di
una censura. $ \ll $Vita di Galileo$ \gg
$ e Concilio Vaticano II, Milano, Franco
Angeli, 1992, 153 pp. ($ \ll $Studi e
ricerche storiche$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . 942--943
Mara Miniati Attivita Dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza di Firenze . . . . . . . . 945--958
Carlos Ziller Camenietzki L'Extase Interplanétaire d'Athanasius
Kircher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--32
George N. Vlahakis The Appearance of a $ \ll $New$ \gg $
Science in 18th Century Greece: the Case
of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
Simone Bonechi Un Proprietario Toscano Tra Scienza,
Rivoluzione e Filantropismo: Girolamo
De' Bardi (1777--1829) . . . . . . . . . 51--97
Dalida Monti Dirac's Holes Model: From Proton To
Positron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--130
Gerard L'E. Turner The Florentine Workshop of Giovan
Battista Giusti, 1556--c. 1575 . . . . . 131--172
Mara Miniati and
Valeria Cocchetti and
Caterina Toso and
Sergio Boni Sul Restauro di Due Globi di Matthäus
Greuter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--178
Josefa Jiménez and
Martinez Manuela and
Amparo Sebastian The Royal Academy of Mathematics and the
Imperial College in the National Museum
of Science and Technology of Madrid . . 179--192
Mauro Agnoletti Il Trasporto Fluviale Del Legname
Nell'Alta Valle Del Piave (XIX sec.) . . 193--209
Maria Basso Ricci and
Pasquale Tucci La Catalogazione di Strumenti
Geomagnetici Italiani . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Romano Gatto Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani Lettere di
Giuseppe Battaglini a Enrico Betti . . . 217--221
Anonymous Lettere di Giuseppe Battaglini ad Enrico
Betti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--256
Silvia Collini and
Antonella Vannoni La Société d'Histoire Naturelle e Il
Viaggio di D'Entrecasteaux alla Ricerca
di la Pérouse: Le Istruzioni Scientifiche
Per i Viaggiatori . . . . . . . . . . . 257--274
M. Delamarck Mémoire Instructif pour Les Voyageurs Qui
se Proposent de Faire des Recherches
Utiles \`a la Botanique. (French)
[Instructive memoir for travellers who
intend to do useful research on botany] 275--286
M. Pinel Sur Le Progr\`es Que la Zoologie Atteind
Des Voyages De Long Cours . . . . . . . 287--291
Giovanna Lazzi and
Isabella Truci Le Carte di Orazio Ricasoli Rucellai
Acquistate Dalla Biblioteca Nazionale di
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
Edoardo Proverbio Observational Instruments of Historical
Interest in Existence in Italian
Astronomical Observatories . . . . . . . 307--320
A. J. Turner Yunus the Candle-Clock Maker and
Babylonian Functions . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
Michael Segre Convegno Internazionale su Galileo
Galilei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Renato Pasta I Matematici Nella Vita Politica,
1789--1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Massimo Bucciantini and
Fabio Guidi and
Alessandra Lenzi Nova Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--343
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: H. Floris Cohen, the
Scientific Revolution. A
Historiographical Inquiry, Chicago &
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1994, xviii + 662 pp. . . . . . . . . . 345--347
Ilva Beretta Book Review: De Arbore. Botanica,
alimentazione, architettura, teatro,
storia, legislazione, filosofia,
simbologia, araldica, religione,
letteratura, tecnologia degli alberi
dalle opere manoscrittee a stampadella
Biblioteca Casanatense. Roma, Biblioteca
Casanatense, 1991, 811 pp., Ill. Wilfrid
Blunt, and T. William Stearn, the Art of
Botanical Illustration, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club in
association with the Royal Botanic
Garden, Kew, 1994, 368 pp., Ill . . . . 347--351
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Colin A. Ronan, the Shorter
Science and Civilisation in China, vol.
4, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1994, xv + 334 pp., 142 ill . . . 351--354
Marco Beretta Book Review: Aa.Vv., Storia
dell'Universit\`a di Pisa --- vol. 1
1343--1737, 2 t. Pisa, Pacini Editore,
1993, xv + 739 pp., Ill . . . . . . . . 355--358
Marco Beretta Book Review: Giorgio Agricola, De Re
Metallica, a cura di Paolo Macini e Ezio
Mesini, Segrate, Edizioni Anim, 1994,
xxxii + 542 pp., Ill . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Anna Toscano Book Review: Paola Giacomoni (a cura
di), Immagini del corpo in et\`a
moderna, Trento, Editrice Universit\`a
degli Studi di Trento, 1994, 282 pp. ($
\ll $Labirinti$ \gg $ Collana del
Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e
Storiche) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362
Giuseppe Olmi Book Review: Paula Findlen, Possessing
Nature. Museums, Collecting and
Scientific Culture in Early Modern
Italy, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London,
University of California Press, 1994, xv
+ 449 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
Mara Miniati Book Review: Silvio A. Bedini, Science
and Instruments in Seventeenth-Century
Italy, Aldershot, Variorum Ashgate
Publishing Limited, 1994, x + 338 pp.,
Ill. Aldershot, Variorum Ashgate
Publishing Limited, 1994, xii + 338 pp.,
Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--368
Antonio Nardi Book Review: Enrico Giusti, Euclides
reformatus: la teoria delle proporzione
nella scuola galileiana, Milano, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1993, 348 pp. . . . . . . . 368--374
Marco Beretta Book Review: Alessandro Marchetti, della
natura delle cose di Lucrezio, a cura di
Mario Saccenti, Modena, Mucchi Editore,
1992, xxvii + 275 pp., Ill . . . . . . . 374--375
Clelia Pighetti Book Review: Gianfranco Mormino, $ \ll
$Penetralia motus$ \gg $. La fondazione
relativistica della meccanica in
Christiaan Huygens, con l'edizione del $
\ll $Codex Hugeniorum 7 A$ \gg $,
Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1993, 355 pp. 375--377
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: \booktitleImago et
descriptio Tusciae. La Toscana nella
geocartografia dal XV al XIX secolo, a
cura di Leonardo Rombai, scritti di M.
Azzari, P. Crini, L. Rombai, G. C.
Romby, D. Toccafondi, R. Valentini, C.
Vivoli, Venezia, Giunta regionale
Toscana-Marsilio, 1993, 399 pp., Ill . . 377--379
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Cristina Scappini, Maria
Pia Torricelli, Lo Studio Aldrovandi in
Palazzo Pubblico (1617--1742), a cura di
Sandra Tugnoli Pattaro, Bologna, Clueb,
1993, 180 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Mirella Brini Savorelli Book Review: Buffon88, Actes du Colloque
international pour le bicentenaire de la
mort de Buffon (Paris, Montebard, Dijon,
14--22 juin 1988), réunis par J.-Cl.
Beaune, S. Benoit, J. Gayon, J. Roger,
D. Woronoff, direction J. Gayon, Paris,
Vrin, 1992, 771 pp. (ISBN 2-7116-9755-X) 381--388
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Les scientifiques et la
montagne. Actes du 116e Congr\`es
National des Sociétés Savantes, section
d'Histoire des Sciences et des
Techniques (Chambéry, 29 avril--4 mai
1991), Paris, Édition du CTHS, 1993, 296
pp., ill [ISBN 2-7355-0272-4] . . . . . 388--391
Marco Segala Book Review: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
Schelling,
\booktitleHistorisch-kritische Ausgabe.
Ergänzungsband zu Werke Band 5 bis 9.
Wissenschaftshistorischer Bericht zu
Schellings naturphilosophischen
Schriften 1797--1800, Stuttgart,
Frommann-Holzboog, 1994, xv + 845 pp. 392--395
Marco Segala Book Review: Dora B. Weiner,
\booktitleThe citizen-patient in
revolutionary and imperial Paris,
Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1993, xvi + 444 pp. (ISBN
0-8018-4483-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--398
Marco Segala Book Review: Novalis, Opera filosofica,
a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero
Moretti, 2 voll., Torino, Einaudi, 1993,
xliii + 620 e ix + 965 pp. ($ \ll $Nuova
Universale Einaudi$ \gg $, 214) . . . . 398--400
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: \booktitleGli Uccelli dei
Ranieri. Arte, natura e decorazione tra
Settecento e Ottocento, catalogo della
mostra, Casalzuigno (Varese), Villa
della Porta-Bozzolo, 25 settembre--1
novembre 1994, (Italian) [The Birds of
Ranieri. Art, nature and decoration
between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century, exhibition catalog, Casalzuigno
(Varese), Villa della Porta-Cocoon,
September 25--November 1 1994]. Milano,
Electa, 1994, 134 pp., ill . . . . . . . 400--401
Fernando Vidal Book Review: Alan Gauld, A history of
hypnotism, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1992, xv + 738 pp. . . 401--402
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Alan J. Rocke, the Quiet
Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the
Science of Organic Chemistry,
Berkeley-Los Angeles, University of
California Press, 1993, xvi + 502 pp. ($
\ll $California Studies in the History
of Science$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 402--405
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Geoffrey Irwin,
\booktitleThe Prehistoric Exploration
and Colonisation of the Pacific,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1992, vii + 240 pp. ill [ISBN
0-521-40371-5] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
Gilberto Corbellini Book Review: A. L. Bonella (a cura di),
\booktitleL'ospedale dei pazzi di Roma
dai papi al 900. Vol. I, Fonti per la
storia della follia: Santa Maria della
Piet\`a e il suo archivio storico ---
secc. XVI--XX, Roma, Edizioni Dedalo,
296 pp., 32 ill. F. F. Bernardini, A.
Iaria, A. Bonfigli (a cura di),
l'ospedale dei pazzi di Roma dai papi al
900. Vol. II, Lineamenti di assistenza e
cura a poveri e dementi, Roma, Edizioni
Dedalo, 448 pp., 36 ill. a colori e 191
b.n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--410
Michele Vista Book Review: Dietrich Stoltzenberg,
Fritz Haber: Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger,
Deutscher Jude, Weinheim, VCH, 1994, xiv
+ 670 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--413
Vittorio Somenzi Book Review: Dean Keith Simonton,
Scientific Genius (A psychology of
science), Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1988, x + 229 pp. . . 413--414
Mara Miniati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 415--416
Mara Miniati Istituzioni Scientifiche . . . . . . . . 416--418
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: David Cahan, \booktitleAn
Institute for an Empire. The
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
1871--1918, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1989, xx + 315 pp. . . 418--419
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Mara Miniati Book Review: R. H. Van Gent, De hemel in
de hand. Twee astrolaben van het museum
Boerhaave. The Portable Universe. Two
Astrolabes of the Museum Boerhaave,
Leiden, Museum Boerhaave, 1994, 44 pp.,
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Mara Miniati Book Review: Liceo Ginnasio $ \ll $Corti
Gentili$ \gg $ Alatri (Fr), Il filo del
tempo: l'antico laboratorio fisico.
Instrumenta selecta, a cura di Roberto
Mantovani. Alatri, Arti Grafiche Tofani
s.n.c., 1994, xxx + 88 pp., ill. Musis
Museo della Scienza e Dell'Informazione
Scientifica, Collezione strumenti di
fisica Liceo E. Q. Visconti-Roma, a cura
di Alessandro Orlandi e William Russell,
fotografie di Sebastiano Porretta, Roma,
Euroma Editrice Universitaria di Roma-La
Goliardica, 1994, 82 pp., ill . . . . . 421--422
Simona Morini Filosofia della Scienza . . . . . . . . 422--423
Stefano Casati Storia Delle Idee . . . . . . . . . . . 423--426
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jamie James, the Music of
the Spheres. Music, Science, and the
Natural Order of the Universe, London,
Little, Brown and Company, 1994, xix +
262 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
Stefano Caroti Matematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Marco Segala Book Review: Umberto Bottazzini,
\booktitleIl flauto di Hilbert. Storia
della matematica moderna e
contemporanea, (Italian) [Hilbert's
flute. History of modern and
contemporary mathematics], Torino, Utet,
1990, v + 455 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
Marco Segala Book Review: Morris Kline, Storia del
pensiero matematico, 2 voll., Torino,
Einaudi, 1991, xiv + 1470 pp. . . . . . 428--429
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitlePer l'archivio
della corrispondenza dei matematici
italiani. Il fondo $ \ll $Tacchini$ \gg
$ dell'Ufficio Centrale di Ecologia
Agraria in Roma, (Italian) [On the
archive of correspondence of Italian
mathematicians. Il fondo $ \ll
$Tacchini$ \gg $ of the Central Bureau
of Agricultural Ecology in Rome], a cura
di Ileana Chinnici, Milano, Universit\`a
Bocconi, 1994, 111 pp., ill. (Quaderni
P.Ri.St.Em. n. 7) . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Alessandro Tosi Botanica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--430
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Maria Augusta Favalia,
Fabrizia Fossati, Giambattista Guatteri.
Fondatore dell'attuale Orto Botanico di
Parma, Parma, 1993, 139 pp., ill . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--433
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gabriella Mancini (a cura
di), l'Officina profumo-farmaceutica di
Santa Maria Novella in Firenze: sette
secoli di storia e di arte, Roma, F.lli
Chitarrini s.a.s., 1994, 220 pp., ill 433--434
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franco Arosio, Carlo Besta
and the Foundation of the National
Neurological Institute in Milan, Milan,
$ \ll $Carlo Besta$ \gg $ National
Neurological Institute, 1993, 47 pp.
Franco Arosio, Carlo Besta 1876--1940,
Milano, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico $
\ll $Carlo Besta$ \gg $, 1993, 111 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Stefano Caroti Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 435--436
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Laura Ackerman Smoller,
History, Prophecy and the Stars. The
Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly,
1350--1420, Princeton, New Jersey,
Princeton University Press, 1994, 233
pp., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Constantine the African and
Ali Ibnal-Abbasal-Magusi. The $ \ll
$Pantegni$ \gg $ and Related Texts, ed.
by Charles Burnett and Danielle
Jacquart, Leiden New York--Köln, E. J.
Brill, 1994, 364 pp., ill., ind. ($ \ll
$Studies in Ancient Medicine$ \gg $, 10) 437--439
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Aegidius Aurelianensis,
Quaestiones super $ \ll $De generatione
et corruptione$ \gg $, Herausgegeben von
Zdzis\law Kuksewicz,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, B. R. Grüner,
1993, 237 pp., ind. ($ \ll $Bochumer
Studien zur Philosophie$ \gg $, 18) . . 439--440
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Pico, Poliziano e
l'Umanesimo di fine Quattrocento.
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 4
novembre--31 dicembre 1994, Catalogo a
cura di Paolo Viti, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki, 1994, 376 pp., ill. ind. ($ \ll
$Centro Internazionale di cultura
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Studi
Pichiani$ \gg $, 2) . . . . . . . . . . 440--441
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John Leary, Jr., Francis
Bacon and the Politics of Science, Ames,
Iowa State University Press, 1994, xii +
297 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--444
Anna Toscano Book Review: $ \ll $Stenoniana. Nova
Series$ \gg $, I, Copenhagen,
Lægeforeningens Forlag, 1991, 159 pp. . . 444--446
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ren\`e Descartes,
\booktitleOpere filosofiche, a cura di
Ettore Lojacono, Torino, Utet, 1994, 2
voll., 920 + 777 pp. ($ \ll $Classici
della Filosofia$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . 446--448
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Gunnar Eriksson, the
Atlantic Vision. Olaus Rudbeck and
Baroque Science, Canton MA, Science
History Publications, 1994, viii + 196
pp. ($ \ll $Uppsala Studies in History
of Science$ \gg $, 19) . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Marco Ciardi Book Review: A. Rupert Hall,
\booktitleNewton, his Friends and his
Foes, Aldershot, Variorum, 1993, xii +
330 pp. A. Rupert Hall, Science and
Society, Aldershot, Variorum, 1994, x +
324 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--452
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek,
Alle de Brieven (The Collected Letters),
Geredigeerd doors (Edited by) L. C.
Palm, Deel (Volume) XIII (1700--1701),
Lisse, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1994, 417 pp. 452--453
Marco Beretta Book Review: Pierluigi Barrotta,
Dogmatismo ed eresia nella scienza:
Joseph Priestley, Milano, Franco Angeli,
1994, 183 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--455
Mara Miniati Book Review: Donato Granafei, Meccanica
animale. Esercizio Fisico-matematico a
cura di Arcangelo Rossi, Lecce, Edizioni
del Grifo, 1993, xxiv + xvi + 38 pp., 1
tav. n.n. ($ \ll $Testi e Ricerche$ \gg
$, 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: R. E. R. Banks, B. Elliott,
J. G. Hawkes, D. King-Hele, G. U. Lucas
(editors), Sir Joseph Banks: A Global
Perspective, Kew, the Royal Botanic
Gardens, 1994, ii + 235 pp. . . . . . . 455--456
Anna Toscano Book Review: Maurizio Torrini,
Scienziati a Napoli. 1830--1845, Napoli,
Cuen, 1989, 166 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 457--458
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giorgio Santha,
\booktitleLa Provincia Scolopica
d'Ungheria. Attivit\`a apostolica
culturale e sociale dal 1642 al 1956, in
$ \ll $Ricerche. Bollettino
quadrimestrale degli Scolopi italiani$
\gg $, Anno XIV (1994), n. 3, pp.
215-346 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Mara Miniati Book Review: Pietro Segala (a cura di),
Universit\`a, ricerca e nuove
professionalit\`a per la durabilit\`a
dell'arte nel museo del mondo.
Interventi e documenti dal seminario
bresciano del febbraio 1992, Milano,
Brescia, Confcooperative Lombardia,
Fondazione Civilt\`a Bresciana, 1994,
191 pp. ($ \ll $Sistema Museale:
problemi, uomini, territori$ \gg $, 1) 459--461
Anonymous Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 463--476
Giovanni Aquilecchia I Massimi sistemi di Galileo e la Cena
di Bruno. (Italian) [The world systems
of Galileo and the Last Supper of Bruno] 485--496
Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo Variazioni su un Tema di Galileo . . . . 497--508
J. V. Field Piero della Francesca and the $ \ll
$Distance Point Method$ \gg $ of
Perspective Construction . . . . . . . . 509--530
Alessandro Tosi $ \ll $Ulyssis Imago$ \gg $: Iconografia
Aldrovandiana Tra XVI e XIX Secolo.
(Italian) [$ \ll $Ulyssis Imago$ \gg $:
Aldrovandian Iconography from the 17th
to 20th Century] . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--550
Mario di Loreto L'$ \ll $Inventaire De Stockholm$ \gg $
e Il $ \ll $Primo Registro$ \gg $ di
Descartes. Note in Margine Alle Opere
Postume Sulle Matematiche . . . . . . . 551--615
Luca Ciancio Alberto Fortis e La Pratica Del Viaggio
Naturalistico. Stile di Ricerca e
Modalit\`a di Prova . . . . . . . . . . 617--644
Paola Vasconi System Der Empirischen
Naturwissenschaften Und Einheit Der
Erkenntnis: Die Funktion Der Chemischen
Revolution Lavoisiers in Der Reflexion
Des Opus Postumum Über Die Sprache Der
Wissenschaft. (German) [The system of
empirical science, and unit of
knowledge: The function of the chemical
revolution. Lavoisier in the reflection
of \em Opus Postumum on the language of
science] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--669
Alberto Lualdi Pietro Patroni, un Ottico della Milano
Post-Spagnola. (Italian) [Pietro
Patroni, an optician of the Milan
Post-Spagnola] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--689
Gian Luigi Betti Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 691--714
Marta Cavazza Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 715--753
Giuliana Mocchi Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 755--767
Anna Toscano Book Review: François Russo, Libres
propos sur l'Histoire des Sciences,
Paris, Éditions Albert Blancard, 1995,
283 pp. ($ \ll $Biblioth\`eque
Scientifique Albert Blanchard$ \gg $ ) 769--770
Marco Beretta Book Review: Valentin Wehefritz & Zoltan
Kováts, \booktitleBibliography on the
History of Chemistry and Chemical
Technology. 17th to the 19th Century. K.
G. Saur, München, 1994, 3 voll. . . . . . 771--772
Anna Toscano Book Review: M. Fattori e M. L. Bianchi
(a cura di), Ratio. VII Colloquio
Internazionale. Roma 9--11 gennaio 1992.
Atti, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore,
1994, 574 pp. (Lessico Intellettuale
Europeo Lxi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--775
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Gianni Micheli, Le origini
del concetto di macchina, Firenze, Leo
S. Olschki, 1995, 184 pp., fig . . . . . 776--779
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Giusto Traina, La tecnica
in Grecia e a Roma, Roma, Laterza 1994,
155 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--781
Alain Touwaide Book Review: Caelius Aurelianus, Akute
Krankheiten Buch I--III. Chronische
Krankheiten Buch I--V. Herausgegeben von
Gerhard Benz. Übersetzt von Ingeborg
Pape. Teil I: Akute Krankheiten I--III;
Chronische Krankheiten I--II (= Corpus
Medicorum Latinorum, VI, 1). Berlin,
Akademie Verlag, 1990, in 8$^\circ $,
677 p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782--786
Michela Pereira Book Review: Michael R. Mcvaugh,
Medicine before the Plague.
Practitioners and their Patients in the
Crown of Aragon 1285--1345, Cambridge,
Cambridge Up, 1993, 280 pp. (Cambridge
History of Medicine Series) . . . . . . 786--788
Olov Amelin Book Review: R. G. W. Anderson, J. A.
Bennett, W. F. Ryan (eds.), Making
Instruments Count: Essays on Historical
Scientific Instruments. Presented to
Gerard l'Estrange Turner, Aldershot,
Variorum, 1993, xix + 492 pp. . . . . . 789--790
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Flavio Caroli, Storia della
fisiognomica. Arte e psicologia da
Leonardo a Freud, Milano, Leonardo
(Mondadori), 1995, 287 pp. (con 133
figure nel testo) . . . . . . . . . . . 790--793
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: John H. Brooke, Science and
Religion. Some Historical Perspectives,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1991, x + 422 pp. (The Cambridge History
of Science Series) . . . . . . . . . . . 793--797
Michela Pereira Book Review: Joachim Telle (hrsg.),
Analecta Paracelsica. Studien zum
Nachleben Theophrast von Hohenheims im
deutschen Kulturgebiet der frühen
Neuzeit, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner
Verlag, 1994, 590 pp. . . . . . . . . . 797--799
Michela Pereira Book Review: William Eamon, Science and
the Secrets of Nature. Books of Secrets
in Early Modern Culture, Princeton (New
Jersey), Princeton Up, 1994, 490 pp. . . 799--803
Michael John Gorman Book Review: James M. Lattis, Between
Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph
Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic
cosmology. Chicago and London,
University of Chicago Press, 1994, xix +
293 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--808
Antonio Nardi Book Review: Michele Camerota,
\booktitleGli scritti De motu antiquiora
di Galileo Galilei: il Ms Gal 71.
Un'analisi storico-critica, prefazione
di Alberto Papa, Cagliari, Cuec, 1992,
149 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808--812
Pietro Redondi Book Review: Mario Biagioli, Galileo
Courtier. The practice of science in the
culture of absolutism, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1993, xn-402 pp., bib., ill., ind . . . 812--817
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Beverley C. Southgate, $
\ll $Covetous of Truth$ \gg $. the Life
and Work of Thomas White, 1593--1676,
Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1993, 189 pp. (Archives Internationales
d'Histoire des Idées, vol. Cxxxiv) . . . 817--819
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jost Weyer, Graf Wolfgang
II. von Hohenlohe und die Alchemie.
Alchemische Studien in Schloss
Weikersheim 1587--1610, Sigmaringen, Jan
Thorbecke Verlag, 1992, 516 pp. ($ \ll
$Forschungen aus Württembergisch Franken$
\gg $, Band 39) . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--824
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Roger French,
\booktitleWilliam Harvey's natural
philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1994, 386 pp. . . . . 824--827
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Steven Shapin, A Social
History of Truth. Civility and Science
in Seventeenth-Century England, Chicago
and London, The University of Chicago
Press, 1994, xxxii + 483 pp. . . . . . . 828--830
Marco Beretta Book Review: Michael Stolberg,
\booktitleEin Recht auf saubere Luft?
Umweltkonflikte am Beginn des
Industriezeitalters, Erlangen, Harald
Fischer Verlag, 1994, 365 pp. . . . . . 831--832
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Maurice Crosland, in the
Shadow of Lavoisier: the Annales de
Chimie and the establishment of a new
science, Oxford, the Alden Press, 1994,
xii + 354 pp. ($ \ll $British Society
for the History of Science Monographs$
\gg $, 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832--834
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: F. Burkhardt et alii
(eds.), The Correspondence of Charles
Darwin. Volume 7, 1858--1859. Supplement
to the Correspondence, 1821--1857,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1991, xxviii + 671 pp. (14 illustr.),
ISBN 0-521-38564-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 834--836
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: \booktitleThe Zoology of
the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the
Command of Captain Fitzroy R.N., during
the Years 1832 to 1836, Edited and
Superintended by Charles Darwin Esq.,
M.A., F.R.S., Sec. G.S., Naturalist to
the Expedition [London, Smith, Elder &
Co. 1839--1843], 4 voll., rist.
anastatica a cura della Royal
Geographical Society, London, C.I.L.
Ltd., 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--838
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Dorothy Ross (ed.),
Modernist Impulses in the Human
Sciences, 1870--1930, Baltimore & London,
John Hopkins University Press, 1994, xii
+ 379 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--841
Nicoletta Nicolini Book Review: \booktitleLa science sous
le Troisi\`eme Reich, sous la direction
de Josiane Olff-Nathan, Paris, Ed. du
Seuil, 1993, 336 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 841--844
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ivan Karp, Steven D. Lavine
(a cura di), \booktitleCulture in
mostra. Poetiche e politiche
dell'allestimento museale, (Italian)
[Culture on display. Poetics and
policies of the museum]. Introduzione di
Fredi Drugman, Bologna, Clueb, 1995, xv
+ 183 pp., ill. (Lexis, IV $ \ll
$MuseoPoli$ \gg $, 1) . . . . . . . . . 844--847
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: Erich Robert Paul, the
Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical
Cosmology, 1890--1924, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1994, 262
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--854
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Roland Omn\`es,
\booktitlePhilosophie de la science
contemporaine, Paris, Gallimard, 1994,
426 pp. ($ \ll $Collection folio/essais$
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--859
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Alain Prochiantz, La
costruzione del cervello (introd. di D.
Lecourt), Roma-Napoli, Theoria, 1992
(ed. orig. 1989), 105 pp. ($ \ll $Sonde$
\gg $, 36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--861
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giovanni Paltrinieri, Italo
Frizzoni, Meridiane e orologi solari di
Bologna e provincia, Bologna, l'Artiere
Edizionitalia, 1995, 497 pp., ill . . . 861--863
Mara Miniati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 865--865
Stefano Casati Book Review: Gabriel Naudé,
\booktitleAvvertenze per la costituzione
di una biblioteca. Introduzione,
traduzione e note di Vittoria Lacchini,
Bologna, Clueb, 1992, Lii, 124 pp.
(Bibliosofia, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--867
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Yvonne Letouzey, Le Jardin
des plantes \`a la croisée des chemins
avec André Thouin (1747--1824), Paris,
Éditions du Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, 1989, 678 pp. . . . . . . . . 867--868
Mara Miniati Book Review: Roberta Gibertoni, Annalisa
Melodi, Giulia Luppi (a cura di), Il
Museo della Bilancia a Campogalliano.
With English Text, Milano, Electa, 1995,
87 pp., ill. (Guide Artistiche Electa) 868--869
Anna Toscano Book Review: \booktitleStoria delle
Scienze. Gli Strumenti, a cura di Gerard
l'E. Turner, Torino, Giulio Einaudi
Editore, 1991, 594, pp., ill. . . . . . 869--871
Mara Miniati Book Review: Margarida Archinard, La $
\ll $Navicula de Venetiis$ \gg $ du Musée
d'Histoire des Sciences de Gen\`eve, in
$ \ll $Musées de Gen\`eve$ \gg $, 334,
avril 1995, pp. 2--8, ill . . . . . . . 871--871
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleHet koperen
kabinet. Schatkamers van de wetenschap,
1550--1950, (Dutch) [The copper cabinet.
Treasuries of science, 1550--1950],
Leiden, Museum Boerhaave, 1994, 64 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--872
Mara Miniati Book Review: Universit\`a degli Studi di
Padova. Dipartimento di Fisica $ \ll
$Galileo Galilei$ \gg $,
\booktitleDuecento anni di
elettricit\`a, Padova, Museo di Storia
della Fisica, 1995, 298 pp. n.n., ill 872--873
Mara Miniati Book Review: Liceo Scientifico Leonardo
Da Vinci Firenze, Intorno al laboratorio
di fisica di un liceo scientifico.
Notizie e riflessioni, Firenze,
Provincia di Firenze, Assessorato
Pubblica Istruzione, 1995, 39 pp. ($ \ll
$Bollettino del centro di documentazione
didattica$ \gg $, 8) . . . . . . . . . . 873--874
Marco Segala Book Review: Michael Redhead, From
physics to metaphysics, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1995, xiii +
92 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--875
Marco Segala Book Review: Pier Luigi Baima Bollone,
La scienza nel mondo degli spiriti,
Torino, Sei, 1995, x + 298 pp. . . . . . 875--877
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Margaret C. Jacob,
Massoneria illuminata. Politica e
cultura nell'Europa del Settecento,
Torino, Einaudi, 1995, xii + 390 pp. ($
\ll $Biblioteca di cultura storica$ \gg
$, 206) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--878
Silvia Collini Book Review: Eric J. Leed, La mente del
viaggiatore. Dall'Odissea al turismo
globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992, 386
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--879
Mara Miniati Book Review: Emanuela Guidoboni,
Catalogue of ancient earthquakes in the
Mediterranean area up to the 10th
century, Rome, Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica, 1994, 504 pp., ill . . . . . 879--880
Mara Miniati Book Review: Elisabetta Cioppi, 18
Maggio 1895. Storia di un terremoto
fiorentino, Firenze, Osservatorio
Ximeniano, 1995, 305 pp. ill . . . . . . 880--881
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Aa.Vv., Storia della
Medicina. Prolusioni di G. Armocida, E.
Bicheno, B. Fox. Dizionario di S.
Musitelli, Milano, Jaca Book, 1993, pp.
396, L. 145.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--882
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Thierry Bardinet, Les
papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte pharaonique.
Traductionintégrale et commentaire,
Paris, Fayard, 1995, 591 pp. . . . . . . 882--884
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Roy Porter, Mikul\`a\ocircs
Teich, \booktitleDrugs and narcotics in
history, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1995, 227 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 884--886
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Luciano Sterpellone,
Mahmoud Salem Elsheikh, La medicina
araba. l'arte medica nei Califfati
d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Saronno, Ciba
Edizioni, 1995, 344 pp. . . . . . . . . 886--887
Mara Miniati Book Review: Nelli-Elena Vanzan
Marchini, Le leggi di sanit\`a della
Repubblica di Venezia, volume primo,
Vicenza, Neri Pozza Editore, 1995, 503
pp. ($ \ll $Fonti per la storia della
sanit\`a$ \gg $, 2/1) . . . . . . . . . 887--888
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Annalucia Forti Messina, Il
soldato in ospedale. I servizi di
sanit\`a dell'esercito italico
(1796--1814), Milano, F. Angeli, 1991,
pp. 355 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--890
Mara Miniati Book Review: Paolo Stefani, Francesca
Vannozzi, Fausto Casi, l'avventura dei
Raggi X (1895--1995). Dal radiologo
universale\ldots all'universo dei Raggi
X, Firenze, Giorgi & Gambi, 1995, 238
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--892
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Bruno Bruni, Il Museo del
Diabete. Prefazione di Renato B\`ettica
Giovannini. Torino, Centro Karen Bruni
Bocher, 1995, 153 pp. . . . . . . . . . 892--893
Marco Beretta Book Review: Gareth Roberts, the Mirror
of Alchemy. Alchemical Ideas and Images
in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity
to the Seventeenth Century, London, the
British Library, 1994, 128 pp., Ill . . 893--893
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleIl y a 200 ans
Lavoisier. Actes du Colloque organisé \`a
l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort
d'Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, le 8 mai
1794, (French) [Lavoisier 200 years ago.
Proceedings of the conference organized
on the occasion of the bicentenary of
the death of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier,
8 May 1794], Paris, Lavoisier, 1994, xi
+ 335 pp. Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--894
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Brev.
Utgivna med kommentarer av Jan Trofast.
Del II, Lund, Wallin & Dalholm
Boktryckeri, 1994, 347 pp. . . . . . . . 894--895
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Manuels, programmes de
cours et techniques d'enseignement dans
les universités médiévales. Actes du
Colloque international de
Louvain-la-Neuve (9--11 septembre 1993),
éd. par J. Hamesse, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Institut d'Études Médiévales, 1994 ($ \ll
$Université Catholique de Louvain.
Publication de l'Institut d'Études
Médiévales. Textes, Études, Congr\`es, vol.
16), 477 pp., ill., ind . . . . . . . . 895--896
Stefano Caroti Book Review: George Molland, Mathematics
and the Medieval Ancestry of Physics,
Aldershot, Variorum, 1995, xii + 336 pp.
($ \ll $Collected Studies, Cs 481$ \gg $
) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--897
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Olga Weijers, Le travail
intellectuel \`a la Faculté des arts de
Paris: textes et ma\^\itres (ca.
1200--1500). Répertoire des noms
commençant par A-B, Turnhout, Brepols,
1994 ($ \ll $Studia Artistarum. Études
sur la Faculté des arts dans les
Universités médiévales, 1$ \gg $ ), 92 pp. 898--898
Stefano Caroti Book Review: M. J. F. M. Hoenen, J. H.
J. Schneider, G. Wieland (eds.),
Philosophy and Learning. Universities in
the Middle Ages, Leiden-New York--Köln,
E. J. Brill, 1995 ($ \ll $Education and
Society in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, 6$ \gg $ ), 435 pp., bibl.,
ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--900
Stefano Caroti Book Review: B. Pabst,
\booktitleAtomtheorien des lateinischen
Mittelalters, (German) [Atomic theories
of the Latin Middle Ages], Darmstadt,
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 373
pp., app., bibl., ind . . . . . . . . . 900--901
Stefano Caroti Book Review: J.-P. Boudet, Lire dans le
ciel. La biblioth\`eque de Simon de
Phares, astrologue du XVe si\`ecle,
Bruxelles, Centre d'étude des manuscrits,
1994 ($ \ll $Les Publications de
Scriptorium, vol. X$ \gg $ ), 220 pp.,
app., ind., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--901
Stefano Caroti Book Review: P. O. Kristeller, Latin
Manuscript Books Before 1600. A List of
the Printed Catalogues and Unpublished
Inventories of Extant Collections.
Fourth revised and enlarged Edition by
S. Krämer, Münehen, Monumenta Germaniae
Historica 1993 ($ \ll $Monumenta
Germaniae Historica. Hilfsmittel, 13$
\gg $ ), 941 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 902--902
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roy Porter, Lesley Hall,
\booktitleThe Facts of Life. The
Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain,
1650--1950, New Haven and London, Yale
University Press, 1995, xii + 415 pp. 903--904
Anna Toscano Book Review: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hrsg.),
Nicolaus Copernicus. Revolutionär wider
Willen, Stuttgart, Gnt Verlag, 1994, 350
pp. [Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik] . . 904--906
Mara Miniati Book Review: Galileo Galilei, Lettera a
Cristina di Lorena, Roma, Carlo Mancosu
Editore, 1993, 80 pp. ($ \ll $Lo
scrigno$ \gg $ 9) . . . . . . . . . . . 906--906
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gianni Bonera, Galileo
oggi. Spunti didattici e letture tratte
dai lavori di Galileo, Pavia,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Pavia, 1995,
207 pp., ill. ($ \ll $Collana di storia
della scienza$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . 907--907
Mara Miniati Book Review: Anna Cassini, Gio: Domenico
Cassini. Uno scienziato del Seicento.
Testi e documenti, Piñerolo, Comune di
Perinaldo, 1994, 315 pp., ill . . . . . 907--908
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tore Frängsmyr (ed.),
\booktitleLinnaeus. The Man and His
Work, Canton Mass., Science History
Publications, 1994, xiv + 206 pp. ($ \ll
$Uppsala Studies in History of Science$
\gg $, 18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--909
Marco Segala Book Review: G. W. F. Hegel, La
filosofia della natura. Quaderno jenese
1805--1806, Milano, Guerini e Associati,
1994, xx + 153 pp. ($ \ll $Istituto
Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.
Hegeliana$ \gg $, 7) . . . . . . . . . . 909--910
Mara Miniati Book Review: Enrico De Pascale, Cristina
Giannini (a cura di), Giovanni Secco
Suardo (1798--1873). Fonti strumenti
materiali di ricerca, Bergamo, Provincia
di Bergamo, Associazione Giovanni Secco
Suardo, 1995, 177 pp., ill . . . . . . . 910--911
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jonathan Smith, Fact and
Feeling, Baconian Science and the
Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination,
Madison, The University of Wisconsin
Press, 1994, x + 278 pp. ($ \ll $Science
and Literature$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . 911--913
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Aa.Vv., the Genetic
Revolution. Scientific Prospects and
Public Perceptions, edited by Bernard D.
Davis, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991, 296 pp. . . . . 913--913
Silvia Parigi Book Review: John Haugeland (a cura di),
Progettare la mente. Filosofia,
psicologia, intelligenza artificiale,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989 (ed. orig.
1981), 396 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--915
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Jean-Noël Missa,
\booktitleL'esprit-cerveau. La
philosophie de l'esprit \`a la lumi\`ere
des neurosciences, Paris, J. Vrin, 1993,
264 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--916
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lucia Bigliazzi, Luciana
Bigliazzi, Fiumi, inondazioni e $ \ll $
idraulica pratica$ \gg $, Firenze,
Accademia dei Georgofili, 1995, 21 pp. +
xxi tavv., ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--917
Stefano Casati Book Review: Alexander Kohn, Falsi
profeti. Inganni ed errori nella
scienza, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1991,
XIII, 318 pp. (Le Ellissi) . . . . . . . 917--918
Anonymous Attivit\`a Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia Della Scienza di Firenze . . . . 919--936
Luigi Pepe Il Collége de France durante la
Rivoluzione Francese Due Memorie
Apologetiche. (Italian) [The College of
France during the French Revolution: two
apologetic memoirs] . . . . . . . . . . 3--41
Renato G. Mazzolini Ricordo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--318
David Knight Science and Culture in Mid-Victorian
Britain: the \booktitleReviews, and
William Crookes' \booktitleQuarterly
Journal of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54
Carmela Morabito Le Localizzazioni Cerebrali di David
Ferrier, Fra Indagini Sperimentali e
Applicazioni Alla Clinica . . . . . . . 55--91
Paolo Del Santo and
Giorgio Strano Observational Evidence and the Evolution
of Ptolemy's Lunar Model . . . . . . . . 93--122
G. Paternoster and
R. Rinzivillo and
E. Schettino Studio di Una Lente Per Cannocchiale di
Grandi Dimensioni Lavorata Da
Evangelista Torricelli. (Italian) [Study
of telescope lens of large dimension
produced by Evangelista Torricell] . . . 123--134
Paolo Brenni Nota su Alcuni Strumenti Recentemente
Acquisiti dalla Fondazione Scienza e
Tecnica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--149
Luciano Carbone and
Pietro Nastasi and
Franco Palladino Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 151--225
Silvia Collini and
Antonella Vannoni Istituzioni e Fonti la Société d'Histoire
Naturelle e Il Viaggio di
d'Entrecasteaux alla Ricerca di la
Prouse: Le Istruzioni Scientifiche per i
Viaggiatori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--250
Louis-Claude-Marie Richard Adresse la Socit D'Histoire Naturelle De
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Louis-Claude-Marie Richard Instruction Partielle Pour Les Voyageurs
Naturalistes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--260
Lezerme Notes l'Usage Du Jardinier Destiné Faire
Le Voyage Projetté Pour l'Avancement des
Sciences et la Découverte de M. De la
Peyrouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--264
Anonymous Notes Remises par M. De Fourcroy Médecin
de l'Academie Roy. Des Sciences, M.
Cadet, Relativement au Voyage de M. De
la Peyrouse autour du Monde, du 20 mai
1785. (French) [Notes submitted by M. De
Fourcroy, Doctor of the Royal Academy of
Sciences, M. Cadet, relative to the
travel of M. De la Peyrouse around the
world, of 20 May 1785] . . . . . . . . . 265--275
Patrizia Guarnieri Per Una Storia Delle Scienze
Dell'Infanzia: Le Fonti Dell'Istituto
degli Innocenti di Firenze. (Italian)
[Toward a History Of Childhood Science:
Sources of The Institute of the Innocent
in Florence] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--307
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography and
Documentation of the International Union
of the History and Philosophy of Science 309--309
Roderick W. Home Towards An International Bibliographical
Database in the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine . . . . . . . . 310--315
Alain Touwaide Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 319--336
Maria Conforti Sidereus Nuncius Stella Polaris the
Scientific Relations Between Italy and
Sweden in Early Modern History, the 1995
S. Lucia Seminar . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--342
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Alessandra Gara, Tecnica e
tecnologia nelle societ antiche, Roma,
La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1994, 149
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
Anna Toscano Book Review: Ps. Alessandro D'Afrodisia,
Trattato sulla febbre, edizione critica,
traduzione e commento a cura di Piero
Tassinari, Alessandria, Edizioni
dell'Orso, 1994, x + 140 pp. (Culture
Antiche. Studi e Testi) . . . . . . . . 347--349
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: J. Needham et alii,
\booktitleScience and Civilisation in
China, Vol. 5 (Chemistry and Chemical
Technology), Part VI (Military
Technology: Missiles and Sieges),
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1994, xxvi + 601 pp. ill . . . . . . . . 349--352
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Martin Kemp, La scienza
dell'arte. Prospettiva e percezione
visiva da Brunelleschia Seurat, Firenze,
Giunti, 1994, 423 pp., ill . . . . . . . 352--354
Anna Toscano Book Review: \booktitleLes jésuites \`a
la Renaissance. Syst\`eme éducatif et
production du savoir, sous la direction
de Luce Giard, (French) [The Jesuits in
the Renaissance. Educational system and
knowledge production, under the
direction of Luce Giard]. Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France, 1995, lxxix +
336 pp. (Biblioth\`eque d'Histoire des
Sciences) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
Ilva Beretta Book Review: \booktitleL'Ortobotanicodi
Padova 1545--1995, a cura di Alessandro
Minelli, Venezia, Marsilio Editore,
1995, 311 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Ilva Beretta Book Review: \booktitleIl giardino delle
Muse Arti e artifici nel barocco
europeo. Atti del IV colloquio
Internazionale, Pietrasanta 8--10
settembre 1993, a cura di Maria Adriana
Giusti and Alessandro Tagliolini,
Firenze, Edifir, 1995, xvi + 277 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--361
Mario Micheletti Book Review: Alexander Jacob,
\booktitleHenry More's Manual of
Metaphysics, Part I: chapters 1--10 and
27--28, Part II: chapters 11--26,
Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms
Verlag, 1995, 160; 277 pp. . . . . . . . 361--365
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Hunter,
\booktitleScience and the Shape of
Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late
Seventeenth-Century Britain, Woodbridge,
the Boydell Press, 1995, xii + 345 pp. 366--367
Marco Segala Book Review: Alberto Basso, l'invenzione
della gioia. Musica e massoneria nell'et
dei Lumi, Milano, Garzanti, 1994, 733
pp. (Collezione storica) . . . . . . . . 367--370
Franco Giudice Book Review: Casper Hakfoort, Optics in
the age of Euler, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1995, vii + 243 pp. 370--375
Paola Vasconi Book Review: Silvia Parigi, Il Mondo
visibile. George Berkeley e la
perspectiva, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
ed., 1995, 226 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Marco Ciardi Book Review: \booktitleLavoisier in
European Context. Negociating a New
Language for Chemistry, Ferdinando Abbri
--- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent editors,
Canton MA, Watson Publishing
International, Science History
Publications, 1995, vii + 303 pp.,
illustrated, clothbound . . . . . . . . 377--379
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleA Scientific
Correspondence During the Chemical
Revolution. Louis-Bernard Guyton de
Morveau, Richard Kirwan, 1782--1802.
Edited by Emmanuel Grison, Michelle
Goupil and Patrice Bret, Berkeley,
Berkeley Papers in History of Science
17, 1994, vi + 257 pp., ill . . . . . . 379--381
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Giuseppe Olivi, Zoologia
Adriatica, a cura di C. Gibin, ristampa
anastatica dell'edizione del 1792,
Padova, T G Edizioni, 1995, 334 pp. . . 381--384
Simona Morini Book Review: M. Norton Wise (a cura di),
the Values of Precision, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 1995, vm +
372 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--388
Paola Vasconi Book Review: Paolo Parrini (Ed.), Kant
and Contemporary Epistemology,
Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1994, xi + 376 pp. 388--390
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Gerd Buchdahl,
\booktitleModelli di spiegazione. Per
una lettura neotrascendentale delle
teorie scientifiche, (Italian) [Models
of explanation. Reading
neotranscendental scientific theories],
a cura di Fabio Bevilacqua e Franco
Giudice, Pavia, Universit degli Studi di
Pavia --- Collana di Storia della
Scienza, 1995, 279 pp. . . . . . . . . . 390--392
Luigi Cerruti Book Review: Mary Jo Nye, From Chemical
Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry.
Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of
Disciplines, 1800--1950, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1993,
xvii + 328 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
Mario Rigutti Book Review: Freddy Litten, Astronomie
in Bayern 1914--1945, Stuttgart, Franz
Steiner Verlag, 1992, xi + 329 pp. . . . 395--399
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: John Maynard Keynes,
\booktitleTrattato sulla probabilit. A
cura di Alberto Pasquinelli e Silvia
Marzetti Dall'Aste Brandolini, Bologna,
Clueb, 1994, xxvii + 504 pp. (Collana di
Economia Generale, 9) . . . . . . . . . 400--403
Mario Rigutti Book Review: C. W. Kilmister,
\booktitleEddington's search for a
fundamental theory, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1994, xii + 256 pp. 403--410
Simona Morini Book Review: Andrew Pickering, the
Mangle of Practice, Chicago-London, The
University of Chicago Press, 1995, 281
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--412
Paolo Ghia Book Review: Robert N. Proctor, Cancer
wars. How politics shapes what we know
and don't know about cancer, New York,
Basicbooks, 1995, 356 pp. . . . . . . . 413--416
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Antonio R. Damasio,
l'errore di Cartesio. Emozione, ragione
e cervello umano, Milano, Adelphi, 1995,
408 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--419
Mara Miniati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 421--422
Mara Miniati Museologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
Paolo Brenni Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleMontres et
Merveilles. 200 rare creazioni d'epoca
provenienti dal Museo dell'Orologeria di
Ginevra e dalle Collezioni Private
Piaget. (Italian) [Watches and Marvels.
200 rare vintage creations coming from
the Watchmaking Museum of Geneva and
from Piaget Private Collections].
Milano, Electa, 1992, 165 pp., ill . . . 425--426
Mara Miniati Book Review: Jim Bennett, the Measurers.
A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the
Sixteenth Century, Oxford, the Museum of
the History of Science, 1995, 56 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
Mara Miniati Book Review: Itc Pier Crescenzi,
Provincia di Bologna, Una scuola nel
tempo. Documentie collezioni
dell'Istituto Tecnico Pier Crescenzi,
Bologna, Grafis Edizioni, 1995, 120 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Marco Ciardi Filosofia della Scienza . . . . . . . . 429--430
Mara Miniati Matematica e Astronomia . . . . . . . . 431--431
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Elena Ausejo and Mariano
Hormigón (Eds.), \booktitleMessengers of
Mathematics: European Mathematical
Journals (1800--1946), Madrid, Siglo XXI
de España Editores, S. A., 1993, 297 pp.
[ISBN 84-323-0802-1] . . . . . . . . . . 431--432
Marco Ciardi Book Review: La corrispondenza di Luigi
Cremona, 2 voll., Roma, Universit\`a di
Roma La Sapienza, Facolt\`a di Scienze
Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Serie
di Quaderni della Rivista di Storia
della Scienza: I volume, quad. n. 1
(1992) a cura di Ana Millén Gasca, 181
pp., II volume, quad. n. 3 (1994) a cura
di Marta Menghini, 175 pp. . . . . . . . 432--433
Alessandro Tosi Botanica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
Ilva Beretta Book Review: Nicholas Barker, Hortus
Eystettensis. the Bishop's Garden and
Besler's Magnificent Book, London, the
British Library, 1995, vii + 80 + 80
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Fotografiae botanica tra
Ottocento e Novecento, a cura di Guido
Moggi, Monica Maffioli e Emanuela Sesti,
Firenze, Alinari, 1994, 162 pp., ill . . 435--437
Giovanni di Pasquale Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Filippo Baldinucci, Diario
spirituale, a cura di Giuseppe Parigino,
(introduzione di Luigi Stumpo), Firenze,
Le Lettere, 1995, 226 pp. . . . . . . . 438--439
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Vittorio Donato Catapano,
Matti agli Incurabili di Napoli, Napoli,
Liguori Ed., 1995, 117 pp. . . . . . . . 439--440
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Angelo Nannoni, Trattato
sulle malattie delle mammelle (a cura di
Giuseppe Parigino), Firenze, le Lettere,
1995, 132 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--441
Mara Miniati Geologia e Meteorologia . . . . . . . . 441--442
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franca Mangianti, Maria
Carmen Beltrano, Le precipitazioni a
Roma, Roma, Ministero delle risorse
agricole, alimentari e forestali-Ucea,
1995, 47 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Ferdinando Abbri Antichit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Michela Pereira Medioevo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 444--445
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Gershom Scholem,
\booktitleAlchimia e kabbalah.
Traduzione di Marina Sartorio, Torino,
Einaudi, 1995, 96 pp. (Saggi, 800) . . . 445--446
Marco Ciardi Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Lavinia Fontana
(1552--1614), catalogo della mostra a
cura di Vera Fortunati, Bologna, Museo
Civico Archeologico, 1 ottobre--4
dicembre 1994, Milano, Electa, 1994, 224
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Bettina Meitzner, Die
Gertschaft der chymischen Kunst. Der
Traktat De Sceuastica Artis des Andreas
Libavius von 1606. bersetzung,
Kommentierung und Wiederabdruck,
Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995,
xviii + 308 + 179 pp. (Boethius, Band
34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Mara Miniati Book Review: Paolo Bozzi, Carlo
Maccagni, Luigi Olivieri, Thomas B.
Settle, Galileo e la scienza
sperimentale, a cura di Milla Baldo
Ceolin, Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica
Galileo Galilei, 1995, 132 pp., ill . . 450--451
Marco Beretta Book Review: Steven Shapin, Simon
Schaffer, Il Leviatano e la pompa ad
aria. Hobbes, Boyle e la cultura
dell'esperimento. Trad. it. di Roberto
Brigati, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1994,
xii + 531 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Anna Toscano Book Review: Michel Blay, \booktitleLes
Principia de Newton, Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France, 1995, 124 pp.
(Philosophies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Donald Rutherford, Leibniz
and the Rational Order of Nature,
Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University
Press, 1995, xiv + 301 pp. . . . . . . . 453--455
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Dorinda Outram, the
Enlightenment, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1995, xvi + 141 pp.
(New Approaches to European History, n.
7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jan Häll, \booktitleI
Swedenborgs labyrint. Studier i de
gustavianska swedenborgarnas liv och
tänkande, (Swedish) [In Sweden's
Labyrinth: Studies in Gustavian Sweden's
bourgeois life and thought] Stockholm,
Atlantis, 1995, 512 pp. . . . . . . . . 456--458
Silvia Collini Book Review: Ester Diana, in viaggio con
il Granduca. Itinerari nella Toscana dei
Lorena, Firenze, Edizioni medicea, 1994,
275 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Lodovica Braida, Il
Commercio delle Idee. Editoria e
circolazione del libro nella Torino del
Settecento, Firenze, Olschki, 1995, 404
pp. (Fondazione Luigi Firpo. Studi e
Testi, 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Giovanni Federico, Book
Review: Il filo d'oro. L'industria
mondiale della seta dalla restaurazione
alla grande crisi, (Italian) [The golden
thread. The global industry of silk from
the Restoration to the Great Crisis].
Introduzione di Luciano Cafagna,
Venezia, Marsilio, 1994, 573 pp. . . . . 460--461
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Mary P. Winsor,
\booktitleReading the Shape of Nature.
Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz
Museum, Chicago London, The University
of Chicago Press, 1991, xviii + 324 pp.,
49 ill. (Science and its Conceptual
Foundations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Nadia Robotti Book Review: Arthur I. Miller, Early
quantum electrodynamics: a source book,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1994, xix + 259 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Paola Govoni Book Review: Yves Jeanneret,
\booktitleÉcrire la science. Formes et
enjeux de la vulgarisation, Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France, 1994,
398 pp. (Science, histoire et socit) . . 463--465
Mara Miniati Book Review: José Sala Catalá,
\booktitleCiencia y Técnica en la
metropolización de América, (Spanish)
[Science and technology in the
metropolization of America], Madrid,
Ediciones Doce Calles, 1994, 346 pp.,
ill. (Theatrum Machinae. Colección de
Historia de las Técnicas) . . . . . . . . 465--467
Michael John Gorman Attivit di Ricerca . . . . . . . . . . . 469--473
Andrea Scotti Indice Generale Dei Manoscritti
Scientifici Della Biblioteca Centrale di
Firenze. Progetto di Ricerca. (Italian)
[General index of the scientific
manuscripts of the Central Library of
Florence. Research project] . . . . . . 473--492
Mara Miniati A Distanza di Trent'Anni . . . . . . . . iii-506
William R. Shea The Revelations of the Telescope . . . . 507--526
Gabriele Baroncini Note Sull'Illustrazione Scientifica . . 527--543
Franco Giudice Teoria della Luce e Struttura della
Materia Nello $ \ll $Short Tract on
First Principles$ \gg $ di Thomas Hobbes 545--561
Germana Pareti Giulio Bizzozero e la Funzione
Ematopoietica Del \em Midollo Osseo . . 563--580
Massimiano Bucchi La Scienza e I Mass Media: la $ \ll
$Fusione Fredda$ \gg $ Nei Quotidiani
Italiani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--600
Anonymous Appendice 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--611
Alberto Lualdi François De Baillou, un Ottico della
Milano Teresiana . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--630
Romano Gatto Il Cannocchiale Amici Dell'Osservatorio
Astronomico di Capodimonte e la
Corrispondenza Amici--Zuccari . . . . . 631--653
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography and
Documentation of the International Union
of the History and Philosophy of Science 655--655
Roberto De Andrade Martins Sources for the Study of Science,
Medicine and Technology in Portugal and
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--667
Giovanni di Pasquale and
Vittorio Marchis Alcune Considerazioni Sul Pes Romanus 669--675
Giancarlo Nonnoi Il Caso Galileo. Una Proposta di
Ricomposizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--686
Marco Ciardi Dalla Cronaca al Continuismo. Pierre
Duhem e la Nascita della Storia della
Scienza Moderna. (Italian) [From
Chronicle to Continuism. Pierre Duhem
and the Birth of a History of Modern
Science] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--698
Alessandra Lenzi and
Fabio Guidi La Collezione Landmarks of Science
All'Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--704
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Shortland and
Richard Yeo (eds.), Telling lives in
science. Essays on scientific biography,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996, xiv + 295 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 705--708
Mara Miniati Book Review: W. D. Hackmann, A. J.
Turner (eds.), Learning, language and
invention: Essays presented to Francis
Maddison, Aldershot & Paris, Variorum and
the Société Internationale de l'Astrolabe,
1994, 333 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 708--711
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleL'et\`a delle
scoperte geografiche nei suoi riflessi
linguistici in Italia, (Italian) [The
Age of Discovery and its linguistic
reflexes in Italy], Firenze, Accademia
della Crusca, 1994, 372 pp., ill . . . . 711--713
Anna Toscano Book Review: Paola Zambelli,
\booktitleL'apprendista stregone.
Astrologia, cabala e arte lulliana in
Pico della Mirandola e seguaci, Venezia,
Marsilio Editori, 1995, 230 pp. ($ \ll
$Saggi Marsilio$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . 713--715
Lucia Ciancio Book Review: Michael Jacobs, the Painted
Voyage. Art, Travel and Exploration
1564--1875, London, the British Museum
Press, 1995, 160 pp., 64 illustrazioni a
colori, 42 in bianco e nero . . . . . . 715--719
Marco Beretta Book Review: Isabelle Pantin, La poésie
du ciel en France dans la seconde moitié
du seizi\`eme si\`ecle, Gen\`eve, Droz,
555 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--721
Marco Beretta Book Review: Maurice Crosland, Studies
in the Culture of Science in France and
Britain since the Enlightenment,
Aldershot, Variorum, 1995, xxii + 291
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--722
Marco Beretta Book Review: Lazzaro Spallanzani,
Edizione Nazionale delle opere. Parte
seconda: Lezioni, a cura di Pericle di
Pietro, Modena, E. Mucchi, 1994, 2
voll., 353 + 323 pp., Ill . . . . . . . 723--724
Mara Miniati Book Review: Stefano Poggi, Maurizio
Bossi (eds.), Romanticism in science.
Science in Europe, 1790--1840,
Dordrecht/Boston/London, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1994, 245 pp. ($ \ll $Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science$
\gg $, vol. 152) . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--727
Marco Segala Book Review: Charles Rosen, the romantic
generation. Schubert Mendelssohn
Meyerbeer Schumann Liszt Bellini Chopin
Berlioz, London, Harper Collins
Publishers, 1996, xv + 723 pp. . . . . . 727--730
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Giuseppe Giuliani, Il Nuovo
Cimento. Novant'anni di fisica in Italia
(1855--1944), Pavia, La Goliardica
Pavese, vi + 159 pp. + dischetto . . . . 730--732
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald, the
creation of scientific effects: Heinrich
Hertz and electric waves, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1994, 482 pp., 85 ill . . . . . . . . . 733--735
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Valeria Paola Babini,
\booktitleLa questione dei frenastenici.
Alle origini della psicologia
scientifica in Italia (1870--1910),
Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996, 179 pp. . . 735--737
Chiara Giuntini Book Review: Mitchell G. Ash, Gestalt
psychology in German culture,
1890--1967. Holism and the quest for
objectivity, Cambridge University Press
($ \ll $Cambridge Studies in the History
of Psychology$ \gg $ ), 1995, xii + 513
pp. [ISBN 0-521-64627-8] . . . . . . . . 737--740
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: Daniel J. Kevles, the
physicists: the history of a scientific
community in modern America, Cambridge
(MA), Harvard University Press, 1995
(ed. orig. 1977), 489 pp. . . . . . . . 740--743
Michele Vista Book Review: Kostas Gavroglu, Fritz
London: a scientific biography,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1995, xxiv + 299 pp., ill . . . . . . . 743--746
Anonymous Book Review: Marie Cariou, Bergson et
Bachelard, Paris, Presses Universitaires
de France, 1995, 117 pp. ($ \ll
$Questions$ \gg $, 52) . . . . . . . . . 746--750
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Bruno Bertotti --- Umberto
Curi (a cura di), Erwin Schrödinger
scienziato e filosofo, Padova, Il
poligrafo 1994, 198 pp. ($ \ll $Percorsi
della scienza storia testi problemi$ \gg
$, 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--755
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Ronald D. Fairbairn, Il
piacere e l'oggetto. Scritti 1953--1963,
Roma Casa Editrice Astrolabio, (1992),
174 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--760
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Paul Robinson, Freud e i
suoi critici. Sulloway --- Masson ---
Grünbaum, Roma, Casa Editrice Astrolabio,
1995, 200 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--764
Anna Toscano Museologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--767
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--768
Mara Miniati Book Review: Antoni M. Piaskowsky,
\booktitleDawne lunety i lornetki w
zbiorach Polskich, (Polish) [Old
telescopes and binoculars in the Polish
collection]. Warszawa, Nakladem Autora,
1996, 194 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 768--769
Mara Miniati Book Review: Concetti e oggetti, Rimini,
Raffaelli e Luis\`e Editori, 1996, 159
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--770
Anonymous Biografie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--771
Fedinando Abbri Book Review: A. Rupert Hall, Henry More
and the Scientific Revolution,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996, xiv + 304 pp. ($ \ll $Cambridge
Science Biographies Series$ \gg $ ) . . 771--772
Marco Clardi Book Review: A. Rupert Hall, Isaac
Newton. Adventurer in Thought,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996, 468 pp. Arthur Donovan, Antoine
Lavoisier. Science, Administration and
Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, 351 pp., ill.
David Knight, Humphry Davy. Science and
Power, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1996, 218 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 772--773
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: P. Alessandra Maccioni Ruju
and Marco Mostert, the Life and Times of
Guglielmo Libri (1802--1869) scientist,
patriot, scholar, journalist and thief.
A Nineteenth-Century story, Hilversum,
Verloren Publishers, 1995, 448 pp. ill 773--775
Mara Miniati Astronomia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--776
Maria Miniati Book Review: Ministero Per I Beni
Culturali e Ambientali, Omaggio a
Quirico Filopanti, Bologna, Biblioteca
Universitaria, 1995, 41 pp., ill. Laura
Peperoni, Marina Zuccoli, Vultus
Uraniae. Raffigurazioni di Urania nella
Biblioteca del Dipartimento di
Astronomia, Bologna, Biblioteca
Universitaria, 1996, 32 pp., ill . . . . 776--777
Anna Toscano Book Review: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,
An Autobiography and other
Recollections, edited by Katherine
Haramundanis, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, xxii + 277 pp. 777--778
Donatella Lippi Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--779
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. Vegetti, La Medicina in
Platone, Vicenza, Il Cardo/Saggi, 1995,
122 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--781
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Anticamedicinatibetana,
Modena, Zanfi, 1995, 2 voll., 180 + 172
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--781
Donatella Lippi Book Review: J. Henderson, Piety and
charity in late medieval Florence,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, 533 pp. 782--783
Donatella Lippi Book Review: \booktitleL'Ospedale e la
citt\`a. Cinquecento anni d'arte a
Verona, Verona, Cierre, 1996, 306 pp. 783--784
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Ester Diana, Sanit\`a nel
quotidiano. Storie minute di medici,
cerusici e pazienti, Firenze, L.
Pugliese, 1995, 256 pp. . . . . . . . . 784--785
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fulvia Zina Vignotto, Marco
Galloni, Beni culturali in ambiente
medico chirurgico. Censimento presso gli
ospedali piemontesi, $ \ll $Giornale
della Accademia di Medicina di Torino$
\gg $, Anno Clviii, 1995, 257 pp., ill 785--786
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Academia Ophthalmologica
Internationalis, \booktitleHistory of
Ophthalmology, n. 5,
Dordrecht--Boston--London, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1993 . . . . . . . 786--787
Michela Pereira Alchimia e Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . 787--790
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Markus Seils, Friedrich
Albrecht Carl Gren in seiner Zeit:
1760--1798. Spekulant oder
Selbstdenker?, Stuttgart,
Wissenschaftliche Verlangsgesellschaft,
1995, 261 pp. ($ \ll $Heidelberger
Schriften zur Pharmacie und
Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte$ \gg $,
Band 14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--791
Marco Ciardi Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophers in
the Laboratory, edited by Valeria
Mosini, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze
Lettere e Arti, Musis, 1996, 244 pp. . . 791--792
Ferdinando Abbri Antichit\`a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--794
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michel Foucault, Discorso e
Verit\`a nella Grecia antica, Roma,
Donzelli Editore, 1996, xxii + 120 pp. 794--795
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Marcello Zanatta (a cura
di), Organon di Aristotele. Volume
Primo: Categorie ---
Dell'Interpretazione --- Analitici
primi, Torino, Utet, 1996, 504 pp.
Volume Secondo: Analitici Secondi ---
Topici --- Confutazioni Sofistiche,
Torino, Utet, 1996, 653 pp. ($ \ll
$Classici della Filosofia$ \gg $ ) . . . 795--796
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVI--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--799
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleDie
Technikgeschichte als Vorbildmoderner
Technik. Band 19. Agricola Vorträge
Chemnitz 1994, (German) [The history of
technology as a model for contemporary
art. Volume 19 Agricola Lectures at
Chemnitz 1994]. Bochum,
Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft, 1995, 156
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--799
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleDescartes et la
science, Poitiers, Éditions de l'Actualité
Poitou-Charentes, 1996, 95 pp. ill . . . 799--800
Luca Nocenti Book Review: Thomas Leinkauf, Mundus
combinatus: Studien zur Struktur der
barocken Universalwissenschaft am
Beispiel Athanasius Kirchers Sj
(1602--1680), Berlin, Akademie Verlag,
1993, 434 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--801
Marco Beretta Book Review: Emanuel Swedenborg, Ludus
Heliconius and other Latin poems. Edited
with introduction, translation and
commentary by Hans Helander, Uppsala,
Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1995,
255 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--802
Marco Ciardi Book Review: La Bretagne des savants et
des ingénieurs (1825--1900), sous la
direction de Jean Dhombres, Rennes,
Éditions Ouest-France, Centre de culture
scientifique, technique et industrielle,
1994, 384 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 802--803
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Lancelot Law Whyte,
l'inconscio prima di Freud, Roma, Casa
Editrice Astrolabio, (1995), 166 pp. . . 803--804
Mara Miniati Book Review: Roberto Paolo Ciardi, Lucia
Tongiorgi Tomasi, Alessandro Tosi, Pisa
romantica, Pisa, Cassa di Risparmio,
1995, 38 pp., [3] + 117 tavole, ill . . 804--806
Roberto Toscano Book Review: Ferdinando Abbri, Elio
Matassi, Marco Segala, Filosofia e
Musica nell'Et\`a contemporanea. Studi e
ricerche, a cura di F. Abbri, Arezzo,
Dipartimento di Studi Storico-Sociali e
Filosofici, Universit\`a degli Studi di
Siena, 1995, 65 pp. ($ \ll $Lavori in
corso$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--807
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antonio Serravezza, Musica
e scienza nell'et\`a del positivismo,
Bologna, il Mulino, 1996, 330 pp. . . . 807--808
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Hugh Richard Slotten,
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of
American Science. Alexander Dallas Bache
and the U.S. Coast Survey, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1994, x +
228 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--810
Giulio Peruzzi Book Review: Bruce R. Wheaton, Inventory
of Sources for History of
Twentieth--Century Physics: Report and
microfiche index to 700,000 letters,
Stuttgart, Gnt-Verlag, 1993, x + 294 pp.
e 61 microfiche . . . . . . . . . . . . 810--811
Mara Miniati Book Review: Universit\`a di Roma $ \ll
$La Sapienza$ \gg $ --- Cirms Centro
Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in
Metodologia Delle Scienze, Quaderno n.
1. Seminari tenuti negli A.A. 93/94 e
94/95 sul tema: Conoscenza scientifica e
prevedibilit\`a, Roma, Gennaio 1996,
pag. varia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--812
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Isegni del tempo. Memoria
delle origini edicone del primordiale, a
cura di Claudio Tugnoli, Trento, Liceo
Ginnasio $ \ll $G. Prati$ \gg $, 1993,
539 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--813
Giovanni di Pasquale Attivit\`a di Ricerca . . . . . . . . . 815--817
Fabrizio B\`onoli and
Marinella Calisi and
Salvatore Pilloni and
Piero Ranfagni Dai Lettori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--821
Anonymous Indici (Anno XI, 1996) . . . . . . . . . 823--824
Anonymous Indice Delle Fonti Manoscritte . . . . . 825--825
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--842
José Chabás Le cahier d'astronomie d'un Croisier du
XVe Si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Marco Beretta Humanism and Chemistry: the Spread of
Georgius Agricola's Metallurgical
Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--47
Owen Hannaway Reading the Pictures: the Context of
Georgius Agricola's Woodcuts . . . . . . 49--66
Antonio Borrelli Dall'Innesto Del Vaiolo Alla
Vaccinazione Jenneriana: Il Dibattito
Scientifico Napoletano . . . . . . . . . 67--85
Gerard L'E. Turner An Astrolabe Belonging to Galileo? . . . 87--92
Piero Todesco Il Micrometro Filare di Giacomo Lusverg
(Anno 1677) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103
Antonio Grilli Scheda di Restauro . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Michael Segre Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 109--122
Gabriella Rambaldi $ \ll $Stromenti e Macchine$ \gg $ di
Fisica in Un Documento Del 1785 . . . . 123--130
Anonymous Commission on Bibliography and
Documentation of the International Union
of the History and Philosophy of Science 131--131
Katherine D. Watson Sources for the History of Science in
Oxford Survey Report . . . . . . . . . . 132--136
Stefano Casati Convegno di Studi: Scienza, Tecnica e $
\ll $Pubblico Bene$ \gg $ Nell'Opera di
Giovanni Arduino (1714--1795) . . . . . 137--143
Marco Segala Amp\`ere Filosofo . . . . . . . . . . . 145--160
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Gilles-Gaston Granger, La
scienza e le scienze, trad. it. di
Tommaso Bianchi, Bologna, Il Mulino,
1996, 122 pp. ($ \ll $Universale
Paperbacks il Mulino$ \gg $ 306) . . . . 161--165
Isaia Lannaccone Book Review: C. Cullen, Astronomy and
Mathematics in Ancient China: the $ \ll
$Zhou bi suan jing$ \gg $, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1996, xiv +
241 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: J. Needham et alii,
\booktitleScience and Civilisation in
China, vol. VI, (Biology and Biological
Technology), part III (Agro-Industries
and Forestry; Agro-Industries: Sugarcane
Technology), Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1996, xx + 740 pp.; 135
illustrazioni, 6 mappe, 22 tavole . . . 168--171
Anna Toscano Book Review: Luigina Morini (a cura di),
Bestiari medievali, Torino, Einaudi, xxx
+ 644 pp., ill. ($ \ll $I Millenni$ \gg
$ ) (ISBN 88-06-12446-3). Lit. 120.000 171--173
Marco Beretta Book Review: N. Jardine --- J. A. Secord
--- E. C. Spary (eds.) Cultures of
Natural History, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, xx + 501 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Alessandro Tosi Book Review: Andrea Carlino, La fabbrica
del corpo. Libri e dissezioni nel
Rinascimento, prefazione di Adriano
Prosperi, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, 267
pp., ill. (ISBN 88-06-13519-8) . . . . . 175--178
Elio Nenci Book Review: Cesare Cesariano,
Volgarizzamento dei libri IX (capitoli 7
e 8) e X di Vitruvio, De Architectura,
secondo il manoscritto 9/2790 Sección De
Cortes della Real Academia de la
Historia, Madrid, a cura di B. Agosti,
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 1996,
267 pp. (Centro di Ricerche Informatiche
per i beni Culturali. Accademia della
Crusca. Strumenti e testi 1) . . . . . . 178--180
Sandra Plastina Book Review: Hél\`ene Védrine,
\booktitlePhilosophie et magie \`a la
Renaissance, Paris, Le livre de poche,
1996, 119 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--184
Sandra Plastina Book Review: F. Patrizi, \booktitleDe
spacio physico et mathematico,
presentation, traduction et notes par
Hél\`ene Védrine, Paris, Vrin, 1996, 93
pp., 150 F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--187
Marco Beretta Book Review: Corrado Dollo (a cura di),
Filosofia e Scienze nella Sicilia dei
Secoli XVI e XVII. Vol. I --- Le idee.
Giarre, Regione Siciliana, Universit\`a
di Catania (Dip. di Scienze Storiche)
--- Centro Studi per la storia della
filosofia in Sicilia, 1996, 252 pp.,
Ill. Corrado Dollo (a cura di),
Filosofia e Scienze nella Sicilia dei
Secoli XVI e XVII. Vol. 2 --- Testi.
Marco Antonio Alaymo --- Consigli
politico-medici. Giarre, Regione
Siciliana --- Universit\`a di Catania
(Dip. di Scienze Storiche) --- Centro
Studi per la storia della filosofia in
Sicilia, 1996, 258 pp. . . . . . . . . . 187--189
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Markku Peltonen, (ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Bacon, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1996,
xvm+372 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Marco Segala Book Review: Dava Sobel, Longitudine,
Milano, Rizzoli, 1996, 153 pp. Lit.
22.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Paola Vasconi Book Review: Pietro Rossi --- Carlo A.
Viano (a cura di), Storia della
filosofia, 4. Il Settecento, Roma/Bari,
Laterza, 1996, 776 pp. . . . . . . . . . 193--195
Lorenzo Marri Malacrida Book Review: Susan C. Lawrence,
\booktitleCharitable Knowledge. Hospital
pupils and practitioners in
Eighteenth-Century London, U.S.A.,
Cambridge University Press, 1996, 390
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Francesca Vannozzi (a cura
di), La scienza illuminata. Paolo
Mascagni nel suo tempo (1755--1815),
Siena, Nuova immagine editrice, 1996,
254 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Marco Segala Book Review: Stephen G. Brush, A history
of modern planetary physics. Volume One:
Nebulous Earth. The origin of the Solar
System and the core of the Earth from
Laplace to Jeffreys, x + 313 pp., figg.;
(ISBN 0-521-44171-4). Volume Two:
Transmuted past. The age of the Earth
and the evolution of the elements fro
Lyell to Patterson, x + 134 pp., figg.;
(ISBN 0-521-55213-3). Volume Three:
Fruitful en-counters. The origin of the
Solar System and of the Moon from
Chamberlin to Apollo, x + 354 pp.,
figg., (ISBN 0-521-55214-1) Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1996 . . . . 199--202
Simona Morini Book Review: Theodore M. Porter,
\booktitleTrust in Numbers. The Pursuit
of Objectivity in Science and Public
Life, Princeton, Princeton University
Press, 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204
Paolo Ghia Book Review: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar,
Species and Specificity. An
interpretation of the history of
immunology, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1995, xv + 457 pp.,
figg. (ISBN 0-521-43172-7) . . . . . . . 204--207
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Elisabeth Crawford,
Arrhenius. From Ionic Theory to the
Greenhouse Effect, Canton, Ma, Science
History Publications, 1996, xv + 320 pp.
$ \ll $Uppsala Studies in History of
Science$ \gg $, Vol. 23 . . . . . . . . 207--209
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Umberto Bottazzini Alberto
Conte, Paola Gario (a cura di), Riposte
armonie. Lettere di Federigo Enriques a
Guido Castelnuovo, Torino. Bollati
Boringhieri, 1996, 722 pp. + 8 tavole ($
\ll $La cultura scientifica$ \gg $ ) . . 209--215
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: James T. Cushing, Quantum
mechanics: historical contingency and
the Copenhagen hegemony, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1994, 317 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--220
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleStrumenti
Bibliografici S. A. Jayawardene, the
Scientific Revolution. An Annotated
Bibliography, West Cornwall CT, Locus
Hill Press, 1996, xvm + 383 pp. . . . . 221--222
Marco Beretta Book Review: Cataloghi Bernd Ernsting,
(a cura di), \booktitleGeorgius Agricola
Bergwelten 1494--1994, Essen, Edition
Glückauf, 1994, 350 pp., ill . . . . . . 222--223
Mara Miniati Book Review: Jim Bennett, Stephen
Johnston, the Geometry of War
1500--1750. Catalogue of Exhibition.
Oxford, Museum of the History of
Science, 1996, 85 pp., ill . . . . . . . 224--224
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giorgio Mangani, Feliciano
Paoli (a cura di), Gerardo Mercatore.
Sulle tracce di geografi e viaggiatori
nelle Marche. Introduzione di Marcel
Watelet, Urbania, Edizioni Biblioteca e
Civico Museo di Urbania Il lavoro
editoriale, 1996, 191 pp., ill . . . . . 224--225
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Strumentaria A. Chapman,
Astronomical Instruments and Their
Users, Aldershot Variorum 1996, xii +
320 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--228
Mara Miniati Book Review: Flavio Vetrano, (a cura
di), Il Gabinetto di Fisica
dell'Universit\`a di Urbino: la sua
Storia, Il suo Museo/The old $ \ll
$Gabinetto di Fisica$ \gg $ of the
Urbino University: its History, its
Museum, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e
Zecca dello Stato, 1996, 263 pp., ill.
(ISBN 88-240-3867-0), L. 85.000 . . . . 228--229
Mara Miniati Book Review: Maria Carmen Beltrano, La
collezione di strumenti dell'Ufficio
Centrale di Ecologia Agraria, Roma,
Euroma Editrice Universitaria di Roma
--- La Goliardica, 1996, 61 pp., ill . . 229--229
Marco Clardi Book Review: Matematica e Astronomia
Alain Michel, Constitution de la théorie
moderne de l'intégration, Paris, Vrin,
1992, 338 pp. (ISBN 2-7116-1064-0), 212
F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Bernard Bolzano,
\booktitleLes Paradoxes de l'Infini,
introduction et traduction de Hourya
Sinaceur, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1993,
192 pp. (ISBN 2-02-015919-8), 140 F . . 230--231
Paolo Del Santo Book Review: Anne Tihon, \booktitleÉtudes
d'astronomie byzantine, Aldershot
Variorum (Collected Studies Series; Cs
454), 1994, x + 324 pp., s.i.p. . . . . 231--232
Marco Ciardi Book Review: René Taton, Curtis Wilson,
\booktitlePlanetary astronomy from the
Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics.
Vol. 2, Part B: The Eighteenth Century
and Nineteenth Century, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1995, x +
281 pp. (ISBN 0-521-35168-5) . . . . . . 232--232
Mara Miniati Book Review: A. De Simone, Giuseppe
Monaco, La corrispondenza degli
astronomi /The correspondence of the
Astronomers. Vol. I. (I. Porro, A.
Secchi, L. Respighi, A. Dorna), s.l.,
Arti Grafiche Savini, 1996, 249 pp. . . 232--233
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina Giorgio Cosmacini,
La qualit del tuo medico. Per una
filosofia della medicina. Bari, Laterza,
95 pp. (Collana Il Nocciolo) . . . . . . 233--233
Donatella Lippi Book Review: S. Cagliano, Viaggio
intorno alla medicina, Bari, Laterza,
1993, 268 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Baroukh M. Assael, Il
favoloso innesto. Storia sociale della
vaccinazione, Bari, Laterza, 1995, 302
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Cosmacini --- C.
Cenedella, I vecchi e la cura. Storia
del Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Bari,
Laterza, 1994, 214 pp. (Collana di
Storia della Medicina e della Sanit\`a) 235--235
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Vittorio Sironi, Da
Speziali a Imprenditori. Storia dei
Recordati, Bari, Laterza, 1995, 233 pp.
(Collana di Storia della medicina e
della Sanit\`a) . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Donatella Lippi Book Review: P. Placucci, Dal male
oscuro alla malattia curabile. Storia
dell'Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e
la cura dei tumori di Milano, Bari,
Laterza, 1995, 192 pp. (Collana di
Storia della medicina e della Sanit\`a) 236--236
Donatella Lippi Book Review: O. Barbieri, Guerra e
resistenza nei servizi sanitari a
Firenze, Milano, Vangelista, 1993, 362
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Marco Beretta Book Review: Fisica e Chimica Antonio di
Meo, (a cura di), Storia della chimica
in Italia, Beniamino Vignola Editore,
1996, li + 639 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Allen G. Debus, Paracelso e
la tradizione paracelsiana, Napoli, La
Citt\`a del Sole, 1996, 126 pp. . . . . 239--239
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleEuler, Lozeran De
Fiesc, Comte De Créqui, Emile Du Châtelet,
Voltaire, De la propagation du feu. Cinq
Mémoires couronnés par l'Académie Royale
des Sciences. Paris 1738,
Prez-sur-Marne, Edition Aspm, 1994, 232
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Marco Beretta Book Review: A.-L. Lavoisier, P.-S. De
La Place, Memoria sul calore, a cura di
Antonio di Meo, Roma. Edizioni Teknos,
1995. l + 59 pp. ill . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Antichit\`a Geoffrey Ernest
Richard Lloyd, Aristotelian
explorations, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, x + 242 pp.
Adversaries and Authorities.
Investigations into ancient Greek and
Chinese science, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, xvm + 250 pp. ($
\ll $Ideas in context$ \gg $ ) . . . . . 242--243
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Medioevo e Rinascimento
Sten Ebbesen, herausgegeben von,
Geschichte der Sprachtheorie. 3.
Sprachtheorien in Spätankite und
Mittelalter, Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag
1995, 408 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Stefano Caroti Book Review: J. McEvoy (ed.), Robert
Grosseteste: New Perspectives on His
Thought and Scholarship, Steenbrugis, in
Abbatia S. Petri-Brepols, Turnhout 1995,
438 pp. ($ \ll $Instrumenta Patristica,
XXVII$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Stefano Caroti Book Review: E. Wilks Dolnikowski,
Thomas Bradwardine. A View of Time and a
Vision of Eternity in Fourteenth Century
Thought, Leiden-New York--Köln, Brill,
1995, 250 pp. ($ \ll $Studies in the
History of Christian Thought, LXV$ \gg $
) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Stefano Caroti Book Review: C. H. Lohr, Aristotelica
Helvetica. Catalogus codicum latinorum
in bibliothecis Confederationis
Helveticae asservatorum, quibus
versiones expositionesque operum
Aristotelis continentur,
Universitätsverlag Friburg Schweiz,
Friburg, 1994, 387 pp. ($ \ll $Scrinium
Friburgense. Veröffentlichungen des
Mediävistischen Instituts der Universität
Freiburg Schweiz. Sonderband, 6$ \gg $ ) 246--247
Stefano Caroti Book Review: C. H. Lohr, Latin Aristotle
Commentaries. III Index initiorum-Index
finium, Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, 1995,
289 pp. ($ \ll $Unione Accademica
Nazionale, Corpus Philosophorum Medii
Aevi. Subsidia X$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . 247--248
Marco Beretta Book Review: Secoli XVII--XX Giuseppe
Gabrieli, Il carteggio linceo, Roma,
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1996, vi
+ 1446 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Mara Miniati Book Review: Basilio Catania, Antonio
Meucci, l'inventore e il suo tempo,
Roma, Edizioni Seat, 1994, 2 voll. + 1
Addendum, 1292 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 249--250
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Daniela Steila,
\booktitleScienza e rivoluzione. La
recezione dell'empirio criticismo nella
cultura russa (1877--1910), Firenze,
Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1996, 530 pp.
($ \ll $Universit\`a degli studi di
Torino. Fondo di studi Parini-Chirio.
Storia della filosofia e del pensiero
scientifico, 3$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . 250--251
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Vernon A. Rosario (ed.),
Science and Homosexualities. New
York-London, Routledge, 1997, x + 308
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Gian Paolo Scano, Antonio
Mastroianni e Giovanni Cadeddu,
\booktitlePsicoterapia psicoanalitica:
verso una rifondazione. Storia,
definizione, metodo, diagnosi, teoria,
epistemologia, Milano, Franco Angeli,
1995, 316 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne
(eds.), Misunderstanding science? the
public reconstruction of science and
technology, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, 232 pp. . . . . 254--254
Mara Miniati Book Review: Silvia Ciappi, Anna Laghi,
Maria Mendera, Daniela Stiaffini, Il
vetro in Toscana. Strutture prodotti
immagini (secc. XIII--XX). Poggibonsi,
Lalli Editore, 1995, 189 pp., ill . . . 254--256
Francesca Andreini Il Progetto $ \ll $Ca.Fo.S.$ \gg $
Catalogo Dei Fondi Scientifici Toscani 257--258
Pietro Redondi I Fondamenti Metafisici della Fisica di
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--289
Martin J. Rees Stars, Life and the Cosmos . . . . . . . 291--309
Massimo Bucciantini A Difficult Legacy: Galileo and the
Galilean Collection Between Myth and
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--328
Marc J. Ratcliff and
Marino L. Buscaglia Chercheur, Observateur et Monde Savant
au XVIIIe Si\`ecle: la Recherche
Scientifique dans l'Imaginaire de
Charles Bonnet (1720--1793) . . . . . . 329--358
Marta Cavazza La Recezione della Teoria Halleriana
dell'Irritabilita nell'Accademia Delle
Scienze di Bologna. (Italian) [The
reception of the Hallerian Theory of
Irritability in the Bologna Academy of
Sciences] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--377
Giuseppe Bruzzaniti A Historiographic Model of the Dynamics
of Scientific Theories and the Formation
of Concepts: the Case of the Atomic
Nucleus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--410
Giuseppe Brusa and
John H. Leopold The Vertical Stackfreed. Mechanical
Evidence and Early Eye-Witnesses . . . . 411--426
G. Paternoster and
R. Rinzivillo and
E. Schettino Nota su Una Lente Per Cannocchiale
Firmata Domenico Selva. (Italian) [A
note on a telescope lens signed by
Domenico Selva] . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--431
Francesco Barbieri and
Franca Cattelani Degani Tre Lettere di Geminiano Montanari a
Gian Domenico Cassini. (Italian) [Three
letters from Geminiano Montanari to Gian
Domenico Cassini] . . . . . . . . . . . 433--441
Romano Gatto and
Luciano Carbone Il Carteggio del Fondo Siacci della
Biblioteca del Dipartimento di
Matematica Renato Caccioppoli:
Dell'Universit\`a Federico II di Napoli 443--446
Marco Ciardi Men of Letters and Science. The Case of
Xavier De Maistre (1763--1852) . . . . . 447--469
Franco Giudice Thomas Hobbes and Atomism: a Reappraisal 471--485
Vincenzo Trombetta Le Scienze in Biblioteca . . . . . . . . 487--495
Riccardo Urbani L'Uomo e la Macchina. un Congresso di
Trent'Anni Fa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--524
Marco Berni and
Luisa Barattin Il Museo di Storia della Scienza di
Firenze Su Internet Un'Analisi Delle
Consultazioni. (Italian) [The Museum of
the History of Science in Florence: An
Analysis of Consulting on the Internet] 525--531
Gianfranco Mormino Book Review: Marco Beretta, Felice
Mondella e Maria Teresa Monti (a cura
di), Per una storia critica della
Scienza, Quaderni di Acme 26,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano,
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Cisalpino,
Bologna, 1996, 518 pp. s.i.p. . . . . . 533--536
Marco Segala Book Review: Alberto Masani La
cosmologia nella storia fra scienza,
religione e filosofia, Brescia, La
Scuola, 1996, 410 pp., figg., Lit.
50.000 (ISBN 88-350-9212-4) . . . . . . 536--539
Martin Kirschke Book Review: Wolfgang Schneider,
Werdegang und Zukunft der Pharmazie.
Meine kleine Pharmaziegeschichte,
Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag,
1995, 92 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--541
P. Drbek Book Review: Wolf Dieter Muller-Jahncke
and Christoph Friedrich, Geschichte der
Arzneimitteltherapie, Stuttgart,
Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1996, 295
pp., 48 ill. (ISBN 3-7692-2038-2) . . . 541--542
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Cosmacini, G. Gaudenzi,
R. Satolli, (a cura di), Dizionario di
storia della salute, Torino, Einaudi,
1997, 678 pp., L. 130.000 . . . . . . . 542--546
Luca Ciancio Book Review: David R. Oldroyd, Thinking
about the Earth. A History of Ideas in
Geology, London, Athlone, 1996, xxx +
410 pp., ill. b/w . . . . . . . . . . . 546--550
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: M. D. Grmek, (a cura di),
\booktitleStoria del pensiero medico
occidentale. 2. Dal Rinascimento
all'inizio dell'Ottocento, Roma--Bari,
Laterza, 1996, 613 pp., L. 65.000 . . . 550--551
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Pietro Janni, Il mare degli
antichi, Bari, Dedalo, 1996, 500 pp., 79
fig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--554
Nancy G. Siraisi Book Review: John Arrizabalaga, John
Henderson, and Roger French, the Great
Pox: the French Disease in Renaissance
Europe, New Haven, Yale University
Press, 1997, xv + 352 pp., 30 ill . . . 554--558
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Sachiko Kusukawa, the
transformation of natural philosophy.
The case of Philip Melanchton,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1995, xv + 245 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 559--561
Michael John Gorman Book Review: Steven Shapin,
\booktitleThe Scientific Revolution,
Chicago and London, University of
Chicago Press, 1996, xiv + 218, (ISBN
0-226-75020-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--564
Pietro Redondi Book Review: Peter Dear, Discipline and
Experience. the Mathematical Way in the
Scientific Revolution, Chicago and
London, the Chicago University Press, x
+ 290 pp., (Science and its conceptual
foundations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--567
Martin Kirschke Book Review: Almut Lanz,
\booktitleArzneimittel in der Therapie
Friedrich Hoffmanns (1660--1742) unter
besonderer Berücksichtigung der Medicina
Consultatoria (1721--1723), (German)
[Drugs in the treatment of Friedrich
Hoffmann (1660--1742), with special
Consideration of \em Medicina
Consultatoria (1721--1723)].
Braunschweig, 1995, 241 pp.,
(Braunschweiger Veröffentlichungen zur
Geschichte der Pharmazie und der
Naturwissenschaften Bd. 35) . . . . . . 567--570
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Patricia Fara,
\booktitleSympathetic Attractions.
Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and
Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England,
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press, 1996, xiv + 327 pp., ill. (ISBN
0-691-01099-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--573
Marta Cavazza Book Review: Beate Ceranski,
\booktitleUnd sie fürchtet sich vor
niemandem. Die Physikerin Laura Bassi
(1711--1778), (German) [And she is
afraid of nobody: the physicist Laura
Bassi (1711--1778)], Frankfurt/New York,
Campus Verlag, 1996, 291 pp. . . . . . . 573--576
Marco Beretta Book Review: Emmanuel Grison,
\booktitleDu Faubourg Montmartre au
Corps des Mines. L'étonnant parcours du
Republicain J.-H. Hassenfratz
(1755--1827), Paris, École des Mines ---
Les Presses, 1996, xii + 387 pp. Ill . . 576--578
Fabrizio Vannini Book Review: Angelo Nannoni, Trattato
sulle malattie delle mammelle, a cura di
G. Parigino, Firenze, Le Lettere, 1995,
132 pp. (Introduzione di E. Stumpo;
postfazione di C. Crisci; include L.
Nannoni, Elogio del professore di
chirurgia Angelo Nannoni, Firenze,
Cambiagi, 1790) . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--582
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Marshall Sahlins, Capitan
Cook, per esempio. Le Hawaii, gli
antropologi, i nativi, a cura di
Francesca Giunti, Roma, Donzelli, 1997,
288 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--584
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gabriella Rambaldi,
Istrumenti di chimica. un laboratorio
del XIX secolo, Genova, Pirella editore,
1996, 157 pp. ill . . . . . . . . . . . 585--586
Gerhard H. Müller Book Review: Dietrich Von Engelhardt
(hrsg.), \booktitleHenrich Steffens: Was
ich erlebte. Aus des Erinnerung
niedergeschrieben. Neudruck der Ausgabe
Breslau 1840/44. (German) [Henrich
Steffens: What I experienced. From the
written memoir. Reprint of the Wroclaw
edition 1840/44]. 10 in 5 Bänden,
Zusammen 79*, lxxii, 3898 Seiten,
Leinen. Je Band DM 345/ S 2519/SFR 308.
Stuttgart--Bad Canstatt:
Frommann-Holzboog, 1995--1996 . . . . . 586--590
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Frank A. J. L. James (ed.),
The Correspondence of Michael Faraday,
Volume 3, 1841--1848 Letters 1334--2145,
London, Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 1996, v + 835 pp., 12 ill.
(ISBN 0-86341-250-5) . . . . . . . . . . 590--593
William Shea Book Review: G. R. M. Garratt, the Early
History of Radio From Faraday to
Marconi, London, the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 1994, x + 93 pp.
\pounds 19.00 (ISBN 0-85296-845-0) . . . 593--594
Luca M. Scarantino Book Review: Jean-François Stoffel (ed.),
Mgr Georges Lemaitre, savant et croyant.
Actes du colloque tenu Louvain-La-Neuve
le 4 novembre 1994, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Centre interfacultaire d'étude en
histoire des sciences, 1996, 371 pp., 30
ill., (Reminisciences, 3) 1350 FB, (ISBN
2-930175-02-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--599
Sybille Gerstengarbe Book Review: Christoph Meinel und Monika
Renneberg (Hrsg.),
\booktitleGeschlechterverhältnisse in
Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik.
(German) [Gender relations in medicine,
science and technology]. Hrsg. im
Auftrag des Vorstandes der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin,
Naturwissenschaft und Technik.- Bassum,
Stuttgart, Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
1996, 349 S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--605
Guido Bacciagaluppi Book Review: Jeffrey Bub, Interpreting
the Quantum World, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1997, xiv + 298 pp.,
21 ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--610
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Andr M. Hamende, (a cura
di), Trent'anni di fisica con la
bandiera delle Nazioni Unite a Trieste.
Il Centro internazionale di fisica
teorica (1964--1994), Trieste,
Fondazione Internazionale per il
Progresso e la Libert delle Scienze,
1996, 528 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--613
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Stephen Bocking, Ecologists
and Environmental Politics: A History of
Contemporary Ecology, New Haven, Yale
University Press, 1997, 271 pp. 9 ill 613--615
Ferdinando Abbri Istituzioni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--617
Mara Miniati Cataloghi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--618
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Giovanni Paoloni e
Raffaella Simili (a cura di), Guglielmo
Marconi e l'Italia. Mostra
storico-documentaria (Roma, 30 marzo-30
aprile 1996). Catalogo, Roma, Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, 1996, 240 pp. . . 619--619
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--620
Mara Miniati Book Review: António Estácio Dos Reis,
\booktitleMedir Estrelas. (Spanish)
[Measuring Stars], s.l., CTT Correios,
1997, 168 pp., ill. (ISBN 972-9127-40-9) 620--621
Mara Miniati Book Review: António Estácio Dos Reis,
\booktitleO Único exemplar vivo do nónio
de Pedro Nunes?, (Portuguese) [The one
live specimen of the vernier of Pedro
Nunes?], Lisboa, Academia de Marinha,
1995, 44 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 621--622
Mara Miniati Book Review: Maria Basso Ricci, Lili
Cafarella, Antonio Meloni, Pasquale
Tucci, Due secoli di strumenti
geomagnetici in Italia (1740--1971),
Bologna, Editrice Compositori, 1997, 234
pp., ill. (ISBN 88-7794-091-3) . . . . . 622--623
Mara Miniati Book Review: Manlio Calegari, Guido
Gabrietti, Saper fare. Ricordi di un
bilanciaio di Campogalliano, a cura del
Centro Documentazione del Museo della
Bilancia, Bologna, Clueb, 1996, 179 pp.
+ 19 fig. f.t., ill. (ISBN
88-8091-370-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--624
Ferdinando Abbri Astronomia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--625
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giorgia Foder Serio,
Donatella Randazzo, Astronomi italiani
dall'Unit d'Italia ai nostri giorni: un
primo elenco, Firenze, Societ
Astronomica Italiana Editore, 1997, 116
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--626
Mara Miniati Book Review: E. Proverbio (ed.),
Astronomical observatories and
institutions in Italy, Seventh annual
meeting on the History of Astronomy,
Milano, April 21--22 1995, Memorie della
Societ Astronomica italiana-Journal of
the Italian Astronomical Society, vol.
66, N. 4, 1995, pp. 751--936, ill . . . 626--627
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ileana Chinnici, An Italian
observatory in India: the history of the
Calcutta Observatory, Studies in History
of Medicine and Science, 1995-96, vol.
14, 21 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--627
Donatella Lippi Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--629
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Cosmacini, Medici nella
storia d'Italia. Per una tipologia della
professione medica, Bari, Laterza, 1996,
218 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--630
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. D. Grmek, \booktitleIl
calderone di medea. La sperimentazione
sul vivente nell'antichit\`a, (Italian)
[The cauldron of Medea. The experiment
of living in antiquity], Bari, Laterza,
1996, 144 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--631
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Roberto Cardini e
Mariangela Regogliosi (a cura di),
Umanesimo e medicina. Il problema
dell'individuale, Roma, Bulzoni, 1996,
99 pp., \pounds 22.000 . . . . . . . . . 631--632
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Lucia Sandri (a cura di),
Gli Innocenti e Firenze nei secoli. un
ospedale, un archivio, una citt,
Firenze, S.P.E.S., 1996, 199 pp. . . . . 632--633
Donatella Lippi Book Review: E. Marelli, \booktitleUn
santo, un re, una citt\`a. Storia
dell'Ospedale di Monza, Bari, Laterza,
1996, 291 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--633
Marco Ciardi Scienza e Tecnica . . . . . . . . . . . 634--634
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Martin Bauer (ed.),
Resistance to new technology. Nuclear
power, information technology and
biotechnology, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1995, 422 pp. (ISBN
0-521-45518-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--635
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Enrico Decleva, Carlo G.
Lacaita e Angelo Ventura (a cura di),
Innovazione e modernizzazione in Italia
fra Otto e Novecento, Milano, Franco
Angeli, 1995, 658 pp. . . . . . . . . . 636--637
Stefano Casati Antichit\`a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--638
Ferdinando Abbri Umanesimo e Rinascimento . . . . . . . . 638--640
Ferdinando Abbri Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--641
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Geoffrey V. Sutton,
\booktitleScience for a Polite Society.
Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration
of Enlightenment, Boulder, Colorado and
Oxford, Westview Press, 1995, xiii + 391
ill. (ISBN 0-8133-1575-1) . . . . . . . 641--643
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Urs Boschung,
\booktitleAlbrecht von Haller in
Göttingen. Briefe und Selbstzeugnisse,
Bern, Verlag Hans Huber, 1994, 110 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--644
Marco Beretta Book Review: Pericle di Pietro (a cura
di), Edizione nazionale delle opere di
Lazzaro Spallanzani. Parte Quarta. Opere
edite direttamente dall'Autore. Vol. 1
(1760--1768), Modena, Mucchi Editore,
1996, 259 pp. 111 . . . . . . . . . . . 644--645
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleI Georgofili e il
mondo delle api, (Italian) [The
Georgofili and the world of bees],
Monsummano Terme, Accademia dei
Georgofili, 1997, 15 pp. + 13 tav. f.t 645--646
Marco Segala Book Review: Leonardo Pica Ciamarra,
l'antropologia di Schopenhauer, Napoli,
Loffredo, 1996, 191 pp., Lit. 22.000
(ISBN 88-8096-448-8) . . . . . . . . . . 646--647
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giacomo Ricci, David Rovai,
l'Istituto Tecnico Francesco Carrara
1896--1996. Cento anni di vita, Lucca,
Maria Pacini Fazzi editore, 1996, 246
pp., ill. (ISBN 88-7246-211-8) (Collana
di cultura e storia lucchese, 18) . . . 647--648
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Elizabeth Both Spillius (a
cura di), Melanie Klein e il suo impatto
sulla psicoanalisi oggi, Roma,
Astrolabio, 1995, vol. I. La teoria, 381
pp., vol. II La pratica, 354 pp. . . . . 648--649
Michael John Gorman The Correspondence of Athanasius
Kircher: the World of a Seventeenth
Century Jesuit. An International
Research Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--658
Anonymous Indici (Anno XII, 1997) . . . . . . . . 659--660
Anonymous Indice Delle Fonti Manoscritte . . . . . 661--662
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--682
Domenico Laurenza La Composizione Del Corpo. Fisiognomica
Ed Embriologia in Leonardo . . . . . . . 3--37
Marie-Dominique Couzinet Notes Sur Les Medicinalia De Tommaso
Campanella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--67
Antonio Clericuzio The Mechanical Philosophy and the Spring
of Air. New Light on Robert Boyle and
Robert Hooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Liana Elda Funaro $ \ll $Mezzi, Metodi e Macchine$ \gg $.
Notizie su Giuseppe Morosi . . . . . . . 77--137
Carlo Biagini Ospedali Vecchi e Nuovi: Il Dibattito
Tecnico-Culturale Sul Rinnovamento Delle
Strutture Ospedaliere Nell'Italia
Post-Unitaria. Il Caso Del Santa Maria
Nuova a Firenze. (Italian) [Hospitals
Old and New: The Debate on Technical and
Cultural Renewal of Hospitals of
Post-Unitarian Italy. The Case of Santa
Maria Nuova in Florence] . . . . . . . . 139--150
Nicolangelo Scianna Strumentaria Indagine Sui Grandi Globi a
Stampa di Vincenzo Coronelli . . . . . . 151--168
Giorgio Ferrarese and
Franco Palladino Sulle Collezioni di Modelli Matematici
Dei Dipartimenti di Matematica
Dell'Universit\`a e Del Politecnico di
Torino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
Paolo Brenni and
Anna Giatti Lo Stereocartografo Santoni Modello IV:
Cronaca di Un Salvataggio. (Italian)
[The Santoni stereocartograph Model IV:
Chronicle of a rescue] . . . . . . . . . 187--191
Luigi Guerrini Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani Due Lettere
Inedite di Tommaso Frosini a Francesco
Redi Sul De Motu Animalium di Giovanni
Alfonso Borelli . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208
Carlo Triarico La Corrispondenza di Leonardo Ximenes.
Inventario delle Filze del Carteggio
Conservate nel Fondo Nazionale della
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di
Firenze. (Italian) [The Correspondence
of Leonardo Ximenes. Inventory of the
Correspondence Strings Retained by the
National Fund of the National Central
Library of Florence] . . . . . . . . . . 209--246
Silvia Barchielli Istituzioni e Fonti l'Istituto
Vaccinogeno All'Ospedale di Santa Maria
degli Innocenti di Firenze nel XVIII
Secolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--263
Vladimiro Valerio Discussioni Critiche Cognizioni
Proiettive e Prospettiva Lineare
Nell'Opera di Tolomeo e Nella Cultura
Tardo-Ellenistica . . . . . . . . . . . 265--298
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Frank Spencer (ed.),
History of Physical Anthropology. An
Encyclopedia, New York & London, Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1997, 2 voll., xviii +
1196 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giovanni Paltrinieri,
Meridiane e orologi solari d'Italia,
Bentivoglio (Bo), l'Artiere
Edizionitalia, 1997, 263 pp., ill . . . 301--302
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Maria Teresa Monti (a cura
di), Teorie della visione e problemi di
percezione visiva nell'et\`a moderna,
Milano, Franco Angeli, 1995, 228 pp. . . 302--305
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Benedino Gemelli, Aspetti
dell'Atomismo Classico nella Filosofia
di Francis Bacon e nel Seicento,
Firenze, Olschki, 1996, 433 pp. . . . . 306--307
Gian Luigi Betti Book Review: Annibale Fantoli, Galileo
per il copernicanesimo e per la Chiesa,
seconda edizione riveduta e corretta. $
\ll $Studi Galileiani, vol. 2$ \gg $,
Citt\`a del Vaticano, Specola Vaticana
--- Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997,
xviii-540 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--309
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Cesare Maffioli, Out of
Galileo. The Science of Waters,
1628--1718. Foreword by Richard S.
Westfall, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing,
1994, xx + 509 pp., ill., ($ \ll $Nieuwe
Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de
Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der
Natuurwetenschappen, 49$ \gg $ ) ISBN
90-5235-071-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Mara Miniati Book Review: Peter De Clerq, at the sign
of the Oriental Lamp. The Musschenbroek
workshop in Leiden, 1660--1750,
Rotterdam, Erasmus publishing, 1997, 326
pp., ill. (ISBN 90-5235-103-1). Peter De
Clerq, the Leiden Cabinet of Physics. A
descriptive Catalogue, Leiden, Museum
Boerhaave, 1997, 198 pp., ill. (ISBN
90-6292-114-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Claude Blanckaert (a cura
di), Le terrain des sciences humaines.
Instructions et enquêtes (XVIII--XX
si\`ecle), Paris, l'Harmattan, 1996, 412
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
Mara Miniati Book Review: Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici
(a cura di), Mirabili visioni. Vedute
ottiche della stamperia Remondini.
Catalogo. Contributi e schede di Mariano
Avanzo, Gian Piero Brunetta, Lia
Camerlengo, Thomas Ganz, Paola Marini,
Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici, Trento,
Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio
Beni Culturali, 1996, 159 pp., ill . . . 316--318
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Patrice Bret (Editeur),
Oeuvres de Lavoisier. Correspondance.
Volume VI. 1789--1791. Publié sous les
auspices du Comité Lavoisier de l'Académie
des sciences, Paris, Académie des
sciences, 1997, xviii + 494 pp.
Diffusion: Librairie scientifique et
technique A. Blanchard, Paris (ISBN
2-85367-205-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Marco Segala Book Review: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, La
storia dei colori, a cura di Renato
Troncon, Milano-Trento, Luni Editrice,
1997, ill., 494 pp., Lit. 60.000 . . . . 320--322
Carsten Reinhardt Book Review: Irene Scheifele,
\booktitleFestschriften der
Versammlungen Deutscher Naturforscher
und Ärzte 1822 bis 1920. Stuttgart:
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
1996 (Schriftenreihe zur Geschichte der
Versammlungen Deutscher Naturforscher
und Ärzte, Band 6). 106 S., 4 Farbtafeln,
kart., DM 48 (ISBN 3-8047-1050-6) . . . 322--323
Michele Vista Book Review: Colin A. Russell, Edward
Frankland: chemistry, controversy, and
conspiracy in Victorian England,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996, xx + 536 pp., ill . . . . . . . . 323--326
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Henri Berret, \booktitleLa
culture du XXe si\`ecle. Histoire,
science, philosophie, sous la direction
de Agn\`es Biard, Dominique Bourel, Eric
Brian, Paris, Albin Michel/Centre
international de synth\`ese, 1997, 366
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--329
Francesca Vannozzi Book Review: Harry H. Marks, the
progress of experiment. Science and
Therapeutic Reform in the United States,
1900--1990, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1997, xii + 258 pp.
(ISBN 0-521-58142-7 hardback) . . . . . 330--335
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: Paolantonio Marazzini,
Nuove radiazioni, quanti e relativit\`a
in Italia, 1896--1925, Pavia, La
Goliardica Pavese, 1996, 199 pp. . . . . 335--338
Claudio Tugnoli Book Review: Henri Bergson, Durata e
simultaneit\`a (a proposito della teoria
di Einstein), a cura di Paolo Taroni,
Pitagora editrice, Collana di Storia
delle idee, sezione Fonti e Documenti,
Bologna, 1997, 209 pp. . . . . . . . . . 338--341
Marco Segala Book Review: Collane $ \ll $I fondamenti
della scienza$ \gg $, collana a cura di
Antonio di Meo, nn. 1--20, Roma,
Edizioni Teknos, 1994--1996 . . . . . . 343--344
Marco Beretta Book Review: Cataloghi Roland Schaer (a
cura di), Tous les savoirs du monde.
Encyclopédies et biblioth\`eques, de
Sumer au XXIe si\`ecle, Paris,
Flammarion, 1996, 495 pp., ill . . . . . 344--345
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ove Hagelin (compiler), Old
and Rare Books on Materia Medica in the
Library of the Swedish Pharmaceutical
Society (Apotekarsocieteten). An
Illustrated and Annotated Catalogue,
Stockholm, Swedish Pharmaceutical Press,
1997, 223 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleLa bona opinione.
Cultura, scienza e misure negli stati e
setensi, 1598--1860, a cura di Debora
Dameri, Achille Lodovisi, Giulia Luppi,
Campogalliano, Museo della
Bilancia/Centro di Documentazione, 1997,
292 pp., ill., L. 60.000 (ISBN
88-86143-08-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Mara Miniati Book Review: Strumentaria Emilio Borchi,
Renzo Macii, Termometri e termoscopi,
Firenze, Tipografia Coppini, 1997, 159
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Paolo Brenni Book Review: E. W. Williams, the
Precision makers, A history of the
instrument industry in Britain and
France, 1870--1939, London and New York,
Rutledge, 1994, 216 pp. (ISBN
0-415-03732-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina e Botanica B.
Zanobio, G. Armocida, Storia della
medicina, Milano, Biblioteca Medica
Masson, 1997, 339 pp., L. 54.000 . . . . 349--350
Donatella Lippi Book Review: R. Rizzi, \booktitleStoria
della terapia antalgica. Dalla
preistoria all'evo contemporaneo,
(Italian) [Analgesic therapy history.
From prehistory to simultaneous
developments] Milano, Ciba Ed., 1996,
275 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Ilva Beretta Book Review: Massimo Venturi Ferriolo (a
cura di), Mater Herbarum. Fonti e
tradizione del giardino dei semplici
della Scuola Medica Salernitana, Milano,
Guerini e Associati, 1995, 299 pp., ill.
(Kepos, Quaderni 6) . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Donatella Lippi Book Review: J. Woodward and R. Juette
(ed. by), Coping with sickness,
Historical aspects of Health care in a
European perspective. Sheffield, 1995,
225 pp. Coping with sickness,
Perspectives on Health care, past and
present, Sheffield, 1995, 221 pp. . . . 352--353
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fisica e Chimica P. Tucci
(a cura di), Atti del XVI Congresso
Nazionale di Storia della Fisica e
dell'Astronomia. Centro Volta, Villa
Olmo, Como 24--25 maggio 1996, Lipomo
(Como), Tipografia Editrice Cesare
Nanni, 1997, 715 pp., ill . . . . . . . 353--354
Michele Vista Book Review: Matthew E. Hermes, Enough
for one lifetime: Wallace Carothers,
inventor of nylon, History of Modern
Chemical Sciences, American Chemical
Society and the Chemical Heritage
Foundation, 1996, Maple Press, York, PA,
345 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Psicologia Gian Vittorio
Caprara, Accursio Gennaro, Psicologia
della personalit\`a. Storia, indirizzi
teorici e temi di ricerca, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 1994, 563 pp. . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Marco Beretta Book Review: Antichit\`a e Medioevo
Marco Buonocore (a cura di), Vedere i
classici. l'illustrazione libraria dei
testi antichi dall'et\`a romana al tardo
medioevo, Roma, Fratelli Palombi
Editore, 1996, xxiv + 596 pp. . . . . . 359--360
Marco Beretta Book Review: Secoli XVI--XX Fernanda
Ascarelli, La tipografia cinquecentina
italiana, Firenze, Casa Editrice Le
Lettere, 1996, 259 pp., ill . . . . . . 361--361
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth
to Rowlandson. Medicine in Art in
Eighteenth-Century Britain, Liverpool,
Liverpool University Press, 1996, xvi +
336 pp., ill. L. 39.99 (paperback L.
18.99) (ISBN 0-85323-630-5) . . . . . . 361--363
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Christa Jungnickel and
Russell Mccormmach, Cavendish,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American
Philosophical Society, 1996, xii + 414
pp., ill. (ISBN 0-87169-220-1) ($ \ll
$Memoirs of the American Philosophical
Society Held at Philadelphia for
Promoting Useful Knowledge$ \gg $,
Volume 220) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--366
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Maria Luisa Berti, Duccio
Bigazzi (a cura di), Ricerche di storia
in onore di Franco Della Peruta, 2
voll., Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996, 602
e 629 pp. (ISBN 88-204-9854-5 e
88-204-9853-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Paolo Rossi I Punti di Zenone: Una Preistoria
Vichiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--425
Enrico Giusti Elements for the Relative Chronology of
Galilei's De Motu Antiquiora . . . . . . 427--460
Anna Giulia Cavagna Opere e Libri di un Astronomo Cartografo
Del XVIII Secolo: Tra Erudizione e Stato 461--491
Stefano Casati Storie di Folgori: Il Dibattito Italiano
Sui Conduttori Elettrici nel Settecento 493--512
George N. Vlahakis The Reception of Electric Theories
During the Dawn of NeoHellenic
Scientific Thought . . . . . . . . . . . 513--532
Giuseppe Monaco Strumentaria Alcune Considerazioni Sul
Maximus Tubus di Hevelius . . . . . . . 533--550
Massimo Misiti Macchine Per Studiare . . . . . . . . . 551--565
Salvatore Cicenia Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 567--593
Michele Camerota Istituzioni e Fonti Adattar la Volgar
Lingua Al Filosofici Discorsi. Una
Inedita Orazione di Niccolo Aggiunti
Contro Aristotele e Per l'Uso della
Lingua Italiana Nelle Dissertazioni
Scientifiche. (Italian) [Sources and
institutions adapt the vulgar language
in philosophical discourses. An
unpublished oration of Niccolo Aggiunti
against Aristotle and for the use of the
Italian language in scientific
dissertations] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--623
Marco Ciardi Theory and Technology: the Avogadro
Manuscripts at the Turin Academy of
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--656
Giovanni di Pasquale La Stadera: un Problema di Filologia,
Storia Ed Archeologia . . . . . . . . . 657--666
Cesare Vasoli Jean Bodin e la Scienza Del Rinascimento 667--675
Marco Segala Riflessioni Sulla Scienza Romantica . . 677--691
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: T. Mannoni, E.
Giannichedda, Archeologia della
produzione, Torino, Einaudi, 1996, 352
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--694
Amalia Bettini Book Review: Sara Schechner Genuth,
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth
of Modern Cosmology, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 1997, 365
pp., 53 ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--696
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Christopher Walker (a cura
di), l'astronomia prima del telescopio,
Bari, Dedalo s.r.l., 1997, 504 pp., ill.
+ 14 tavv. f.t., \pounds 50.000 (ISBN
88-220-0543-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--699
George W. Stocking Book Review: Ivan Hannaford, Race: the
History of an Idea in the West.
Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and London,
Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996,
xviii + 448 pp. (ISBN 0-8018-5223-4) . . 699--702
Gerhard H. Müller Book Review: Eckart Olshausen und Holger
Sonnabend (Hrsg.)
\booktitleNaturkatastrophen in der
antiken Welt. Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur
Historischen Geographie des Altertums 6,
1996. (= Geographica historica, begründet
von Ernst Kirsten herausgegeben von
Eckart Olshausen, Band 10). Stuttgart,
Steiner, 1998. 485 S. mit zahlr. Abb.,
kt., DM 198. (Subskript.-Preis DM 160.-)
(ISBN 3-515-07252-7) . . . . . . . . . . 702--704
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Lawrence Richardson, Jr.,
\booktitlePompeii: An Architectural
History, The Johns Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore and London, 1997, 445
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--707
Andrea Ubrizsy Savoia Book Review: S. Ferri, (a cura di),
\booktitlePietro Andrea Mattioli (Siena
1501--Trento 1578), La vita, le opere,
Ponte San Giovanni, Perugia, Quattroemme
srl, 1997, 405 pp. (ISBN 88-85962-27-0) 707--709
James R. Jacob Book Review: Denise Albanese, New
Science, New World. Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1996. xi + 244
pp. Library Cloth Edition (ISBN
0-8223-1759-1). \pounds 43.95. Paper
(ISBN 0-8223-1768-0). \pounds 14.95 . . 709--710
Walter Bernardi Book Review: Catherine Wilson, the
Invisible World. Early Modern Philosophy
and the Invention of the Microscope,
Princeton, Princeton University Press,
1995, 280 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--712
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: S. Gaukroger, Descartes. An
intellectual biography, Oxford,
University Press, 1995 (paperback 1997),
xx + 500 pp. (ISBN 0-19-823724-3) . . . 712--714
William Shea Book Review: Alan Cook, \booktitleEdmond
Halley. Charting the Heavens and the
Seas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 540
pp. (ISBN 0-19-850031-9) . . . . . . . . 714--716
Fernando Vidal Book Review: Christopher Fox, Roy Porter
and Robert Wokler (eds.),
\booktitleInventing human science.
Eighteenth-century domains. Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1995.
xiii + 357 pp. \$45. (ISBN
0-520-20010-1)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--720
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Frederic Lawrence Holmes,
Antoine Lavoisier --- the Next Crucial
Year or the Sources of His Quantitative
Method in Chemistry, Princeton, New
Jersey, Princeton University Press,
1998, viii + 184 pp. (ISBN
0-691-01687-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--722
Nils Roll-Hansen Book Review: Michael Ruse,
\booktitleMonad to man. the Concept of
Progress in Evolutionary biology,
Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 628
(ISBN 0-674-58220-9) . . . . . . . . . . 722--725
Michele Nani Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
et Anne Rasmussen (sous la direction
de), \booktitleLa science populaire dans
la presse et l'édition. XIXe et XXe
si\`ecles, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 1997,
299 pp., s.i.p. . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--728
Josep Bernabeu Mestre Book Review: José Mara López Piñero, Jorge
Navarro López. Los estudios sobre la
salud pública en la ciudad de Valencia
1880--1890. Constantino Gómez Reig
(Studies in public health in the city of
Valencia, 1880--1890. Constantino Gömez
Reig). Valéncia: Ajuntament de Valéncia
(Collection Científicos Valencianos),
1994, 235 pp. (ISBN 84-88639-32-5) . . . 728--729
Carlo Vinti Book Review: Mirella Fortino,
Convenzione e razionalit scientifica in
Henri Poincaré, presentazione di Franco
Crispini, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli,
1997, 268 pp. L 30.000 (ISBN
88-7284-597-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--732
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Pietro Greco, Franco
Prattico, Giorgio Rivieccio, Emanuele
Vinassa De Regny, Toccare le stelle.
Scienza e tecnologia nel Novecento,
Napoli, Cuen, 1997, 245 pp., L. 25.000
(ISBN 88-7146-356-0) . . . . . . . . . . 732--736
Luciano Andreozzi Book Review: Karl Sigmund, Games of
Life. Explorations in Ecology, Evolution
and Behavior, Penguin Books 1995 (prima
edizione Oxford University Press, 1993),
vi + 244 pp., \pounds 7.99, ISBN assente 736--739
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: James H. Jones, Alfred C.
Kinsey. A Public/Private Life, New York
--- London, W.W. Norton Company, 1997,
xx + 937 pp. \pounds 28 (ISBN
0-393-04086-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--742
Angelika Schaller Book Review: Werner Weizig (hrsg.)
\booktitleArthur Schnitzler: Tagebuch
1927 bis 1930. Unter Mitwirkung von
Peter Michael Braunwarth, Susanne
Pertlik und Reinhard Urbach,
herausgegeben Verlag der Österreichischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1997,
510 Seiten, 67 Mark (ISBN 3-7001-2120-2) 742--745
Enrique Perdiguero Book Review: José Luis Fresquet (ed.),
Salud, enfermedad y terapeutica Popular
en la Ribera Alta. Valencia: Instituto
de Estudios Documentales e Histricos
sobre la Ciencia, 1995, 322 pp. . . . . 746--748
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza,
Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza, Storia e
geografia dei geni umani, Milano,
Adelphi, 1997, xxii + 794 pp. . . . . . 748--751
Michael Stoltzner Book Review: Domenico Costantini, Maria
Carla Galavotti (Eds.),
\booktitleProbability, Dynamics and
Causality. Essays in Honour of Richard
C. Jeffrey, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1997 (reprint from
Erkenntnis Vol. 45, Nos. 2/3, 1996), Nlg
135, US\$88, GB \pounds 59 (ISBN
0-7923-4361-1)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--755
Stefano Casati Strumenti Bibliografici . . . . . . . . 757--760
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Jean-François Stoffel (tablié
par), Pierre Duhem et ses doctorands.
Bibliographie de la littérature primaire
et secondaire. Introduction de Stanley
L. Jaki, Louvain-la-Neuve, Centre
interfacultaire d'étude en histoire des
sciences, 1996, 326 pp., 1200 fr. (ISBN
2-930175-00-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--761
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleStrumentaria
Instrumentos cientificos del siglo XVI.
La Corte española y la escuela de
Lovaina. (Spanish) [Strumentaria: 16th
Century scientific instruments. The
Spanish Court and Louvain School].
Fundación Carlos de Amberes Madrid 26 de
noviembre de 1997 a 1 de febrero de
1998, Madrid, Fundacin Carlos de
Amberes, 1997, 248 pp., ill (ISBN
84-87369-03-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--761
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gigliola Terenna, Francesca
Vannozzi (a cura di), Strumenti medici
dei secoli XVIII--XIX, Siena, Nuova
immagine editrice, 1997, 78 pp., 23
ill.n.n., (ISBN 88-7145-141-4)
(Patrimonio storico-scientifico
dell'Universit\`a degli Studi di Siena
Materiali 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--762
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Astronomia Gudrun
Wolfschmidt, \booktitleMilchstraße,
Nebel, Galaxien. Strukturen im Kosmos
von Herschel bis Hubble, München,
Deutsches Museum, 1995, 186 pp. ill.
(ISBN 3-486-26308-0) . . . . . . . . . . 762--763
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giorgia Foder Serio, Ileana
Chinnici, l'osseruatorio astronomico di
Palermo, la storia e gli strumenti,
Palermo, Flaccovio Editore, 1997, 175
pp., ill., (ISBN 88-7804-144-0) . . . . 763--764
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina L. R. Angeletti
--- V. Gazzaniga, Storia, filosofia ed
etica generale della medicina, Milano,
Masson, 1998, 177 pp. . . . . . . . . . 764--765
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Cosmacini,
\booktitleL'arte lunga. Storia della
medicina dall'Antichit\`a ad oggi,
(Italian) [The long art. History of
medicine from Antiquity to the present
day], Bari, Laterza, 1997, 418 pp. . . . 765--766
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. D. Grmek (a cura di),
\booktitleStoria del pensiero medico
occidentale. 3 vol. Dall'et romantica
alla medicina moderna. Bari, Laterza,
1998, 648 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--767
Donatella Lippi Book Review: B. M. Assael --- G.
Avanzini, Il male dell'anima.
l'epilessia fra '800 e '900. Bari,
Laterza, 1997, 190 pp. . . . . . . . . . 767--768
Anna Toscano Book Review: \booktitleAlchimia e
Chimica Johannes Fabricius, Alchimia.
l'Arte Regia nel simbolismo medioevale,
Roma, Edizioni Méditerranée, 1997, 248
p.+ill., Lit. 90.000 (ISBN
88-272-0482-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--769
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Alberto Gigli Berzolari,
Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli /Diario del
viaggio in Svizzera e in Francia con
Alessandro Volta, Bologna,
Cisalpino-Istituto Editoriale
Universitario, 301 pp., ill. (Fonti e
studi per la storia dell'Universit\`a di
Pavia, 28) (ISBN 88-205-0798-6) . . . . 769--770
Michele Vista Book Review: Dmitrij Ivanovi Mendeleev,
Il sistema periodico degli elementi, a
cura di Silvano Tagliagambe, Roma,
Edizioni Teknos, 1994, liv + 182 pp. . . 770--771
Mara Miniati Book Review: Storia Del Territorio
Agnese Visconti (a cura di), Il
territorio lombardo: prospettive di
ricerca storico-naturalistica dal
medioevo all'et contemporanea, Milano,
Societ Italiana di Scienze Naturali,
1998, 135 pp., ill., (ISBN 0369-6243)
(Natura. Rivista di Scienze Naturali
Milano Dicembre 1996-vol. 87-fasc. 2) 771--772
Mara Miniati Book Review: Secoli XVI--XX Silke
Ackermann (ed.), Humphrey Cole: mint,
measurement and maps in Elizabethan
England. London, the Trustees of the
British Museum, 1998, 106 pp., ill.
(ISBN 0-86159-126-7) (British Museum,
Occasional Paper 126) . . . . . . . . . 772--773
Mara Miniati Book Review: Isaia Iannaccone, Johann
Schreck Terrentius. Le scienze
rinascimentali e lo spirito
dell'Accademia dei Lincei nella Cina dei
Ming, Napoli, Istituto Universitario
Orientale, 1998, 147 pp., ill. (Series
Minor, Liv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--774
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleIl diavolo e il
diavoletto. Raffaello Magiotti, uno
scienziato di Montevarchialla corte di
Galileo, (Italian) [The devil and the
demon. Raphael Magiotti, a scientist of
Montevarchi at the Court of Galileo]
Arezzo, La Piramide s.r.l., 1997, 189
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774--775
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Françoise Charles-Daubert,
Les libertins rudits en France au XVIIe
si\`ecle, Paris, Presses Universitaire
de France (Philosophies, 106), 1998, 132
pp. FF 48 (ISBN 2-13-049345-9) . . . . . 775--776
Mara Miniati Book Review: Raffaella Simili (a cura
di), Ricerca e istituzioni scientifiche
in Italia, Roma, Bari, Laterza, 1998,
244 pp. (ISBN 88-420-5537-9),
(Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna, 1142) 776--776
Mara Miniati Book Review: Anita Mcconnell,
\booktitleThe life and times of J. J.
Hicks (1837--1916) `King of the
Clinicals', York, England, William
Sessions Limited, 1998, 150 pp., ill.
(ISBN 1-85072-204-8) . . . . . . . . . . 777--777
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Daniel Becquemont, Laurent
Mucchielli, Le cas Spencer. Religion,
science et politique, Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France, 1998, x + 358
pp., (ISBN 2-13-049107-3), FF 170 . . . 777--778
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Pierre Marage, Grgoire
Wallenborn (diteurs), Les Conseils
Solvay et les débuts de la physique
moderne, (French) [The Solvay Congresses
and the beginnings of modern physics],
Bruxelles, Universit Libre, 265 pp., ill 778--779
Peter Damerow and
Jürgen Renn Attivit di Ricerca Galileo at Work: His
Complete Notes on Motion in An
Electronic Representation . . . . . . . 781--790
M. Ciardi Indici (Anno XIII, 1998) . . . . . . . . 791--795
Anonymous Indice Delle Fonti Manoscritte . . . . . 797--801
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--832
Gabriele Baroncini Forme di Lettura, Forme di Cultura . . . 3--18
Giorgio Strano The Absent Star . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Yaakov Zik Galileo and the Telescope . . . . . . . 31--67
Elisa Bensa and
Gianni Zanarini La Fisica della Musica . . . . . . . . . 69--111
Nicoletta Nicolini Petits Processus Chimiques Dans l'Italie
Pre-Unitaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
Arcangelo Rossi Galileo Ferraris (1847--1897) Tra
Scienza e Tecnologia . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
Claudio Pogliano Bachi, Polli e Grani. Appunti Sulla
Ricezione Della Genetica in Italia
(1900--1953) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--168
Dalida Monti Creation and Destruction of Corpuscles 169--200
Fabrizio Bnoli and
Marina Zuccoli Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212
Alberto Lualdi Biagio Burlini, un Ottico Del '700
Veneziano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
Ferdinando Abbri Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 221--231
Alberto Meschiari Corrispondenza di Giovanni Battista
Amici con Carlo Matteucci e Angelo
Secchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--261
Carla Rita Palmerino Pierre Gassendi's \booktitleDe
Philosophia Epicuri Universe
Rediscovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--294
Maria Teresa Monti I Poulets di Haller e la Storia
Epistemologica della Scienza. (Italian)
[Haller's chickens and the history of
epistemological science] . . . . . . . . 295--304
Marco Beretta Book Review: Isisi cumulative
Bibliography 1986--95. A bibliography of
the History of Science formed from the
Annual Isis Current Bibliographies.
Edited by John Neu, Published for the
History of Science Society, Canton
Mass., Science History Publications/USA,
1997, 4 voll. 935 pp. + 1362 pp. (ISBN
0-88135-133-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Isabelle Stengers, Scienze
e poteri. Bisogna averne paura?, trad.
di Ada Cinato, Bollati Boringhieri,
Torino, 1998, 95 pp., L. 24.000 (ISBN
88-339-1091-1) (Temi 75) . . . . . . . . 306--309
Claudio Tugnoli Book Review: Luigi Ruggiu (a cura di),
Filosofia del tempo, Milano, Bruno
Mondadori, 1998, pp. 383, L. 42.000
(ISBN 88-424-9341-4) . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: E. Bellone, G. Boniolo (a
cura di), \booktitleStoria e filosofia
della scienza. Un possibile scenario
italiano, Milano, Fotolito Sebi srl,
1998, 190 pp., prezzo non indicato (ISBN
mancante) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Vincenzo Barone Book Review: Carlo Castagnoli (a cura
di), Quaderni di Storia della Fisica, n.
1, 1997, Bologna, Editrice Compositori,
357 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Mario Zunino e Maria Stella
Colomba, Ordinando la natura. Elementi
di storia del pensiero sistematico in
biologia, Palermo, Medical Books, 1997,
160 pp., L. 36.000 . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Michele Nani Book Review: Alberto Capatti, Alberto De
Bernardi, Angelo Varni (a cura di),
l'alimentazione (Storia d'Italia ---
Annali 13), Torino, Einaudi, 1998, lxiv
+ 1052 pp., L. 130.000 . . . . . . . . . 322--325
Renate Wilson Book Review: Evemarie Wolf,
\booktitleÜber die Anfänge der
Pharmaziegeschichtsschreibung. Von
Johannes Ruellius (1529) bis David Peter
Hermann Schmidt (1835), Stuttgart,
Deutscher Apother Verlag, 1996, pp.
x-109, Kartoniert. (Quellen und Studien
zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 72),
DM/SFR 28.-/S 204 (ISBN 3-8047-1447-1)
(Wvg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327
Claudio Tugnoli Book Review: Giorgio Mangani, Il mondo
di Abramo Ortelio. Misticismo, geografia
e collezionismo nel Rinascimento dei
Paesi Bassi, Modena, Cosimo Panini
editore, 1998, 333 pp., L. 60.000 (ISBN
88-7686-977-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--332
William R. Shea Book Review: Francis Bacon, \booktitleA
Critical Edition of the Major Works,
edited and annotated by Brian Vickers,
Oxford University Press, l + 811 pp., L.
13.99 (ISBN 0-19-282025-7) . . . . . . . 332--333
Alessandro Dini Book Review: L. Bianchi (a cura di),
Pierre Bayle e l'Italia, Napoli,
Liguori, 1996, 249 pp., L. 25.000 (ISBN
207-2612-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--338
Simone Contardi Book Review: Annamaria Angelini (a cura
di), Anatomie Accademiche. III.
l'Istituto delle Scienze e l'Accademia,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993, 573 pp., L.
60.000 (ISBN 88-15-04157-5) . . . . . . 338--340
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Robert E. Schofield, the
Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley. A
Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to
1773, University Park, Pennsylvania, the
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1997, xii + 305 pp., ill., \pounds 40.50
(ISBN 0-271-01662-0) . . . . . . . . . . 340--342
Marco Beretta Book Review: Jacques Tenon, Memoirs on
Paris Hospitals, Edited with an
Introduction, Notes and Appendices by
Dora B. Weiner, Canton Mass., Science
History Publications/USA, 1997, xxix +
407 pp., Ill. (ISBN 0-88135-074-5
\$39.95)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Marco Segala Book Review: Kai Torsten Kanz,
\booktitleNationalismus und
internationale Zusammenarbeit in den
Naturwissenschaften. Die
deutsch--französischen
Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen
Revolution und Restauration, 1789--1832,
(German) [Nationalism and international
cooperation in the natural sciences. The
German--French scientific relations
between Revolution and Restoration,
1789--1832]. Stuttgart, Steiner Verlag,
1997, 352 pp. (ISBN 3-515-07079-6)
(Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur
Geschichte der Mathematik und der
Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 39) . . . . . . 344--346
Vittorio Marchis Book Review: K. G. Beauchamp,
\booktitleExhibiting Electricity,
London, the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--349
Mario A. di Gregorio Book Review: Adrian Desmond,
\booktitleHuxley. Evolution's Hight
Priest, London, Michael Joseph, 1997
(ISBN 0-7181-3882-1). \pounds 20 . . . . 349--350
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Alan P. Barr (ed.),
\booktitleThe major prose of Thomas
Henry Huxley, Athens, Georgia, The
University of Georgia Press, 1997,
xxn+366 pp., illustrazioni in bianco e
nero (ISBN 0-8203-1864-7), \$50,00
(rilegato); Alan P. Barr (ed.),
\booktitle{Thomas Henry Huxley's place
in science and letters}, Athens,
Georgia, The University of Georgia
Press, 1997, pp. xiii + 353,
illustrazioni in bianco e nero (ISBN
0-8203-1865-5), \$50,00 (rilegato) . . . 350--354
Mario A. di Gregorio Book Review: Gerhard H. Müller,
\booktitleFriedrich Ratzel (1844--1904):
Naturwissenschaftler, Geograph,
Gelehrter, Stuttgart, Verlag für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und
Technik, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--356
Ariane Drscher Book Review: Carmela Morabito, La
cartografia del cervello. Il problema
delle localizzazioni cerebrali
nell'opera di David Ferrier, fra
fisiologia, psicologia e filosofia,
Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996, 234 pp.
(ISBN 88-204-9708-5) L. 45.000. Carmela
Morabito, Modelli della mente, modelli
del cervello, Milano, Franco Angeli,
1998, 303 pp. (ISBN 88-464-0419-X) L.
54.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Gundolf Keil Book Review: Angelika Schaller,
\booktitleUnd seine Begierde ward
sehend. Auge, Blick und visuelle
Wahrnehmung in der Prosa Thomas Manns,
(German) [And his desire for sight. Eye
gaze and visual perception in the prose
of Thomas Mann], Würzburg. Ergon-Verlag,
1997, 407 pp., 4 Abb., DM 68,- ---
(Litteratura. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge
zur Moderne und ihrer Geschichte, 5) . . 358--361
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fabrizio Bnoli (a cura di),
l'astronomia in Italia, Napoli, Societ
Astronomica Italiana, 1998, 156 pp.,
ill. (ISBN 88-87375-00-3) . . . . . . . 361--362
Jitse M. Van Der Meer Book Review: Michael Heller, the New
Physics and a New Theology, Tr. G. V.
Coyne, S. J., S. Giovanninni, T. M.
Sierotowicz. Vatican Observatory
Publications, 1996, 103 pp. . . . . . . 362--365
Luciano Andreozzi Book Review: Daniel Dennet, l'idea
pericolosa di Darwin, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1997, 723 pp. (ISBN
88-339-1055-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--369
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: François Jacob, Il topo, la
mosca e l'uomo, trad. di Fiorella Nuzzo
De Carli, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino,
1998, 147 pp., L. 35.000 (ISBN
88-339-1089-X), (Saggi scientifici) . . 369--373
Mara Miniati Book Review: Luca Basso Peressut (a cura
di), \booktitleStanze della meraviglia.
I musei della natura tra storia e
progetto, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, 363 pp.,
ill. (ISBN 88-8091-519-3), L. 43.000
(Lexis, MuseoPoli, IV) . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Mara Miniati Cataloghi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Donatella Lippi Book Review: G. Corbellini e L.
Mezzagora (a cura di), La malaria tra
passato e presente, Roma, 1998, 109 pp. 378--378
Mara Miniati Book Review: Vladimiro Valerio, Piante e
vedute di Napoli dal 1486 al 1599.
l'origine dell'iconografia urbana
europea, con il contributo di Ermanno
Bellucci, Napoli, Electa, 1998, 95 pp.,
ill., (ISBN 88-435-8725-0), (Imago
Urbis, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Donatella Lippi Book Review: S. Rossi (a cura di),
Scienza e miracoli nell'arte del '600
Milano, Electa, 1998, 406 pp. . . . . . 379--380
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Renato G. Mazzolini (a cura
di), \booktitleLe collezioni
scientifiche del Ginnasio Liceo
`Giovanni Prati' di Trento, (Italian)
[The scientific collections of the
`Giovanni Prati' Gymnasium (High School)
of Trento], Trento, Ginnasio Liceo
Giovanni Prati, 1997, 358 pp., ill.
(ISBN mancante), s.i.p. . . . . . . . . 380--381
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ta epistémonika organa, 19os
aiónas hoi Hellénikes sylloges 1997, 48
pp., ill. (ISBN 960-7094-99-9) . . . . . 382--383
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gigliola Terenna, Francesca
Vannozzi, La collezione degli strumenti
di psicologia, Siena, Nuova immagine
editrice, 1998, 78 pp., ill. (ISBN
88-7145-146-5), (Patrimonio
storico-scientifico dell'Universit\`a di
Siena Materiali 2) . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Donatella Lippi Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Paul Lydon, A catalogue of
records retained by hospices and related
organisations in the UK and the Republic
of Ireland, Sheffield, 1998, 124 pp.
(Eahmh, Research Guide Series 3) . . . . 384--385
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Jan Sundin, Marie Clark
Nelson and John Woodward (eds.), The
history and philosophy of Medicine and
Health: past, present, future,
Sheffield, 1998, 30 pp. (Eahmh-Research
Guide Series 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Robert Juette, Guenter B.
Risse and John Woodward (eds.), Culture,
Knowledge, Healing. Historical
perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in
Europe and North America, Sheffield,
1998, 338 pp. (Eahmh Network Series 3) 385--386
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Cay-Ruediger Pruell (ed.),
Pathology in the 19th and 20th
centuries. The relationship between
theory and practice, Sheffield, 1998,
142 pp. (Eahmh Network Series 2) . . . . 386--387
Mara Miniati Fisica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--388
Ferdinando Abbri Alchimia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Mara Miniati Geologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
Sstefano Caroti Medioevo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Stefan Kirschner, Nicolaus
Oresmes Kommentar zur Physik des
Aristoteles. Kommentar mit Edition der
Quaestionen zu Buch 3 und 4 der
aristotelischen Physik sowie von vier
Quaestionen zu Buch 5, Stuttgart, Franz
Steiner Verlag, 1997, 491 pp. (Sudhoffs
Archiv. Zeitschrift fr
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte 39) 391--392
Marco Ciardi Secoli XVII--XX . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Pina Totaro (a cura di),
Spinoziana. Ricerche di terminologia
filosofica e critica testuale, Seminario
internazionale, Roma, 29--30 settembre
1995, Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 1997, 278
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Pascal Acot (ed.), The
European origins of scientific ecology
(1800--1901), introduction by Patrick
Blandin, translated from the French by
B. P. Hamm, Amsterdam, Overseas
Publishers Association (published under
license of Gordon and Breach Publishers
and Éditions des Archives
Contemporaines), 2 voll., xix + 932 pp.,
(ISBN 90-5699-103-5), (The History of
Science, Technology and Medicine, 8),
ff. 884, \$150,00, \pounds 95,00} . . . 394--395
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy,
Alfred C. Kinsey. Sex the Measure of All
Things. A Biography, London, Chatto
Windus, 1998, xiii + 514 pp. (ISBN
1-85619-604-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Biblioteca della Scienza Italiana . . . 397--400
Anonymous Book Review: 6. Marsilio Landriani
Ricerche fisiche intorno alla salubrit
dell'aria a cura di Marco Beretta 1995,
126 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 400--401
Anonymous Book Review: 7. Ludovico Antonio
Muratori della forza della fantasia
umana a cura di Claudio Pogliano 1995,
172 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Book Review: 8. Amedeo Avogadro Saggi e
memorie sulla teoria atomica
(1811--1838) a cura di Marco Ciardi
1995, 149 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Book Review: 9. Leonardo Da Vinci Libro
di Pittura a cura di Carlo Pedretti con
la collaborazione di Carlo Vecce 1995, 2
voll., 543 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . 402--403
Anonymous Book Review: 10. Camillo Golgi Sulla
fina anatomia degli organi centrali del
sistema nervoso a cura di Alberto
Oliverio 1995, 264 pp., Giunti, Firenze 403--403
Anonymous Book Review: 11. Federico Delpino
Memorie di biologia vegetale a cura di
Maurizio Alippi Cappelletti 1996, 427
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Anonymous Book Review: 12. Francesco Redi
Esperienze intorno alla generazione
degli insetti a cura di Walter Bernardi
1996, 233 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Book Review: 13. Felice Fontana
\booktitleRicerche filosofiche sopra la
fisica animale a cura di Giulio Barsanti
1996, 134 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 404--405
Anonymous Book Review: 14. Giorgio Vasari Il
Giovane Raccolto fatto dal Cavre.
Giorgio Vasari: di varii instrumenti per
misurare con la vista a cura di Filippo
Camerota 1996, 423 pp., Giunti, Firenze 405--405
Anonymous Book Review: 15. Alessandro Herzen Gli
animali martiri, I loro protettori e la
fisiologia a cura di Giovanni Landucci
1996, 173 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Book Review: 16. Agostino Scilla La vana
speculazione disingannata dal senso a
cura di Paolo Rossi con la
collaborazione di Marco Segala 1996, 142
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Anonymous Book Review: 17. Lorenzo Ghiberti I
commentarii a cura di Lorenzo Bartoli
1998, 316 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Book Review: 18. Antonio Cocchi Scritti
scelti a cura di Simone Contardi 1998,
134 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 407--408
Anonymous Book Review: 19. Giovanni Battisti
Baliani De motu naturali gravium
solidarum et liquidorum a cura di
Giovann Baroncelli 1998, 289 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Book Review: 20. \booktitleVittorio
Angius Almerico da Schio a cura di
Vittorio Marchis 1998, 132 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Anonymous Book Review: 21. Alessandro Benedetti
Historia corporis bumani sive Anatomice
a cura di Giovanna Ferrari 1998, 364
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Book Review: 22. Battista Grassi Studi
di uno zoologo sulla malaria a cura di
Bernardino Fantini 1998, 462 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Biblioteca di Nuncius . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Book Review: 30. Marco Segala I
fantasmi, il cervello, l'anima.
Schopenhauer, l'occulto e la scienza
1998, 248 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Book Review: 31. \booktitleGiambattista
Aleottie gli ingegneri del Rinascimento,
(Italian) [Giambattista Aleottie and
engineers of the Renaissance], a cura di
Alessandra Fiocca 1998, xxvi + 466 pp.,
Olschki, Firenze [ISBN 88-222-4660-8] 412--412
Anonymous Book Review: 32. \booktitleJournals and
History of Science edited by Marco
Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro
Redondi 1998, viii + 272 pp., Olschki,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--413
Carlo Ossola Piazzette e Caraffe: 'Metafisica'
Galileiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--441
Massimilla Baldo Ceolin Galileo e la Scienza Sperimentale . . . 443--454
Filippo Camerota Il Disegno del Territorio e la Difesa
dello Stato. (Italian) [Design of the
Territory and the Defence of the State] 455--469
Vallori Rasini Alle Origini della Teoria dell'Atto
Biologico di Viktor Von Weizsäcker . . . 471--489
Amparo Sebastin and
Maria J. Jimenez Strumentaria Learned Institutions:
Sources for Unknown Scientific
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--504
Luigi Guerrini Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani Matematica Ed
Erudizione. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli e
l'Edizione Fiorentina Dei Libri V, VI e
VII Delle Coniche di Apollonio di Perga 505--568
Francesco Barbieri and
Marina Zuccoli Un Contributo Al Carteggio di Guido
Grandi e Odoardo Corsini . . . . . . . . 569--582
Tiziana Grifoni Istituzioni e Fonti I Cataloghi Botanici
Del Giardino di Villa la Loggia Fra
Tradizione Ed Innovazione . . . . . . . 583--628
Giorgio Jules Mastrobisi Aporie di Una Nuova Concezione
Dell'Etere nel Manoscritto Einsteiniano
Del 1920. (Italian) [History of a new
concept in Ether. The 1920 Einsteinian
manuscript] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--649
Albert Einstein Vorlesungen Über Spezielle
Relativitätstheorie. (German) [Lectures
on the Theory of Special Relativity] . . 650--661
Claudio Pogliano Il Contributo Italiano al Razzismo Del
XX Secolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--669
Alessandra Lenzi Nova Media Biblioteca e Attivit
Bibliografica Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia della Scienza: Verso Un Archivio
Comune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--673
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Mario Biagioli (ed.), The
Science Studies Reader, (in consultation
with Peter Galison, Donna J. Haraway,
Everett Mendelsohn, Sharon Traweek), New
York and London, Routledge, 1999, 590
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--677
Marco Beretta Book Review: Olivier Bloch, Matire
histoires, Paris, Vrin, 1997, 464 pp.
(ISBN 0249-7980), 340 ff . . . . . . . . 677--679
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: J. Needham (C. Harbsmeier),
\booktitleScience and Civilisation in
China, vol. 7, parte I, (Language and
Logic), Cambridge University Press,
1988, 480 + xxiv, pp. . . . . . . . . . 679--683
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Keimpe Algra, Concepts of
Space in Greek Thought, Leiden, Brill,
1995, 366 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--685
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Claude Lafleur (ed.),
\booktitlel'Enseignement de la
philosophie au XIIIe si\`ecle. Autour du
`Guide de l'\`etudiant' du ms. Ripoll
109. Actes du colloque international,
Brepols, Turnhout, 1997 (Studia
Artistarum. Études sur la Faculté des arts
dans les Universités médiévales, 5), 719
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--690
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Joelle Ducos, \booktitleLa
météorologie en français au Moyen Age
(XIIIe--XIVe si\`ecles), (French)
[Meteorology in French in the Middle
Ages (13th--14th Centuries)], Honoré
Champion Éditeur, Paris, 1998 (Sciences,
techniques et civilisations du Moyen Age
\`a l'aube des Lumi\`eres, 2), 493, pp. 690--692
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi Book Review: Eileen Reeves, Painting the
Heavens. Art and Science in the Age of
Galileo, Princeton University Press,
1997, 310 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 692--695
Michael John Gorman Book Review: Maurice A. Finocchiaro,
\booktitleGalileo on the world systems:
a new abridged translation and guide,
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California,
University of California Press; 1997, xi
+ 425 pp., \pounds 40.00, cloth; \pounds
15.95, paper (ISBN 0-520-20548-0
alkaline Paper; ISBN 0-520-20646-0 pbk.:
alk. paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--700
Marco Segala Book Review: Francesca Maria Crasta, La
filosofia della natura di Emanuel
Swedenborg, Milano, Angeli, 1999, 335
pp., ill., L. 42.000 (Collana di
filosofia, 65) (ISBN 88-464-1385-7) . . 700--702
Paola Vasconi Book Review: Heiner F. Klemme,
\booktitleKants Philosophie des Subjekts
(Systematische und
entwicklungsgeschichtliche
Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von
Selbstbewustsein und Selbsterkenntnis),
(German) [Kant's philosophy of the
subject (Systematic and evolutionary
studies on the relationship between
self-esteem and self-knowledge)],
Hamburg, Felix Meiner, 1996, 432 p.
(Kant-Forschungen Bd. 7) . . . . . . . . 702--704
Vincenzo Trombetta Book Review: Antonio Borrelli (a cura
di), Domenico Cotugno. Documenti
d'archivio 1766--1833. Napoli, Istituto
Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, La
Citta del Sole, 1977, pp. 238, ill. 30,
L. 48.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--709
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: D. Knight and H. Kragh
(eds.), The Making of the Chemist. The
Social History of Chemistry in Europe,
1789--1914, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998, 347 pp. (ISBN
0-521-58351-9), \pounds 50.00
(US\$80.00)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--712
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Ariane Droscher,
\booktitleDie Zellbiologie in Italien im
19. Jahrhundert, Halle (Saale), Deutsche
Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
(Acta Historica Leopoldina, 26), 184,
pp. 18 illustrazioni e 18 tabelle nel
testo (ISBN 3-335-00500-7), prezzo non
indicato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--713
Richard Staley Book Review: Denis Brian, Einstein: A
Life, New York, John Wiley, 1996, 509
pp. (ISBN 0-471-11459-6) \$30.00 USA,
\$36.95 Can, \pounds 18.99 UK . . . . . 713--715
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Mile Meyerson, La deduzione
relativistica, introduzione e traduzione
di Carlo Vinti, Pisa-Roma, Istituti
Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali,
1998, (Biblioteca di Studi Kantiani) 403
pp. L. 60.000, (ISBN 88-8147-136-1) . . 715--718
Anna Fabriziani Book Review: Carlo Vinti, Il soggetto
qualunque. Gaston Bachelard fenomenologo
della soggettivita epistemica, Napoli,
Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1997,
1010 pp. (ISBN 88-8114-538-3), \pounds
100.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--723
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Luciano Mecacci, Psicologia
e psicoanalisi nella cultura italiana
del Novecento, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 1998,
106 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--725
Samuel H. Greenblatt Book Review: Jack D. Pressman, Last
Resort. Psychosurgery and the Limits of
Medicine, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, xv + 555 pp., ill.
(ISBN 0-521-35371-8) . . . . . . . . . . 725--727
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Ilya Prigogine,
\booktitleLa fine delle certezze. Il
tempo, il caos e le leggi della natura,
in collaborazione con Isabelle Stengers,
trad. di Libero Sosio, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1997, (Saggi scientifici)
189 pp., L. 50.000 (ISBN 88-339-1030-X) 727--732
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Kevin Madders, A New Force
at a New Frontier. Europe's development
in the space field in the light of its
main actors, policies, law and
activities from its beginnings up to the
present (Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1997), 604 pp., ill . . . . . 732--733
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--735
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gabriele Vanin,
\booktitleOrologi solari nella terra del
Palladio, Feltre, Libreria Pilotto
Editrice, 1998, 119 pp., ill . . . . . . 736--736
Mara Miniati Book Review: Antonio Campigotto, Massimo
Tozzi Fontana, Nel mondo delle cose.
Collezioni private di interesse
tecnico-scientifico. un sondaggio nelle
province di Bologna, Ferrara, Forl,
Ravenna e Rimini, Bologna, Il Nove,
1997, 502 pp., ill., (Ricerche per i
beni artistici culturali e naturali
della regione Emilia Romagna 18) L.
60.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736--737
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael J. Crowe, David D.
Dyck, James R. Kevin, A Calendar of the
Correspondence of Sir John Herschel,
Cambridge, Cambridge Up., 1998, 828 pp.
(ISBN 0-521-63149-1) . . . . . . . . . . 738--739
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: F. Burkhardt, D. M. Porter,
J. Harvey, J. R. Topham (eds.), The
Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol.
10: 1862, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1997, xl + 936 pp., 16
ill. fuori testo, (ISBN 0-521-59032-9)
prezzo non indicato . . . . . . . . . . 739--740
Mara Miniati Book Review: Astronomia e Fisica
Pasquale Tucci (a cura di), Atti del
XVIII Congresso nazionale di storia
della fisica e dell'astronomia. Centro
Volta, Villa Olmo, Como 15--16 maggio
1998, Milano, Universit\`a degli studi
di Milano istituto di fisica generale
applicata sez. di storia della fisica,
1999, 294 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--741
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina F. Carrara --- L.
Sebregondi --- U. Tramonti, Gli Istituti
di beneficenza a Firenze. Storia e
architettura, Firenze, Alinea, 1999, 191
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--742
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Geologia Musei Civici di
Imola, La collezione Scarabelli. I.
Geologia, a cura di Marco Pacciarelli e
Gian Battista Vai, Bologna, Grafis
Edizioni, 1995, 407 pp., ISBN e prezzo
assenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--743
Paola Carusi Tecnologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--744
Mara Miniati Book Review: Mauro Agnoletti,
\booktitleSegherie e foreste nel
Trentino dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri,
(Italian) [Sawmills and forests in
Trentino from the Middle Ages to the
present day], Trento, Museo degli Usi e
Costumi della Gente Trentina, 1998, 233
pp., ill. (ISBN 88-85352-12-X), L.
32.000. Mauro Agnoletti,
\booktitleIndagine sulla tecnologia
degli attrezzi da taglio di suolo
boschivo in Trentino, estratto da Sm
Annali di San Michele, (Italian) [Survey
on gear technology for cutting of forest
soil in Trentino, extracted from Sm
Annals of San Michele], n.
9--10/1996--97, 74 pp., ill . . . . . . 744--745
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Angelo D'Orsi (a cura di),
\booktitleQuaderni di Storia
dell'Universit\`a di Torino, Torino,
Centro di Studio della Storia
dell'Universit\`a di Torino, Il
Segnalibro Editore. Anno I, 1996, n. 1,
xvi + 390 pp., L. 45.000. Anno II--III,
1997--1998, n. 2, xii + 564, L. 80.000 745--747
Donatella Lippi Book Review: I. Mazzini, \booktitleLa
medicina dei Greci e dei Romani, 2
voll., Roma, Jouvence, 1997, 476 pp., L.
50.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--748
Anonymous Book Review: Silvia Meloni Trkulja,
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (a cura di),
Bartolomeo Bimbi. un pittore di piante e
animali alla corte dei Medici, Firenze,
Edifir Edizioni Firenze, 1998, 223 pp.,
ill. (ISBN 88-7970-053-7) L. 160.000 . . 748--749
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: A. Moquin-Tandon, un
naturaliste \`a Paris, 1834. Notes sur
mon séjour \`a Paris. Mon premier voyage
\`a Paris, en 1834, du 4 septembre au 23
octobre, édition présenté par Jean-Louis
Fischer, index tablié par Isabelle
Dussert-Carbone, Chilly-Mazarin,
Sciences en Situation, 1999, xxxiv + 163
pp. (ISBN 2-908965-11-9), Ff. 129, 20 E 749--750
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Lidia Maggioli (a cura di),
\booktitleAlessandro Serpieri,
Scienziato riminese, Rimini, Raffaelli e
Luise Editori, 1998, 158 pp. (ISBN
88-85050-93-X) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--751
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Charles Darwin,
\booktitleDe la fécondation croisée des
Orchidées par les insectes et des bons
résultats de croisements, (French)
[Cross-fertilization of orchids by
insects and good results of crosses],
Chilly-Mazarin, Éditions Sciences en
Situation, 1999, 17, iii, 332 pp., 34
ill. (ISBN 2-908965-14-3), FF 149, E 23 751--752
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Rachel P. Maines,
\booktitleThe Technology of Orgasm.
Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's
Sexual Satisfaction, Baltimore London,
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1999, xx + 182 pp. (Johns Hopkins
Studies in the History of Technology n.
24) (ISBN 0-8018-5941-7) . . . . . . . . 752--753
Anonymous Biblioteca della scienza Italiana . . . 755--758
Anonymous Book Review: 6. Marsilio Landriani
Ricerche fisiche intorno alla salubrita
dell'aria a cura di Marco Beretta 1995,
126 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 758--759
Anonymous Book Review: 7. Ludovico Antonio
Muratori della forza della fantasia
umana a cura di Claudio Pogliano 1995,
172 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 759--760
Anonymous Book Review: 8. Amedeo Avogadro Saggi e
memorie sulla teoria atomica
(1811--1838) a cura di Marco Ciardi
1995, 149 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 760--760
Anonymous Book Review: 9. Leonardo Da Vinci Libro
di Pittura a cura di Carlo Pedretti con
la collaborazione di Carlo Vecce 1995, 2
voll., 543 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . 760--761
Anonymous Book Review: 10. Camillo Golgi Sulla
fina anatomia degli organi centrali del
sistema nervoso a cura di Alberto
Oliverio 1995, 264 pp., Giunti, Firenze 761--761
Anonymous Book Review: 11. Federico Delpino
Memorie di biologia vegetale a cura di
Maurizio Alippi Cappelletti 1996, 427
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 761--762
Anonymous Book Review: 12. Francesco Redi
Esperienze intorno alla generazione
degli insetti a cura di Walter Bernardi
1996, 233 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 762--762
Anonymous Book Review: 13. Felice Fontana Ricerche
filosofiche sopra la fisica animale a
cura di Giulio Barsanti 1996, 134 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--763
Anonymous Book Review: 14. Giorgio Vasari Il
Giovane Raccolto fatto dal Cavre.
Giorgio Vasari: di varii instrumenti per
misurare con la vista a cura di Filippo
Camerota 1996, 423 pp., Giunti, Firenze 763--763
Anonymous Book Review: 15. Alessandro Herzen Gli
animali martiri, I loro protettori e la
fisiologia a cura di Giovanni Landucci
1996, 173 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 764--764
Anonymous Book Review: 16. Agostino Scilla La vana
speculazione disingannata dal senso a
cura di Paolo Rossi con la
collaborazione di Marco Segala 1996, 142
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 764--765
Anonymous Book Review: 17. Lorenzo Ghiberti I
commentarii a cura di Lorenzo Bartoli
1998, 316 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 765--765
Anonymous Book Review: 18. Antonio Cocchi Scritti
scelti a cura di Simone Contardi 1998,
134 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 765--766
Anonymous Book Review: 19. Giovanni Battisti
Baliani, \booktitleDe motu naturali
gravium solidarum et liquidorum, (Latin)
[On the motion of natural heavy solids
and liquids], a cura di Giovann
Baroncelli 1998, 289 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--766
Anonymous Book Review: 20. \booktitleVittorio
Angius Almerico da Schio a cura di
Vittorio Marchis 1998, 132 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--767
Anonymous Book Review: 21. Alessandro Benedetti
Historia corporis humani sive Anatomice
a cura di Giovanna Ferrari 1998, 364
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 767--767
Anonymous Book Review: 22. Battista Grassi,
\booktitleStudi di uno zoologo sulla
malaria a cura di Bernardino Fantini
1998, 462 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 768--768
Anonymous Biblioteca di Nuncius . . . . . . . . . 768--769
Anonymous Book Review: 30. Marco Segala I
fantasmi, il cervello, l'anima.
Schopenhauer, l'occulto e la scienza
1998, 248 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . 769--770
Anonymous Book Review: 31. Giambattista Aleotti e
gli ingegneri del Rinascimento a cura di
Alessandra Fiocca 1998, xxvi + 466 pp.,
Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--770
Anonymous Book Review: 32. Journals and History of
Science edited by Marco Beretta, Claudio
Pogliano and Pietro Redondi 1998, viii +
272 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . 770--771
Anonymous Indici (Anno XIV, 1999) . . . . . . . . 773--796
Anonymous Nuncius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Franco Giudice La Tradizione Del Mezzo e la Nuova
Teoria Della Luce di Leonhard Euler . . 3--49
Sandra Linguerri La Societ Italiana Per Il Progresso
Delle Scienze:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--78
Luciano Andreozzi Vito Volterra Organizzatore Scientifico
e la Nascita della Biologia Matematica
in Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--109
Francesca Turco and
Luigi Cerruti Charles J. Pedersen e le Origini della
Chimica Supramolecolare. (Italian)
[Charles J. Pedersen and the Origins of
Supramolecular Chemistry] . . . . . . . 111--168
Alberto Lualdi Repertorio Dei Costruttori Italiani di
Strumenti Scientifici . . . . . . . . . 169--234
Nicolangelo Scianna Indagine Sui Grandi Globi a Stampa di
Vincenzo Coronelli . . . . . . . . . . . 235--257
Alberto Meschiari Corrispondenza di Giovanni Battista
Amici con Giovanni Plana. (Italian)
[Letters from Giovanni Battista Amici to
Giovanni Plana] . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--323
Isaia Iannaccone Documents Relatifs \`a l'Histoire de
l'Astronomie Chinoise et aux Rapports
Scientifiques Entre l'Europe et la Chine
(XVIIe--XIXe Siécles) Conservés \`a la
Biblioth\`eque de l'Observatoire de
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--364
Giuse Scalva Un Medico Alla Corte di Carlo Emanuele
III: Vitaliano Donati e Il Suo Viaggio
in Levante (1759--1762) . . . . . . . . 365--397
Paola Govoni Biography: a Critical Tool To Bridge the
History of Science and the History of
Women in Science. Report on a Conference
at Newnham College, Cambridge, 10--12
September 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--409
Marco Beretta Panopticon Lavoisier: Base De Donnés et
Histoire Documentaire de la Révolution
Chimique. (French) [Panopticon
Lavoisier: Database and Documentary
History of the Chemical Revolution] . . 411--425
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Jean Starobinski,
\booktitleAction et Raction. Vie et
aventures d'un couple, Paris, Éditions du
Seuil, 1999, 458 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 427--430
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Pascal Duris, Gabriel
Gohau, \booktitleHistoire des Sciences
de la vie, Paris, Nathan, 1997, 416 pp. 430--432
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: E. W. Marsden,
\booktitleGreek and Roman Artillery.
Technical Treatises, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1990 (rist. ed. 1971),
277 pp., 14 tavv. ill . . . . . . . . . 432--435
Silke Ackermann Book Review: E. S. Kennedy, P.
Kunitzsch, and R. P. Lorch,
\booktitleThe Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in
Arabic Astronomy, Boethius --- Texte und
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der
Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften,
ed. by Menso Folkerts, vol. 43,
Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag: 1999,
235 pp. (ISBN 3-515-07561-5) . . . . . . 435--436
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Penelope Gouk,
\booktitleMusic, Science and Natural
Magic in Seventeenth-Century England,
New Haven and London, Yale University
Press, 1999, xii + 308 pp. ill, (ISBN
0-300-07383-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--438
Claudia Stancati Book Review: Francesca Bonicalzi,
\booktitleA tempo e luogo. l'infanzia e
l'inconscio in Descartes, Milano, Jaca
Book, 1998, 203 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 439--442
Valerio Del Nero Book Review: Alfonso Mirto,
\booktitleLucas Holstenius e la corte
medicea. Carteggio (1629--1660).
Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 1999, 327 pp. 442--444
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Robert Fox, August
Nieto-Galan (eds.), \booktitleNatural
Dyestuffs and Industrial Culturein
Europe, 1750--1880, Canton Mass.,
Science History Publications, 1999, xxix
+ 354 pp., ill. (ISBN 0-88135-273-X) . . 444--446
Massimiliano Panarari Book Review: Nicoletta Diasio,
\booktitleLa science impure.
Anthropologie et médecine en France,
Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Pays-Bas,
Paris, Presses Universitaires de France
(PUF), 1999, 286 pp. (ISBN
2-13-050092-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--449
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Fritz Stern,
\booktitleEinstein's German World,
Princeton, Princeton University Press,
1999, ix + 335 pp. (ISBN 0-691-05939-X) 449--452
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Werner Heisenberg,
\booktitleLo sfondo filosofico della
fisica moderna, a cura di, Giuseppe
Gembillo e Enrico Antonio Giannetto,
Palermo, Sellerio, 1999, 210 pp., L.
35.000 (ISBN 88-389-1450-8) (Nuovo
Prisma, Serie Filosofia della scienza,
19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--455
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Giovanni Jervis (a cura
di), \booktitleIl secolo della
psicoanalisi, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1999, 248 pp. . . . . . . . 455--458
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Donald K. Freedheim (a cura
di), \booktitleStoria della
Psicoterapia. un secolo di cambiamenti,
Roma, Edizioni Scientifiche Magi, 1998,
1122 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Ferdinando Abbri Metodologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Marco Ciardi Book Review: R. G. A. Dolby,
\booktitleUncertain Knowledge. An image
of science for a changing world,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996,365 pp. (ISBN 0-521-56004-7) . . . 463--463
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Pnina G. Abir-Am (sous la
direction de), \booktitleLa mise en
mémoire de la science. (French) [The
development of memory of science]. Pour
une ethnographie historique des rites
commoratifs, Amsterdam, éditions des
archives contemporaines, 1998, xiv + 321
pp. paper (ISBN 90-5709-007-4) . . . . . 464--465
Mara Miniati Book Review: Rafael Sisto Edreira,
\booktitleO patrimonio
histórico-scientífico do Instituto Xelmírez
I (Santiago de Compostela). Inventario e
catalogación. Unha ollada ós gabinetes de
ciencias do vello Instituto de Santiago.
(Galician) [The historical-scientific
Xelmírez I Institute (Santiago de
Compostela) inventory and cataloging: a
look at the cabinets of the old Science
Institute of Santiago]. A Coruña,
Deputación Provincial da Coruña, 1999, 191
pp., ill. (ISBN 84-89652-87-2) . . . . . 465--466
Mara Miniati Book Review: Aleksandar Kostic, Dejan
Todorovic, \booktitleSense, mind
measure. Collection of old scientific
instruments of the Laboratory for
Experimental Psychology, University of
Belgrade, Belgrade, Museum of Science
and Technology, 1997, 103 pp., ill.
(ISBN 86-82977-02-8) . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
Mara Miniati Book Review: Astronomia Alberto Rossi,
\booktitleGuido Horn d'Arturo: astronomo
e uomo di cultura, Bologna, Editrice
Clueb, 1994, 85 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Roy Porter,
\booktitleDisease, medicine and society
in England, 1550--1860, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1999, 78 pp.
(I ed. Cambridge 1995) . . . . . . . . . 469--469
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Esther Diana (a cura di),
\booktitleDa ospizio a nosocomio. Storia
della solidariet valdarnese, Firenze,
2000, 181 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--470
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Roger Perron,
\booktitleStoria della psicoanalisi,
Roma, Armando Editore, 1997, 112 pp. . . 470--472
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Jolande Jacobi,
\booktitleLa psicologia di C. G. Jung,
Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1997, 238
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: James H. Capshew,
\booktitlePsychologists on the March.
Science, Practice, and professional
Identity in America, 1929--1969,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1999, xii + 276 pp., paperback, \pounds
14.95 (ISBN 0-521-56585-5) . . . . . . . 472--474
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Paul T. Nicholson and Ian
Shaw (edited by), \booktitleAncient
Egyptian materials and technology,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2000, 702 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--475
Mara Miniati Book Review: Maria Gioia Tavoni,
\booktitleUn intellettuale europeo e il
suo universo. Vincenzo Coronelli
(1650--1718). (Italian) [A European
intellectual and his universe. Vincenzo
Coronelli (1650--1718)]. Bologna, Costa
Editore, 1999, 266 pp., ill . . . . . . 475--476
Mara Miniati Book Review: Marco Bresadola, Giuliano
Pancaldi (eds.), \booktitleLuigi Galvani
international workshop Proceedings.
Bologna, 9 October 1998. Bologna,
Universit\`a di Bologna Dipartimento di
Filosofia Centro Internazionale per la
Storia delle Universita e della Scienza,
1999, 215 pp., ill. (ISBN 88-900162-1-3) 477--477
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Jack Morrell,
\booktitleScience, Culture and Politics
in Britain, 1750--1870, Aldershot,
Variorum, 1997, 350 pp. (ISBN
0-86078-633-1), \pounds 52.50 . . . . . 477--478
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Frank A. J. L. James (ed.),
\booktitleThe Correspondence of Michael
Faraday. Volume 4, January 1849--October
1855, Letters 2146--3032, London, the
Institution of Electrical Engineers,
1999, 1003 pp., 12 ill., s.i.p. (ISBN
0-86341-251-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--487
Claude V. Palisca Vincenzo Galilei, Scienziato
Sperimentale, Mentore del Figlio Galileo
(Italian) [Vincenzo Galilei,
Experimental Scientist, Mentor of his
son Galileo] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--514
Tullio Regge Galileo e Il Principio di Relativit . . 515--518
Federica Sargolini La Critica di Vincenzo Galilei al
Misticismo Numerico di Gioseffo Zarlino
(Italian) [The Critique of Vincenzo
Galilei to the Numerical Mysticism of
Gioseffo Zarlino] . . . . . . . . . . . 519--550
Sven Dupre Mathematical Instruments and the Theory
of the Concave Spherical Mirror:
Galileo's Optics Beyond Art and Science 551--588
Thomas Cerbu and
Michel-Pierre Lerner La Disgrace de Galilée dans les
\booktitleAlpes Urbanae: Sur la Fabrique
du Texte de Leone Allacci. (French) [The
disgrace of Galileo in the Urbanae Alps:
On the Manufacture of Text of Leone
Allacci] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--610
Filippo Camerota Architecture and Science in Baroque
Rome. The Mathematical Ornaments of
Villa Pamphilj . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--638
David Knight Genesis Geology: a Very English
Compromise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--664
Stefania Zanieri Un Gioco Ottico di Ludovico Buti al
Museo di Storia della Scienza di
Firenze. (Italian) [An optical game of
Ludovico Buti in the Museum of History
of Science in Florence] . . . . . . . . 665--670
Ileana Chinnici 19th Century Spectroscopic Instruments
in Italian Astronomical Observatories 671--679
Luciano Carbone and
Romano Gatto and
Franco Palladino Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 681--719
Fulvia De Finetti Alcune Lettere Giovanili di B. De
Finetti alla Madre. (Italian) [Some
Letters of Youth: B. De Finetti to his
Mother] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--740
Marco Ciardi Concorsi e Premi All'Accademia Delle
Scienze di Torino: Programmi di Ricerca
e Strategie di Politica Scientifica . . 741--749
Cornelius Borck Book Review: Christopher Lawrence,
Steven Shapin (eds.), \booktitleSciences
Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of
Natural Knowledge, vii + 342 pp.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--754
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Richard Gotshalk,
\booktitleDivination, Order and the
Zhouyi, University Press of America,
1999, x + 418 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 754--757
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Shen Kangshen, John N.
Crossley, Anthony W.-C. Lun,
\booktitleThe Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art. Companion and
Commentary, Oxford University Press,
Science Presse Beijing, 1999, ix + 596
pp., \pounds 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--759
Carlo Triarico Book Review: John L. Heilbron,
\booktitleThe Sun in the Church:
Cathedrals as solar observatories,
Cambridge, MA --- London, Harvard
University Press, 1999, 366 pp. . . . . 760--765
Agnese Visconti Book Review: José María López Piñero, María
Luz López Terrada, \booktitleLa
influencia española en la introducción en
Europa de las plantas americanas
(1493--1623), Valencia, Instituto de
estudios documentales e historicos sobre
la ciencia, Universitad de Valencia ----
C.S.I.C., 1997, 214 pp. . . . . . . . . 766--768
Mara Miniati Book Review: Silvio A. Bedini,
\booktitlePatrons, Artisans and
Instruments of Science, 1600--1750,
Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Limited,
1999, xvi + 336 pp., ill. (ISBN
0-86078-781-8), Variorum Collected
Studies Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--770
Clara Silvia Roero Book Review: Antoni Malet,
\booktitleFrom Indivisibles to
Infinitesimals. Studies on
Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of
Infinitely Small Quantities, Universitat
de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
Bellaterra, 1996, 163 pp. . . . . . . . 770--772
Anna Toscano Book Review: Dino Carpanetto,
\booktitleScienza e arte del guarire.
Cultura, formazione universitaria e
professioni mediche a Torino tra Sei e
Settecento, Cuneo 1998, 318 pp., L.
40.000 (Deputazione Subalpina di Storia
Patria. Miscellanea di Storia Italiana.
Serie V. Studi e fonti per la storia
dell'Universit\`a di Torino, VIII) . . . 772--775
Andrs Galera Book Review: José María López Piñero, Victor
Navarro, Mara Luz López Terrada, José Ramón
Bertomeu, Antonio García Belmar, Felipe
Jerez Moliner, \booktitleLa actividad
científica valenciana de la Ilustracin,
Valencia, Diputacio de Valencia, 1998, 2
vols., 254 pp. + 320 pp. . . . . . . . . 775--776
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Lisbet Koerner,
\booktitleLinnaeus: Nature and Nation,
Cambridge Mass. and London, Harvard
University Press, 1999, 298 pp. (ISBN
0-674-09745-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--778
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Martin J. S. Rudwick,
\booktitleGeorges Cuvier, Fossil Bones,
and Geological Catastrophes. New
Translations Interpretations of the
Primary Texts, Chicago and London, The
University of Chicago Press, 1997, xvi +
301 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--781
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Valeria Babini, Luisa Lama,
\booktitleUna donna nuova. Il femminismo
scientifico di Maria Montessori, Milano,
Angeli, 2000, 320 pp. . . . . . . . . . 781--784
Jeremy Butterfield Book Review: Helge Kragh,
\booktitleQuantum Generations: a History
of Physics in the Twentieth Century,
Princeton University Press, 1999, xiv +
494 pp. Price: \$29.95 \pounds 18.95.
(ISBN 0-691-01206-7)} . . . . . . . . . 784--787
Jacek Cachro Book Review: W. Michael Dickson,
\booktitleQuantum Chance and
Non-Locality: Probability and
Non-Locality in the Interpretations of
Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1998, xix + 244 pp.
(ISBN 0-521-58127-3), \pounds 40 . . . . 787--791
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Mario Dal Pra (diretta da),
\booktitleStoria della Filosofia, Volume
11: La filosofia contemporanea: la
seconda met del Novecento (2 tomi), II
Edizione interamente riscritta e
ampliata a cura di Gianni Paganini,
Padova, Piccin Nuova Libraria, 1998,
1762 pp., (ISBN 88-299-1487-8), L.
220.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--794
Marco Segala Book Review: Denis Guedj, \booktitleIl
teorema del pappagallo, Milano,
Longanesi C., 2000, 562 pp., (ISBN
88-304-1758-0), Lit. 32.000 . . . . . . 795--796
Mara Miniati Museologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--797
Mara Miniati Book Review: Marinella Calisi,
\booktitleStoria e strumenti del Museo
Astronomico e Copernicano di Roma. Guida
alle collezioni, Roma, Osservatorio
Astronomico di Roma, 2000, 167 pp., ill 798--798
Mara Miniati Book Review: Wilma di Palma,
\booktitleLamberto Lamberti, Le regole
del regolo. Guida alla collezione
capitolina di regoli calcolatori,
Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2000, 135
pp., ill. (ISBN 88-339-5640-7) . . . . . 798--799
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fausto Casi,
\booktitleFrancesco Redi e gli strumenti
scientifici del suo tempo, Arezzo,
Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arti e
Scienze, 1999, 231--284; 391--407 pp.,
ill. (estr. da Francesco Redi Aretino) 799--800
Mara Miniati Book Review: Pino Calledda, Edoardo
Proverbio (a cura di), \booktitleStoria
del Servizio Internazionale delle
Latitudini e delle imprese di
Cooperazione internazionale (1850--1950)
Astronomia e Archeoastronomia. Atti del
Convegno di Storia della'astronomia
Cagliari 24--25 settembre 1999,
Cagliari, Cooperativa Universitaria
Editrice Cagliaritana C.U.E.C., 2000,
373 pp. (ISBN 88-87088-88-8) . . . . . . 800--802
Mara Miniati Book Review: Víctor Navarro Brotóns,
Vicente L. Salavert Fabiani, Victoria
Rosselló Botey, Víctor Darás Román,
\booktitleBibliographia
physico-mathematica hispanica
(1474--1900). Volumen I Libros y
folletos, 1475--1600, Valencia,
Instituto di Historia de la ciencia y
Documentación López Piñero, Universitat de
Valencia-C.S.I.C., 1999, 374 pp. (ISBN
84-370-4219-4) (Cuadernos Valencianos de
Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia
LVI --- Serie C) . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--802
Mara Miniati Book Review: Francesca Vannozzi (a cura
di), \booktitleSiena la citt\`a
laboratorio. Dall'innesto del vajuolo ad
Albert Sabin, Siena, Protagon Editori
Toscani-Santa Maria della Scala, 1999,
108 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--804
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Giovanni Pietro Lombardo,
Renato Foschi (a cura di), \booktitleLa
psicologia italiana e il Novecento. Le
prospettive emergenti nella prima met
del secolo, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1997,
337 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--805
Mara Miniati Book Review: Ferdinando Abbri e Marco
Segala (a cura di), \booktitleSegni e
percorsi della modernit. Saggi in onore
di Paolo Rossi. Con la bibliografia di
Paolo Rossi, Arezzo, Universit\`a degli
Studi di Siena-Dipartimento di Studi
Storico-Sociali e Filosofici, 2000, 229
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--806
Mara Miniati Book Review: Patrice Bret (d.),
\booktitleL'expédition d'Egypte, une
entreprise des Lumi\`eres, 1798--1801.
Actes du colloque international organisé
par l'Académie des inscriptions et
belles-lettres et l'Académie des
sciences, sous les auspices de
l'Institut de France et du Muséum
national d'histoire naturelle, 8--10
juin, 1998, Paris, Éditions Tec Doc,
1999, 436 pp., ill. (ISBN 2-7430-0319-7) 806--807
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Asa Bergenheim, Lena
Lennerhed (red.), \booktitleSeklernas
sex. Bidrag till sexualitetens historia,
Stockholm, Carlssons, 1997, 264 pp.
(ISBN 91-7203-256-1) . . . . . . . . . . 807--808
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Barbara Maria Stafford,
\booktitleVisual Analogy. Consciousness
as the Art of Connecting, Cambridge
Mass. --- London, The MIT Press, 1999,
viii + 219 pp., ill. (ISBN
0-262-19421-X) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808--809
Anonymous The IMSS Bookshelf . . . . . . . . . . . 811--817
Anonymous Indici (Anno XV, 2000) . . . . . . . . . 821--886
Natacha Fabbri Kepler: Il Cosmo Armonico e la Musica.
(Italian) [Kepler: cosmic harmony and
music] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--48
Giancarlo Nonnoi La Scienza e la Filosofia Galileiane nel
\booktitleNew World di John Wilkins.
(Italian) [Science and Galilean
Philosophy in the \booktitleNew World by
John Wilkins] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--84
Luca Zucchi Linneo e Parkinson: Il Botanico e Le
Scimmie nel Giardino Dell'Eden . . . . . 85--152
Liana Elda Funaro $ \ll $Il Criterio e la Mano$ \gg $.
Viaggi e Donativi Sovrani All'Imperiale
e Regio Museo Fiorentino . . . . . . . . 153--189
George N. Vlahakis Against French Science: Alessandro Volta
and Luigi Brugnatelli in Early
Nineteenth-Century Greece . . . . . . . 191--210
Roberta Passione Mente e Lavoro. Le Prime Ricerche in
Italia Fra Laboratorio e Officina . . . 211--235
Alberto Meschiari Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani le Carte del $
\ll $Fondo Giovanni Battista Amici$ \gg
$ e della $ \ll $Raccolta Amici Grossi$
\gg $ nella Biblioteca Estense di Modena 237--300
Elisabetta Ulivi Istituzioni e Fonti Mariano Del M$^\circ
$ Michele, un Maestro d'Abaco Del XV
Secolo. (German) [Institutions and
Sources for Mariano Del M$^\circ $
Michele, a master of the abacus in the
15th Century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--346
Claudio Pogliano Statements on Race dell'UNESCO: Cronaca
di un Lungo Travaglio (1949--1953).
(Italian) [UNESCO Statements on Race:
Chronicle of a Long Labor (1949--1953)] 347--399
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Thomas S. Kuhn,
\booktitleDogma contro critica. Mondi
possibili nella storia della scienza,
con due lettere di Paul K. Feyerabend, a
cura di Stefano Gattei ($ \ll $Scienze e
Idee$ \gg $, 61), Milano, Cortina
Editore, 2000, 400 pp., L. 59.000 (ISBN
88-7078-619-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--405
Michele Vista Book Review: Philip Ball,
\booktitleH$_2$O --- Una biografia
dell'acqua, Milano, Rizzoli Editore
2000, 432 pp., L. 38.000 . . . . . . . . 405--407
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: T. Brook, G. Blue (eds.),
\booktitleChina and Historical
Capitalism. Genealogies of Sinological
Knowledge, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1999, 291 pp. + xi
(ISBN 0-521-64029-6) . . . . . . . . . . 407--409
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Sabrina Grimaudo,
\booktitleMisurare e pesare nella Grecia
antica. Teoria, storia, ideologie,
Palermo, l'epos, 1998, 206 pp. . . . . . 409--411
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Giovanni Lupato,
\booktitleSn1054: una supernova sul
Medioevo, Padova, Biroma editore, 1997,
208 pp. ill., L. 35.000 (ISBN
88-86739-12-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Yung Sik Kim, \booktitleThe
Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi.
1130--1200, Philadelphia, Memoirs of the
American Philosophical Society, 2000,
380 pp. + ill. (ISBN 0-87169-235-X) . . 415--417
Dario Tessicini Book Review: Helisaeus Röslin,
\booktitleDe opere Dei creationis,
ristampa anastatica dell'edizione
Francoforte 1597, a cura di Miguel Angel
Granada, $ \ll $Aurifodina philosophica$
\gg $, Conte Editore, Lecce 2000, xv +
55 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--420
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: W. R. Laird (ed.),
\booktitleThe Unfinished Mechanics of
Giuseppe Moletti. An Edition and English
Translation of his `\booktitleDialogue
on Mechanics', 1576, University of
Toronto Press, Toronto-Buffalo-London,
2000, 222 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--424
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Michele Camerota e Mario
Otto Helbing, \booktitleAll'alba della
scienza galileiana. Michel Varro e il
suo `\booktitleDe motu tractatus'. Un
importante capitolo nella storia della
meccanica di fine Cinquecento, Cagliari,
Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice
Cagliaritana, 2000, 367 pp. . . . . . . 424--427
Claudio Tugnoli Book Review: Galileo Galilei,
\booktitleLettera a Cristina di Lorena
sull'uso della Bibbia nelle
argomentazioni scientifiche, a cura di
Franco Motta e con introduzione di Mauro
Pesce, Marietti 1820, Genova, 2000, 173
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--431
Giovanni Aquilecchia Book Review: Chrysa Damianaki,
\booktitleGalileo e le arti figurative.
I ritratti e i busti di Galileo.
Scoperte astronomiche e pittura barocca.
La concezione estetica di Galileo.
Presentazione di Bruno Basile, Manziana,
Roma, Vecchiarelli Editore, 2000, 103
pp. + 46 (51) tavv . . . . . . . . . . . 431--432
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Hunter,
\booktitleRobert Boyle (1627--91).
Scrupulosity and Science, Woodbridge,
the Boydell Press, 2000, x + 293 pp.
(ISBN 0-85115-798-X) . . . . . . . . . . 432--434
Roberto Bond\`\i Book Review: Francesco Paolo De Ceglia,
\booktitleIntroduzione alla fisiologia
di Georg Ernst Stahl, Lecce, Pensa
Multimedia, 2000, 236 pp., L. 28.000
(ISBN 88-8232-044-8) . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michel Bougard,
\booktitleLa Chimie de Nicolas Lemery,
Turnhout, Brepols, 1999, 524 pp. $ \ll
$De Diversibus Artibus. Collection de
Travaux de l'Académie Internationale
d'Histoire des sciences$ \gg $, t. 40
N.S. 3 (ISBN 2-503-50739-5) . . . . . . 436--438
Paola Vasconi Book Review: Maria Jesus Vazquez
Lobeiras, \booktitleDie Logik und ihr
Spiegelbild, (German) [Logic and its
Mirror Image]. Frankfurt a.M., Berlin,
Peter Lang Verlag, 1998 . . . . . . . . 438--440
Carlo Triarico Book Review: \booktitleStrumentaria
Silvia De Renzi, Instruments in Print.
Books from the Whipple Collection,
Cambridge, Whipple Museum of the History
of Science, 2000, x + 108 pp. . . . . . 441--442
Mara Miniati Book Review: Antonio Campigotto,
Alessandra Parisini, Patrizia Tamassia,
\booktitleMacchine orarie. Orologi da
torre e orologiai in Emilia Romagna,
Bologna, Istituto per i beni artistici,
culturali e naturali della Regione
Emilia-Romagna-Grafis, 2000, 267 pp.,
ill. (Ibc Dossier 38) . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Mara Miniati Book Review: Nicoletta Nicolini,
Gigliola Terenna, \booktitleLa
collezione di vetreria scientifica,
Siena, Nuova immagine editrice, 1999,
192 pp. (ISBN 88-7145-160-0) (Materiali
3 --- Patrimonio storico-scientifico
dell'Universit\`a degli Studi di Siena).
Renato Frezzotti, Gigliola Terenna,
Francesca Vannozzi, \booktitleLa
collezione degli strumenti di
oculistica, Siena, Nuova immagine
editrice, 2000, 157 pp. ill. (ISBN
88-7145-167-8) (Materiali 4 ---
Patrimonio storico-scientifico
dell'Universit\`a degli Studi di Siena) 443--445
Mara Miniati Book Review: Museologia Sylvie Coyaud,
Matteo Merzagora, \booktitleGuida ai
musei della scienza e della tecnica.
Torino, ClupGuide, 2000, 285 pp., L.
36.000 (Euro 18,59) (ISBN 88-8344-008-0) 445--446
Mara Miniati Book Review: Augusto Vigna Taglianti,
Giorgio Di Maio, Adriana Vassallo
\booktitlePaleologo, Suoni natura e
cultura, Roma, Universit\`a degli Studi
$ \ll $La Sapienza$ \gg $, 2000, 111
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Astronomia B. Stephenson,
M. Bolt, A. F. Friedman, \booktitleThe
universe unveiled. Instruments and
Images through History, Cambridge,
Cambridge Univ. Press 2000, 152 pp.,
(ISBN 0-521-79143-X) . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Mara Miniati Book Review: Giovanni Paltrinieri,
\booktitleCalendario-lunario. La misura
del tempo dalla preistoria a oggi,
Bologna, Calderoni ed agricole, 2000,
329 pp., ill. (ISBN 88-8219-375-6) . . . 449--450
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Medicina S. Franco,
\booktitleLa politica sanitaria durante
il decennio francese nel Regno di
Napolip, Marina di Minturno (Lt), A.
Caramanica Ed., 2000, 197 pp., L. 30.000 450--451
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Psicologia A. Lis, S.
Stella, G. C. Zavattini,
\booktitleManuale di psicologia
dinamica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999, 536
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Marco Ciardi Book Review: \booktitleVoltiana
Alessandro Volta, on the Electricity
excited by the mere Contact of
conducting Substances of different
kinds. Bicentenary Edition in French,
English, German and Italian of the
Letter to Sir Joseph Banks of the 20th
of March 2000, Milano, Hoepli, 1999, 102
pp., L. 10.000 (ISBN 88-203-2762-7).
Fabio Bevilacqua, Lucio Fregonese,
\booktitleNuova Voltiana. Studies on
Volta and his Times, Milano, Hoepli,
2000--2001, 3 voll., 1$^\circ $ vol.,
157 pp., L. 30.000 (ISBN 88-203-2789-9);
2$^\circ $ voi., 113 pp., L. 30.000
(ISBN 88-203-2790-2); 3$^\circ $ voi.,
151 pp. (ISBN 88-203-2791-0). Gianni
Bonera, Piersandro Vanzan,
\booktitleAlessandro Volta: l'uomo, lo
scienziato, il credente, Pavia, Edizioni
CdG, 1999, 152 pp., L. 10.000. Carlo
Linati, Cupido fra gli alambicchi,
Novara, Interlinea Edizioni, 2000, 124
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Marco Ciardi and
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Scienza e Letteratura.
Paolo Mazzarello, \booktitleIl genio e
l'alienista. La visita di Lombroso a
Tolstoj, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1998, 94
pp., L. 25.000 (ISBN 88-7088-301-9) . . 456--457
Anonymous Secoli XVI--XXI . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roberto Torzini,
\booktitleI labirinti del libero
arbitrio. La discussione tra Erasmo e
Lutero, Firenze, Olschki, 2000, xix +
267 pp. ($ \ll $Pansophia$ \gg $, 4) . . 458--459
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: William R. Shea (ed.),
\booktitleScience and the Visual Image
in the Enlightenment, Canton MA, Science
History Publications/USA, 2000, viii +
232 pp., ill. ($ \ll $European Studies
in Science History and the Arts$ \gg $,
4) [ISBN] 0-88135-285-3 . . . . . . . . 459--461
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Brigitte Hoppe (ed.),
\booktitleBiology Integrating Scientific
Fundamental. Contributions to the
History of Interrelations between
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics from the
18th to the 20th Centuries, München,
Institut für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften, 1997, 434 pp. (ISBN
3-89241-022-4) ($ \ll $Algorismus$ \gg
$, 21). Bernhard Fritscher, Fergus
Henderson (eds.), \booktitleToward a
History of Mineralogy, Petrology, and
Geochemistry. Proceedings of the
International Symposium on the History
of Mineralogy, Petrology, and
Geochemistry, Munich, March 8--9, 1996,
München, Institut für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften, 1998, 424 pp. (ISBN
3-89241-024-0). ($ \ll $Algorismus$ \gg
$, 23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463
Anonymous Book Review: The IMSS Bookshelf 36.
Germana Pareti, \booktitleIl Cancro
dell'Imperatore Dalla Teoria cellulare
alle ipotesi oncogenetiche 2000, 220
pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous Book Review: 37. Filippo Camerota,
\booktitleIl Compasso di Fabrizio
Mordente Per la storia del Compasso di
proporzione 2000, 300 pp. con 21 taw.
f.t e 134 figg. n.t. Olschki, Firenze 466--467
Anonymous Book Review: 38. Antonio Borrelli,
\booktitleIstituzioni scientifiche
Medicina e Societ\`a Biografia di
Domenico Cotugno (1736--1822) 2000, xii
+ 272 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . 467--468
Anonymous Book Review: 39. Jean--François Stoffel
\booktitleBibliographie d'Alexandre Koyré
2000, xiv + 196 pp., Olschki, Firenze 468--468
Anonymous Book Review: 40. \booktitleIl ruolo
sociale della scienza (1789--1830) a
cura di Ferdinando Abbri e Marco Segala
2000, vi + 178 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . 469--469
Anonymous Book Review: 41. Ottavio Besomi e
Michele Camerota, \booktitleGalileo e il
parnaso Tychonico un capitolo inedito
del dibattito sulle comete tra finzione
letteraria e trattazione scientifica,
2000, vi + 276 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . 469--470
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFondazione
Scienza e Tecnica Gli strumenti di
fisica dell'Istituto Toscano
Elettricit\`a e magnetismo, (Italian)
[Science and Technology Foundation: The
tools of the Toscano Institute of
Physics: Electricity and Magnetism], a
cura di Paolo Brenni 2000, 319 pp. Le
Lettere, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Book Review: Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza, \booktitleFlorence
Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence The
Restoration of Scientific Instruments.
Proceedings of the workshop held in
Florence December 14--15, 1998, 2000,
113 pp., Le Lettere, Firenze . . . . . . 471--471
Jürgen Renn and
Matteo Valleriani Letture Galileiane . . . . . . . . . . . 481--503
Piergiorgio Odifreddi Galileo: Infinitesimale, Eppur Infinito 505--510
Paolo D'Alessandro and
Pier Daniele Napolitani I Primi Contatti Fra Maurolico e Clavio:
Una Nuova Edizione della Lettera di
Francesco Maurolico a Francisco Borgia 511--522
Mario Otto Helbing Una Prima Illustrazione a Stampa Del
Termometro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--529
Alberto Lualdi La Famiglia Selva, Ottici Del '700
Veneziano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--546
Carlo Triarico About Newly Discovered Pieces by
Boscovich on Optics and on the Finding
of a Vitrometrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--569
Ileana Chinnici and
Wiktor Gramatowski Le Carte di Angelo Secchi S.J.
(1818--1878) Conservate Presso la
Pontificia Universit\`a Gregoriana. Un
Inventario Inedito Rivisitato. (Italian)
[The maps of Angelo Secchi S.J.
(1818--1878) preserved at the Pontifical
Gregorian University. An unpublished
inventory Revisited] . . . . . . . . . . 571--627
Francesco Beretta Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 629--641
Luigi Guerrini Nel Dedalo Del Cielo. Gassendi e Le
Macchie Solari in un Inedito Del 1633.
(Italian) [From Daedalus of the Heavens.
Gassendi and the sunspot in an
unpublished work of 1633] . . . . . . . 643--672
Anonymous Scientific Instrument Commission . . . . 673--673
Anthony Turner The Archives of Scholars, Collectors,
and Dealers: Their Place in the Study of
the History of Scientific Instruments 675--679
Mara Miniati About the Florentine Strozzi Manuscripts 681--686
William J. H. Andrewes The Legacy of David Wheatland . . . . . 687--701
Willem F. J. Mrzer Bruyns Alain Brieux, Dealer and Scholar in
Paris: His Archive on Scientific
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--709
Silke Ackermann Dormant Treasures: the Zinner-Archive at
Frankfurt University . . . . . . . . . . 711--722
Peter De Clercq The Papers of the Instrument Dealer,
Collector and Researcher Thomas Henry
Court (1868--1951) . . . . . . . . . . . 723--731
Koenraad Van Cleempoel Henri Michel, a Gentleman--Scholar . . . 733--738
Bruce Stephenson The Derek Price Archive at the Adler
Planetarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--746
A. J. Turner The Archives of Derek Price in the
Médiath\`eque Spécialis en Histoire des
Sciences, Cité des Sciences et de
l'Industrie at La Villette in Paris . . 747--761
Inge Keill The Papers of Maximilian Bobinger . . . 763--765
Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim and
Alexandre Magno Da Costa and
Lucia Alves Lino Nova Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--779
Franco Palladino and
Nicla Palladino Sulle Raccolte Museali Italiane di
Modelli Per Le Matematiche Superiori . . 781--790
Annarita Angelini Magia e Modernit. l'Edizione Delle Opere
Magiche di Giordano Bruno . . . . . . . 791--798
Marco Beretta Reconstructing Science: Contributions To
the Enhancement of European Scientific
Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--816
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Arne Hessenbruch (ed.),
\booktitleReader's Guide to the History
of Science, London/Chicago, Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, 2000, xxx + 934
pp., ISBN 1-884964-29-X . . . . . . . . 817--819
Mara Miniati Book Review: Peter De Clercq (ed.),
\booktitleScientific instruments:
originals and imitations. The Mensing
connection. Proceedings of a symposium,
held at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden,
15--16 October 1999, Leiden, Museum
Boerhaave, 2000, 141 pp., ill., ISBN
90-6292-129-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--821
Andreas Kleinert Book Review: Christoph Meinel (Ed.):
\booktitleInstrument --- Experiment.
Historische Studien. Im Auftragdes
Vorstandes der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Geschichte der Medizin,
Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Berlin,
Diepholz: Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
2000, Eur 34,00, ISBN 3-928186-51-5 . . 822--823
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Kiyosi Yabuuti,
\booktitleUne histoire des mathématiques
chinoises (tradotto dal giapponese da
Kaoru Baba e Catherine Jami), Parigi,
Benin, 2000, 191 pp. + ill. (ISBN
2-7011-2404-2), (Pour la Science) . . . 823--825
Raffaella Seligardi Book Review: Jürgen Heinrich Maar,
\booktitlePequeña história da química.
Primeira parte --- Dos primórdios a
Lavoisier / una história da ciéncia da
matéria, (Spanish) [A little history of
chemistry. First part. Two first to
Lavoisier]. Florianopolis: Papa-Livro,
1999, 848 pp., ISBN 85-7291-049-2 . . . 825--827
Francesca Bellino Book Review: Roshdi Rashed,
\booktitleLes mathématiques
infinitésimales du IXe au XIe siécle
(al-Riyyt al-tallyah bayna al-qarn
al-thlith wa-al-qarn al-khmis). Vol.
III: Ibn al-Haytham. Théorie des
coniques, construction géométriques et
géométrie pratique, Al-Furqn, London
1421/2000, XVIII, 1034 pp. . . . . . . . 827--831
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Tore Frngsmyr,
\booktitleSvensk idhistoria. Bildning
och vetenskap under tusen r. Del 1
1000--1809. Del 2 1809--2000, Stockholm,
Natur och Kultur, 2000, 2 voll., 448 +
422 pp., ill., ISBN 91-27-07793-4.
91-27-08105-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--833
Anna Toscano Book Review: Sciences et Religions.
\booktitleDe Copernic \`a Galile, Actes
du colloque international Rome 12--14
décembre 1996, École française de Rome,
1999 (Collection de l'école française de
Rome n. 260), pp. 550, ISBN
2-7283-0545-5, ISSN 0223-5099 . . . . . 833--836
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleTommaso
Campanella, Opere, a cura di Germana
Ernst. Introduzione di Nicola Badaloni,
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello
Stato, Roma 1999, pp. lv + 1027 (Cento
Libri per Mille anni. Collana diretta da
Walter Pedull) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--839
Roberto Bond Book Review: Guido Giglioni,
\booktitleImmaginazione e malattia:
saggio su Jan Baptiste van Helmont,
Milano, Franco Angeli, 2000, 187 pp., L.
32.000 (ISBN 88-464-2286-4) . . . . . . 839--843
Giuseppe Olmi Book Review: Arthur Macgregor et
alii,\booktitle Manuscript Catalogues of
the Early Museum Collections 1683--1886
(Part I), Oxford, Archaeopress in
association with the Ashmolean Museum,
2000, pp. 451, \pounds 50.00, ISBN
1-84171-206-X (Bar International Series,
907) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--844
Anna Toscano Book Review: Albrecht Von Haller,
\booktitleCommentarius de formatione
cordis in ovo incubato, edizione critica
a cura di Maria Teresa Monti, Schwabe
Co. Ag Verlag, Basel 2000 (Studia
Halleriana VI), pp. 677 + CD-ROM, ISBN
3-7965-1324-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--847
Michele Nani Book Review: Sandra Puccini,
\booktitleAndare lontano. Viaggi ed
etnografia nel secondo Ottocento, Roma,
Carocci, 1999 (Ricerche/Antropologia,
63), pp. 297, ISBN 88-430-1448-X, L.
37.000 [22,21 Euro] . . . . . . . . . . 847--849
Giorgio Jules Mastrobisi Book Review: Max Jammer,
\booktitleEinstein and Religion: Physics
and Theology, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1999, pp. 279 (ISBN
0-691-00699-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--854
Raffaella Seligardi Book Review: Andreas Karachalios,
\booktitleI chimici di fronte al
fascismo. Il caso di Giovanni Battista
Bonino (1899--1985), Palermo, Istituto
Gramsci Siciliano, 2001, 219 pp. . . . . 854--855
Mara Miniati Museologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--858
Mara Miniati Strumentaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858--859
Mara Miniati Astronomia e Fisica . . . . . . . . . . 859--860
Mara Miniati Book Review: Graziella Buccellati (a
cura di), \booktitleI cieli di Brera.
Astronomia da Tolomeo a Balla, Milano,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano,
2000, 207 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 860--861
Mara Miniati Book Review: Fabrizio Bonoli, Daniela
Piliarvu, \booktitleI lettori di
Astronomia presso lo Studio di Bologna
dal XII al XX secolo, Bologna, Clueb,
2001, 282 pp., ill., ISBN 88-491-1651-9
(Musei e archivi dello studio bolognese,
7). Pierluigi Battistini, Fabrizio
Bonoli, Alessandro Braccesi, Dino
Buzzetti (eds.), \booktitleSeventh
centenary of the teaching of Astronomy
in Bologna 1297--1997, Bologna, Clueb,
2001, 212 pp., ill., ISBN 88-491-1650-0
(Musei e archivi dello studio bolognese,
8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--863
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: A. Romano, \booktitleLa
contre-réforme mathématique. Constitution
et diffusion d'une culture mathématique
jésuite la Renaissance, Bibliothéque des
écoles françaises d'Ath\`enes et de Rome
(fascicule trois cent sixiéme). Roma,
École française de Rome, 1999 (pp. xi +
691 + 21 tavole fuori testo). . . . . . 863--864
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Luciano Boi, Livia
Giacardi, Rossana Tazzioli, \booktitleLa
découverte de la géomtrie non euclidienne
sur la pseudosph\`ere. Les lettres
d'Eugenio Beltrami \`a Jules Hoel
(1868--1881), (French) [The discovery of
non-Euclidean geometry on the
pseudosphere. The letters of Eugenio
Beltrami to Jules Hoel (1868--1881)].
Paris, Éditions Albert Blanchard, 1998,
278 pp., 480 F, ISBN 2-85367-208-5
(Collection Sciences dans l'Histoire) 865--865
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Giovanni Battimelli,
Giovanni Paoloni (eds.), \booktitle20th
Century Physics: Essays and
Recollections. A Selection of Historical
Writings by Edoardo Amaldi,
Singapore-New Jersey-London-Hong Kong,
World Scientific Publishing, 1998, 747
pp., ill., ISBN 981-02-2369-2 (Edoardo
Amaldi Foundations series, 3) . . . . . 865--866
Mara Miniati Book Review: Pasquale Tucci (a cura di),
\booktitleAtti del XIX Congresso
Nazionale di storia della fisica e
dell'astronomia, centro Volta, Villa
Olmo, Como 28--29 maggio 1999, Milano,
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano,
Istituto di Fisica generale applicata,
Sez. di storia della fisica, 2000, 312
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--867
Mara Miniati Meteorologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--868
Ferdinando Abbri Medicina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868--869
Donatella Lippi Book Review: T. Manzoni, \booktitleIl
cervello secondo Galeno, Ancona, Il
lavoro editoriale, 2001, pp. 138, L.
30.000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--871
Mara Miniati Book Review: Roberta Mucciarelli, Laura
Vigni, Donatella Fabbri,
\booktitleVergognosa immunditia. Igiene
pubblica e privata a Siena dal medioevo
all'et contemporanea, Siena,
sienambente, 2000, 223 pp., ill., ISBN
88-7145-169-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--872
Donatella Lippi Book Review: M. Rotzoll,
\booktitlePierleone da Spoleto. Vita e
opere di un medico del Rinascimento,
Firenze, Olschki, 2000, p. 126, ISBN
88-222-4842-2, L. 26.000 . . . . . . . . 872--873
Marco Ciardi Chimica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--874
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Liliana Albertazzi, Guido
Cimino, Simonetta Gori-Savellini,
\booktitleFrancesco De Sarlo e il
laboratorio fiorentino di psicologia,
Bari, Edizioni Giuseppe Laterza di
Giuseppe Laterza, 1999, 467 pp., L.
70.000, ISBN 88-8231-075-2 (Universit\`a
degli Studi di Bari. Collana del
Seminario di Storia della Scienza, 5) 874--875
Mara Miniati Book Review: Raffaella Simili (a cura
di), \booktitleIl teatro della natura di
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bologna, Editrice
Compositori, 2001, 143 pp., ill., ISBN
88-7794-272-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--876
Mara Miniati Book Review: Enrica Stendardo,
\booktitleFerrante Imperato:
collezionismo e studio della natura a
Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento, Napoli,
Accademia Pontaniana, 2001, 155 pp.,
ill. (Quaderni dell'accademia pontaniana
31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876--877
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Daniel Stolzenberg (ed.),
\booktitleThe Great Art of Knowing. The
Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius
Kircher, Stanford, Stanford University
Libraries, Fiesole Fi, Edizioni Cadmo,
2001, pp. 160. ISBN 0-911221-23-9 . . . 877--879
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Natalie Kunkel,
\booktitleWissenschaftsaustausch
zwischen Russland und Westeuropa,
insbesondere Deutschland, in der Botanik
und Pharmazie vom 18. bis zum frühen 20.
Jahrhundert, (German) [Scientific
exchange between Russia and Western
Europe, especially Germany, in botany
and pharmacy in the 18th to the early
20th Century], München, Institut für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften,
1999, 277 pp. (Algorismus, 28). ISBN
3-89241-029-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--880
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Patrice Bret, Niarcel
Dorigny (ed.), \booktitleSciences et
techniques autour de la Révolution
française. Approche interdisciplinaire.
Journées d'étude des 10 et 11 décembre
1999, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
--- Monnaie de Paris, Paris, Société des
études robespierristes, 2000, 230 pp.,
120 F/18,29, ISBN 2-908327-41-4 (Annales
historiques de la Révolution française,
320) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--881
Simone Contardi Piero Cuccuini Chiara Nepi, Herbarium
Centrale Italicum (the phanerogamic
section): the Genesis and Structure of a
Herbarium, Firenze, 1999 . . . . . . . . 881--882
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Giuliana Gemelli (ed.),
\booktitleThe Unacceptables. American
Foundations and Refugee Scholars between
the Two Wars and after, Bruxelles,
Presses Interuniversitaires Europennes
--- Peter Lang, 2000, 306 pp. (Euroclio,
n. 18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--883
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Edoardo Rovida,
\booktitleDallo scalpello al mouse.
Evoluzione e storia del disegno tecnico,
Torino, Paravia, 1999, 141 pp., ill., L.
40.000, ISBN 88-395-8300-9 . . . . . . . 883--883
Anonymous Book Review: Germana Pareti,
\booktitleIl Cancro dell'Imperatore
Dalla Teoria cellulare alle ipotesi
oncogenetiche 2000, 220 pp., Olschki,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--886
Anonymous Book Review: Filippo Camerota,
\booktitleIl Compasso di Fabrizio
Mordente Per la storia del Compasso di
proporzione 2000, 300 pp. con 21 taw.
f.t e 134 figg. n.t. Olschki, Firenze 886--887
Anonymous Book Review: Antonio Borrelli,
\booktitleIstituzioni scientifiche
Medicina e Societ Biografia di Domenico
Cotugno (1736--1822) 2000, xii + 272
pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . 887--888
Anonymous Book Review: Jean-François Stoffel,
\booktitleBibliographie d'Alexandre Koyr
2000, xiv + 196 pp., Olschki, Firenze 888--889
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIl ruolo sociale
della scienza (1789--1830). (Italian)
[The social role of science
(1789--1830)], a cura di Ferdinando
Abbri e Marco Segala 2000, vi + 178 pp.,
Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--889
Anonymous Book Review: Ottavio Besomi e Michele
Camerota, \booktitleGalileo e il parnaso
Tychonico: un capitolo inedito del
dibattito sulle comete tra finzione
letteraria e trattazione scientifica
2000, vi + 276 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . 889--890
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFondazione
Scienza e Tecnica Gli strumenti di
fisica dell'Istituto Toscano
Elettricit\`a e magnetismo, (Italian)
[Science and Technology Foundation: The
tools of the Tuscan Institute of
Physics: Electricity and magnetism], a
cura di Paolo Brenni 2000, 319 pp. Le
Lettere, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--890
Anonymous Book Review: Istituto e Museo di Storia
della Scienza, \booktitleFlorence
Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence The
Restoration of Scientific Instruments.
Proceedings of the workshop held in
Florence December 14--15, 1998, 2000,
113 pp., Le Lettere, Firenze . . . . . . 891--891
Anonymous Indici (Anno XVI, 2001) . . . . . . . . 893--896
Anonymous Indice Dei Manoscritti . . . . . . . . . 897--903
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--963
Anonymous Indice Dei Siti Internet . . . . . . . . 965--966
Stefano Casati The New Library of the Institute and
Museum of History of Science, Florence 3--8
Fabio Bellissima Il Sistema Assiomatico-Deduttivo degli
Elementi Armonici di Aristosseno . . . . 9--44
Anne Reynolds Galileo Galilei and the Satirical Poem $
\ll $Contro Il Portar la Toga$ \gg $:
the Literary Foundations of Science . . 45--62
Stefano Casati and
Giorgio Strano Il `Candore Lunare' e la Difesa Del
Sistema Copernicano in Due Lettere
Galileiane Conservate Presso la
Biblioteca Dell'Istituto e Museo di
Storia della Scienza di Firenze.
(Italian) [The `lunar whiteness' and the
Copernican defense system in two
Galilean letters stored at the Library
of the Institute and Museum of the
History of Science of Florence] . . . . 63--76
Edoardo Proverbio Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 77--84
Anonymous Alphabetical Index of Addressees . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Alphabetical Index of Senders . . . . . 90--90
Daniele Vergari La Corrispondenza di Ottaviano Targioni
Tozzetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--155
Anonymous Indice Delle Date Delle Lettere . . . . 156--159
Anonymous Indice Dei Luoghi di Partenza Delle
Lettere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
Alberto Meschiari Corrispondenza di Giovanni Battista
Amici con Franz Xaver Von Zach . . . . . 165--245
Marta Bertini Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
Martino Marangon I Codici Astronomici nel Fondo Cicogna
al Museo Correr di Venezia . . . . . . . 263--267
Giorgio Jules Mastrobisi Il $ \ll $Manoscritto di Singapore$ \gg
$ (1923) di Albert Einstein. Per Una
Teoria Del $ \ll $Campo Unificato$ \gg $
Tra Possibilit\`a Fisica e Necessit\`a
Matematica (Italian) [The $ \ll
$Singapore manuscript$ \gg $ (1923) of
Albert Einstein. On a Theory of the $
\ll $Unified Field$ \gg $ Between
Physical Possibility and Mathematical
Need] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--305
Graziano Ferrari Census, Filing and Elaboration of
Scientific Letters in the Earth Sciences 307--320
Patrizia Ruffo La Bibliografia Galileiana Nell'Archivio
Integrato Galileothek. (Italian) [The
Galilean bibliography of the Galileothek
Integrated Archive] . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
Alessandra Lenzi Attivit\`a Bibliografica Dell'Istituto e
Museo di Storia della Scienza: lo
Spoglio dei Periodici . . . . . . . . . 331--336
Marco Beretta The Material Realm of Chemistry:
Immutability Vs. History? . . . . . . . 337--347
Paola Govoni Quando la Scienza \`e Sensazionale . . . 349--355
Gaspare Polizzi Una Rivoluzione Dimenticata. Per Una
Nuova Comprensione della Scienza
Ellenistica. (Italian) [A Forgotten
Revolution. Towards a new understanding
of Hellenistic Science] . . . . . . . . 357--366
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Gunther Von Hagens,
\booktitleKórperwelte. Die Faszination
des echten. Der Katalog zur Ausstellung,
(German) [Bodyworld. The fascination of
the real. The exhibition catalog],
Heidelberg, Institut für Plastination
Heidelberg, 2001, pp. 295 . . . . . . . 367--368
Michele Vista Book Review: Zagli Andrea, Mineccia
Francesco, e Giuntini Andrea,
\booktitle$ \ll $Maladetti Beccari$ \gg
$. Storia dei macellai fiorentini dal
Cinquecento al Duemila, Firenze,
Edizioni Polistampa, 2000, pp. 293,
ill., 35.00 Euro, ISBN 88-8304-267-0 . . 368--370
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Robert Halleux, James
Mcclellan, Daniela Berariu, Genevieve
Xhayet, \booktitleLes Publications de
l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris
(1666--1793). T. I. Description
Bibliographique. T. II. Étude Statistique
--- Index Généraux, Turnhout, Brepols,
2001, 557 + 128 pp., ISBN 2-503-51197-X
($ \ll $De Diversis Artibus. Collection
de travaux de l'académie internationale
d'histoire des sciences$ \gg $. N.S.
15-1, 15-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Niccol\`O Guicciardini Book Review: Richard Dalitz e Michael
Nauenberg (eds.), \booktitleThe
foundations of Newtonian scholarship,
Singapore/New Jersey/London/Hong Kong,
World Scientific, 2000, xviii + 242 pp.,
s.i.p., ISBN 98-102-3920,3 . . . . . . . 372--374
Claudia Stancati Book Review: Ilaria Tani,
\booktitlel'Albero della mente. Sensi,
pensiero, linguaggio in Herder, Roma,
Carocci, 2000, pp. 218, lire 30.000.
ISBN 88-430-1546-X . . . . . . . . . . . 374--377
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Enrico Giusti e Luigi Pepe
(a cura di), \booktitleLa matematica in
Italia (1800--1950), Firenze, Edizioni
Polistampa, 2001, 182 pp., ill., \euro
12,91, ISBN 88-8304-321-9, ($ \ll $Il
Giardino di Archimede. un museo per la
matematica$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Mara Miniati Book Review: Alessandro Paoletti, Nadia
Robotti, \booktitleFisica meteorologia e
sismologia nell'Ottocento. Il contributo
del seminario Vescovile di Chiavari,
Genova, Universit\`a degli Studi di
Genova, Dipartimento di Fisica, 2000,
138 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Lorenzo Calabi, \booktitleI
quaderni metafisici di Darwin.
Teleologia $ \ll $Metafisica$ \gg $
Causa Finale, Pisa, Edizioni Ets, 2001,
134 pp., \euro 10.33, ISBN 88-467-0441-X 379--381
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
e Christine Blondel (edd.),
\booktitleDes savants face \`a
l'occulte, 1870--1940, Paris, Éditions La
Découverte, 2002, 233, pp., 17,50, ISBN
2-7071-3616-6 ($ \ll $Sciences et Société$
\gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
William R. Shea Book Review: Raffaella Simili and
Giovanni Paoloni (eds.), \booktitlePer
una storia del Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche. Rome, Edizioni Laterza, 2001.
2 vols. xi + 668 and xi + 876 pages.
Price: \euro 36,15 per volume. ISBN
88-420-5929-3 and 88-420-6225-1 . . . . 384--385
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Silvano Franco,
\booktitleLegislazione e politica
sanitaria del fascismo, Roma, Editrice
Apes, 2001, pp. 209, L. 30.000, ISBN
88-7233-016-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Helmuth Plessner,
\booktitleIl riso e Il pianto. Una
ricerca sui limiti del comportamento
umano, a cura di Vallori Rasini, Milano,
Bompiani, 2000, 261 pp., \euro 17,56,
ISBN 88-452-4665-5 ($ \ll $Filosofia$
\gg $, a cura di Pier Aldo Rovatti) . . 387--389
Domenico Laurenza Book Review: \booktitleDe Figura Umana:
Fisiognomia, Anatomia e Arte in
Leonardo, 2001, 241 pp., Olschki,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Santorio Santorio Book Review: \booktitleLa medicina
statica, Edited by Giuseppe Ongaro,
2001, 187 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 392--392
Bonaventura Cavalieri Book Review: \booktitleLo specchio
ustorio, Edited by Enrico Giusti, 2001,
187 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 392--392
Antonio Neri Book Review: \booktitleL'arte vetraria,
Edited by Ferdinando Abbri, 2001, 127
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Giuseppe Toaldo Book Review: \booktitleDei conduttori
per preservare gli edifizj da' fulmini,
Edited by Stefano Casati, 2001, 229 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Angelo Mosso Book Review: \booktitleLa fatica, Edited
by Michele Nani, 2001, 291 pp. Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Carlo Cattaneo and
Giovanni Milani Book Review: \booktitleFerdinandea.
Scritti sulla ferrovia da Venezia a
Milano 1836--1841, Edited by Pietro
Redondi 2001, 2 voll., 542 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Book Review: \booktitleStoria e
meteorologia dell'eruzione dell'Etna del
1669, Edited by Nicoletta Morello, 2001,
270 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 395--396
Luigi Rolando Book Review: \booktitleSaggio sopra la
vera struttura del cervello dell'uomo e
degli animali e spora le funzioni del
sistema nervoso, Edited by Alessandro
Dini, 2001, 93 pp. Giunti, Firenze . . . 396--396
Daniele Rosa Book Review: \booktitleOlogenesi, Edited
by Antonello La Vergata, 2001, 446 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Luigi Luciani and
Giuseppe Seppilli Book Review: \booktitleLe localizzazioni
funzionali del cervello, Edited by
Carmela Morabito, 2001, 325 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Antonio Genovesi Book Review: \booktitleDissertatio
physico-historica de rerum origine et
constitutione, Edited by Sara Bonechi
and Maurizio Torrini, 2001, 284 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
Maurizio Torrini Letture Galileiane . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422
Vittorio Castellani L'Astrofisica Stellare . . . . . . . . . 423--446
Ad Meskens Some New Biographical Data About Michiel
Coignet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--454
Yaakov Zik Galileo and Optical Aberrations . . . . 455--465
Fabrizio Bnoli and
Mara Miniati and
Vincenzo Greco and
Giuseppe Molesini Telescope Optics of Montanari, Cellio,
Campani and Bruni at the Museo della
Specola in Bologna . . . . . . . . . . . 467--474
Sofia Talas Thermometers in the Eighteenth Century:
J. B. Micheli Du Crest's Works and the
Cooperation With G. F. Brander . . . . . 475--496
Paolo Brenni 19th Century Scientific Instrument
Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--513
Anna Maria Lombardi The Constitution of White Light, a
Source for the New Questions of Quantum
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--545
Davide Arecco Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 547--565
Stefano Casati La Collezione Delle Tesi di Medicina
Sostenute a Parigi Dal 1798 al 1860 . . 567--579
Anonymous Scientific Instrument Commission . . . . 581--581
Charlotte Bigg and
Klaus Staubermann Spectroscope Histories . . . . . . . . . 583--587
Klaus Hentschel Spectroscopy or Spectroscopies? . . . . 589--614
David Aubin Orchestrating Observatory, Laboratory,
and Field: Jules Janssen, the
Spectroscope, and Travel . . . . . . . . 615--633
Susan Gamble An Appealing Case of Spectra:
Photographs on Display at the Royal
Society, London 1891 . . . . . . . . . . 635--651
Sven Widmalm Quantifying Sunshine: Knut Ångstrom and
the Standardisation of Pyrheliometry . . 653--671
Dana A. Freiburger Building a Japanese Research Tradition
in Physics: Hantaro Nagaoka and the
Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--689
Paolo Parrini Filosofia e Scienza in Enriques . . . . 691--701
Mara Miniati Book Review: Isaia Iannaccone,
\booktitleStoria e civilt della Cina.
Cinque lezioni, Napoli, Libreria Dante
Descartes, 2000, 145 pp. . . . . . . . . 703--703
Roberto Grasso Book Review: Dag Nikolaus Hasse,
\booktitleAvicenna's De anima in the
Latin West. The formation of a
peripatetic philosophy of the soul,
London/Turin, The Warburg Institute,
Nino Aragno editore, 2000, 350 pp. Lire
63.000, ISBN 0-85481-125-7 1471-5841 . . 703--707
Chiara Calizzi Book Review: \booktitleRévolution
scientifique et libertinage, études
réunies par A. Mothu avec la
collaboration d'A. Del Prete, Tumhout,
Brepols, 2000, 312 pp. ISBN
2-503-51008-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--709
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gerard l'E. Turner,
\booktitleElizabethan instrument makers.
The origins of the London trade in
precision instrument making, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2000, 290 pp.,
ill. \pounds 79.50, ISBN 0-19-856566-6 710--711
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Scott Mandelbrote,
\booktitleFootprints of the lion: Isaac
Newton at work. Exhibition at Cambridge
University Library (9 October 2001--23
March 2002), Cambridge, Cambridge
University Library, 2001, 142 pp., 42
ill. ISBN 0-902205-58-7 . . . . . . . . 711--712
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Renate Wilson,
\booktitlePious Traders in Medicine. A
German Pharmaceutical Network in
Eighteenth-Century North America,
University Park, Pennsylvania, The
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2000, pp. xiv + 258. \$37.50 cloth ISBN
0-271-02052-0} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--713
Carlo A. M. Burdet Book Review: Gianni Losano e Giuseppe
Slaviero (a cura di) Michele Buniva,
\booktitleMemoria al figlio unigenito,
Torino, Universit\`a degli Studi di
Torino, Archivio Scientifico e
Tecnologico dell'Universit\`a di Torino,
2000, pp. 166, ill. (Strumenti per la
storia della scienza subalpina, [s. n.,
ma n. 1]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--715
Carlo A. M. Burdet Book Review: Gabriella Ballesio (a cura
di), \booktitleCarte Buniva, Inventario,
Torino, Archivio Storico della Citt di
Torino, 2000, pp. 127. 15,49, ISBN
88-86685-45-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--717
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Luigi Blanco (a cura di),
\booktitleAmministrazione, formazione e
professione: gli ingegneri in Italia tra
Sette e Ottocento, Bologna, Il Mulino,
2000, pp. 538 pp. 30,99, ISBN
88-15-07665-4 (Annali dell'Istituto
storico italo-germanico in Trento,
Quaderni, 52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--718
Vallori Rasini Book Review: Salvatore Lazzara, Claude
Bernard. \booktitleTra Scienza e
filosofia, Napoli, Cuen, 1999, pp. 85.
7,23, ISBN 88-7146-437-0 . . . . . . . . 718--719
Mara Miniati Book Review: Franco Soresini,
\booktitleSegnali sopra e sotto
l'Atlantico, La Spezia, s.n.t., 2001, 79
pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--720
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Yvette Conry,
\booktitleL'évolution créatrice d'Henry
Bergson. Investigations critiques.
Préface de François Dagognet, Paris,
l'Harmattan, 2000, 328 pp. ISBN
2-7384-9903-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--723
Mara Miniati Book Review: Salvo D'Agostino, Arcangelo
Rossi (a cura di), \booktitleEnrico
Fermi e l'Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma,
Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana,
2001, 191 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . 723--724
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Riccardo Luccio, con la
collaborazione di Simonetta Gori
Savellini, \booktitleLa psicologia: un
profilo storico, Roma/Bari, Laterza,
2000, 307 pp., 19,63, ISBN 88-420-6139-5 724--726
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Mario Neve,
\booktitleVirtus loci. Lineamenti
fondamentali di una teoria
dell'informazione spaziale, Urbino,
QuattroVenti, 1999, 439 pp., 68 ill.
24,8, ISBN 88-392-0518-7 . . . . . . . . 726--727
Agnese Visconti Book Review: Peter Davis,
\booktitleMusei e ambiente naturale. Il
ruolo del museo di storia naturale nella
conservazione della biodiversit\`a,
Bologna, Clueb, 2001, xv + 350 pp.
28,41, ISBN 88-491-1284-X . . . . . . . 727--728
Augusto Iluminati Book Review: Felice Cimatti,
\booktitleLa mente silenziosa. Come
pensano gli animali non umani, Roma
2002, Editori Riuniti, pp. 239. 12,00,
ISBN 88-359-5160-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 729--732
Anna Toscano Book Review: Daniel J. Siegel,
\booktitleLa mente relazionale.
Neurobiologia dell'esperienza
interpersonale, tr. it. a cura di Luisa
Madeddu, Milano, Raffaello Cortina
Editore, 2001, pp. 362 + xiv, 32,54,
ISBN 88-7078-693-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 732--736
Anonymous The IMSS Bookshelf . . . . . . . . . . . 737--737
Anonymous Book Review: 42. Domenico Laurenza,
\booktitleDe Figura Umana: Fisiognomia,
Anatomia e Arte in Leonardo 2001, 241
pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . 737--738
Anonymous Book Review: 23. Santorio Santorio,
\booktitleLa medicina statica. Edited by
Giuseppe Ongaro 2001, 187 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--738
Anonymous Book Review: 24. Bonaventura Cavalieri,
\booktitleLo specchio ustorio, Edited by
Enrico Giusti 2001, 187 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--738
Anonymous Book Review: 25. \booktitleAntonio Neri
l'arte vetraria. Edited by Ferdinando
Abbri 2001, 127 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . 739--739
Anonymous Book Review: 26. Giuseppe Toaldo
\booktitleDei conduttori per preservare
gli edifizj da' fulmini. (Italian) [The
conduits for preserving buildings from
lightning]. Edited by Stefano Casati
2001, 229 pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . 739--739
Anonymous Book Review: 28. \booktitleAngelo Mosso
La fatica. Edited by Michele Nani 2001,
291 pp. Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . 740--740
Anonymous Book Review: 29. Carlo Cattaneo/Giovanni
Milani Ferdinandea. \booktitleScritti
sulla ferrovia da Venezia a Milano
1836--1841, (Italian) [Writings on the
railway from Venice to Milan
1836--1841]. Edited by Pietro Redondi
2001, 2 voll., 542 pp., Giunti, Firenze 740--741
Anonymous Book Review: 30. \booktitleGiovanni
Alfonso Borelli, Storia e meteorologia
dell'eruzione dell'Etna del 1669. Edited
by Nicoletta Morello 2001, 270 pp.,
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--742
Anonymous Book Review: 31. \booktitleLuigi
Rolando: Saggio sopra la vera struttura
del cervello dell'uomo e degli animali e
spora le funzioni del sistema nervoso.
Edited by Alessandro Dini. 2001, 93 pp.
Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--742
Anonymous Book Review: 32. \booktitleDaniele Rosa
Ologenesi. Edited by Antonello La
Vergata 2001, 446 pp., Giunti, Firenze 742--743
Anonymous Book Review: 33. Luigi Luciani/Giuseppe
Seppilli, \booktitleLe localizzazioni
funzionali del cervello. Edited by
Carmela Morabito 2001, 325 pp., Giunti,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--743
Anonymous Book Review: 34. Antonio Genovesi,
\booktitleDissertatio physico-historica
de rerum origine et constitutione.
Edited by Sara Bonechi and Maurizio
Torrini 2001, 284 pp., Giunti, Firenze 744--744
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleL'arte della
sperimentazione nell'Accademia
Galileiana del Cimento (1656--1667),
(Italian) [The art of experimentation in
the Galilean Academy of Chemistry].
Edited by Paolo Galluzzi. 2001, 159 pp.,
Sillabe, Livorno Catalogue of the
Exhibition Held at the Uffizi, Florence
(From March 18 2001) . . . . . . . . . . 744--745
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNel segno di
Masaccio. l'invenzione della
prospettiva. (Italian) [In the sign of
Masaccio. The invention of perspective].
Edited by Filippo Camerota, 2001, 311
pp., Giunti, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . 745--746
Anonymous Indici (Anno XVII, 2002) . . . . . . . . 747--749
Anonymous Indice Dei Manoscritti . . . . . . . . . 751--754
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--781
Anonymous Indice Dei Siti Internet . . . . . . . . 783--783
Marco Ciardi Annuncio/Announcement . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Mark Rosen Don Miniato Pitti and the Second Life of
a Scientist's Tools in Cinquecento
Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24
Filippo Camerota Two New Attributions: a Refractive Dial
of Guidobaldo Del Monte and the Roverino
Compass of Fabrizio Mordente . . . . . . 25--38
Sven Dupre The Dioptrics of Refractive Dials in the
Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 39--67
Maria Pia Donato L'Onere della Prova. Il Sant'Uffizio,
l'Atomismo e i Medici Romani . . . . . . 69--87
Maria Teresa Monti I Lombrichi di Spallanzani. Notomi e
Inedite Contro I Garbugli e Pasticci
Dell'Argomento di Analogia . . . . . . . 89--125
Angela Bandinelli 1783 --- Lavoisier and Laplace: Another
Crucial Year. Antiphlogistic Chemistry
and the Investigation on Living Beings
Between the Eighteenth and the
Nineteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
Valeria P. Babini Paola Lombroso, Una Donna Nelle Scienze
Dell'Uomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--165
Alessandro Minelli L'Omologia Rivisitata . . . . . . . . . 167--200
Alberto Meschiari Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 201--242
Anonymous Le Due Lettere di W. H. Fox Talbot alla
\booktitleLiterary Gazette Presentate da
G. B. Amici All'Accademia Dei Georgofili
in Firenze Il 13 Febbraio 1842.
(Italian) [The Two Letters of W. H. Fox
Talbot Presented from the
\booktitleLiterary Gazette from G. B.
Amici of the Academy of Georgofili in
Florence on February 13 1842] . . . . . 243--247
Carla Bino Istituzioni e Fonti . . . . . . . . . . 249--268
Stefania Elena Carnemolla Pedro Nuñes, Matematico e Cosmografo
Portoghese Del XVI Secolo, e la Sua
\booktitleDefesa Do Tratado Da Rumao Do
Globo Para a Arte De Navegar. (Italian)
[Pedro Nuñes, Portuguese mathematician
and cartographer of the sixteenth
century, and his \booktitleDefense of
the Global Treaty of Rome for the Art of
Navigating] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286
Pedro Nunes Defenso Do Tratado Da Rumao Do Globo
Para a Arte De Navegar. (Portuguese)
[Defense of the Global Treaty of Rome
for the Art of Navigating] . . . . . . . 287--317
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Ricordo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--325
Stefano Caroti Pierre Souffrin (1935--2002) . . . . . . 327--329
Dominique Raynaud Linear Perspective in Masaccio's Trinity
Fresco: Demonstration or
Self-Persuasion? . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--344
Graziano Ferrari Letters in the Earth Sciences: Their
Historic Value and Present-Day
Scientific Relevance . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: David Millar, Ian Millar,
John Millar, Margaret Millar,
\booktitleThe Cambridge Dictionary of
Scientists, second edition, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii +
428 pp., ISBN 0-521-80602-X (paperback),
14.95 (US\$50.00)} . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
Mara Miniati Book Review: \booktitleViaggio nelle
aree sismiche Liguria, basso Piemonte,
Toscana, Emilia Romagna coste e
Appennino dal 91 a.C. al 2000, (Italian)
[Travel in seismic areas of Liguria,
southern Piedmont, Tuscany, Emilia
Romagna coast and Apennines from 91 A.D.
to 2000]. Roma, Servizio Sismico
Nazionale-Ufficio Formazione e
Informazione, 2001, 494, pp., ill. (+DVD
ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Rudolph M. Bell,
\booktitleLa santa anoressia. Digiuno e
misticismo dal Medioevo ad oggi.
(Italian) [Holy anorexia. Fasting and
mysticism from the Middle Ages to
today], Editori Laterza, 2002, 281 pp.,
18 ill., 8.00, ISBN 88-420-5629-4
(Economica 155) . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Martin Dinges ed.,
\booktitlePatients in the History of
Homoeopathy, Sheffield 2002, 434 pp.,
ISBN 0-9536522-4-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 359--361
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Les Back and John Solomos
(eds.), \booktitleTheories of Race and
Racism. A Reader, London/New York,
Routledge, 2002, 646 pp., ISBN
0-415-15672-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Agnese Visconti Book Review: Annamaria Galbani (a cura
di), \booktitleDonne politecniche,
Milano, Scheiwiller, 2001, 198 pp.,
13,43 ISBN 88-7644-298-7 . . . . . . . . 362--363
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lucia Fornari Schianchi (a
cura di), \booktitlel'Antica Spezieria
di San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma,
Reggio Emilia, Saetti Maestri,
Fondazione Banca Monte di Parma, 2001,
277 pp., ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
Mara Miniati Book Review: Koenraad Van Cleempoel,
\booktitleA `catalogue raisonné' of
scientific instruments from the Louvain
school, 1530 to 1600, Turnhout, Brepols,
2002, 284 pp., ill., ISBN 2-503-51218-6
(De diversis artibus t. 65) . . . . . . 365--366
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Giovan Battista della
Porta, \booktitleTeatro. Tomo Secondo e
Terzo --- Commedie. A cura di Raffaele
Sirri, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche
Italiane, 2002, pp. xxvi + 550, pp. viii
+ 516, ISBN 88-495-0256-7, ISBN
88-495-0414-4 (Edizione Nazionale delle
opere di Giovan Battista della Porta,
15-II-III), 42,00 ciascuno . . . . . . . 366--368
Luca Ciancio Book Review: David Freedberg,
\booktitleThe Eye of the Lynx. Galileo,
His Friends, and the Beginnings of
Modern Natural History, Chicago, The
University of Chicago Press, 2002, 528
pp., 83 ill. a colori, 89 b/n, \$50.00,
ISBN 0-226-26147-6} . . . . . . . . . . 368--373
Nicoletta Sciaccaluga Book Review: Benedino Gemelli,
\booktitleIsaac Beeckman atomista e
lettore di Lucrezio, Firenze, Olschki,
2002, xiii + 132 pp., 16,00, ISBN
88-222-5075-3 (Subsidia, 1) . . . . . . 373--376
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Luigi Guerrini,
\booktitleAntonio Cocchi naturalista e
filosofo, Firenze, Polistampa 2002, pp.
339, 12,39, ISBN 88-8304-398-7 . . . . . 376--377
Vallori Rasini Book Review: Immanuel Kant,
\booktitleBemerkungen. Note per un
diario filosofico, a cura di Katrin
Tenenbaum, Roma, Meltemi, 2001, 272 pp.,
20,14, ISBN 88-8353-111-6 . . . . . . . 378--378
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Othmar Keel,
\booktitleL'av\`enement de la médecine
clinique moderne en Europe, 1750--1815,
Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de
Montréal. Georg éditeur, 2001, 542 pp.,
\$59,95, ISBN 2-7606-1822-6} . . . . . . 378--381
Carlo A. M. Burdet Book Review: Giuseppe Slaviero (a cura
di) \booktitleMichele Buniva,
introduttore della vaccinazione in
Piemonte, Scienza e sanit tra
rivoluzione e restaurazione, Atti del
Convegno di studi, Pinerolo, 14 ottobre
2000, Torino, Universit\`a degli Studi
di Torino, Archivio Scientifico e
Tecnologico dell'Universit\`a di Torino,
2002, 230 pp. (Strumenti per la storia
della scienza subalpina, 2) . . . . . . 381--384
Paola Govoni Book Review: Kathryn A. Neeley,
\booktitleMary Somerville: Science,
Illumination, and the Female Mind,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2001, xvi + 263 pp., ISBN 0-521-62672-2
(Cambridge Science Biographies) . . . . 384--386
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Annabel Robinson,
\booktitleThe Life and Work of Jane
Ellen Harrison, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2002, xvi + 332 pp.,
17 ill., \pounds 45.000, ISBN
0-19-924233-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--388
Paolo Del Santo Book Review: Sabino Maffeo, S.J.,
\booktitleThe Vatican Observatory: in
the Service of Nine Popes, Roma, Vatican
Observatory Pubblications, 2001, pp.
xix-429, ISBN 88-209-7242-5 . . . . . . 388--391
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Ornella Pompeo Faracovi e
Luca Maria Scarantino (a cura di),
\booktitleFederigo Enriques. Matematiche
e filosofia. Lettere inedite.
Bibliografia degli scritti, Livorno,
Belforte C. Editori, 2001, pp. 211,
18.07 (L 35.000) ISBN 88-7997-063-1 . . 391--394
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Kenneth Beauchamp,
\booktitleA history of telegraphy: its
technology and application, London, The
Institution of Electrical Engineers,
2001, 408 pp., ill., 55.00, ISBN
0-85296-792-6 (History of Technology
Series, 26). Russell W. Burns,
\booktitleJohn Logie Baird: TV pioneer,
London, The Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 2001, 55.00, ISBN
0-85296-797-7 (History of Technology
Series, 28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Jonathan Marks,
\booktitleWhat It Means to Be 98%
Chimpanzee. Apes, People, and Their
Genes, Berkeley, University of
California Press, 2002, pp. 314 (ISBN
0-520-24064-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--398
Simone Contardi Book Review: Michela Nacci,
\booktitlePensare la tecnica. Un secolo
di incomprensioni, presentazione di
Gianni Vattimo, Roma/Bari, Laterza,
2000, pp. 344, ISBN 88-420-5973-0
(Biblioteca di cultura moderna) . . . . 398--399
Vallori Rasini Book Review: Hans Jonas,
\booktitleSull'orlo dell'abisso.
Conversazioni sul rapporto tra uomo e
natura, a cura di Paolo Becchi, Torino,
Einaudi, 2000, 150 pp., 11.36; ISBN
88-06-15051-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Anonymous The IMSS Bookshelf . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401
Anonymous Book Review: 43. Simone Contardi
\booktitleLa casa di Salomone a Firenze.
l'Imperiale e Reale Museo di fisica e
storia naturale (1775--1801) 2002, xx +
324 pp. con 8 taw. f.t., Olschki,
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401
Anonymous Book Review: 44. \booktitleGiambattista
Riccioli e il merito scientifico dei
Gesuiti nell'et barocca. A cura di Maria
Teresa Borgato 2002, xviii-484 pp. con
29 figg. n.t., Olschki, Firenze . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Book Review: 45. Guido Alliney,
\booktitleTime and Soul in Fourteenth
Century Theology. Three Questions of
William of Alnwick on the Existence, the
Ontological Status and the Unity of Time
2002, lxiv + 194 pp., Olschki, Firenze 402--403
Anonymous Book Review: 46. \booktitleG. B.
Hodierna e il Secolo Cristallino. Atti
del convegno di Ragusa (22--24 ottobre
1997). A cura di Mario Pavone e Maurizio
Torrini 2002, x-346 pp. con 3 figg. e 2
taw. n.t., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . 403--403
Marco Ciardi Annuncio/Announcement . . . . . . . . . iii-410
Luca Zucchi Brunfels e Fuchs: l'Illustrazione
Botanica Quale Ritratto della Singola
Pianta o Immagine della Specie.
(Italian) [Brunfels and Fuchs: Botanical
Illustration: Portrait of the Plant or
Single Image of Species?] . . . . . . . 411--465
Gemma Rosa Levi-Donati Four Hundred and Twenty-Five Years
Later: Egnazio Danti's Anemoscope . . . 467--479
Yaakov Zik Kepler and the Telescope . . . . . . . . 481--514
Emilio Sergio Bacon, Hobbes e l'Idea di $ \ll
$Philosophia Naturalis$ \gg $: Due
Modelli di Riforma Della Scienza . . . . 515--547
Franco Giudice and
Gianni Bonera Lorenzo Mascheroni e Alessandro Volta:
un Dialogo Tra Scienza e Poesia . . . . 549--576
Laetitia Maison Les Observatoires Italiens en 1875: un
Exemple Pour Le Renouveau de
l'Astronomie Française?. (French) [The
Italian observatories in 1875: an
example for the renewal of French
astronomy?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--602
Maria Chiara Milighetti Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 603--617
Stefano De Carolis and
Conti Andrea A. and
Donatella Lippi Un Carteggio Inedito Tra Antonio Cocchi
e Giovanni Bianchi . . . . . . . . . . . 619--636
Giuse Scalva Un Viaggio Scientifico Alla Met\`a del
Secolo XVIII. Inventario Del Carteggio
Intorno al Viaggio in Levante di
Vitaliano Donati . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--690
Luca Ciancio Secondo Contributo All'Inventario Del
Carteggio di Alberto Fortis. (Italian)
[Second contribution to the inventory of
correspondence of Alberto Fortis] . . . 691--703
Stéphane Pelucchi Histoires Parall\`eles . . . . . . . . . 705--735
Charlotte Bigg and
Klaus Staubermann Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--739
Jochen Hennig Bunsen, Kirchhoff, Steinheil and the
Elaboration of Analytical Spectroscopy 741--754
Klaus Staubermann Investigating Vision and the Reversion
Spectroscope: Early Astronomical Colour
Studies in Experimental Psychology . . . 755--764
Charlotte Bigg Spectroscopic Metrologies . . . . . . . 765--777
Richard Staley The Interferometer and the Spectroscope:
Michelson's Standards and the
Spectroscopic Community . . . . . . . . 779--801
Sean F. Johnston An Unconvincing Transformation?
Michelson's Interferential Spectroscopy 803--823
Anna M. Lombardi The Bolometer and the Spectro-Bolometer
As Steps Towards the Black-Body Spectrum 825--840
Eva A. Mayring Sources for the History of Spectroscopy
at the Deutsches Museum . . . . . . . . 841--852
Paolo Galluzzi Ricordo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--857
Arnaldo Ballerini Storia e Follia . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--866
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Mario Blagioli & Peter
Galison (eds.), \booktitleScientific
Authorship. Credit and Intellectual
Property in Science, New York and
London, Routledge, 2003, 384 pp., ISBN
0-415-94293-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--868
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Alessandra Parodi,
\booktitleStorie della Medicina, Torino,
Edizioni di Comunita, 2002, pp. 309,
\euro 22,00. ISBN 88-245-0639-9 . . . . 868--869
Mara Miniati Book Review: Gualtiero Bellucci,
Gigliola Terenna, Francesca Vannozzi (a
cura di), \booktitleLa collezione degli
strumenti di anestesiologia, Siena,
Nuova immagine, 2001, 186 pp., ill.,
ISBN 88-7145-180, \euro 9,29 (Patrimonio
storico-scientifico dell'Universit\`a
degli studi di Siena. Materiali; 5)
Gigliola Terenna, Francesca Vannozzi (a
cura di), \booktitleLa collezione degli
strumenti di ginecologia, ostetricia e
pediatria, Siena, Nuova immagine, 2002,
223 pp., ill., ISBN 88-7145-188-0, \euro
9,00 (Patrimonio storico-scientifico
dell'Universit\`a degli studi di Siena.
Materiali; 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--871
Mara Miniati Book Review: Erasmo Recami, Sergio
Pizzigalli, Ettore Parigi, Francesco De
Vincentiis, Virgilio Borlotti,
\booktitleGli strumenti scientifici di
interesse storico del $ \ll $Lussana$
\gg $, del $ \ll $Vittorio Emanuele$ \gg
$, e del $ \ll $Quarenghi$ \gg $ di
Bergamo, Bergamo, Dipartimento di
Ingegneria Universit\`a degli Studi di
Bergamo, 2002, 79 pp., ill., ISBN e
prezzo non indicati . . . . . . . . . . 871--872
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Carlo Santini (direzione e
coordinamento), Ida Mastrorosa, Antonino
Zumbo (a cura di), \booktitleLetteratura
scientifica e tecnica di Grecia e Roma,
Roma, Carocci, 2003, 604 pp., ISBN
88-430-2142-7, \euro 40,00 . . . . . . . 872--874
Giovanni di Pasquale Book Review: Georgia Irby Massie, Paul
Keyser, \booktitleGreek Science of the
Hellenistic Era, London-New York,
Routledge, 2002, 392 pp., ISBN
0-415-23847-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--876
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: \booktitleAeaomena,
Euclid's Data or the Importance of Being
Given. The Greek Text translated and
explained by Christian Marinus Taisbak.
Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et
Medicinalium, vol. 45. Copenhagen,
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, 271 pp.,
\euro 48,00, ISBN 87-7289-815-1 . . . . 876--879
Domenico Laurenza Book Review: Jole Agrimi,
\booktitleIngeniosa scientia nature.
Studi sulla fisiognomica medievale,
Firenze, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo,
2002, 180 pp., ISBN 88-8450-074-5, \euro
34,00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--881
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Chiara Crisciani,
\booktitleIl papa e l'alchimia. Felice
V, Guglielmo Fabri e l'elixir, Roma,
Viella, 2002, 217 pp., ISBN
88-8334-079-5, 19,00 (La corte dei papi,
10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--883
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Andrea Ubrizsy Savoia,
\booktitleRapporti Italo-Ungheresi nella
nascita della botanica in Ungheria,
Pecs, Bornus Nyomda-Roma, Universit\`a
degli Studi $ \ll $La Sapienza$ \gg $,
2002, 413 pp., ill., ISBN 963-641-906-X 883--885
Anna Toscano Book Review: Michel Blay, \booktitleLa
science du mouvement. De Galilée \`a
Lagrange, Paris, Éditions Berlin, 2002,
332 pp. + ill., ISBN 2-7011-3076-X ($
\ll $Collection Berlin Sup Histoire des
Sciences$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . . 885--887
Mara Miniati Book Review: Lewis Pyenson,
Jean--François Gauvin (eds.),
\booktitleThe art of teaching physics.
The Eighteenth-Century demonstration
apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet,
Sillery (Québec), Les éditions du
Septentrion, 2002, 221 pp., ill., ISBN
2-89448-320-1, senza indicazione di
prezzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--889
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Julia D. Douthwaite,
\booktitleThe Wild Girl, Natural Man and
the Monster. Dangerous Experiments in
the Age of Enlightenment, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
2002, xm+314 pp., ISBN 0-226-16056-4
paper, prezzo non indicato . . . . . . . 889--891
Angela Bandinelli Book Review: Raffaella Seligardi,
\booktitleLavoisier in Italia. La
comunit\`a scientifica italiana e la
rivoluzione chimica, (Italian)
[Lavoisier in Italy. The Italian
Scientific Community and the Chemical
Revolution], Firenze, Leo Olschki, 2002,
414 pp., ISBN 88-222-5150-4 . . . . . . 891--894
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Delia Frigessi,
\booktitleCesare Lombroso, Torino,
Einaudi, 2003, 426 pp., ISBN
88-06-13866-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894--897
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Gregory Moore,
\booktitleNietzsche, Biology and
Metaphor, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2002, viii, 228 pp.,
ISBN 0-521-81230-5 (hardback), \euro
37.50 (US\$55.00)} . . . . . . . . . . . 897--899
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Claudia Stancati, Donata
Chiric\`o, Federica Vercillo (eds.),
\booktitleHenri Bergson: esprit et
langage, Sprimont (Belgique), Pierre
Mardaga editeur, 2001, 317 pp., s.i.p.,
ISBN 2-87009-765-4 ($ \ll $Philosophie
et Langage$ \gg $ ) . . . . . . . . . . 899--902
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Maria Rita Abramo,
\booktitleIl raxionalismo di Gaston
Bachelard, Messina, Armando Siciliano
Editore, 2000, 156 pp., L. 20.000 ($ \ll
$Interazioni$ \gg $, 3). Gaston
Bachelard, \booktitlel'Esperienza dello
spazio nella fisica contemporanea, a
cura di Maria Rita Abramo, Messina,
Armando Siciliano Editore, 2002,
lxxxviii + 91 pp., \euro 10,50 ($ \ll
$Interazioni$ \gg $, 9). Maria Rita
Abramo, \booktitleGaston Bachelard e le
fisiche del Novecento, Napoli, Alfredo
Guida Editore, 2002, 237 pp., \euro
15,00, ISBN 88-7188-593-7 ($ \ll
$Transazioni$ \gg $, 2) . . . . . . . . 902--907
Donatella Lippi Book Review: Eugenia Tognotti,
\booktitleLa $ \ll $ spagnola$ \gg $ in
Italia. Storia dell'influenza che fece
temere La fine del mondo (1918--1919),
Milano, Franco Angeli, 2002, pp. 165,
\euro 17,50. ISBN 88-464-3692-X . . . . 908--909
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Antonio Semerari,
\booktitleStoria, teorie e tecniche
della psicoterapia cognitiva, Roma/Bari,
Editori Laterza, 2002, 291 pp., \euro
20,00, ISBN 88-420-6155-7 ($ \ll
$Scienze della mente$ \gg $ ) . . . . . 909--911
Vallori Rasini Book Review: Karl Lowith, \booktitleDio,
uomo e mondo nella metafisica da
Cartesio a Nietzsche. A cura di O.
Franceschelli, Roma, Donzelli, 2000,
ISBN 88-7989-595-8, \euro 19,63 . . . . 911--912
Anna Toscano Book Review: George Gheverghese Joseph,
\booktitleC'era una volta un numero. La
vera storia della matematica, (Italian)
[There was a once a number. The true
history of mathematics], tr. it. a cura
di Barbara Mussini, Milano, il
Saggiatore, 2000, 448 pp. + ill., ISBN
88-428-0778-8, \euro 20,14 . . . . . . . 913--916
Anonymous Book Review: Biblioteca di Nuncius 47.
Domenico Laurenza, \booktitleLa ricerca
dell'armonia. Rappresentazioni
anatomiche nel Rinascimento 2003, x +
142 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . 917--917
Anonymous Book Review: 48. Marco Piccolino,
\booktitleThe Taming of the Ray.
Electric Fish Research in the
Enlightenment, from John Walsh to
Alessandro Volta 2003, xiv + 222 pp.,
Olschki, Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--918
Anonymous Book Review: Musa Musaei.
\booktitleStudies on Scientific
Instruments and Collections in Honour of
Mara Miniati. Edited by Marco Beretta,
Paolo Galluzzi, Carlo Triarico 2003,
viii-488 pp., Olschki, Firenze . . . . . 918--919
Anonymous Indici (Anno XVIII, 2003) . . . . . . . 921--924
Anonymous Indice Dei Manoscritti . . . . . . . . . 925--929
Anonymous Indice Dei Nomi . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--958
Anonymous Indice Dei Siti Internet . . . . . . . . 959--959
Fausto Casi A Medieval Astrolabe in the Tradition of
Jean Fusoris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
Silvio A. Bedin Falconi, Renaissance Astrologer and
Astronomical Clock and Instrument Maker 31--76
Jos Ramn Bertomeu Snchez and
Antonio Garca Belmar Atoms in French Chemistry Textbooks
During the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--119
Salvatore Cicenia La Geometria Lobacevskiana e la
Filosofia della Matematica di Auguste
Comte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--141
Pietro Omodeo Selezione, Storia di Una Parola e di Un
Concetto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--170
Claudio Pogliano Sciences at War and the Cybernetic Dream 171--204
Franca Cattelani Degani and
Mario Umberto Lugli Per un Archivio della Corrispondenza
degli Scienziati Italiani . . . . . . . 205--223
Francesco Barbieri and
Marina Zuccoli Odoardo Corsini e La Scienza Delle
Acque: Opuscoli . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--243
Romano Gatto and
Iodice Lisa and
Emilia Olostro Cirella Sul Ritrovamento di Un Carteggio
Scientifico di Emanuele Fergola . . . . 245--252
Alessandro Manara and
Franca Chlistovsky Book Review: Giovanni Virginio
Schiaparelli, \booktitlePercival Lowell
Scambi Epistolari Inediti (1896--1910) 253--255
Agnese Mandrino Criteri di Edizione . . . . . . . . . . 256--296
Alberto Bartola Alle Origini Del Museo Del Collegio
Romano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--356
Stefano Casati La Biblioteca di Pietro Omodeo . . . . . 357--373
S. Casati and
S. Contardi Nova Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--383
Marco Ciardi Discussioni Critiche . . . . . . . . . . 385--423
Carlo Triarico Book Review: Svante Lindqvist (ed.),
\booktitleMuseums of Modern Science
(Nobel Symposium 112), Canton MA,
Science History Publications, 2000, 216
pp., illus., \$39.95\slash \$24.95
paperback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--427
Donata Romizi Book Review: Margaret Morrison,
\booktitleUnifying Scientific Theories.
Physical Concepts and Mathematical
Structures, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2000, pp. 272, ISBN
0-521-65216-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--430
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Francesco Bertola,
\booktitleVia Lactea, Cittadella (Pd),
Biblos, 2003, pp. 216 ill., s.i.p. (ISBN
88-88064-22-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--432
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: C. J. Tuplin, T. E. Rihll
(eds.), \booktitleScience and
Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002,
xvi + 379 pp., \pounds 60, ISBN
0-19-815248-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--434
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Luigi Pepe (a cura di),
\booktitleCopernico e lo Studio di
Ferrara: Universit\`a, dottori e
studenti, Bologna, Clueb, 2003, 152 pp.
ill., 13,50 (ISBN 88-491-2126-1) . . . . 435--437
Alessandra Fiocca Book Review: \booktitleDella scienza et
dell'arte del ben regolare le acque di
Gio. Battista Aleotti detto l'Argenta
architetto del Papa, et del publico ne
lacitt di Ferrara, a cura di Massimo
Rossi, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini
(Testi, Istituto di Studi
Rinascimentali, Ferrara), 2000, pp. 909.
ISBN 88-7686-980-8, 155 . . . . . . . . 437--441
Angela Bandinelli Book Review: Antonio Clericuzio,
\booktitleElements, Principles and
Corpuscles. A Study of Atomism and
Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht,
Boston, London, 2000, pp. xi + 223, ISBN
0-7923-6782-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Giuliano Pancaldi,
\booktitleVolta. Science and Culture in
the Age of Enlightenment, Princeton and
Oxford, Princeton University Press,
2003, pp. xx + 381, \pounds 22.95, ISBN
0-691-09685-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--446
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roy Porter (ed. ),
\booktitleThe Cambridge History of
Science. Volume 4. Eighteenth-century
Science, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2003, pp. xxx + 912. \pounds
65.00. ISBN 0-521-57243-6 . . . . . . . 446--450
Marco Segala Book Review: Thomas Bach,
\booktitleBiologie und Philosophie bei
C. F. Kielmeyer und F. W. J. Schelling,
Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt,
Frommann-Holzboog, 2001, x + 347 pp.,
ISBN 3-7728-2034-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Marco Segala Book Review: Martin Kirschke,
\booktitleLiebigs Lehrer Karl W. G.
Kastner (1783--1857). Eine
Professorenkarriere in Zeiten
naturwissenschaftlichen Umbruchs,
Berlin-Diepholz, Verlag für Geschichte
der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
2001, 450 pp., 38.50, ISBN 3-928186-56-6 451--453
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Guido Bonino, \booktitleT.
H. Green e il mito dell'empirismo
britannico, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki,
2003, pp. 224 (Facolt di Lettere e
Filosofia. Fondo di studi Parini-Chirio.
Universit\`a degli Studi di Torino.
Filosofia n. 3). ISBN 88-222-5214-4 . . 453--454
Donatella Lippi Book Review: A. Droescher, \booktitleLe
Facolt medico-chirurgiche italiane
(1860--1915). Repertorio delle cattedre
e degli stabilimenti annessi, dei
docenti, dei liberi docenti e del
personale scientifico, Bologna, Clueb,
2002, pp. 518. 73,50. ISBN 88-491-1940-2 454--456
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Jean-François Stoffel,
\booktitleLe phénomnalisme
probl\`ematique de Pierre Duhem, Préface
de Jean Ladrire, Bruxelles, Académie
royale de Belgique, 2002, 391 pp., 32,
ISBN 2-8031-0190-4 (Mémoire de la Classe
des Lettres, XXVII) . . . . . . . . . . 456--458
Maria Carla Galavotti Book Review: David Howie,
\booktitleInterpreting Probability.
Controversies and Developments in the
Early Twentieth Century, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp.
262, ISBN 0-521-81251-8 (no price on the
jacket) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--460
Silvia Bertini Book Review: Helmut E. Lck,
\booktitleBreve storia della psicologia,
Il Mulino, Universale Paperbacks, 2002,
216 pp., 11,00, ISBN 88-15-08676-5 . . . 461--462
Roberto Bond Book Review: James Lovelock,
\booktitleOmaggio a Gaia. La vita di uno
scienziato indipendente, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 2002, 473 pp., ISBN
88-339-1435-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
Luís Miguel Carolino Scienza, Politica Ed Escatologia Nella
Formazione Dello `Scienziato'
Nell'Europa Del XVII Secolo: Il Caso di
Manuel Bocarro Francês --- Jacob Rosales iii-506
Danilo Capecchi Leibniz e La Resistenza Delle Travi . . 507--544
Giovanni Piccardi Uberto Francesco Hoefer e La Tabula
Affinitatum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--568
Franco Giudice Ricerca, Strumenti, Didattica e Pubblica
Utilit\`a: Carlo Barletti e La Fisica
Sperimentale a Pavia Prima di Volta . . 569--599
Gabriella Berti Logan Women and Botany in Risorgimento Italy 601--628
Paolo Brenni Mechanical and Hydraulic Models for
Illustrating Electromagnetic Phenomena 629--657
Stefano Casati La Donazione 'Galileo Ferraris' . . . . 659--666
Pietro Omodeo La Mia Biblioteca . . . . . . . . . . . 667--670
Anonymous Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--673
Maria Rentetzi From Cambridge to Vienna: the
Scintillation Counter in Female Hands 675--689
Shaw Kinsley A. E. Douglass and the Instruments of
Dendrochronology . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--699
J. Batllo and
C. Clemente and
F. Perez-Blanco and
F. vidal Reconstruction of A Bosch-Omori
Seismograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--711
Rajinder Singh Designing, Making and Using Scientific
Instruments in India: the Example of
Jagadis Chunder Bose . . . . . . . . . . 713--723
Richard A. Paselk The Chemical Refractometer . . . . . . . 725--732
Michael Segre Il Caso Galileo: Una Questione Chiusa? 733--747
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Bernardino Ochino,
\booktitleLaberinti del Libero Arbitrio.
A cura di Marco Bracali, Firenze, Leo S.
Olschki Editore, 2004, pp. xcvi + 180,
($ \ll $Immagini della Ragione. 9$ \gg $
). ISBN 88-222-5319-1, \euro 19,00 . . . 749--750
Federica Sargolini Book Review: Ann E. Moyer, \booktitleThe
Philosophers' Game. Rithmomachia in
Medioeval and Renaissance Europe,
University of Michigan Press, 2001, 205
pp., ISBN 0-472-11228-7 . . . . . . . . 750--753
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Paolo Bensi, \booktitleLa
vita del colore. Tecniche della pittura
veneta dal Cinquecento al Settecento,
Genova, Neos Edizioni, 2002, pp. 105,
ill., ISBN 88-87262-14-4, \euro 14,50 753--755
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Alessandra Fiocca, Daniela
Lamberini, Cesare Maffioli (a cura di),
\booktitleArte e scienza delle acque nel
Rinascimento, Venezia, Marsilio Editori,
2003, pp. 301, ISBN 88-317-8329-7, \euro
25,00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--759
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleGiulio Cesare
Vanini dal tardo Rinascimento al
'libertinisme érudit'. Atti del convegno
di studi, Lecce-Taurisano 24--26 ottobre
1985, a cura di Francesco Paolo
Raimondi, Galatina (Le), Congedo, 2003,
528 pp., ISBN 88-8086-497-1, \euro 23,00 759--762
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Noël Golvers,
\booktitleFerdinand Verbiest, S.J.
(1623--1688) and the Chinese Heaven,
University Press, 2003, 676 pp., 46
ill., 4 mappe. ISBN 90-5867-293-X . . . 762--763
Mauricio Jalón Book Review: Andrés Galera,
\booktitleCiencia a la sombra del
Vesubio. Ensayo sobre el conocimiento de
la naturaleza, Madrid, Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2003,
250 pp., ISBN 84-00-08137-4 . . . . . . 764--767
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: James E. McClellan III,
\booktitleSpecialist Control. The
Publications Committee of the Académie
Royale des Sciences (Paris) 1700--1793,
Philadelphia, American Philosophical
Society, 2003, xii + 134 pp. ($ \ll
$Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society Held at
Philadelphia for Promoting Useful
Knowledge, volume 92, Part 3$ \gg $ ),
ISBN 0-87169-933-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 767--768
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Hjalmar Fors,
\booktitleMutual Favours. The Social and
Scientific Practice of
Eighteenth-Century Swedish Chemistry,
Uppsala, Universitetstryckeriet, 2003,
pp. 227 ($ \ll $Institutionen for ide-
och lärdomshistoria. Uppsala Universitet.
Skrifter n. 30$ \gg $ ). ISBN
91-506-1669-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--770
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Raimondo De Sangro,
\booktitleLettera Apologetica.
Introduzione, note e appendice
documentaria a cura di Leen Spruit,
Napoli, aló$ \varsigma $ edizioni, 2002,
303 pp. ill., ISBN 88-88247-09-2, \euro
28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--773
Anna Toscano Book Review: Paola Bertucci and Giuliano
Pancaldi (eds.), \booktitleElectric
Bodies. Episodes in the History of
Medical Electricity, Universita di
Bologna, Cis --- Dipartimento di
Filosofia, 2001, 298 pp., ISBN
88-900162-2-1 ($ \ll $Bologna Studies in
History of Science$ \gg $ 9) . . . . . . 774--776
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Maine De Biran,
\booktitleOsservazioni sulle divisioni
organiche del cervello, traduzione e
introduzione a cura di Marco Piazza,
Firenze, Olschki, 2002, 110 pp., ISBN
88-222-5168-7 ($ \ll $Biblioteca di
Physis$ \gg $, 6), \euro 13,00 . . . . . 777--779
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Maja Larsson, \booktitleDen
moraliska kroppen. Tolkningar av kön och
individualitet i 1800-talets
populärmedicin, Hedemora, Gidlunds forlag
2002, 232 pp., ill., ISBN 91-7844-617-1 779--782
Carlo Tatasciore Book Review: G. Polizzi,
\booktitleLeopardi e le $ \ll $ ragioni
della verit\`a$ \gg $. Scienze e
filosofia della natura negli scritti
leopardiani, con una Prefazione di R.
Bodei, Roma, Carocci, 2003, pp. I-xix,
1-288, \euro 19,60, ISBN 88-430-2818-9 782--785
Enrico Castelli Gattinara Book Review: Vallori Rasini,
\booktitleTeorie della Realt\`a
Organica. Helmuth Plessner e Viktor von
Weizsäcker, Modena, Edizioni Grafiche
Sigem, 2002, 176 pp., \euro 10 (privo di
ISBN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--788
Anna Toscano Book Review: Robert Kanigel,
\booktitlel'Uomo che vide l'infinito. La
vita breve di Srinivasa Ramanujan, genio
della matematica, tr. it. di Maddalena
Mendolicchio, Milano, Rizzoli, 2003, 462
pp. + ill., ISBN 88-17-87169-9, \euro
19,00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--791
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Luigi Cerruti,
\booktitleBella e potente: La chimica
del Novecento fra scienza e societ\`a,
Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2003, 507 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-359-5396-0, \euro 26,00 791--795
Roberto Manzocco Book Review: Debora Hammond,
\booktitleThe Science of Synthesis ---
Exploring the Social Implications of
General Systems Theory, Boulder,
University Press of Colorado, 2003, pp.
312, ISBN 0-87081-722-1 . . . . . . . . 795--796
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Joseph Dumit,
\booktitlePicturing Personhood. Brain
Scans and Biomedical Identity, Princeton
and Oxford, Princeton University Press,
2004, 252 pp., ISBN 0-691-11398-X . . . 797--799
Giacomo Scarpelli Book Review: Enrico Castelli Gattinara,
\booktitleStrane alleanze. Storici,
filosofi e scienziati a confrontonel
Novecento, Milano, Mimesis, 2003; 213
pp., ISBN 88-8483-186-5, \euro 16,00 . . 799--807
Marco Beretta Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
Florike Egmond Clusius, Cluyt, Saint Omer . . . . . . . 11--67
Amparo Sebastian Caudet and
Ruth Lopez Campos Two Astronomical Compendia in the
Spanish National Museum of Science and
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--94
Ivano Dal Prete Francesco Bianchini e Il Pianeta Venere 95--152
Paola Bertucci Sparking Controversy: Jean Antoine
Nollet and Medical Electricity South of
the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--187
Gabriella Berti Logan Caterina Scarpellini: Astronomy and
Meteorology in Risorgimento Rome . . . . 189--217
Maria Conforti Healing Practices and Medical
Professions in Early Modern Europe . . . 219--229
Mario Neve Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 231--232
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: \booktitleCleomedes
Lectures on Astronomy: a Translation of
\booktitleThe Heavens with an
Introduction and Commentary by Alan C.
Bowen and Robert B. Todd. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 2004. xvi + 238 pp., ISBN
0-520-23325-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Marco Beretta Book Review: Cristina Viano (ed.),
\booktitleAristotele Chemicus. Il IV
libro dei Meteorologica nella tradizione
antica e medievale. Sankt Augustin:
Academia Verlag, 2002. 206 pp. ISBN
3-89665-174-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Davide Galante Book Review: Robert Wardy,
\booktitleAristotele in China. Language,
Categories and Translation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. 182
pp., ISBN 0-521-77118-8 . . . . . . . . 234--235
Godefroid De Callatay Book Review: Jacques Sesiano,
\booktitleLes carrés magiques dans le
pays islamiques. Lausanne: Presses
polytechniques et universitaire
romandes, 2004. 277 pp., ISBN
2-88074-571-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Martin Craig Book Review: Cecilia Trifogli,
\booktitleLiber Tertius Physicorum
Aristotelis. Repertorio delle Questioni.
Commenti inglesi ca. 1250--1270.
Firenze: Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo,
2004. 393 pp., ISBN 88-8450-039-7 . . . 237--238
Luigi Guerrini Renaissance and Early Modem Science . . 238--239
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Francesco Paolo Fiore (a
cura di), \booktitleFrancesco di Giorgio
alla corte di Federico da Montefeltro,
Atti del Convegno Internazionale di
Studi, Urbino, 11--13 ottobre 2001
(Biblioteca dell'`Archivum Romanicum'.
Serie I, vol. 317). Firenze: Olschki,
2004. 2 vols, xxiv + 710 pp., ill., ISBN
88-222-5322-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Filippo Camerota Book Review: Nicoletta Marconi,
\booktitleEdificando Roma barocca.
Macchine, apparati, maestranze e
cantieri tra XVI e XVIII secolo (Studi e
strumenti per la storia di Roma). Citta
di Castello: Edimond, 2004. 350 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-500-237-8 . . . . . . . . 241--242
Marco Bresadola Book Review: \booktitleMedicina nei
Secoli. Arte e scienza, vol. 15, fasc.
2, 2003. 401 pp., ill., ISSN 0394-9001 242--243
Cesare S. Maffioli Book Review: \booktitleOn the
measurement of running water, a
facsimile edition of Della misura
dell'acque correnti of Dom Benedetto
Castelli, together with English
translation and commentary by Deane R.
Blackman. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki
Editore, 2004. 172 pp., ISBN
88-222-5335-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Terence Banks Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Patricia Fara,
\booktitleSex, Botany and Empire. The
story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
(Revolutions in Science). Cambridge:
Icon Books, 2004, 168 pp., ISBN
1-84046-573-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Maria Teresa Borgato Book Review: Antoine Deparcieux,
\booktitleEssai sur les probabilités de
la durée de la vie humaine (1746),
Addition \`a l'Essai (1760), réédition en
fac-simile avec une introduction et des
notes de Cem Behar, accompagnée de
contributions de G. Gallais-Hamonno, C.
Rietsch, J. Berthon. Paris: Ined, 2003.
xvii + ccxi + 187 pp., ill., ISBN
2-7332-1026-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: \booktitleRepertorium zu
Albrecht von Hallers Korrespondenz
1724--1777, hrsg von Urs Boschung,
Barbara Braun-Bucher, Stephan Hachler,
Anne Kathrin Ott, Hubert Steinke, Martin
Stuber (`Studia Halleriana', VII/1--2).
Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Vol. I: xlviii +
634 pp., ill.; vol. II: 352 pp., ISBN
3-7965-1325-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
Ilva Beretta Book Review: Carlo Allioni,
\booktitleFlora Pedemontana, con
introduzioni di Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi,
Rosanna Caramiello, Giuliana Forneris
(Rariora et Mirabilia 5), Firenze:
Olschki, 2003. 2 vols, xl + 850 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-222-5284-5 . . . . . . . . 251--252
Gino L. Di Mitri Book Review: Rosanna Caramiello e
Giuliana Forneris (ed.), \booktitleLe
opere minori di Carlo Allioni.
Dal`Rariorum Pedemontii Stirpium'
all'`Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam'.
Firenze: Olschki, 2004. 264 pp., ill.,
ISBN 88-222-5378-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Peter Heering Book Review: Oliver Hochadel,
\booktitleÖffentliche Wissenschaft:
Elektrizität in der deutschen Aufklärung.
Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003. 364 pp., ISBN
3-89244-629-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Keiko Kawashima Book Review: Jean-Pierre Poirier,
\booktitleLa Science et l'Amour, Madame
Lavoisier. Paris: Pygmalion, 2004. 246
pp., ISBN 2-85704-926-9 . . . . . . . . 255--256
Valentina Vaccari Book Review: Robert E. Schofield,
\booktitleThe Enlightened Joseph
Priestley. A Study of His Life and Work
from 1773 to 1804. University Park,
Pennsylvania: the Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2004. xv + 461 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-271-02459-3 . . . . . . . . 256--257
Marco Clardi Book Review: Paolo Mazzarello,
\booktitleCostantinopoli 1786: la
congiura e la beffa. l'intrigo
Spallanzani, Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2004. 327 pp., ill., ISBN
88-339-1573-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
Ivano Dal Prete Book Review: Davide Arecco,
\booktitleMongolfiere, Scienze e Lumi
nel tardo Settecento. Cultura accademica
e conoscenze tecniche dalla vigilia
della Rivoluzione Francese all'et\`a
Napoleonica. Bari: Cacucci Editore,
2003. 247 pp., ill., ISBN 88-8422-257-5 259--260
Luigi Pepe Book Review: Roger Hahn, \booktitleLe
Syst\`eme du monde. Pierre Simon
Laplace. Un itinéraire dans la science.
Paris: Gallimard, 2004. 306 pp., ISBN
2-07-072936-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Marco Beretta Book Review: Charles Coulston Gillispie,
\booktitleScience and Polity in France.
The End of the Old Regame. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2004. 601 pp. ISBN 0-691-11849-3.
Charles Coulston Gillispie,
\booktitleScience and Polity in France.
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2004. xii + 752 pp.,
ISBN 0-691-11541-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 261--264
Marc Ratcliff Book Review: \booktitleMarc-Auguste
Pictet 1752--1825. Correspondance
sciences et techniques. Tome IV. Les
Correspondants suisses, italiens,
allemands, établi par René Sigrist.
Gen\`eve: Slatkine, 2004. xii + 1121
pp., ISBN 2-05-101951-7 . . . . . . . . 264--265
Luca Ciancio Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 265--266
Mara Miniati Book Review: Jean-Paul Poirier, Anthony
Turner, \booktitleAntoine d'Abbadie
(Académie des Sciences. Mémoire de la
science 2). S. I.: Académie des Sciences &
les auteurs, 2002. 127 pp., ill., ISBN
2-909344-09-06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
Christian Carletti Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus,
\booktitleMichael Faraday and the
Electrical Century (Revolutions in
Science). Cambridge: Icon Books, 2004.
229 pp., ill., ISBN 1-84046-540-9 . . . 268--269
Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio Book Review: Valeria P. Babini,
\booktitleIl caso Murri. Una storia
italiana. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004. 309
pp., ISBN 88-15-09730-9 . . . . . . . . 269--271
Marianne Sommer Book Review: Natalie Janine Chaoui,
\booktitleMit Messzirkel und
Schrotflinte. Das primatologische Werk
von Adolph Hans Schultz (1891--1976).
Marburg: Basilisken-Presse, 2004. 234
pp., ISBN 3-925347-73-9 . . . . . . . . 271--272
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Robert Marc Friedman,
\booktitleThe Politics of Excellence.
Behind the Nobel Prize in Science. New
York: Times Books, 2001. xv + 379 pp.,
ISBN 0-7167-3103-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Michael Aaron Dennis Book Review: Jeff Hughes, \booktitleThe
Manhattan Project: Big Science and the
Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science).
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. vi + 170
pp., ill., ISBN 1-84046-504-2 . . . . . 273--275
Dominique Tourn\`es General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Franco Minonzio Book Review: Émile Biémont,
\booktitleRitmi del tempo. Astronomia e
calendari, traduzione di Barbara Fujani.
Bologna: Zanichelli, 2002. vii + 344
pp., ISBN 88-08-08931-2 . . . . . . . . 276--281
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Fred Watson,
\booktitleStargazer: the Life and Times
of the Telescope. Crows Nest: Allen &
Unwin, 2004. x + 342 pp., ill., ISBN
1-86508-658-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Luisa Dolza Book Review: I. Gouzévitch, A. Grelon, A.
Karvar (eds.), \booktitleLa formation
des ingégnieurs en perspective. Mod\`eles
de référence et résaux de médiation
XVIIe--XXe si\`ecle. Rennes: Presses
Universitaire de Rennes, 2004. 176 pp.,
ISBN 2-86847-996-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
Mauro Capocci Book Review: L. Garwin and T. Lincoln
(eds.), \booktitleA century of Nature:
twenty-one discoveries that changed
science and the world. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2003. xvm +
360 pp., ISBN 0-226-28415-8 . . . . . . 284--285
Roberta Passione Book Review: David B. Baker (ed.),
\booktitleThick Description and Fine
Texture. Studies in the History of
Psychology. Akron: The University of
Akron Press, 2003. xxii + 249 pp., ISBN
1-931968-02-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Alessandro Ceregato Book Review: Helen M. Rozwadowski and
David K. Van Keuren (eds.),
\booktitleThe Machine in Neptune's
Garden --- Historical Perspectives on
Technology and the Marine Environment.
Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History
Publications/USA, 2004. xxviii + 371
pp., ISBN 0-88135-372-8 . . . . . . . . 286--287
Alberto Meschiari Book Review: Marian Fournier,
\booktitleEarly Microscopes. A
descriptive catalogue. Leiden: Museum
Boerhaave, 2003. 236 pp., ill., ISBN
90-6292-143-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Roberto Mantovani Book Review: \booktitleScience in the
Provinces. A Descriptive Catalogue of
the `Deventer' Collection. Leiden:
Museum Boerhaave, 2002. 214 pp., ill.,
ISBN 90-6292-139-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Francesca Vannozzi Book Review: K. S. Gross,
\booktitleEarly surgical instruments; B.
W. J. Grob, \booktitleThe anatomical
models of Dr. Louis Auzuox; B. W. J.
Grob, \booktitleThe laboratory equipment
of Willem Einthoven. A descriptive
catalogue. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave,
2004. 183 pp., ill., ISBN 90-6292-148-5 290--291
Paola Govoni Book Review: Liborio Dibattista,
\booktitleStoria della scienza e
didattica delle discipline scientifiche.
Roma: Armando Editore, 2004. 175 pp.,
ISBN 88-8358-546-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Mauro Capocci Book Review: Giuliano Pancaldi (a cura
di), \booktitleNatura, cultura,
identit\`a. Le universit\`a e
l'identit\`a europea. Bologna: Studies
in History of Science, 10: 2004. 213
pp., ISBN 88-900162-3-X . . . . . . . . 292--293
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Lorraine Daston and
Fernando Vidal (eds.), \booktitleThe
Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2004. 520 pp., ISBN 0-226-13681-7 . . . 293--294
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Alex Owen, \booktitleThe
Place of Enchantment. British Occultism
and the Culture of Modern. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2004. xiv + 355 pp., ISBN 0-226-64201-1 294--296
Oliver Hochadel Book Review: Dan Burton and David
Grandy, \booktitleMagic, Mystery, and
Science. The Occult in Western
Civilization. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2004. 390 pp., ill.,
ISBN 0-253-21656-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Simon Werrett Book Review: David N. Livingstone,
\booktitlePutting Science in Its Place:
Geographies of Scientific Knowledge.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 234 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-226-48722-9 . . . . . . . . 297--298
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--317
Giuseppina Ferriello The Lifter of Heavy Bodies of Heron of
Alexandria in the Iranian World . . . . 327--345
Federico Tognoni Nature Described: Fabio Colonna and
Natural History Illustration . . . . . . 347--370
Isaia Iannaccone Documents Relatifs l'Histoire de
l'Astronomie Chinoise et Aux Rapports
Scientifiques Entre l'Europe et La Chine
(XVIIE--XIXE Si\`ecles) Conservés La
Biblioth\`eque de l'Observatoire de
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--396
Salvo D'Agostino Il Difficile Ricupero
Dell'Anschaulichkeit di Goethe
Nell'Opera di Helmholtz . . . . . . . . 401--414
Christoph Lthy Museum Spaces and Spaces of Science.
Reflections on the Explanatory
Possibilities of History of Science
Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--429
William R. Shea A New Biography of Galileo . . . . . . . 431--448
Fabio Acerbi Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 449--450
Irene Zavattero Book Review: Paloma Llorente Megas, con
la colaboración de Merc Otero Vidal
(eds.), \booktitleLiber de Causis.
Indice y Concordancia (Lessico
Intellettuale Europeo. XCIII). Firenze:
Olschki, 2004. x + 304, 30, ISBN
88-222-5351-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Francesco Prontera (ed.),
\booktitleTabula Peutingeriana: le
antiche vie del mondo. Firenze: Olschki,
2003. 66 pp., ill., 150, ISBN
88-222-5269-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: R. Rashed and H. Bellosta,
\booktitleIbrhm ibn Sinn. Logique et
géomtrie au Xe si\`ecle.
Leiden/Boston/Köln: Brill, 2000. x + 809
pp., 225, ISBN 90-04-11804-7 . . . . . . 452--453
Franco Minonzio Book Review: Sinesio, \booktitleLa mia
fortunosa navigazione da Alessandria a
Cirene, a cura di Pietro Janni
(Biblioteca di Geographia Antiqua, 1).
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2003.
133 pp., ISBN 88-222-5187-3 . . . . . . 453--455
Adriano Soldano Renaissance and Early Modem Science . . 455--456
Luigi Pepe Book Review: \booktitleBiographica
Copernica, Die Copernicus-Biographien
des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Texte und
Übersetzungen, Bearbeitet von Andreas
Kh?ne und Stefan Kirschner, mit einem
Katalog der F?rben
Copernicus---Portraits von Godula Metze.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004. xxx + 508
pp., ISBN 3-05-003848-9 . . . . . . . . 456--457
Cristina Cndito Book Review: Richard Bsel,
\booktitleOrazio Grassi, architetto e
matematico gesuita (Biblioteca
Blu/Saggi). Roma: Argos, 2004. 352 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-88690-02-6 . . . . . . . . 457--459
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: Sarah Carvallo (ed.),
\booktitleLa controverse entre Stahl et
Leibniz sur la vie, l'organisme et le
mixte. Doutes concernant la Vraie Théorie
Médicale du célébre Stahl, avec les
répliques de Leibniz aux observations
stahliennes. Texte introduit, traduit et
annoté par Sarah Carvallo, Préface de
Michel Serres. Paris: Librairie
Philosophique J. Vrin, 2004. 216 pp.,
28, ISBN 2-7116-1629-0 . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: A. G. Debus (ed.),
\booktitleAlchemy and Early Modern
Chemistry: Papers from Ambix, [s.l.]:
Jeremy Mills Publishing for the Society
for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry, 2004. xv + 543 pp., ISBN
0-9546484-1-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461
Brenno Boccadoro Book Review: Benedetto Di Falco,
\booktitlel'Origine degli alfabeti e dei
numeri, a cura di Gino L. Di Mitri.
Galatina: Congedo Editore, 2004. x + 154
pp., 15, ISBN 88-8086-556-0 . . . . . . 461--462
Federico Tognoni Book Review: Daniela Fausti (ed.),
\booktitleLa complessa scienza dei
Semplici. Atti delle celebrazioni per il
V centenario della nascita di Pietro
Andrea Mattioli, 12 marzo--19 novembre
2001. Atti Accademia Fisiocritici di
Siena, 2001, 20 (suppl.). xv + 278 pp.,
ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Mary Terrall Book Review: Mary E. Fissell,
\booktitleVernacular Bodies: the
Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern
England. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004. x + 284 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-19-926988-2 . . . . . . . . 463--464
Massimo Parodi Book Review: R. L. Friedman and L. O.
Nielsen (eds.), \booktitleThe Medieval
Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and
Modal Theory, 1400--1700. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. 346
pp., ISBN 1-4020-1631-X . . . . . . . . 464--466
Simona Negruzzo Book Review: Paul F. Grendler,
\booktitleThe Universities of the
Italian Renaissance. Baltimore and
London: John Hopkins University Press,
2002. xx + 592 pp., ISBN 0-8018-8055-6 466--467
Pietro Redondi Book Review: Marcus Hellyer,
\booktitleCatholic Physics. Jesuit
Natural Philosophy in Early Modern
Germany. Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 2005. x + 337 pp., ill.,
\$50, ISBN 0-268-03071-5} . . . . . . . 467--468
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jamie C. Kassler,
\booktitleThe Beginnings of the Modern
Philosophy of Music in England. Francis
North's \booktitleA Philosophical Essay
of Musick (1677) with comments of Isaac
Newton, Roger North and in the
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xv + 258 pp.,
ISBN 0-7546-0139-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Rosemary Sweet Book Review: Neil Kenny, \booktitleThe
Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France
and Germany. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004. xv + 484 pp.,
ill., \pounds 68.00, ISBN 0-19-927136-4 470--471
Michele Camerota Book Review: Oddone Longo,
\booktitleScritti su Galileo e il suo
tempo. Padova: Esedra Editrice, 2004.
176 pp., ill., 16, ISBN 88-86413-88-2 471--472
Lorenzo Montemagno Ciseri Book Review: Laura Lunger Knoppers and
Joan B. Landes (eds.),
\booktitleMonstrous Bodies/Political
Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
xi + 304 pp., ill., \$22.50, ISBN
0-8014-8901-6} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Daniela Lamberini Book Review: Francesco Martelli (ed.),
\booktitleIl viaggio in Europa di Pietro
Guerrini (1682--1686). Edizione della
corrispondenza e dei disegni di un
inviato di Cosimo III dei Medici (2
vols.: vol. 1: Carteggio con Apollonio
Bassetti; vol. 2: Disegni e indici).
Firenze: Olschki, 2005. cxxv + 508 pp.,
133 plates, 69,00, ISBN 88-222-5401-5 473--475
Jole Shackelford Book Review: Bruce T. Moran,
\booktitleDistillling Knowledge:
Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific
Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2005. 210 pp.,
\$24.95, ISBN 0-674-01495-2} . . . . . . 475--476
Silvia Ciappi Book Review: Cesare Moretti, Carlo
Stefano Salerno and Sabina Tommasi
Ferroni, \booktitleRicette vetrarie
muranesi. Gasparo Brunoro e il
manoscritto di Danzica. Firenze:
Nardini, 2004. 208 pp., ill., ISBN
88-404-5066-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477
Amparo Sebastin Book Review: Victor Navarro (ed.),
Jerónimo Muñoz. \booktitleIntroduccióna a
la Astronomía y la Geografía. Paterna:
Collecio Oberta, La Imprenta, 2004. 354
pp., ill., ISBN 84-482-3709-9 . . . . . 477--478
Peter Dear Book Review: William R. Shea,
\booktitleDesigning Experiments and
Games of Chance: the Unconventional
Science of Blaise Pascal (Science
History Publications). Canton: Watson
Publishing International, 2003. 354 pp.,
ISBN 0-88135-376-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Federica Favino Book Review: William R. Shea and Mariano
Artigas, \booktitleGalileo in Rome. The
Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x
+ 226 pp., plates, ISBN 0-19-516598-5 479--481
Jens Hyrup Book Review: Maryvonne Spiesser (ed.),
\booktitleUne arithmétique commerciale du
XVe si\`ecle. Le Compendy de la
praticque des nombres de Barthlemy de
Romans. (De Diversis artibus, 70).
Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. 762 pp., ISBN
2-503-51196-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Orsola Rignani Book Review: L. Tampellini,
\booktitleRuggero Bacone. Un passaggio
nodale all'origine della scienza
moderna. Siena: Cantagalli, 2004. 154
pp., ill., ISBN 88-8272-182-5 . . . . . 482--483
Domenico Laurenza Book Review: Ralf Vollmuth,
\booktitleDas anatomische Zeitalter. Die
Anatomie der Renaissance von Leonardo da
Vinci bis Andreas Vesal. München: Verlag,
2004. 185 pp., ill., ISBN 3-929360-70-5 483--484
Carlo Alberto Redi Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Patricia Fara Book Review: Mordechai Feingold,
\booktitleThe Newtonian Moment: Isaac
Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.
New York Oxford: New York Public
Library/Oxford University Press, 2004.
xvi + 224 pp., ill., ISBN 0-19-517734-7 485--486
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter
Jones, Christa Knellwolf and Lain
McCalman (eds.), \booktitleThe
Enlightenment World, London and New
York: Routledge, 2004. xx + 714 pp.,
ill. ISBN 0-415-21575-7 . . . . . . . . 487--488
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Cinzio Gibin (a cura di),
\booktitleLettere di Giuseppe Olivi
(1769--1795) naturalista. Conselve (PD):
Edizioni Think Adv, 2004. 180 pp., ill.,
ISBN 88-8354-002-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Raffaella Seligardi Book Review: \booktitleAntoine-Laurent
Lavoisier, Opuscoli fisici e chimici, a
cura di Marco Ciardi e Marco Taddia.
Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2005.
xv + 286 pp., ill., 45,00, ISBN
88-7395-012-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Valentina Vaccari Book Review: Ben Marsden,
\booktitleWatt's Perfect Engine. Steam
and the Age of Invention (Revolutions in
Science). Royston: Icon Books, 2004. x +
214 pp., ill., ISBN 1-84046-546-8 . . . 490--491
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Immanuel Kant,
\booktitleGeografia fisica. Riproduzione
anastatica dell'edizione Silvestri,
Milano, 1807--1811. Introduzione di
Franco Farinelli. Bergamo: Leading
Edizioni, 2004. 3 vols.; 1 vol.: xxiv +
xxxv + 581 pp., ill., 2 vol.: 400 pp., 3
vol.: 508 pp., ISBN 88-86996-10-1 . . . 491--493
Angela Bandinelli Book Review: Russell McCormmach,
\booktitleSpeculative Truth. Henry
Cavendish, Natural Philosophy and the
Rise of Modern Theoretical Science.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004. x + 258 pp., ill., ISBN
0-19-516004-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Rubn Amengual Book Review: Alessandro Nuvolari,
\booktitleThe Making of Steam Power
Technology. A Study of Technical Change
during the British Industrial
Revolution. Eindhoven: Eindhoven
University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp.,
ISBN 90-386-2077-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Marc J. Ratcliff Book Review: Concetta Pennuto (ed.),
Antonio Vallisneri, \booktitleQuaderni
di osservazioni (Sezione I, Volume 1
dell'Edizione nazionale delle opere di
Antonio Vallisneri). Firenze: Olschki,
2004. cv + 258 pp., ISBN 88-222-5331-0 495--497
George Rousseau Book Review: Neil Vickers,
\booktitleColeridge and the doctors,
1795--1806 (Oxford English Monographs).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. 198 pp.,
ISBN 0-19-927117-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Terry Gourvish Modem and Contemporary Science . . . . . 498--499
Stefano Casati Book Review: \booktitleJean-Baptiste
Biot et la météorite de l'Aigle, Paris:
Académie des sciences, 2003 . . . . . . . 499--501
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Carlo Luciano Bonaparte,
\booktitleIconografia della Fauna
Italica per le quattro classi dei
Vertebrati (a cura di Alessandro Minelli
e Augusto Vigna Taglianti). Treviso:
Canova, 2003. 3 vols., 460 + 1116 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-8409-068-7 . . . . . . . . 501--502
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Amy Dahan and Dominique
Pestre (eds.), \booktitleLes sciences
pour la guerre, 1940--1960. Paris:
Editions de l'École des hautes tudes en
sciences sociales, 2004. 401 pp., ISBN
2-7132-2015-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Andrea Del Centina e
Alessandra Fiocca, \booktitlel'Archivio
di Guglielmo Libri dalla sua dispersione
ai fondi della Biblioteca Moreniana, con
il Catalogo del Fondo Carte Libri, a
cura di G. Adini e M. L. Tanganelli
(Collana Cultura e Memoria). Firenze:
Olschki, 2004. xvi + 407 pp., ill., ISBN
88-222-5394-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
James E. McClellan Book Review: Marie Jaisson,
\booktitleFondations, Prix et
Subventions de l'Académie des Sciences
(1916--1996). Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. 2
vols., 1363 pp., ISBN 2-503-52160-6 . . 504--506
Mauro Capocci Book Review: Claudia Mantovani,
\booktitleRigenerare la societ\`a.
l'Eugenetica in Italia dalle origini
ottocentesche agli anni Trenta.
Prefazione di Ernesto Galli della
Loggia. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino,
2004. 404 pp., 25, ISBN 88-498-0769-4 506--507
Donald L. Opitz Book Review: Jack Meadows, \booktitleThe
Victorian Scientist: the Growth of a
Profession. London: the British Library,
2004. vi + 202 pp., ill., \pounds 16.95,
ISBN 0-7123-0894-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 507--508
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Carmela Morabito,
\booktitleLa mente nel cervello.
Un'introduzione storica alla
neuropsicologia cognitiva. Roma/Bari:
Laterza, 2004. xvi + 172 pp., ill., ISBN
88-420-7472-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--510
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Fabrizio Rasera (ed.),
\booktitleLe et del museo. Storia,
uomini, collezioni del Museo Civico di
Rovereto. Rovereto: Edizioni Osiride,
2004. 413 pp., ISBN 88-7498-028-0 . . . 510--511
Antonio Borrelli Book Review: Salvatore Tommasi,
\booktitleIl rinnovamento della medicina
in Italia. Introduzione di Marco Segala.
Bibliografia a cura di Francesco Masedu
(Cultura medica, 1). l'Aquila: Facolt di
Medicina e Chirurgia, 2003. l + 313 pp 511--512
Raffaella Santi General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513
Pasquale Tucci Book Review: Graziella Buccellati and
Benedetta Manetti (eds.),
\booktitleEnergia, luce, movimento. Le
collezioni storiche del Dipartimento di
Elettrotecnica. Le collezioni storiche
del Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, a
cura di Andrea Silvestri. Milano:
Politecnico di Milano, 2002. 228 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-7398-001-5 . . . . . . . . 513--515
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Romano Paolo Coppini and
Alessandro Tosi (a cura di),
\booktitleLa Sapienza di Pisa. Pisa:
Edizioni Plus: 2004. 208 pp., ill., ISBN
88-8492-238-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Gilberto Corbellini,
\booktitleBreve storia delle idee di
salute e malattia (Le Bussole). Roma:
Carocci, 2004. 144 pp., 9,00. ISBN
88-430-3108-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--517
Giorgio Strano Book Review: John Mary Gribbin,
\booktitleThe Men Who Measured the
Universe. Crows Nest (NSW): Allen Unwin,
2004. x + 134 pp., ill., UK \pounds
6.99, ISBN 1-84046-536-0 . . . . . . . . 517--518
Neeraja Sankaran Book Review: Frederic Lawrence Holmes,
\booktitleInvestigative Pathways.
Patterns and Stages in the Careers of
Experimental Scientists (New Haven and
London: Yale Univ. Press, 2004), pp. xx
+ 225, ISBN 0-300-10075-2 . . . . . . . 518--519
Michele Vista Book Review: Pierre Laszlo,
\booktitleStoria del sale. Miti,
cammini, saperi. Roma: Donzelli, 2004. v
+ 183 pp., ill., 24,50, ISBN
88-7989-891-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--521
Romana Martorelli Vico Book Review: Micrologus. Natura, Scienze
e Societ\`a Medievali, XIII.
\booktitleLa pelle umana/The Human Skin.
Firenze: Sismel --- Edizioni del
Galluzzo, 2005. 772 pp., plates, 60.
ISSN 1123-2560, ISBN 88-8450-143-1 . . . 521--522
Isaia Iannaccone Book Review: Joseph Needham,
\booktitleScience and Civilisation in
China, vol. VII:2, General Conclusions
and Reflections, ed. K. G. Robinson.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004. + 283 pp., ISBN 0-521-08732-5 . . 522--524
Cinzio Gibin Book Review: Marco Piccolino,
\booktitleLo zufolo e la cicala.
Divagazioni galileiana tra la scienza e
la sua storia. Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2005. 359 pp., ill., 26,00,
ISBN 88-339-1612-X . . . . . . . . . . . 524--525
Marco Bresadola Book Review: Roy Porter, \booktitleBreve
ma veridica storia della medicina
occidentale (trad. it. Gian Carlo
Brioschi e Melania Mascarino). Roma:
Carocci, 2004. 229 pp., ill., 16,50,
ISBN 88-430-3114-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526
Vincenzo Fano Book Review: Antonio Sparzani,
\booktitleRelativit\`a, quante storie.
Un percorso scientifico-letterario tra
relativo e assoluto. Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2003. 321 pp., ill., 30,
ISBN 88-339-1457-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 526--528
John Friesen Book Review: Paul Wood (ed.),
\booktitleScience and Dissent in
England, 1688--1945. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2004. xiv + 274 pp., ISBN 0-7546-3718-2 528--529
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--538
Riccardo Bell\`e Il Corpus Ottico Mauroliciano: Origini e
Sviluppo. (Italian) [The Optical Corpus
Mauroliciano: Origins and Development] 7--29
Patrick J. Boner Kepler on the Origins of Comets:
Applying Earthly Knowledge To Celestial
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--47
Esther Diana La Biblioteca dell'Ospedale di Santa
Maria Nuova di Firenze . . . . . . . . . 49--100
Jérôme Lamy La Carte du Ciel et la Création du
'Bureau des Dames' \`a l'Observatoire de
Toulouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--120
Michele Camerota Historia Magistra Scientiae . . . . . . 121--132
Jole Shackelford Reading Bodies for Epistemology: Art and
Science in the Scientific Revolution . . 133--150
Silke Ackermann Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 151--151
Valentina Gazzaniga Book Review: Isabella Andorlini and
Arnaldo Marcone, \booktitleMedicina,
medico e societ\`a nel mondoantico.
Grassina: Le Monnier Universit\`a, 2004.
v + 268 pp., ill., ISBN 88-00-86088-5 152--153
Caroline Petit Book Review: Karl-Heinz Leven,
\booktitleAntike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.
München: C. H. Beck, 2005. xv + 967 pp.,
ISBN 3-406-52891-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Cristina Viano Book Review: Ilaria Ramelli (ed.),
\booktitleCorpus Hermeticum. Edizione e
commento di A. D. Nock e A.-J.
Festugi\`ere, edizione dei testi
ermetici copti e commento di I. Ramelli,
testo greco, latino e copto (Il pensiero
occidentale). Milano: Bompiani, 2005.
1627 pp., ISBN 88-452-3370-7 . . . . . . 154--155
Michela Pereira Book Review: Anna Rodolfi, \booktitleIl
concetto di materia nell'opera di
Alberto Magno. Firenze: Sismel, 2004. xx
+ 220 pp., ISBN 88-8450-126-1 . . . . . 155--156
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Lucio Russo, \booktitleThe
forgotten revolution: how science was
born in 300 BC and why it had to be
reborn, with the collaboration of the
translator, Silvio Levy. Berlin:
Springer, 2004. 487 pp., ill., ISBN
3-540-20068-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: J. Schönbeck,
\booktitleEuklid, Vita Mathematica (Band
12). Basel/Boston/Berlin: Verlag, 2003.
x + 264 pp., ISBN 3-7643-6584-6 . . . . 157--159
Berenice Cavarra Book Review: Cristina Viano (ed.),
\booktitlel'Alchimie et ses racines
philosophiques. La tradition gr\`ecque
et arabe (Histoire des Doctrines de
l'Antiquité classique, Directeurs: Jean
Pépin et Luc Brisson). Paris: Vrin, 2005.
240 pp., ISBN 2-7116-1754-8 . . . . . . 159--160
Michele Camerota Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 160--162
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Anna Cassini,
\booktitleGio: Domenico Cassini. Uno
Scienziato del Seicento. Pinerolo: Arti
Grafiche Alzani, 2003. 420 pp., ill. +
plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Guido Giglioni Book Review: Antonio Clericuzio,
L\booktitlea macchina del mondo. Teorie
e pratiche scientifiche dal Rinascimento
a Newton. Roma: Carocci, 2005. 378 pp.,
ill., ISBN 88-430-3414-6 . . . . . . . . 163--164
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Stéphane Garcia,
\booktitleÉlie Diodati et Galilée.
Naissance d'un réseau scientifique dans
l'Europe du XVIIe si\`ecle. Preface
d'Isabelle Pantin. Firenze: Olschki,
2004. xx + 448 pp., ill., ISBN
88-222-5416-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Gian Luigi Betti Book Review: Atlee Naess,
\booktitleGalileo Galilei --- When the
World Stood Still. Berlin-New York:
Springer, 2005. v + 221 pp., ill., ISBN
3-540-21961-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Marco Panza,
\booktitleNewton et les origines de
l'analyse: 1664--1666. Paris: Blanchard,
2005. xv + 548 pp., ill., ISBN
2-85367-230-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
William Dodd Book Review: Gail Kern Paster,
\booktitleHumoring the Body. Emotions
and the Shakespearean Stage. Chicago and
London: Chicago University Press, 2004.
xvi + 274 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-64847-8 167--169
Yasmin Haskell Book Review: Gianna Pomata and Nancy
Siraisi (eds.), \booktitleHistoria:
Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern
Europe. Cambridge (Massachusetts): The
MIT Press, 2005. vm + 490 pp., ill.,
ISBN 0-262-16229-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Paula De Vos Book Review: Londa Schiebinger and
Claudia Swan (eds.), \booktitleColonial
Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics
in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
vi + 346 pp., ill., ISBN 0-8122-3827-3 170--171
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Jole R. Shackelford,
\booktitleA Philosophical Path for
Paracelsian Medecine. The Ideas,
Intellectual Context, and Influence of
Petrus Severinus (1540--1602).
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum press,
2004. 520 pp., ill., ISBN 87-7289-817-8 171--173
Susana Gómez Lopez Book Review: Emanuele Zinato,
\booktitleLa scienza dissimulata nel
Seicento (premessa di Paolo Rossi).
Napoli: Liguori, 2005. 140 pp., ISBN
88-207-3704-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Rebecca Messbarger Book Review: Judith P. Zinsser (ed.),
\booktitleMen, Women, and the Birthing
of Modern Science. DeKalb: Northern
Illinois University Press, 2005. v + 216
pp., ISBN 978-0-87580-340-1 . . . . . . 174--175
Scott Mandelbrote Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Margócsy Daniel Book Review: Renée E. Kistemaker, Natalya
Kopaneva, Debora J. Meijers and Georgy
V. Vilibankhov (eds.), \booktitleThe
Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences
in St. Petersburgh c. 1725--1760:
Introduction and Interpretation (History
of Sciences and Scholarship in the
Netherlands 6). Amsterdam: Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 2005. xii + 348 pp., ill.,
Dvd. ISBN 906844265 . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Nestore Pirillo Book Review: Raphael Lagier,
\booktitleLes races humaines selon Kant.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
2004. vii + 200 pp., ISBN
978-2-13-054657-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Kenneth Bertrams Book Review: Janis Langins,
\booktitleConserving the Enlightenment:
French Military Engineering from Vauban
to the Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: The
MIT Press, 2004. xv + 532 pp., ISBN
0-262-12258-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Maria Toscano,
\booktitleAlberto Fortis nel Regno di
Napoli: naturalismo e antiquaria
1783--1791, Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2004.
182 pp., ISBN 88-8422-362-8 . . . . . . 180--181
Iwan Rhys Morus Modem and Contemporary Science . . . . . 182--182
Antonio Borrelli Book Review: Raffaele Colapietra,
\booktitlePer la biografia di Salvatore
Tommasi. Con un intervento di Ferdinando
Di Orio (Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia
Patria. Studi e testi, 28). l'Aquila:
Edizioni Libreria Colacchi, 2004. 129
pp., ISBN 88-88676-19-8 . . . . . . . . 182--184
Patrick Zylberman Book Review: Giorgio Cosmacini,
\booktitleIl medico materialista: vita e
pensiero di Jakob Moleschott. Roma:
Laterza, 2005. x + 189 pp., ISBN
88-420-7516-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Giovanni Battimelli Book Review: James W. Cronin (ed.),
\booktitleFermi Remembered. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii +
287 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-12111-9 . . . 185--186
Stefania Elena Carnemolla Book Review: Marco Di Giovanni,
\booktitleScienza e potenza. Miti della
guerra moderna, istituzioni scientifiche
e politica di massa nell'Italia
fascista. 1935--1945. Torino: Zamorani,
2005. 308 pp., ISBN 88-7158-132-6 . . . 186--187
Mauro Capocci Book Review: Alan H. Goodman, Deborah
Heath and M. Susan Lindee (eds.),
\booktitleGenetic Nature/Culture:
Anthropology and Science Beyond the
Two-Culture Divide. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2003. xv + 311 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-520-23793-5 . . . . . . . . 187--188
Alessandra Ferraresi Book Review: Paola Govoni, \booktitleUn
pubblico per la scienza. La divulgazione
scientifica nell'Italia in formazione.
Roma: Carocci, 2002. 351 pp., ill., ISBN
88-430-2321-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Michael Hagner,
\booktitleGeniale Gehirne. Zur
Geschichte der Elitegehirnforschung.
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2004. 376
pp., ill., ISBN 3-89244-649-0 . . . . . 189--190
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Gerald Holton,
\booktitleVictory and Vexation in
Science. Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and
Others. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2005. xiv + 230 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-674-01519-3 . . . . . . . . 191--192
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Olof Ljungström,
\booktitleOscariansk antropologi.
Etnografi, förhistoria och rasforskning
under sent 1800-tal, Hedemora, Gidlunds
Förlag, 2004, 496 pp., ill., ISBN
91-7844-635-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
Giuliano Pancaldi Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus,
\booktitleWhen Physics Became King.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 303 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-226-54202-5 . . . . . . . . 193--194
Staffan Müller-Wille Book Review: Claudio Pogliano,
\booktitlel'Ossesione della razza:
Antropologia e genetica nel XX secolo.
Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2005. 582
pp., ISBN 88-7642-146-7 . . . . . . . . 194--195
Marco Piccolino Book Review: Richard Rapport,
\booktitleNerve endings, the discovery
of the synapse. New York: Norton, 2005.
240 pp., ill., ISBN 0-393-06019-5;
Elliot S. Valenstein, \booktitleThe war
of the soups and the sparks, the
discovery of neurotransmitters and the
dispute over how nerves communicate. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
xviii + 237 pp., ill., ISBN
0-231-13588-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
Raimonda Riccini Book Review: Giorgio Zanrosso,
\booktitleDirigibili 1852--1937. Dal
Giffard n. 1 all'Hindenburg. Vicenza:
Editrice Veneta, 2004. 254 pp., ill.,
ISBN 88-8449-225-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Owen Gingerich General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Peter Heering Book Review: Hasok Chang,
\booktitleInventing Temperature.
Measurement and Scientific Progress
(Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of
Science). Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004. 304 pp., ill., ISBN
0-19-517127-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Cornelius Borck Book Review: Mariacarla Gadebusch
Bondio, \booktitleMedizinische Ästhetik.
Kosmetik und plastische Chirurgie
zwischen Antike und früher Neuzeit.
München: Fink Verlag, 2005. 238 pp.,
ill., ISBN 3-7705-4101-4 . . . . . . . . 202--203
Alberto Meschiari Book Review: Brian Bracegirdle,
\booktitleA catalogue of the Microscopy
Collections at the Science Museum,
London. CD-ROM available from Savona
Books, 400 Seawall Lane, Haven Sands,
North Cotes, Grimsby DN36 5XE, UK . . . 203--204
Alexander Marr Book Review: Lorraine Daston (ed.),
\booktitleThings that Talk: Object
Lessons from Art and Science. New York:
Zone Books, 2004. 448 pp., ISBN
1-890951-43-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Cristina C\`andito Book Review: Marco Franciosi (ed.),
\booktitleProspettiva e geometriadello
spazio (Quaderni del Centro Studi
Enriques, 2). Sarzana: Agor\`a edizioni,
2005. 280 pp., ill., ISBN 88-87218-98-6 205--207
Franco Motta Book Review: Yasmin A. Haskell,
\booktitleLoyola's Bees. Ideology and
Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic
Poetry. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press --- The British
Academy, 2003 (British Academy
Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs). x +
354 pp., ill., ISBN 0-19-726284-8 . . . 207--208
Emilio Sergio Book Review: Thomas Holden,
\booktitleThe Architecture of Matter.
Galileo to Kant. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 2004. 305 pp., ISBN 0-19-926326-4 208--209
Nina Wormbs Book Review: Thomas P. Hughes,
\booktitleHuman-built world: how to
think about technology and culture.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2004. x + 223 pp., ill., ISBN
0-226-35933-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Jochen Büttner Book Review: Wolfgang Lef\`evre (ed.),
\booktitlePicturing Machines,
1400--1700. Cambridge: The MIT Press,
2004. vi + 347 pp., ISBN 0-262-12269-3 210--212
Paola Giacomoni Book Review: Michel Meulders,
\booktitleHelmholtz. Dal secolo dei Lumi
alle neuroscienze. Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2005. 304 pp., ill., ISBN
88-339-1579-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
José Pardo Tomás Book Review: Giuseppe Olmi (ed.),
\booktitleRappresentare il corpo. Arte e
anatomia da Leonardo all'Illuminismo.
Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2004.
326 pp. ill., ISBN 88-7395-094-9 . . . . 213--214
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: Nico Pitrelli and Giancarlo
Sturloni (eds.), \booktitleLa
comunicazione della scienza. Atti del I
e II Convegno Nazionale. Introduzione di
Pietro Greco, Prolusione di Paolo Rossi.
Roma: Zadigroma Editore, 2004. 368 pp.,
ISBN 88-88734-09-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Mario Micheletti Book Review: Carlo Augusto Viano,
\booktitleLe imposture degli antichi e i
miracoli dei moderni. Torino: Einaudi,
2005. 157 pp., ISBN 88-06-16098-2 . . . 215--217
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--228
Michael Segre Letter To the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Mara Miniati Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
Simone Contardi The Origins of a Scientific Institution.
Felice Fontana and the Birth of the Real
Museo Di Fisica e Storia Naturale Di
Firenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--263
Curzio Cipriani Felice Fontana and the Formation of the
Naturalistic Collections of the Imperial
Royal Museum of Physics and Natural
History of Florence . . . . . . . . . . 265--294
Anna Märker The Anatomical Models of La Specola:
Production, Uses, and Reception . . . . 295--321
Paola Bertucci Public Utility and Spectacular Display:
the Physics Cabinet of the Royal Museum
in Florence (1775) . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
Renato G. Mazzolini Visitors To Florence's R. Museum of
Physics and Natural History From
September 1784 To October 1785 . . . . . 337--348
Giuseppe Olmi `A Wonderful Collection Indeed!': the
Royal Museum of Florence in the
Testimony of Two Travellers . . . . . . 349--368
Ezio Vaccari Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Didier Kahn Le Contexte des Débats Sur Le Clonage:
Art et Nature, de Zosime de Panopolis
\`a Goethe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--378
Anastasia Maravela-Solbakk Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 379--380
Aude Doody Book Review: Mary Beagon (ed.),
\booktitleThe Elder Pliny on the Human
Animal (Natural History, book 7).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. xxii +
515 pp., ISBN 0-19-815065-2 . . . . . . 380--381
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Robert Bork, Scott
Montgomery, Carol Neuman De Vegvar,
Ellen Shortell and Steven Walton (eds.),
\booktitleDe Re Metallica, the Uses of
Metal in the Middle Ages.
Aldershot/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
442 pp., ill., ISBN 0-7546-5048-0 . . . 381--382
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: Jean Christianidis (ed.),
\booktitleClassics in the History of
Greek Mathematics (Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science 240).
Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 2004. x
+ 461 pp., \euro 176.80, ISBN
1-4020-0081-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Anthony Hunt Book Review: Piers D. Mitchell,
\booktitleMedicine in the Crusades:
Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval
Surgeon. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004. ix + 293 pp., ill., ISBN
0-521-84455-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--385
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: Roshdi Rashed,
\booktitleGeometry and Dioptrics in
Classical Islam. London: Al-Furqän
Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. xiv +
1178 + vi pp., ISBN 1-873992-99-8 . . . 385--386
Robert Ralley Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 386--387
Romano Gatto Book Review: Veronica Gavagna e Carlotta
Leone (eds.), \booktitleGiovan Battista
della Porta: Elementorum curvilineorum
libri tres. Napoli e Roma: Edizioni
scientifiche italiane, 2005. xxxiv + 178
pp., ill. ISBN 88-495-1060-8 . . . . . . 387--388
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: Luigi Guerrini (ed.),
\booktitleFederico Cesi. Apiarium. Testo
e traduzione. Vol. I: Roma: Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, 2005. xx + 265 pp.
ISBN 88-218-0950-1; Vol. II: Roma:
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2006.
xxiv + 135 pp. ISBN 88-218-0963-3 . . . 388--390
Oreste Trabucco Book Review: Luigi Ingaliso (ed.),
\booktitleGiovan Filippo Ingrassia:
Informatione del pestifero et contagioso
morbo. Milano: Angeli, 2005. 650 pp.,
ISBN 88-464-7290-X . . . . . . . . . . . 390--392
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Geert H. Janssen,
\booktitleCreaturen van de macht.
Patronage bij Willem Frederik van Nassau
(1613--1664). Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, 2005. 304 pp., ill.,
ISBN 50-5356-787-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Elio Nenci Book Review: Ian Maclean (ed.),
\booktitleGirolamo Cardano: De libris
propriis. The editions of 1544, 1550,
1557, 1562, with supplementary material.
Milano: Franco Angeli, 2004. 400 pp.,
ISBN 88-464-5449-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Amir R. Alexander Book Review: Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline
Stedall (eds.), \booktitleJohn Pell
(1611--1685) and His Correspondence with
Sir Charles Cavendish. The Mental World
of an Early Modern Mathematician.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
664 pp., ISBN 0-19-856484-8 . . . . . . 394--395
John Henry Book Review: William R. Newman,
\booktitleAtoms and Alchemy: Chymistry
and the Experimental Origins of the
Scientific Revolution. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii
+ 250 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-57696-5 . . 395--396
Florike Egmond Book Review: David Pegler and David
Freedberg (eds.), \booktitleThe paper
museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. Series
B-Natural History. Part II: Fungi.
London: Royal Collection Enterprises,
2005. 3 vols. viii + 1028 pp., ill.,
ISBN 1-905375-05-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 396--398
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Mauro Pesce,
\booktitlel'Ermeneutica biblica di
Galileo e le due strade della teologia
cristiana (Uomini e dottrine, 43). Roma:
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005.
vii + 240 pp., ISBN 88-8498-207-3 . . . 398--399
Marco Bresadola Book Review: Mauro Simonazzi,
\booktitleLa malattia inglese. La
melanconia nella tradizione filosofica e
medica dell'Inghilterra moderna.
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004. 455 pp., ISBN
88-15-09759-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Silvia Parigi Book Review: Monica Uguaglia (ed.),
\booktitleLeonardo Garzoni: Trattati
della calamita. Milano: Angeli, 2005.
352 pp., ISBN 88-464-7132-6 . . . . . . 400--401
Federico Tognoni Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--403
Valentina Vaccari Book Review: Mary Ellen Bowden and Lisa
Rosner, \booktitleJoseph Priestley,
Radical Thinker: A Catalogue to
Accompany the Exhibit at the Chemical
Heritage Foundation Commemorating the
200th Anniversary of the Death of Joseph
Priestley. Philadelphia: Chemical
Heritage Foundation, 2005. 72 pp., ill.,
ISBN 0-941901-38-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Jeanne Peiffer Book Review: Frans A. Cerulus (ed.),
\booktitleDie Werke von Daniel Bernoulli
(Band 8. Technologie II). Basel & c.:
Birkhäuser Verlag, 2004. xx + 360 pp.,
ill., ISBN 3-7643-7007-6 . . . . . . . . 404--405
Sonia Zanier Book Review: Ivano Dal Prete (ed.),
\booktitleAntonio Vallisneri,
Miglioramenti e correzioni d'alcune
esperienze ed osservazioni del Signor
Redi; Mauro De Zan (ed.),
\booktitleCarlo Francesco Cogrossi ---
Antonio Vallisneri, Nuova Idea del male
contagioso de' buoi (Sezione I, Volume 5
dell'Edizione Nazionale delle opere di
Antonio Vallisneri). Firenze: Olschki,
2005. vii + 173 pp., ISBN 88-222-5484-8 406--407
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Raffaele Giura Longo e
Pasquale Longo (eds.), \booktitleLa
Expedición Malaspina, 1789--1794. Bari:
Cacucci, 2002--2004. vol. I:
\booktitleDa Cadice ad Acapulco (2002),
186 pp.; vol. II: \booktitleDalle
Filippine a Cadice (2004), 186 pp., ISBN
88-8422-180-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
John Roche Book Review: Roger Hahn,
\booktitlePierre Simon Laplace
(1749--1827): a determined scientist.
Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University
Press, 2005. x + 310 pp., ISBN
0-674-01892-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--410
Marc J. Ratcliff Book Review: Thierry Hoquet,
\booktitleBuffon: histoire naturelle et
philosophie. Paris: Honoré Champion,
2005. 809 pp., ISBN 2-7453-1246-4 . . . 410--411
Angela Bandinelli Book Review: Mi Gyung Kim,
\booktitleAffinity, That Elusive Dream.
A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,
2003. 599 pp., ISBN 0-262-11273-6 . . . 411--412
Jamel Ostwald Book Review: Brett D. Steele and Tamera
Dorland (eds.), \booktitleThe Heirs of
Archimedes. Science and the Art of War
through the Age of Enlightenment (Dibner
Institute studies in the history of
science and technology). Cambridge
(Mass.): The MIT Press, 2005. 397 pp.:
ill., ISBN 0-262-19516-X . . . . . . . . 412--413
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Hubert Steinke,
\booktitleIrritating Experiments.
Haller's Concept and the European
Controversy on Irritability and
Sensibility. 1750--1790. Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2005. 354 pp., ill., ISBN
90-420-1852-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Jaume Navarro Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 415--416
Stefano Poggi Book Review: Thomas Bach and Olaf
Breidbach (eds.),
\booktitleNaturphilosophie nach
Schelling, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt:
Verlag, 2005. xii + 836 pp., ISBN
3-7728-2255-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Naomi Beck Book Review: Claude Blanckaert,
\booktitleLa nature de la société.
Organicisme et sciences sociales au XIXe
si\`ecle. Paris: l'Harmattan, 2004. 158
pp., ISBN 2-7475-7691-4 . . . . . . . . 418--419
Peter Koehler Book Review: Cornelius Borck,
\booktitleHirnströme. Eine
Kulturgeschichte der
Elektroenzephalographie. Göttinger:
Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 382 pp., ill.,
ISBN 3-89244-893-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Margaret Beetham Book Review: Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan
Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes,
Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R.
Topham, \booktitleScience in the
Nineteenth-Century periodical: reading
the magazine of nature (Cambridge
studies in Nineteenth Century literature
and culture; 45). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. xi + 329 pp.:
ill., ISBN 0-521-83637-9 . . . . . . . . 420--421
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Francesco Cassata,
\booktitleMolti, sani e forti.
l'eugenetica in Italia, Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2006. 396 pp., ISBN
88-339-1644-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Harry Collins,
\booktitleGravity's Shadow. The Search
for Gravitational Waves. Chicago &
London: University of Chicago Press,
2004. xxii + 870 pp., ISBN 0-226-11378-7 422--423
Stefano Gattei Book Review: Steve W. Fuller,
\booktitleKuhn vs Popper: the struggle
for the soul of science (Revolutions in
Science). Duxford: Icon Books, 2003. iv
+ 236 pp., ISBN 1-84046-468-2 . . . . . 423--425
Roberto Maiocchi Book Review: Giovanni Paoloni e
Raffaella Simili (eds.), \booktitleI
Lincei nell'Italia unita. Roma:
Bretschneider, 2004. 255 pp., ISBN
88-7689-192-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--426
Ornella Pompeo Faracovi Book Review: Paolo Parrini,
\booktitleFilosofia e scienza
nell'Italia del Novecento. Figure,
correnti, battaglie. Milano: Guerini e
associati, 2004. 390 pp., ISBN
88-8335-539-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
Vittorio Marchis Book Review: Pietro Redondi e Paola
Zocchi (eds.), \booktitleMilano 1906.
l'Esposizione internazionale del
Sempione. La scienza, La cittä, la vita.
Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2006. 268
pp., ISBN 88-8335-777-9 . . . . . . . . 427--428
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Henry Nielsen Book Review: Enrico Baraldi, Hjalmar
Fors and Anders Houltz (eds.),
\booktitleTaking Place. The spatial
contexts of science, technology and
business. Sagamore Beach: Watson
Publishing International, 2006. xxii +
402 pp., ISBN 0-88135-252-7 . . . . . . 430--431
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Ruth Barcan,
\booktitleNudity. A Cultural Anatomy
(Dress, Body, Culture). Oxford-New York:
Berg, 2004. xii + 308 pp., ill., ISBN
1-85973-872-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--432
Jan Golinski Book Review: Peter J. Bowler and Iwan
Rhys Morus, \booktitleMaking modern
science: A historical survey. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
viii + 529 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-06860-9 432--433
Simone Zacchini Book Review: Pierre Hadot, \booktitleIl
velo di Iside. Storia dell'i-dea di
natura. Torino: Einaudi, 2006. xvii +
332 pp., ill., ISBN 88-06-17235-2 . . . 433--435
Manolis Patiniotis Book Review: Ekmeleddin Ihsano\uglu,
\booktitleScience, technology and
learning in the Ottoman Empire. Western
Influence, local institutions, and the
transfer of knowledge. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004. 352 pp., ill., ISBN
0-86078-924-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Cornelius Borck Book Review: Bettina Von Jagow and
Florian Steger (eds.),
\booktitleLiteratur und Medizin: Ein
Lexikon. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht
2005. 492 pp., ISBN 3-525-21018-3 . . . 436--437
Matthew Eddy Book Review: Frank A. J. L. James,
\booktitle'The Common Purposes of Life'.
Science and society at the Royal
Institution of Great Britain. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002. xiv + 456 pp., ill., ISBN
0-7546-0960-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Anna Toscano Book Review: Kennet F. Kiple (ed.),
\booktitleThe Cambridge historical
dictionary of disease. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii +
412 pp., ISBN 0-521-53026-1 . . . . . . 438--439
Teresa Numerico Book Review: Jeremy M. Norman (ed.),
\booktitleFrom Gutenberg to the
Internet. A Sourcebook on the History of
Information Technology. Novato (CA):
\urlhistoryofscience.com, 2005. xvi +
900 pp., ill., ISBN 0-930405-87-0 . . . 439--440
Domenico Laurenza Book Review: Giuseppe Olmi e Giuseppe
Papagno (eds.), \booktitleLa natura e il
corpo: studi in memoria di Attilio
Zanca. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2006. xiv
+ 244 pp., ISBN 88-222-5467-8 . . . . . 440--442
Maria Conforti Book Review: Margaret Pelling and Scott
Mandelbrote (eds.), \booktitleThe
Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine
and Science, 1500--2000. Essays for
Charles Webster. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2005. xv + 376 pp., ISBN 0-7546-3933-9 442--443
Ivano Dal Prete Book Review: Martin J. S. Rudwick,
\booktitleThe New Science of Geology.
Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age
of Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate: 2004.
xviii + 316 pp., ISBN 0-86078-958-6 . . 443--444
Jean-François Gauvin Book Review: Anthony J. Turner,
\booktitleApr\`es Gassendi. Son
influence et sa reputation, essai, avec
l'histoire des collections scientifiques
et un catalogue des instruments et
appareils concernant les sciences
exactes appartenant au Musée Gassendi \`a
Digne-les-Bains. Digne-les-Bains: Musée
Gassendi, 2006. 323 pp., ISBN
2-912450-07-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--453
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 455--460
Robert Hannah The Meridiana of Ulugh Beg in Hagia
Sophia, Constantinople . . . . . . . . . 7--14
Joost Mertens Charles Bourgeois (1759--1832), His
Antinewtonian Colour Theory and the
Reconcilement of Art and Science . . . . 15--48
Fabien Locher L'Émergence d'une Techno-Science de
l'Environnement Océanique (1860--1914) 49--68
Marco Toscano An `Abstruse' Doctrine: the
Historical--Philosophical Meaning of
Einstein's Relativity in Federigo
Enriques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--95
Armando De Palma and
Germana Pareti The Ways of Metaphor in Neuroscience, or
Being on the Right or Wrong Track . . . 97--124
Bernhard Kleeberg Dr. Haeckel and Mr. Hyde. New Works on
19th and 20th-Century German Biology and
Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138
Fabio Acerbi Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 139--140
Lorenzo Perilli Book Review: Ilsetraut Hadot,
\booktitleArts libraux et philosophie
dans la pensé antique: contribution
l'histoire de l'éducation et de la
culture dans l'antiquité. Seconde édition
revue et considérablement augmenté. Paris:
Libr. philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. 578
pp., ISBN 2-7116-1823-4 . . . . . . . . 140--141
Robert Iliffe Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 142--143
Antonino Caleca Book Review: Simona Cremante,
\booktitleLeonardo da Vinci. Artista,
scienziato, inventore. Firenze-Milano:
Giunti, 2005. 640 pp., ISBN
88-09-03811-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Marie-Claude Duprez-Masson,
\booktitleTechnique, mot et Image. Le de
re metallica d'Agricola. Turnhout:
Brepols, 2006. 520 pp., ISBN
978-2-503-52365-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Susana Gmez Book Review: Saul Fisher,
\booktitlePierre Gassendi's Philosophy
and Science. Atomism for Empiricists.
Leyden-Boston: Brill, 2005. xxviii + 436
pp., ISBN 90-04-11996-5 . . . . . . . . 145--146
Richard Watson Book Review: Matthew L. Jones,
\booktitleThe Good Life in the
Scientific Revolution. Descartes,
Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of
Virtue. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii
+ 384 pp., ISBN 0-226-40955-4 . . . . . 146--148
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Lorella Mangani e Giuseppe
Martini, \booktitleLa biblioteca di
Francesco Redi e della sua famiglia.
Catalogo. Arezzo: L. P. Grafiche, 2006.
686 pp., ill., ISBN 88-86830-02-5 . . . 148--149
Maria Pia Donato Book Review: Ernan McMullin (ed.),
\booktitleThe Church and Galileo. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
2005. xii + 391 pp., ill., ISBN
0-268-03484-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Daniel Margocsy Book Review: Brian W. Ogilvie,
\booktitleThe Science of Describing:
Natural History in Renaissance Europe.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press. 2006. xvi + 385 pp., ISBN
0-226-62087-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Claude V. Palisca,
\booktitleMusic and Ideas in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Urbana and Chicago: University of
Illinois Press 2006. x + 302 pp., ISBN
0-252-03156-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Jim Bennett Book Review: Stephen Pumfrey,
\booktitleLatitude and the Magnetic
Earth. Duxford: Icon Books Ltd, 2003.
249 pp., ISBN 1-84046-486-0 . . . . . . 153--154
Marc Ratcliff Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Valentina Vaccari Book Review: Malcolm Dick (ed.),
\booktitleJoseph Priestley and
Birmingham. Studley: Brewin Books, 2005.
128 pp., ill., ISBN 1-85858-269-5 . . . 155--156
Paola Bertucci Book Review: Gino L. Di Mitri,
\booktitleStoria biomedica del
tarantismo nel XVIII secolo. Firenze:
Olschki, 2006. xxiv + 322 pp., ISBN
88-222-5508-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Niccol Guicciardini Book Review: Robert Iliffe, Milo Keynes
and Rebekah Higgitt (eds.),
\booktitleEarly Biographies of Isaac
Newton, 1660--1885. Vol. 1: Eighteenth
Century Biography of Isaac Newton: the
Unpublished Manuscripts and Early Texts.
Vol. 2: Nineteenth-Century Biography of
Isaac Newton: Public Debate and Private
Controversy. London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2006. Vol. 1: lxxx + 387 pp.,
vol. 2: xliv + 420 pp., ISBN-10
1-85196-778-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Luigi Zanzi Book Review: Jean Gaudant,
\booktitleDolomieu et la géologie de son
temps. Paris: Ecole des mines, 2005. 200
pp., no ISBN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--161
Elisabetta Graziosi Book Review: Rebecca Messbarger and
Paula Findlen (eds.), \booktitleMaria
Gaetana Agnesi et alia. The contest for
knowledge. Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 2005. xxxii + 182 pp.,
ill., ISBN 0-226-01055-4 . . . . . . . . 161--162
Nicolaas A. Rupke Book Review: Peter Hanns Reill,
\booktitleVitalizing Nature in the
Enlightenment. Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press,
2005. x + 388 pp., ISBN 0-520-24135-5 162--163
Maria Teresa Monti Book Review: Martin Stuber, Stefan
Höchler and Luc Lienhard (eds.),
\booktitleHallers Netz. Ein Europischer
Gelehrtenbriefwechsel zur Zeit der
Aufklärung (Studia Halleriana, Band IX).
Basel: Verlag, 2005. x + 592 pp., ISBN
3-7965-1327-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--165
Clara Silvia Roero Book Review: Edith Dudley Sylla (ed.),
\booktitleJacob Bernoulli: the art of
conjecturing. Together with Letter to a
Friend on Sets in Court Tennis.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006. xx + 430 pp., ISBN
0-8018-8235-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Paola Giuli Book Review: Rita Unfer Lukoschik (ed.),
\booktitleLettere di Elizabetta Caminer
(1751--1769): organizzatrice culturale.
Conselve: Edizioni Think Adv, 2006. 367
pp., ISBN 88-8354-003-4 . . . . . . . . 166--167
Karl Grandin Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 168--169
Marco Ciardi Book Review: Alessandra Ferraresi,
\booktitleStato, scienza,
amministrazione, saperi. La formazione
degli ingegneri in Piemonte dall'antico
regime all'Unit d'Italia. Bologna: Il
Mulino, 2004, 411 pp., ISBN
88-15-09926-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Scott Mandelbrote Book Review: Andrew Janiak (ed.),
\booktitleNewton: Philosophical
writings. Cambridge: Cambridge
university press, 2004. xxxix + 148 pp.,
ISBN 0-521-83122-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
Mauro Capocci Book Review: Abigail Lustig, Robert J.
Richards and Michael Ruse (eds.),
\booktitleDarwinian Heresies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii +
200 pp., ISBN 0-521-81516-9 . . . . . . 171--172
Simona Morini Book Review: Theodore Porter,
\booktitleKarl Pearson: the Scientific
Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2005. 352
pp., ill., ISBN 0-691-12635-6 . . . . . 172--174
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Michael Ruse, \booktitleThe
Evolution-Creation Struggle. Cambridge,
Mass. and London: Harvard University
Press, 2005. 327 pp., ISBN 0-674-01687-4 174--175
Daniel M. Fox Book Review: Jennifer Tucker,
\booktitleNature Exposed: Photography as
Eyewitness to Victorian Science.
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2005. ix + 294 pp.,
ISBN 0-8018-7991-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Gaspare Polizzi General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Maria Toscano Book Review: Luca Ciancio,
\booktitleTeatro del mutamento. Immagini
del 'Tempio di Serapide' a Pozzuoli
(1750--1900). Rovereto: Nicolodi, 2005.
184 pp., ill., ISBN 88-8447-218-0 . . . 177--178
Marco Bresadola Book Review: Giovanni Cipriani,
\booktitleIl trionfo della ragione.
Salute e malattia nella Toscana
dell'Et\`a Moderna. Firenze: Nicomp L.
E., 2005. 293 pp., ISBN 88-87814-30-9 178--179
Melissa Calaresu Book Review: Silvia Collini and
Antonella Vannoni (eds.), \booktitleLes
instructions scientifiques pour les
voyageurs (XVIIe--XIXe si\`ecle). Paris:
l'Harmattan, 2005. 348 pp., ISBN
2-7475-8650-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--181
Seymour H. Mauskopf Book Review: Edward Grant,
\booktitleScience and Religion, 400
BC--AD 1550. From Aristotle to
Copernicus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2006. xviii + 310 pp.,
ISBN 0-8018-8401-2. Richard Olson,
\booktitleScience and Religion,
1450--1900. From Copernicus to Darwin.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006. xviii + 294 pp., ISBN
0-8018-8400-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Ivar Ekeland, \booktitleThe
Best of All Possible Worlds. Mathematics
and Destiny. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2006. 207
pp., ISBN 0-226-19994-0 . . . . . . . . 183--185
Scott Mandelbrote Book Review: Robert J. W. Evans and
Alexander Marr (eds),
\booktitleCuriosity and Wonder from the
Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 265 pp.,
ISBN 0-7546-4102-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Sven Widmalm Book Review: Michael Rand Hoare,
\booktitleThe Quest for the True Figure
of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in
Four Centuries of Geodesy. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2005. xii, 275 pp., ISBN
0-7546-5020-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Jason M. Rampelt Book Review: David M. Knight and Matthew
D. Eddy (eds.), \booktitleScience and
Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to
Natural Science, 1700--1900. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2005. xiv + 286 pp., ill., ISBN
0-7546-3996-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Margaret W. Rossiter Book Review: Jonathan Harwood,
\booktitleTechnology's Dilemma.
Agricultural Colleges between Science
and Practice in Germany, 1860--1934.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. 288 pp., ISBN
3-03910-299-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Daniela Bleichmar Book Review: David N. Livingstone and
Charles W. J. Withers (eds.),
\booktitleGeography and Revolution.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2006. viii + 433 pp.,
ISBN 0-226-48733-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Marco Segala Book Review: Peter Pesic, \booktitleSky
in a bottle. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT
Press, 2005. 262 pp., ISBN
978-0-262-16234-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Theodore M. Porter Book Review: Margaret Schabas,
\booktitleThe Natural Origins of
Economics. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii +
231 pp., ISBN 0-226-73569-9 . . . . . . 192--194
Maria Paula Diogo Book Review: Manuel Silva Suárez (ed.),
\booktitleTécnica e ingenieríaen España.
Zaragoza: Real academia de ingeniería,
2004. Vol. 1: \booktitleEl Renacimiento.
Zaragoza: Real academia de ingeniería,
2004. v + 624 pp., ill., ISBN
84-7820-814-3, vol. II: \booktitleEl
siglo de las luces. De la ingeniería a la
nueva navegación. 622 pp., ill., ISBN
84-7820-815-1; vol. III: \booktitleEl
siglo de las luces. De la industria al
ámbito agroforestal. 574 pp., ill., ISBN
84-7820-816-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Elio Nenci Book Review: Marco Veneziani (ed.),
\booktitleMachina. XI Colloquio
Internazionale. Roma, 8--10 gennaio
2004. Atti. Firenze: Olschki, 2005. 543
pp., ISBN 88-222-5419-8 . . . . . . . . 195--196
Anna Toscano Book Review: Richard J. Weiss,
\booktitleBreve storia della luce. Arte
e scienza dal Rinascimento a oggi.
(Storia e Civilt\`a, 59). Bari: Edizioni
Dedalo, 2005. 328 pp., ISBN
88-220-0559-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Iolanda Rolfo and
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209
David P. D. Munns The Challenge of Variations: the
Observational Traditions of Ptolemy and
Aristotle, and Copernicus' Heliocentric
Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--259
Bernard R. Goldstein What's New in Ptolemy's Almagest? . . . 261--285
Natacha Fabbri Genesis of Mersenne's Harmonie
Universelle: the Manuscript Livre de La
Nature des Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--308
Maria Grazia Tagliavini `Opere di Cristallo Delicatissime e
Meravigliose': Works of Art for
Connoisseurs and Scientific Instruments
for the Accademia Del Cimento . . . . . 309--333
Anthony Turner Stagecraft and Mathematical Magic in
Early Modern London . . . . . . . . . . 335--349
Claudio Pogliano Old and New Museums in Turin . . . . . . 351--359
Fabio Acerbi Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 361--362
Florike Egmond Book Review: Jean A. Givens, Karen M.
Reeds, Alain Touwaide (eds.),
\booktitleVisualizing Medieval Medicine
and Natural History, 1200--1550.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xx + 278 pp.,
ISBN 0-7546-5296-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Barbara Obrist,
\booktitleLa cosmologie médiévale: Textes
et images. I: Les fondements antiques.
Florence: Sismel --- Edizioni del
Galluzzo, 2004. 384 pp., ISBN
88-8450-140-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Craig Martin Book Review: Cristina Viano,
\booktitleLa mati\`ere des choses. Le
livre IV des Météorologiques d'Aristote et
son interprétation par Olympiodore.
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin,
2006. 409 pp., ISBN 2-7116-1828-5 . . . 364--366
Marco Beretta Book Review: Leonid Zhmud, \booktitleThe
Origin of the History of Science in
Antiquity. Translated from the Russian
by Alexander Chernoglazov. Berlin-New
York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. viii +
331 pp., ISBN-10: 3-11-017966-0 . . . . 366--367
Natacha Fabbri Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 367--368
Fiona Clark Book Review: Antonio Barrera-Osorio,
\booktitleExperiencing Nature. The
Spanish American Empire and the Early
Scientific Revolution. Austin: The
University of Texas Press, 2006. xii +
211 pp., ISBN 0-292-70981-1 . . . . . . 368--369
W. R. Laird Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
\booktitleThinking with Objects: the
Transformation of Mechanics in the
Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
389 pp., ISBN 0-8018-8426-8 . . . . . . 369--371
Cristina C\`andito Book Review: Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc,
Marisa Dalai Emiliani, Pascal Glatigny
(eds.), \booktitlel'cartista, l'opera e
la sfida della prospettiva. Roma: École
Française de Rome, 2006. 485 pp., ISBN
2-7283-0740-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Florike Egmond Book Review: Alix Cooper,
\booktitleInventing the Indigenous.
Local Knowledge and Natural History in
Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
218 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0 . . . . 372--373
Ole Peter Grell Book Review: Allen G. Debus,
\booktitleThe Chemical Promise.
Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical
Philosophy: 1550--1800. Sagamore Beach:
Science History Publication/Watson . . . 373--374
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Vincent Jullien,
\booktitlePhilosophie naturelle et
géométrie au XVIIe si\`ecle. Paris: Honoré
Champion, Paris, 2006. 477 pp., ISBN
2-7453-1363-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
Lawrence M. Principe Book Review: Lauren Kassell,
\booktitleMedicine and Magic in
Elizabethan London. Simon Forman:
Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
xviii + 281 pp., ISBN 0-19-927905-5 2005 376--377
Dane T. Daniel Book Review: Wilhelm Kohlmann, Joachim
Telle (eds.), \booktitleDer
Frühparacelsismus. Zweiter Teil. Tübingen:
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004. xii + 1090
pp., ISBN 3-484-36589-7 . . . . . . . . 377--378
Zakiya Hanafi Book Review: Kathleen P. Long,
\booktitleHermaphrodites in Renaissance
Europe: Women and Gender in the Early
Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
x + 268 pp., ISBN 0-7546-5609-8 . . . . 378--379
Carla Rita Palmerino Book Review: Ad Meskens,
\booktitleJoannes della Faille S.J.:
Mathematics, Modesty, Missed
Opportunities. Brussels and Rome:
Istituto Storico Belga di Roma
(Commercial distribution Brepols
Publishers), 2005. 177 pp., ISBN
90-74461-53-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: William R. Newman, Lawrence
M. Principe (eds.), \booktitleGeorge
Starkey: Alchemical laboratory notebooks
and correspondence. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxvi
+ 352 pp., ISBN 0-226-57701-5 . . . . . 381--382
Anita Guerrini Book Review: Katharine Park,
\booktitleSecrets of Women. Gender,
Generation, and the Origins of Human
Dissection. New York: The MIT Press,
2006. 419 pp., ISBN 1-890951-67-6 . . . 382--383
Elena Brambilla Book Review: Alessandro Pastore,
\booktitleLe regole dei corpi. Medicina
e disciplina nell'Italia moderna.
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006. 246 pp., ISBN
88-15-11277-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Horst Bredekamp Book Review: Volker Remmert,
\booktitleWidmung, Welterklärung und
Wissenschaftslegitimierung.
Titelbilderund ihre Funktionen in der
Wissenschaftlichen Revolution.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005.
267 pp., ISBN 3-447-05337-2 . . . . . . 384--385
Godefroid De Callatay Book Review: George Saliba,
\booktitleIslamic Science and the Making
of the European Renaissance. Cambridge,
Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007. xi + 315
pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19557-7 . . . . 386--387
Annibale Fantoli Book Review: William R. Shea, Mariano
Artigas, \booktitleGalileo Observed.
Science and the Politics of Belief.
Sagamore Beach: Science History
Publications/Watson Publishing
International, 2006. 212 pp., ISBN
0-88135-356-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--388
Michela Pereira Book Review: Urszula Szulakowska,
\booktitleThe Sacrificial Body and the
Day of Doom. Alchemy and Apocalyptic
Discourse in the Protestant Reformation.
Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006. 180 pp.,
ISBN 90-04-15025-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 388--390
Concetta Pennuto Book Review: Lynne Tatlock (ed.),
\booktitleJustine Siegemund: the Court
Midwife. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxxii
+ 260 pp., ISBN 0-226-75709-9 . . . . . 390--391
Víctor Guijarro Mora Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
W. R. Albury Book Review: Claude Blanckaert, Michel
Porret (eds.), \booktitlel'Encyclopédie
Methodique (1782--1832): des lumi\`eres
au positivisme. Gen\`eve: Droz, 2006.
830 pp., ISBN 2-600-00805-5 . . . . . . 392--393
Giuliano Pancaldi Book Review: James Delbourgo,
\booktitleA most amazing scene of
wonders. Electricity and enlightenment
in early America. Cambridge (MA) and
London: Harvard University Press, 2006.
xii + 367 pp., ISBN 978-0-674-02299-7 393--395
José María García Sánchez Book Review: Felix Driver, Luciana
Martins (eds.), \booktitleTropical
Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
279 pp., ISBN 0-226-16472-1 . . . . . . 395--396
Javier Torre Book Review: Harry Liebersohn,
\booktitleThe Traveler's World. Europe
to the Pacific. Cambridge (Mass.) and
London: Harvard University Press, 2006.
xiii + 380 pp., ISBN 0-674-02185-1 . . . 396--397
Vincenzo Lavenia Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 397--399
Andrew Whitaker Book Review: Andrew Brown, \booktitleJ.
D. Bernal. The sage of science. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 562
pp., ISBN 0-19-851544-8 . . . . . . . . 399--400
Andrea Candela Book Review: Guido Chiesura,
\booktitleCharles Darwin geologo. La
formazione del giovane Darwin. Docenti e
mentori, il viaggio iniziatico tra
vulcani e atolli. Le opere geologiche.
Benevento: Hevelius Edizioni, 2002. 207
pp., ISBN 88-86977-28-X; Guido Chiesura
(ed.), \booktitleCharles Darwin: opere
geologiche. Benevento: Hevelius
Edizioni, 2004. 431 pp., ISBN
88-86977-59-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
Laurence Brockliss Book Review: William Clark,
\booktitleAcademic Charisma and the
Origins of the Research University.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2006. 576 pp., Isnb 0-226-10921-6 401--403
Silvio Bergia Book Review: Jeffrey Crelinsten,
\booktitleEinstein's Jury. The Race to
Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2006. xxix +
397 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-12310-3 . . . . 403--404
Silvio Bergia Book Review: Albert Einstein,
\booktitleThe Collected Papers of Albert
Einstein, Volume 10: the Berlin Years:
Correspondence, May--December 1920, and
Supplementary Correspondence,
1909--1920. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2006. lxix +
686 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-12825-2 . . . . 404--405
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Philipp Felsch,
\booktitleLaborlandschaften.
Physiologische Alpenreisen im 19.
Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag,
2007. 254 pp., ISBN 3-8353-0159-7 . . . 405--406
Peter Heering Book Review: Elisabeth R. Neswald,
\booktitleThermodynamik als Kultureller
Kampfplatz. Zur Faszinationsgeschichte.
Berling: Verlag, 2006. 475 pp., ISBN
3-7930-9448-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Carmela Morabito Book Review: Roberta Passione (ed.),
\booktitleUgo Cerletti. Scritti
sull'elettroshock. Milano: Angeli, 2006.
236 pp., ISBN 88-464-7823-1 . . . . . . 407--409
Maria Sinatra Book Review: Marc J. Ratcliff, Martine
Ruchat (eds.), \booktitleLes
Laboratoires de l'esprit. Une histoire
de la psychologie \`a Gen\`eve,
1892--1965. Gen\`eve: Musée d'Histoire
des Sciences de Gen\`eve, 2006. 181 pp.,
ISBN 2-606-01215-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Thomas Wieland Book Review: Inken Rebentrost,
\booktitleDas Labor in der Box.
Technikentwicklung und
Unternehmengründung in der frühen
deutschen Biotechnologie. München:
Verlag, 2006. 310 pp., ISBN
978-3-406-54403-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Laura J. Snyder,
\booktitleReforming Philosophy: A
Victorian Debate on Science and Society.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2006. x + 386 pp., ISBN
0-226-76733-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Peter Heering Book Review: Friedrich Steinle,
\booktitleExplorative Experimente.
Amp\`ere, Faraday und die Ursprünge der
Elektrodynamik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2005. 450 pp., ISBN
3-515-08185-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--413
Ileana Chinnici General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Sujit Sivasundaram Book Review: Geoffrey Cantor,
\booktitleQuakers, Jews and science:
religious responses to modernity and the
sciences in Britain, 1650--1900. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi
+ 420 pp., ISBN 0-19-927668-4 . . . . . 414--416
John Henry Book Review: Peter Dear, \booktitleThe
Intelligibility of Nature. How Science
Makes Sense of the World. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2006. xii + 242 pp., ISBN 0-226-13948-4 416--417
Maria Conforti Book Review: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio
(ed.), \booktitleBlood in History and
Blood Histories. Firenze: Sismel ---
Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005. 385 pp.,
ISBN 88-8450-162-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 417--419
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Arthur Greenberg,
\booktitleFrom Alchemy to Chemistry in
Picture and Story. New York: John Wiley &
Sons Ltd., 2007, xxiii + 637 pp., ISBN
0-471-75154-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Stefano Brogi Book Review: Tullio Gregory,
\booktitleOrigini della terminologia
filosofica moderna. Linee di ricerca.
Firenze: Olschki, 2006. x + 118 pp.,
ISBN 88-222-5566-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 420--422
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Steffan Müller-Wille,
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.),
\booktitleHeredity Produced. at the
Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and
Culture, 1500--1870. Cambridge (MA): The
MIT Press, 2007. x + 496 pp., ISBN
978-0-262-13476-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Luc Pauwels (ed.),
\booktitleVisual Cultures of Science.
Rethinking Representational Practices in
Knowledge Building and Science
Communication. Hanover (N.H.): Dartmouth
College Press, 2006. xx + 300 pp., ISBN
1-58465-512-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424
Iolanda Rolfo and
Giorgio Strano Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--431
Renee Raphael Galileo's \booktitleDiscorsi and
Mersenne's \booktitleNouvelles Pensées:
Mersenne as a Reader of Galilean
'\booktitleExperience' . . . . . . . . . 7--36
Troels Kardel Nicolaus Steno's \booktitleNew Myology
(1667): Rather Than Muscle, the Motor
Fibre Should Be Called Animal's Organ of
Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--64
Esther Diana Una Collezione di Strumentaria
Scientifica all'Avvento dell'Ospedale
Moderno: Gli Strumenti Fisico-Matematici
di Vincenzo Viviani e l'Ospedale di
Santa Maria Nuova Di Firenze
(1871--1895) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--90
Arnaud Saint-Martin The New Astronomical Eldorado: the
French Understanding of American
Astrophysics, 1900--1920 . . . . . . . . 91--113
Antonio Clericuzio The Many Facets of Boyle's Natural
Philosophy Michael Hunter (with
contributions by Edward B. Davis,
Harriet Knight, Charles Littleton and
Lawrence M. Principe), the Boyle Papers.
Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert
Boyle, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 674 +
xi pp. \$139.95/\pounds 70.00 ISBN
0-7546-5568-7. Boyle on Atheism.
Transcribed and edited by John J.
MacIntosh (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2005) 493 + xxv pp.
\pounds 60.00 ISBN 0-8020-9018-4} . . . 115--126
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Antiquity and Middle Ages,
Serafina Cuomo, \booktitleTechnology and
culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4 127--128
Concetta Pennuto Book Review: Luke Demaitre,
\booktitleLeprosy in Premodern Medicine.
A Malady of the Whole Body. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007. xvi + 323 pp., ISBN
978-0-8018-8613-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Ignacio Gonzlez Tascon and
Isabel Velsquez, \booktitleIngeniera
romana en Hispania. Historia y técnicas
constructivas. Madrid: Edicin Fundacin
Juanel Turriano, 2005. 542 pp., ISBN
89-95457-52-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Massimo Montanari Book Review: Bruno Laurioux,
\booktitleGastronomie, humanisme et
société Rome au milieu du XVe si\`ecle.
Firenze: Sismel --- Edizioni del
Galluzzo, 2006. 653 pp., ISBN
88-8450-198-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Elisa Andretta Book Review: Daniel Le Bl?vec (ed.),
\booktitlel'Université de médecine de
Montpellier et son rayonnement
(XIIIe--XVe si\`ecles). Actes du
colloque international de Montpellier
(Université Paul-Valry-Montpellier III),
17--19 mai 2001. Tournhout: Brepols,
2004. 356 pp., ISBN 2-503-51642-4 . . . 132--134
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: Daryn Lehoux,
\booktitleAstronomy, Weather, and
Calendars in the Ancient World.
Parapegmata and Related Texts in
Classical and Near-Eastern Societies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. xiv + 566 pp., ISBN
978-0-521-85181 . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Laura Minervini Book Review: Rita Librandi and Rosa Piro
(eds.), \booktitleLo scaffale della
biblioteca scientifica in volgare
(secoli XIII-XVI). Atti del convegno
(Matera, 14--15 ottobre 2004). Firenze:
Sismel --- Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006.
526 pp., ISBN-10: 88-8450-210-1 . . . . 135--136
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: Reviel Netz and William
Noel, \booktitleThe Archimedes Codex.
Revealing the Secrets of the World's
Greatest Palimpsest. London: Weidenfeld
e Nicolson, 2007. xii + 305 pp., ISBN
978-0-297-64547-4 [tr. it.: \booktitleIl
codice perduto di Archimede. La storia
di un libro ritrovato e dei suoi segreti
matematici. Milano: Rizzoli, 2007. 428
pp., ISBN 978-88-17-01601-8] . . . . . . 136--138
Ilva Beretta Book Review: Renaissance and Early
Modern Science, Alessandro Alessandrini
and Alessandro Ceregato (eds.),
\booktitleNatura Picta. Ulisse
Aldrovandi, Bologna: Editrici
Compositori, 2007. 670 pp., ISBN
978-88-7794-490-0. Adriano Soldano
(ed.), \booktitlel'Erbario di Ulisse
Aldrovandi, vols. I--XV, Venezia:
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e
Arti. 2000--2005. 1369 pp., no ISBN . . 138--140
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Clara Bartocci (ed.),
\booktitleJohn Josselyn. Rarit della
Nuova Inghilterra. New England's
Rarities. Perugia: Morlacchi Editore,
2006. xxxiv + 243 pp., ISBN
88-6074-044-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Daniel Margocsy Book Review: Florike Egmond, Paul
Hoftijzer and Robert Visser (eds.),
\booktitleCarolus Clusius. Towards a
Cultural History of a Renaissance
Naturalist. Amsterdam: Koninklijke
Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
2007. vi + 349 pp., ISBN
978-90-6984-506-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Federica Favino Book Review: Maurice A. Finocchiaro,
\booktitleRetrying Galileo, 1633--1992.
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University
of California Press, 2005. 485 pp., ISBN
978-0-520-24261-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
Giuseppe Olmi Book Review: Fabio Garbari Lucia
Tongiorgi Tomasi (eds.),
\booktitleFlora: the Erbario Miniato and
other Drawings. London: Brepols, 2007.
664 pp. (2 vols.). Vol. 1: ISBN
978-1-905375-20-2, Vol. 2: ISBN
978-1-905375-21-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Abbri Book Review: Anne Goldgar,
\booktitleTulipmania. Money, Honor, and
Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2007. xx + 425 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-30125-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Ariane Droscher Book Review: Dario Generali Marc
Ratcliff (eds.), \booktitleFrom Makers
to Users. Microscopes, Markets,and
Scientific Practices in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries / Dagli
artigiani ai naturalisti. Microscopi,
offerta dei mercati e pratiche
scientifiche nei secoli XVII e XVIII.
Firenze: Olschki, 2007. xv + 336 pp.,
ISBN 978-88-222-5669-0 . . . . . . . . . 146--148
Annarita Angelini Book Review: James Hankins (ed.),
\booktitleThe Cambridge Companion to
Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi +
430 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-60893-0 . . . . 148--149
A. Mark Smith Book Review: Vincent Ilardi,
\booktitleRenaissance Vision from
Spectacles to Telescopes. Philadelphia:
the American Philosophical Society,
2007. xv + 378 pp., ISBN
978-0-87169-259-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Lawrence M. Principe (ed.),
\booktitleChymists and Chymistry,
Studies in the History of Alchemy and
Early Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach:
Chemical Heritage Foundation and Science
History Publications, 2007. xiii + 274
pp., ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9 . . . . . . 150--152
Luigi Guerrini Book Review: Sylvie Taussig (ed.),
Pierre Gassendi. \booktitleVie et
m\oeurs d'épicure. Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 2006. 2 vols., I vol.: cxix +
279 pp., II vol.: 396 pp., ISBN
2-251-79983-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Lucio Fregonese Book Review: Enlightenment: Paola
Bertucci, \booktitleViaggio nel paese
delle meraviglie. Scienza e curiosit
nell'Italia del Settecento. Torino:
Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. 294 pp., ISBN
978-88-339-1802-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Marco Beretta Book Review: Annie Chassagne,
\booktitleLa Biblioth\`eque de l'Académie
Royale des Sciences au XVIIIe si\`ecle.
Paris: Editions du Comit des Travaux
Historiques et Scientifiques, 2007. 305
pp., ISBN 978-2-7355-0637-8 . . . . . . 154--156
Gino L. Di Mitri Book Review: José Correia Da Serra,
\booktitleItinerrios Histrico-Naturis,
Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro e Ana
Simões (eds.), Porto: Porto Editora,
2003. viii + 104 pp., ISBN
972-0-34262-5. Ana Simões, Maria Paula
Diogo e Ana Carneiro, \booktitleCidado
do Mundo. Una Biografia Cientifica do
Abade Correia da Serra. Porto: Porto
Editora, 2006. v + 185 pp., ISBN
978-972-0-45090-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Giulio Barsanti Book Review: Michl Duchet (ed.),
\booktitleBuffon: De l'homme.
Presentation par Michele Duchet. Paris:
l'Harmattan, 2006. 467 pp., ISBN
2-296-01033-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Angela Bandinelli Book Review: Joseph S. Fruton,
\booktitleFermentation. vital or
Chemical Process? Leiden and Boston:
Brill, 2006. xv + 141 pp., ISBN
978-90-04-15268-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Marco Beretta Book Review: Etienne Guyon (ed.),
\booktitlel'École normale de l'an III.
Leçons de physique, de chimie, d'histoire
naturelle. Édition annotée des cours de
Hay, Berthollet et Daubenton, avec
introductions, notes et annexes. Paris:
Editions rue d'Ulm, 2006. 645 pp., ISBN
2-7288-0356-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Robert G. W. Anderson Book Review: Richard L. Hills,
\booktitleJames Watt Volume 1: His Time
in Scotland, 1736--1774. Ashbourne:
Landmark Publishing, 2002. 480 pp., ISBN
1-84306-045-0. Richard L. Hills,
\booktitleJames Watt Volume 2: the Years
of Toil, 1775--1785. Ashbourne: Landmark
Publishing, 2005. 256 pp., ISBN
1-84306-046-9. Richard L. Hills,
\booktitleJames Watt Volume 3: Triumph
Through Adversity, 1785--1819.
Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2006.
288 pp., ISBN-13 978-1-84306-193-9 . . . 160--162
David Knight Book Review: Ursula Klein and Wolfgang
Lef\`evre, \booktitleMaterials in
Eighteenth-Century Science. A Historical
Ontology. Cambridge Ma: The MIT Press,
2007. x + 345 pp., ISBN
978-0-262-11306-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Marie Thébaud-Sorger Book Review: Michael R. Lynn,
\booktitlePopular science and public
opinion in Eighteenth-Century France.
Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2006. ix + 177 pp., ISBN 0-7190-7373 . . 163--164
Hubert Steinke Book Review: Maria Teresa Monti (ed.),
\booktitleÉcriture et mémoire. Les carnets
medico-biologiques de Vallisneri A.
Wolff. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2006. 226
pp., ISBN 88-464-7937-8 . . . . . . . . 164--165
Marta Stefani Book Review: Maria Teresa Monti,
\booktitleSpallanzani e le rigenerazioni
animali. l'inchiesta, la comunicazione,
la rete. Firenze: Olschki, 2005. 424
pp., ISBN 88-222-5493-7 . . . . . . . . 165--166
Franco Giudice Book Review: Marco Piccolino e Marco
Bresadola, \booktitleRane, torpedini e
scintille. Galvani, Volta e l'elettricit
animale. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,
2003. 723 pp., ISBN 88-339-1470-4 . . . 167--168
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Clara Silvia Roero (ed.),
\booktitleAlle origini dell'Accademia. I
contributi di Leonhard Euler. Firenze:
Olschki, 2007. x + 178 pp., ISBN
978-88-222-5658-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Marco Bresadola Book Review: Wayne Wild,
\booktitleMedicine-by-Post. The Changing
Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century
British Consultation Letters and
Literature. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi,
2006. 286 pp., ISBN 90-420-1868-2 . . . 169--170
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: Modern and Contemporary
Science: José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Agustí
Nieto-Galan (eds.), \booktitleChemistry,
Medicine and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila
(1787--1853) and His Times. Sagamore
Beach: Science History Publications,
2006. xxvi + 306 pp., ISBN 0-88135-275-6 170--171
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Olaf Breidbach,
\booktitleVisions of Nature. The Art and
Science of Ernst Haeckel. München:
Prestel Verlag, 2006. 304 pp., ISBN
3-7913-3664-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Mauro Capocci Book Review: W. F. Bynum, A. Hardy, S.
Jacyna and E. Tansey, \booktitleThe
Western Medical Tradition. 1800--2000.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 628
pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-521-47565-5,
ISBN-10: 0-521-47565-1 . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Valeria Del Gamba,
\booktitleIl Ragazzo di Via Panisperna.
l'avventurosa vita del fisico Franco
Rasetti. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,
2007. 167 pp., ISBN 978-88-339-1746-7 174--175
Phillip R. Sloan Book Review: Michael Friedman, Alfred
Nordman (eds.), \booktitleThe Kantian
Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science.
Cambridge, Ma: The MIT Press, 2006. vi +
370 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06254-1 . . . . 175--176
John Krige Book Review: Klaus Hentschel,
\booktitleThe Mental Aftermath. The
Mentality of German Physicists
1945--1949. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007. 205 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-920566-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Roland Wittje Book Review: Myles W. Jackson,
\booktitleHarmonious Triads Physicists,
Musicians, and Instrument Makers in
Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge
(MA): The MIT Press, 2006. 395 pp., ISBN
0-262-10116-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Francesca Sodi Book Review: Alberto Meschiari,
\booktitleEdizione Nazionale delle Opere
e della Corrispondenza di Giovanni
Battista Amici. Napoli: Bibliopolis,
2006. 2 vols., 1085 pp., ISBN
88-7088-519-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Peter Heering Book Review: Christine Nawa Christoph
Meinel, \booktitleInstrumente und
Apparaturen in Heidelberger Laboratorien
skizziert von Friedrich Veith
(1817--1907). Regensburg: Universitt
Regensburg, 2007. 127 pp., no ISBN . . . 179--180
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Richard Newbury,
\booktitleJohn Maynard Keynes. vita
pubblica e privata di un grande
economista ed esteta trasgressivo.
Milano: Boroli, 2007. 175 pp., ISBN
978-88-7493-113-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 180--182
Luigi Cerruti Book Review: Carsten Reinhardt,
\booktitleShifting and Rearranging:
Physical Methods and the Transformation
of Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach:
Science History Publications, 2006. x +
428 pp., ISBN 0-88135-354-X . . . . . . 182--183
Giulio Maltese Book Review: Simone Turchetti,
\booktitleIl caso Pontecorvo. Fisica
nucleare, politica e servizi di
sicurezza nella guerra fredda. Sironi:
Milano, 2007. 285 pp., ISBN
978-88-518-0081-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Marco Segala Book Review: Andrea Villa (ed.),
\booktitleCharles Babbage. Passaggi
dalla vita di uno scienziato.
Autobiografia dell'inventore del
computer. Torino: Utet, 2007. xiii + 414
pp., ISBN 978-88-02-07715-4 . . . . . . 184--185
Fiona Clark Book Review: General Jorge
Caizares-Esguerra, \booktitleNature,
Empire, and Nation. Explorations of the
History of Science in the Iberian World.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2006. xiv + 230 pp., ISBN
978-0-8047-5544-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Fernando Giuseppe Sodero Book Review: Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
(ed.), \booktitleScienziati di Puglia.
Secoli V a.C.--XXI d.C. Bari: Adda,
2007. 682 pp., ISBN 978-88-8082-681-1 187--188
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: Alfred S. Posamentier and
Ingmar Lehmann, \booktitleThe (Fabulous)
Fibonacci Numbers. New York: Prometheus
Books, 2007. 385 pp., ISBN
976-1-59102-475-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Iolanda Rolfo Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--198
Agusti Nieto-Galan The History of Science in Spain A
Critical Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 211--236
Ana Simões and
Ana Carneiro and
Maria Paula Diogo Perspectives on Contemporary History of
Science in Portugal . . . . . . . . . . 237--263
Manolis Patiniotis Origins of the Historiography of Modern
Greek Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--289
Berna Kilinc Ahmed Midhat and Adnan Adivar on History
of Science and Civilizations . . . . . . 291--308
Ernst Homburg Boundaries and Audiences of National
Histories of Science: Insights From the
History of Science and Technology of the
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--345
Pietro Redondi La Rivincita di Aldo Mieli . . . . . . . 347--351
Anthony Turner Silvio A. Bedini . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--371
Ferdinando Vidoni In Memoriam Felice Mondella . . . . . . 373--379
Natacha Fabbri Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 381--382
Marco Beretta Book Review: Aldo Brancacci,
Pierre-Marie Morel (eds.),
\booktitleDemocritus: Science, the Arts,
and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of
the International Colloquium on
Democritus (Paris, 18--20 September
2003). Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007. 348
pp., ISBN 90-04-15160-5. M. Laura
Gemelli Marciano, \booktitleDemocrito e
l'Accademia. Studi sulla trasmissione
dell'atomismo antico da Aristotele a
Simplicio. Berlin/New York: Walter de
Gruyter, 2007. xii + 376 pp., ISBN
978-3-11-018542-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Natacha Fabbri Book Review: Marta Cristiani, Cecilia
Panti, Graziano Perillo (eds.),
\booktitleHarmonia Mundi. Musica mondana
e musica celeste fra Antichit\`a e
Medioevo. Firenze: Sismel --- Edizioni
del Galluzzo, 2007. 228 pp., ISBN
978-88-8450-239-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 384--385
Denise Sumpter Book Review: Michael A. B. Deakin,
\booktitleHypatia of Alexandria.
Mathematician and Martyr. Amherst:
Prometheus Books, 2007. 231 pp., ISBN
978-1-59102-520-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Marco Beretta Book Review: Stuart Gillespie, Philip
Hardie (eds.), \booktitleThe Cambridge
Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. 364
pp., ISBN 978-0-521-61266-1 . . . . . . 386--388
Giorgio Strano Book Review: David A. King, \booktitleIn
Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in
Astronomical Timekeeping and
Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic
Civilization. Leiden/Boston: Brill,
2004--2005 (2 vols.). Vol. 1: lvii + 930
pp., ISBN 90-04-12233-8; vol. 2: lxxvi +
1066 pp., ISBN 90-04-14188-X . . . . . . 388--390
Daryn Lehoux Book Review: Philip Sabin, Hans Van
Mees, Michael Whitby (eds.),
\booktitleThe Cambridge History of Greek
and Roman Warfare. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press: 2007. 2 vols, xiv +
608 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-521-85779-6 . . 390--391
Luciana Repici Book Review: David Sider, Carl Wolfram
Brunschön (eds.), \booktitleTheophrastus
of Eresus. On Weather Signs.
Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic
Publishers, 2007. x + 263 pp., ISBN-10:
90-04-15593-7, ISBN-13:
978-90-04-15593-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Anna Maerker Book Review: Ken Arnold,
\booktitleCabinets for the Curious.
Looking Back at Early English Museums,
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 297 pp.,
ISBN 0-7546-0506-X . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Maria Pia Donato Book Review: Andrea Battistini, Gilberto
De Angelis, Giuseppe Olmi (eds.),
\booktitleAll'origine della scienza
moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei
Lincei. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. 479
pp., ISBN 978-88-15-11986-5 . . . . . . 393--395
Ana Avalos Book Review: Marco Bertozzi (ed.),
\booktitleNello Specchio del cielo.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e
le`Disputationes' contro l'astrologia
divinatoria. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki,
2008. vi + 165 pp., ISBN
978-88-222-5722-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Sven Dupré Book Review: Horst Bredekamp,
\booktitleGalilei der Künstler: Der Mond,
die Sonne, die Hand. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag, 2007. 517 pp., ISBN
978-3-05-004319-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Daniel Margocsy Book Review: Harold J. Cook,
\booktitleMatters of Exchange: Commerce,
Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden
Age. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2007. xiv + 562 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7 . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Bonnie Latimer Book Review: Juliet Cummins, David
Burchell (eds.), \booktitleScience,
Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern
England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xiii
+ 241 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-5781-1 . . . 398--399
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: Egidio Festa,
\booktitleGalileo: La lotta per la
scienza. Bari: Laterza, 2007. xi + 344
pp., ISBN 978-88-420-8377-1 . . . . . . 399--400
André Goddu Book Review: Stephen Gaukroger,
\booktitleThe Emergence of a Scientific
Culture. Science and the Shaping of
Modernity, 1210--1685. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2006. ix + 563 pp.,
ISBN 0-19-929644-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
Florike Egmond Book Review: Deborah E. Harkness,
\booktitleThe Jewel House. Elizabethan
London and the Scientific Revolution.
New Haven & London: Yale University
Press, 2007. 349 pp., ISBN
978-0-300-11196-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 402--403
Sabina Crippa Book Review: Fabrizio Meroi, Elisabetta
Scapparone (eds.), \booktitleLa magia
nell'Europa moderna. Tra antica sapienza
e filosofia naturale. Atti del Convegno
(Firenze, 2--4 ottobre 2003). Firenze:
Olschki, 2007 (2 vols). xii + 786 pp.,
ISBN 978-88-222-5749-9 . . . . . . . . . 403--406
Yasmin Haskell Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi,
\booktitleHistory, Medicine, and the
Traditions of Renaissance Learning. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2007. 438 pp., ISBN-13:
978-0-472-11602-7; ISBN-10:
0-472-11602-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Saverio Ricci Book Review: Dario Tessicini,
\booktitleI dintorni dell'infinito.
Giordano Bruno e l'astronomia del
Cinquecento, Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra,
2007. 212 pp., ISBN 978-88-6227-097-7 407--409
Concetta Pennuto Book Review: Jacqueline Vons, Stéphane
Velut (eds.), \booktitleAndré Vésale: Résumé
de ses livres sur la fabrique du corps
humain. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008.
cxxi + 282 pp., ISBN 978-2-251-34510-9 409--410
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Edward G. Andrew,
\booktitlePatrons of Enlightenment.
Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of
Toronto Press, 2006. 284 pp., ISBN
0-8020-9064-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anna Toscano Book Review: Biancastella Antonino,
Giuseppe Olmi, Maria Gioia Tavoni
(eds.), \booktitleIl libro illustrato a
Bologna nel Settecento. Bologna:
Dipartimento di Italianistica, 2007. 263
pp., ISBN assente . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413
Michela Fazzari Book Review: Marco Bresadola (ed.),
\booktitleAntonio Vallisneri: Quaderni
di osservazioni, Volume II. Firenze: Leo
S. Olschki Editore, 2007. xlvi + 153
pp., ISBN 978-88-222-5686-7 . . . . . . 413--414
Maria Toscano Book Review: Neil Chambers,
\booktitleJoseph Banks and the British
Museum: the World of Collecting,
1770--1830. London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2007. xiv + 195 pp., ISBN-10:
1-85196-858-X, ISBN-13:
978-1-85196-858-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
Luca Ciancio Book Review: Dennis R. Dean,
\booktitleRomantic Landscapes. Geology
and Its Cultural Influence in Britain,
1765--1835. Ann Arbor: Scholars'
Facsimiles & Reprint, 2007. 604 pp., ISBN
0-8201-1555-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Imma Cecere Book Review: Simone Dumont, \booktitleUn
Astronome des Lumi\`eres: J\`erôme
Lalande. Paris: Vuibert, 2007. viii +
359 pp., ISBN 978-2-7117-4028-4 . . . . 416--417
Marco Bresadola Book Review: Stanley Finger,
\booktitleDoctor Franklin's medicine.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2006. xiii + 379 pp., ISBN-13:
978-0-8122-3913-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Sonia Zanier Book Review: Dario Generali, Antonio
Vallisneri. \booktitleGli anni della
formazione e le prime ricerche. Firenze:
Olschki, 2007. xiv + 466 pp., ISBN
978-88-222-5621-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 418--420
Peter Mason Book Review: Arthur Macgregor,
\booktitleCuriosity and
Enlightenment.Collectors and Collections
from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth
Century. London and New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2007. 386 pp., ISBN
978030012493 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421
Maria Conforti Book Review: Ole P. Grell, Andrew
Cunningham, Bernd Roeck (eds.),
\booktitleHealth Care and Poor Relief in
18th- and 19th-Century Southern Europe.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. vi + 326 pp.,
ISBN 0-7546-5156-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 421--423
Marta Cavazza Book Review: Adriano Prosperi,
\booktitleDare l'anima. Storia di un
infanticidio. Torino: Einaudi, 2005. 373
pp., ISBN 88-06-16754-5 . . . . . . . . 423--424
Daniela Bleichmar Book Review: Susan Scott Parrish,
\booktitleAmerican Curiosity: Cultures
of Natural History in the Colonial
British Atlantic World. Williamsburg,
Virginia: The University of North
Carolina Press for the Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and
Culture, 2006. xvi + 321 pp., ISBN
0-8078-5678-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--426
Simona Boscani Leoni Book Review: Luigi Zanzi, Enrico Rizzi
(eds.), \booktitleDéodat de Dolomieu,
Viaggi nelle Alpi. Ornavasso: Fondazione
Enrico Monti, Fondazione Maria Giussani
Bernasconi, 2006. 271 pp., ISBN
88-85295-51-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Peter J. Bowler,
\booktitleMonkey Trials and Gorilla
Sermons. Evolution and Christianity from
Darwin to Intelligent Design. Cambridge,
MA and London: Harvard University Press,
2007. 256 pp., ISBN-13:
978-0-674-02615-5, ISBN-10:
0-674-02615-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--429
Marco Segala Book Review: Robert M. Brain, Robert S.
Cohen, Ole Knudsen (eds.),
\booktitleHans Christian Òrsted and the
Romantic Legacy in Science. Ideas,
Disciplines, Practices. Dordrecht:
Springer, 2007. xx + 442 pp., ISBN
978-1-4020-2979-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Paolo Zublena Book Review: Massimo Bucciantini,
\booktitleItalo Calvino e la scienza.
Gli alfabeti del mondo. Roma: Donzelli,
2007. v + 184 pp., ISBN
978-88-6036-163-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Christian Carletti Book Review: Maria Pia Casalena,
\booktitlePer lo Stato, per la Nazione.
I congressi degli scienziati in Francia
e in Italia (1830--1914). Roma: Carocci,
2007. 253 pp., ISBN 978-88-430-4270-8 431--432
Elizabeth A. Kessler Book Review: James Elkins, \booktitleSix
Stories from the End of Representation.
Images in Painting, Photography,
Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics
and Quantum Mechanics, 1980--2000.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2008, xx + 274 pp. ISBN
978-0-8047-4147-7, ISBN
978-0-8047-4148-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 432--433
Sepi Yalda Book Review: James Rodger Fleming,
\booktitleThe Callendar Effect: the Life
and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar
(1898--1964), the Scientist Who
Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of
Climate Change. Boston: American
Meteorological Society, 2007. xv + 155
pp., ISBN13: 978-1-878220-76-9, ISBN-10:
1-878220-76-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
David Cahan Book Review: Karl Grandin, Nina Wormbs,
Sven Widmalm (eds.), \booktitleThe
Science-Industry Nexus. History, Policy,
Implications. Sagamore Beach: Science
History Publications, 2004. xvii + 457
pp., ISBN 0-88135-365-5 . . . . . . . . 434--436
Paola Govoni Book Review: Nicole Hulin, \booktitleLes
femmes, l'enseignement et Les sciences.
Un long cheminement (XIXe--XXe
si\`ecle). Paris: l'Harmattan, 2008. 238
pp., ISBN 978-2-296-05606-0 . . . . . . 436--437
Christian Carletti Book Review: C. Luperini, T. Paladini,
\booktitleHo costruito il seguente
apparecchietto. Antonio Pacinotti,
manoscritti e strumenti. Pisa: Ets,
2007. m + 127 pp., ISBN
978-88-467-1895-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
David Pantalony Book Review: Alison D. Morrison-Low,
\booktitleMaking Scientific Instruments
in the Industrial Revolution. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2007. xvi + 408 pp., ISBN
978-0-7546-5758-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 438--439
David Oldroyd Book Review: Ralph O'Connor,
\booktitleThe Earth on Show: Fossils and
the Poetics of Science, 1802--1856.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 541 pp.,
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61668-1; 10:
0-226-61668-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--441
Alexei Kojevnikov Book Review: David E. Rowe, Robert
Schulmann (eds.), \booktitleEinstein on
Politics. His Private Thoughts and
Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism,
War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007. xxix +
523 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12094-2 . . 441--442
Gilberto Corbellini Book Review: Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer
(eds.), \booktitleHistory and Theory of
Human Experimentation. The Declaration
of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007.
370 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-08862-6 . . . . 442--443
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Julia Voss,
\booktitleDarwins Bilder. Ansichten der
Evolutionstheorie 1837--1874. Frankfurt
am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag,
2007. 380 pp., ISBN 978-3-596-17627-4 443--444
Cristina C\`andito General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.),
\booktitleGunpowder, Explosives and the
State: A Technological History.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xxiii +
425 pp., ISBN 0-7546-5259-9 . . . . . . 446--447
William Shea Book Review: Charles Coulston Gillispie,
\booktitleEssays and Reviews in History
and History of Science. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 2007.
xix + 424 pp., ISBN 978-0-87169-965-7 447--448
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Lorraine Daston, Peter
Galison, \booktitleObjectivity. New
York: Zone Books, 2007. 502 pp., ISBN
978-1-890951-78-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Pedro Raposo Book Review: Roger Hutchins,
\booktitleBritish University
Observatories: 1772--1939. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. xxiii + 533 pp., ISBN
978-0-7546-3250-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Martin Kemp, \booktitleThe
Human Animal in Western Art and Science.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2007. xx + 308 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-43033-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Jacomien Prins, Mariken
Teeuwen (eds.), \booktitleHarmonisch
labyrint. De muziek van de kosmos in de
westerse wereld. Hilversum: Hilversum
Verloren, 2007. 181 pp., ISBN
978-90-8550-974-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Sébastien Maronne Book Review: Peter S. Rudman,
\booktitleHow Mathematics Happened. The
First 50,000 Years. New York: Prometheus
Books, 2007. 314 pp., ISBN
976-1-59102-477-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Patricia Fara Book Review: Alessandro Tosi,
\booktitlePortraits of Men and Ideas:
Images of Science from the Renaissance
to the Nineteenth Century. Pisa:
Edizioni Plus, 2007. 183 pp., ISBN
978-88-8492-511-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Elisa Bonaiuti and
Iolanda Rolfo Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--465
Marco Beretta Journals under Threat: A Joint Response
From History of Science, Technology and
Medicine Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
Mario Geymonat Arithmetic and Geometry in Ancient Rome:
Surveyors, Intellectuals, and Poets . . 11--34
Pietro Daniel Omodeo Giordano Bruno and Nicolaus Copernicus 35--59
Thomas F. Mayer The Status of the Inquisition's Precept
To Galileo (1616) in Historical
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--95
S. Halikowski Smith `The Physician's Hand': Trends in the
Evolution of the Apothecary and His Art
Across Europe (1500--1700) . . . . . . . 97--125
Alessandra Fiocca and
Iolanda Nagliati Le Cours d'Histoire des Sciences de
Guglielmo Libri au Coll\`ege de France
(1833) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--171
Ferruccio Franco Repellini Formalismo in Linguaggio Naturale . . . 173--185
Elly Dekker Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 187--188
Francesca Romana Romani Book Review: Charles Burnett (ed.),
\booktitleIbn Baklarish's Book of
Simples. Medical Remedies between Three
Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain. Oxford:
the Arcadian Library in association with
Oxford University Press, 2008 (Studies
in the Arcadian Library, 3) 216 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-19-954306-9 . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Dario Giorgetti Book Review: Bruce S. Eastwood,
\booktitleOrdering the Heavens. Roman
Astronomy and Cosmology in the
Carolingian Renaissance. Boston, Leiden:
Brill, 2007 (History of Science and
Medicine Library, 4). xiii + 452 pp.,
ISBN 978-90-04-16186-3 . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Fabio Acerbi Book Review: Jöran Friberg,
\booktitleAmazing Traces of a Babylonian
Origin in Greek Mathematics. Hackensack,
NJ, U.S.A.: World Scientific Press,
2007. xx + 476 pp., ISBN
978-981-270-452-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Stefano Caroti Book Review: Tullio Gregory,
\booktitleSpeculum naturale. Percorsi
del pensiero medievale. Roma: Edizioni
di Storia e Letteratura, 2007 (Storia e
Letteratura. Raccolta di studi e testi,
235). x + 254 pp., ISBN 978-88-84
98338-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Jens Hòyrup,
\booktitleJacopo da Firenze's Tractatus
Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus
Culture. Basel --- Boston --- Berlin:
Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 2007. xii + 484
pp., ISBN 978-3-7643-8390-9 . . . . . . 194--195
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Mary Jaeger,
\booktitleArchimedes and the Roman
Imagination. Ann Arbor: The University
of Michigan Press, 2008. ix + 230 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-472-11630-0 . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Dario Tessicini Book Review: Michel-Pierre Lerner,
\booktitleLe Monde des Sph\`eres. Tome
I: Gen\`ese et triomphe d'une
représentation cosmique, xi + 401 pp.,
ISBN 978-2-251-42034-9. Tome II: La fin
du cosmos classique, x + 529 pp., ISBN
978-2-251-42035-6. Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
Riccardo Bell\`e Book Review: José Luis Mancha,
\booktitleStudies in Medieval Astronomy
and Optics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. x
+ 182 pp., ISBN 978-0-86078-996-3 . . . 198--200
Maria Conforti Book Review: Michael Mcvaugh,
\booktitleThe Rational Surgery of the
Middle Ages. Firenze: Sismel, Edizioni
del Galluzzo, 2007. 296 pp., ISBN
88-8450-199-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Andrea Bernardoni Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 201--202
Margherita Palumbo Book Review: Maria Rosa Antognazza,
\booktitleLeibniz. An Intellectual
Biography. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. xxvii + 623 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-521-80619-0 . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Pascal Brioist Book Review: Andrea Bernardoni,
\booktitleLeonardo e il monumento
equestre a Francesco Sforza. Firenze:
Giunti, 2007. 126 pp., ISBN
978-88-09-05396-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 203--205
Concetta Pennuto Book Review: Jol Coste,
\booktitleReprésentations et
comportements en temps d'épidémie dans la
littérature imprim\`e de peste
(1490--1725). Contribution l'histoire
culturelle de la peste en France l'époque
moderne. Préface du professeur Yves-Marie
Berc. Paris: Honor Champion Éditeur,
2007. 848 pp., ISBN 978-2-7453-1532-8 205--207
William R. Shea Book Review: Maurice A. Finocchiaro (ed.
and transl.), \booktitleThe Essential
Galileo. Indianapolis: Hackett
Publishing Company, 2009. 380 pp., ISBN
978-0-87220-937 . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Esther Diana Book Review: John Henderson,
\booktitleThe Renaissance Hospital.
Healing the Body and healing the Soul.
New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2006. xxxiv + 458 pp., ISBN
978-0-300-10995-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Gabriele Coradeschi Book Review: Nicholas Jardine et
Alain-Philippe Segons (éds.),
\booktitleLa Guerre des Astronomes. La
querelleau sujet de l'origine du
syst\`eme géohéliocentrique \`a la fin du
XVIe si\`ecle. Voll. I--II. Paris: Les
Belles Lettres, 2008. 14 xxiv + 286 pp.,
xix + 852 pp., ISBN 978-2-251-34513-0,
978-2-251-34512-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 209--211
Domenico Laurenza Book Review: Martin Kemp,
\booktitleLeonardo da Vinci. The
Marvellous Works of Nature and Man.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
xxix + 381 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-280725-0 211--212
Filippo Camerota Book Review: Daniela Lamberini,
\booktitleIl Sanmarino. Giovanni
Battista Belluzzi architetto militare e
trattatista del Cinquecento, 2 voll. (I.
La vita e le opere, II. Gli scritti).
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007.
xvi + 840 pp., ISBN 978-88-222-5660-7 212--214
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Steven Matthews,
\booktitleTheology and Science in the
Thought of Francis Bacon. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. xiv + 150 pp., ISBN
978-0-7546-6252-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Robert W. Karrow Book Review: Matthew Mclean,
\booktitleThe Cosmographia of Sebastian
Münster: Describing the World in the
Reformation. St. Andrews Studies in
Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2007. 378 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-5843-6 215--216
Pamela O. Long Book Review: Lissa Roberts, Simon
Schaffer and Peter Dear (eds.),
\booktitleThe mindful hand: Inquiry and
invention from the late Renaissance to
early industrialization. Amsterdam:
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van
Wetenschappen, 2007. xxvii + 503 pp.,
ISBN 978-90-6984-483-1 . . . . . . . . . 216--218
Pedro Ruiz-Castell Book Review: Joan Vernet i Ramon Parés,
\booktitleLa Ciéncia en la História dels
Pa\"\isos Catalans. II Del naixement de
la ci\`encia moderna a La Il$ \cdot $
lustració. Valencia: Institut d'Estudis
Catalans Universitat de Val\`encia,
2007. 774 pp., ISBN 978-84-7283-905-2 218--220
Girolamo Imbruglia Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Andrea Candela Book Review: Donata Brianta,
\booktitleEuropa mineraria. Circolazione
delle élites e trasferimento tecnologico
(secoli XVIII--XIX). Milano: Franco
Angeli, 2007. 447 pp., ISBN
978-88-464-8818-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Luca Clerici Book Review: Marco Ciardi (ed.),
\booktitleEsplorazioni e viaggi
scientifici nel Settecento. Milano:
Rizzoli, 2008. 458 pp., ISBN
978-88-17-02334-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Laurence Brockliss Book Review: Maurice Crosland,
\booktitleScientific Institutions and
Practice in France and Britain c.
1700--c. 1870. Aldershot:
Ashgate/Variorum, 2007. xvi + 270 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-7546-5913-6 . . . . . . . . . 224--225
Girolamo Imbruglia Book Review: Adrien Paschoud,
\booktitleLe monde amérindien au miroir
des Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, SVEC
(Studies on Voltaire and XVIII century).
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. vi +
229 pp., ISBN 978-0-7294-0935-3 . . . . 225--226
Mary Ellen Bowden Book Review: Isabel Rivers and David L.
Wykes (eds.), \booktitleJoseph
Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and
Theologian. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008. xii + 252 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-921530-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: Stéphane Schmitt,
\booktitleLes forces vitales et leur
distribution dans la nature. Un essai de
$ \ll $ systématique physiologique$ \gg
$. Turnhout: Brepols 2006. 240 pp., ISBN
2-503-52442-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Maria Conforti Book Review: Antonio Vallisneri,
\booktitleConsulti medici. Vol. I, a
cura di Benedino Gemelli. Firenze:
Olschki, 2006. clxxxi + 433 pp., ISBN
88-222-5554-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Alessandro Ottaviani Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 230--231
Alessandra Ferraresi Book Review: Marco Ciardi (ed.),
\booktitleIl fisico sublime. Amedeo
Avogadro e la cultura scientifica del
primo Ottocento. Bologna: Il Mulino,
2007. 271 pp., ISBN 978-88-15-11889-9 231--232
Ana Carneiro Book Review: Pietro Corsi,
\booktitleFossils and Reputations. A
Scientific Correspondence: Pisa, Paris,
London, 1853--1857. Pisa: Edizioni
Plus--Pisa University Press, 2008, ISBN
978-88-8492-564-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234
Erika Luciano Book Review: Angelo Guerraggio e Pietro
Nastasi, \booktitleRoma 1908: il
Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici.
Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2008. 215
pp., ISBN 978-88-339-1866-2 . . . . . . 234--235
Marco Segala Book Review: Jim Endersby,
\booktitleImperial Nature. Joseph Hooker
and the Practices of Victorian Science.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 429 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-20791-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Oliver Hochadel Book Review: Aileen Fyfe and Bernard
Lightman (eds.), \booktitleScience in
the Marketplace. Nineteenth-Century
Sites and Experiences. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. 410 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-27650-2.
Bernard Lightman, \booktitleVictorian
Popularizers of Science. Designing
Nature for New Audiences. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2007. 545 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-48118-0 237--239
Gaspare Polizzi Book Review: Noel Jackson,
\booktitleScience and Sensation in
Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008. xiv + 288 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-521-86937-9 . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Mauro Capocci Book Review: Hannah Landecker,
\booktitleCulturing Life. How Cells
Became Technologies. Cambridge (MA):
Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 276
pp., ISBN 0-674-02328-5 . . . . . . . . 241--242
Seymour Mauskopf Book Review: Ulf Larsson,
\booktitleAlfred Nobel. Networks of
Innovation. Sagamore Beach: Science
History Publications, 2008. 216 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-88135-399-0 . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anthony S. Travis Book Review: Stephan H. Lindner,
\booktitleInside IG Farben: Hoechst
During the Third Reich, transl. by Helen
Schoop. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008. xx + 388 pp., ISBN
978-0-521-88766-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Omar W. Nasim Book Review: Gavin Parkinson,
\booktitleSurrealism, Art and Modern
Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics,
Epistemology. New Haven London: Yale
University Press, 2008. viii + 294 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-300-09887-7 . . . . . . . . . 244--246
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Roberta Passione, Ugo
Cerletti. \booktitleIl romanzo
dell'elettroshock. Reggio Emilia:
Aliberti editore, 2007. 206 pp., ISBN
978-88-7424-216-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitlePresenze
femminili nella cultura del Novecento.
Adriana Tramontano, Maria Luisa Righini
Bonelli, Luisa Becherucci. Firenze:
Centro Di, 2008. 71 pp., ISBN
978-88-7038-467-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Roberto Scazzieri and
Raffaella Simili (eds.), \booktitleThe
Migration of Ideas. Sagamore Beach:
Science History Publications/USA, 2008.
x + 245 pp., ISBN 978-0-88135-397-6 . . 248--249
Miriam Focaccia General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Ivano Dal Prete Book Review: Pascal Richet, \booktitleA
Natural History of Time. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2007. xiv + 471 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-71287-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
George Rousseau Book Review: Sharon Ruston (ed.),
\booktitleLiterature and Science: Essays
and Studies 2008 for the English
Association. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
2008. xi + 176 pp., ISBN
978-1-84384-178-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Iolanda Rolfo Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--263
Michael Hagner and
Renato G. Mazzolini and
Claudio Pogliano Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289
Andrea Bernardoni The Biography of A Technical Picture:
Biringuccio's Boring Machine Woodcut . . 291--311
Fabian Krämer The Persistent Image of An Unusual
Centaur. A Biography of Aldrovandi's
Two-Legged Centaur Woodcut' . . . . . . 313--340
Stefano Gattei The Engraved Frontispiece of Kepler's
\booktitleTabulae Rudolphinae (1627): A
Preliminary Study . . . . . . . . . . . 341--365
Mirjam Brusius Inscriptions in A Double Sense: the
Biography of An Early Scientific
Photograph of Script . . . . . . . . . . 367--392
Omar W. Nasim On Seeing an Image of a Spiral Nebula:
From Whewell to Flammarion . . . . . . . 393--414
Jan Von Brevern A Picture's Life. The Photograph of An
Erratic Boulder . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--438
Elena Canadelli `Some Curious Drawings'. Mars Through
Giovanni Schiaparelli's Eyes: Between
Science and Fiction . . . . . . . . . . 439--464
Katrin Solhdju Mapping Nerves. An Investigation Into
the Vitality of An Image . . . . . . . . 465--488
Lorenzo Beltrame and
Silvia Giovanetti When the Oocyte Becomes An Embryo. The
Social Life of An Ambiguous Scientific
Image in Italian Newspapers (1996--2007) 489--507
Antonella Sannino Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 509--510
Daniela Fausti Book Review: Sabrina Grimaudo,
\booktitleDifendere la salute. Igiene e
disciplina del soggetto nel`\booktitleDe
sanitate tuenda' di Galeno. Napoli:
Bibliopolis, 2008. 280 pp., ISBN
978-88-7088-543-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 510--511
Antonella Sannino Book Review: David Juste, \booktitleLes
Alcheandrana primitifs. Études sur les
plus anciens traités astrologiques latins
d'origine arabe (Xe si\`ecle) (Brill's
Studies in Intellectual History, 152).
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing, 2007.
xvi + 736 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-15827-6 511--512
Marco Beretta Book Review: Paul T. Keyser and Georgia
L. Irby-Massie (eds.), \booktitleThe
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural
Scientists. The Greek tradition and its
many heirs. London/New York: Routledge,
2008. ix + 1062 pp., ISBN
978-0-415-34020-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Jo Marchant,
\booktitleDecoding the heavens. A 2.000
years old computer and the century long
search to discover its secrets.
Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press Edition,
2009. 328 pp., ISBN 978-0-306-81742-7 513--515
Giovanni Di Pasquale Book Review: Cesare Rossi, Flavio Russo,
and Ferruccio Russo (eds.),
\booktitleAncient engineers' inventions:
precursors of the present. New York:
Springer, c2009. xv + 339 pp., ISBN
978-90-481-2252-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
Anna Rodolfi Book Review: Giorgio Stabile,
\booktitleDante e la filosofia della
natura. Percezioni, linguaggi,
cosmologie (Micrologus' Library 20).
Firenze: Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo,
2007. 416 pp., ISBN 978-88-8450-247-6 516--517
Marco Beretta Book Review: James Warren (ed.),
\booktitleThe Cambridge Companion to
Epicureanism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. x + 342 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-521-69530-5 . . . . . . . . . 517--520
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Erhard Weigel,
\booktitleAnalysis Aristotelica ex
Euclide restituta (Clavis Pansophiae
3,3). Stuttgart--Bad Cannstatt:
Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, 2008, 358,
lxvii + 355 pp., ISBN 978-3-7728-2375-6 520--520
Annarita Angelini Book Review: Jacopo Aconcio,
\booktitleIl pensiero scientifico e
l'idea di tolleranza, a cura di P.
Giacomoni e L. Dappiano. Trento:
Editrice universitaria, 2005. 305 pp.,
ISBN 88-8443-115-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522
Maria Conforti Book Review: David Gentilcore,
\booktitleMedical Charlatanism in Early
Modern Italy. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006. xii + 426 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-924535-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 522--523
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Book Review: Andrew Janiak,
\booktitleNewton as Philosopher.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008. 296 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-86286-8 523--524
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Tara Nummedal,
\booktitleAlchemy and Authority in the
Holy Roman Empire. Chicago and London:
The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
260 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-60856 . . . . . 524--525
Pamela O. Long Book Review: Antonella Romano (éd.),
\booktitleRome et la science moderne
entre Renaissance et Lumi\`eres,
(Collection de l'école Française de Rome,
403). Rome: Ecole française de Rome,
2008. 751 pp., ISBN 978-2-7283-0833-0 525--527
Federica Favino Book Review: Pamela H. Smith and
Benjamin Schmidt (eds.),
\booktitleMaking knowledge in Early
Modern Europe. Practices, Objects and
Texts, 1400--1800. Chicago and London:
Chicago University Press, 2007. 360 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-226-76329-3 . . . . . . . . . 527--528
Marco Beretta Book Review: Philippe Véron,
\booktitleVerres d'optique et lunettes
astronomiques. Firenze: Fondazione
Ronchi, 2009. 541 pp., ISBN-13
978-88-88649-22-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529
Massimo L. Bianchi Book Review: Charles Webster,
\booktitleParacelsus. Medicine, Magic
and Mission at the End of Time. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
2008. xiv + 326 pp., ISBN
978-0-300-13911-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 529--531
Agnese Visconti Book Review: Ulrich PäßLer, \booktitleEin
`Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoco'.
Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler
zwischen Preußen und Frankreich.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.
244 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-09344-6 . . . . 531--532
Girolamo Imbruglia Book Review: Ann Thomson,
\booktitleBodies of thought. Science,
Religion and the Soul in the early
Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008. viii + 293 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-923619-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 532--533
Jonathan Simon Book Review: Nathalie Vuillemin,
\booktitleLes beautés de la nature \`a
l'épreuve de l'analyse. Paris: Presses
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008. 412 pp., ISBN
978-2-87854-466-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Andrea Civello Book Review: Frederick Burkhardt,
Samantha Evans, and Alison Pearn (eds.),
\booktitleEvolution. Selected Letters of
Charles Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008, xxii + 308 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-521-87412-0 . . . . . . . . . 534--535
Alberto Carli Book Review: Elena Canadelli (a cura
di), \booktitleMilano scientifica
1875--1924. La rete del grande
Politecnico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--538
Ralph O'Connor Book Review: Jane P. Davidson,
\booktitleA History of Paleontology
Illustration. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi +
217 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-35175-3 . . . . 538--539
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Book Review: Alex D. D. Craik,
\booktitleMr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge
Reform and British Mathematics in the
19th Century. London, Springer: 2007.
xiv + 410 p., ISBN 978-1-84628-790-9 . . 539--540
Luisa Bonolis Book Review: Francesco Guerra and Nadia
Robotti, \booktitleEttore Majorana.
Aspects of his Scientific and Academic
Activity. Pisa: Edizioni Scuola Normale
Superiore, 2008. 243 pp., ISBN
978-88-7642-331-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 540--541
Luc Berlivet Book Review: Caroline Hannaway (ed.),
\booktitleBiomedicine in the Twentieth
Century: Practices, Policies, and
Politics.
Amsterdam--Berlin--Oxford--Tokyo--Washington D.C.: IOS Press, 2008. x + 377 pp., ISBN 978-1-58603-832-8 541--542
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Pamela Kort and Max Hollein
(eds.), \booktitleDarwin. Art and the
Search for Origins. Cologne: Wienand
Verlag, 2009. 288 pp., ISBN
978-3-87909-973-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544
Liliane Pérez Book Review: Christine Macleod,
\booktitleHeroes of invention.
Technology, liberalism and British
identity 1750--1914. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv +
458 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-87370-3 . . . . 544--545
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Richard Milner,
\booktitleDarwin's Universe. Evolution
from A to Z. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2009. 488 pp., ISBN
978-0-520-24376-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Silvano Montaldo e Paolo
Tappero (a cura di), \booktitleCesare
Lombroso cento anni dopo. Torino: Utet,
2009. xvi + 410 pp., ISBN
978-88-02-08139-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 546--547
William R. Shea Book Review: Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia
Bieri, \booktitleDiscovering the
Expanding Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. xvii + 226 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-521-51484-2 . . . . . . . . . 547--548
Alexander Di Bartolo Book Review: Olivier Orain, \booktitleDe
plein-pied dans le monde. écriture et
réalisme dans la géographie française au
XX\`eme si\`ecle. Paris: l'Harmattan,
2009. 427 pp., ISBN 978-2-296-07957-1 548--549
Umberto Muscatello Book Review: Gaetana Silvia Rigo (ed.),
\booktitleEmilio Veratti e Camillo
Golgi. Corrispondenza inedita e altri
documenti. Firenze: Olschki, 2008. vii +
113 pp., ISBN 978-88-222-5859-5 . . . . 549--551
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: \booktitleLa scienza nel
Mezzogiorno dopo l'Unit\`a d'Italia.
Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro): Rubbettino
Editore, 2008. 3 vols., 1570 pp., ISBN
978-88-498-1889-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 551--552
Fabio De Sio Book Review: Alessandro Volpone,
\booktitleGli inizi della genetica in
Italia. Bari: Cacucci, 2008. 334 pp.,
ISBN 978-88-8422-706-5 . . . . . . . . . 552--553
Mi Gyung Kim Book Review: José Ramón Bertomeu-Sanchez,
Duncan Thorburn Burns, and Brigitte Van
Tiggelen (eds.), \booktitleNeighbours
and Territories. The Evolving Identity
of Chemistry. Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgique: Memosciences asbl, 2008. 752
pp., ISBN 978-2-9600815-0-3 . . . . . . 553--554
Liba Taub Book Review: Görel Cavalli--Björkman and
Svante Lindqvist (eds.),
\booktitleResearch and Museums (RaM):
Proceedings of an International
Symposium in Stockholm, 22--25 May 2007
(Archives of the Nobel Museum 11,
Nationalmusei skriftserie N. S. 20).
Stockholm: National Museum Stockholm,
the Nobel Museum, 2008. 236 pp., ISBN
978-91-7100-803-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 554--555
Carmela Morabito Book Review: Paul Churchland,
\booktitleNeurophilosophy at Work.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. xi + 249 pp., ISBN
978-0-521-69200-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 556--557
Antonio Becchi Book Review: Luisa Dolza,
\booktitleStoria della tecnologia.
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008. 241 pp., ISBN
978-88-15-12574-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 557--558
Marta Stefani Book Review: Ariane Droscher,
\booktitleBiologia. Storia e concetti.
Roma: Carocci, 2008. 339 pp., ISBN
978-88-430-4535-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 558--559
Lissa Roberts Book Review: Massimo Mazzotti (ed.),
\booktitleKnowledge as Social Order.
Rethinking the Sociology of Barry
Barnes. Aldershot: Agate, 2008. xi + 184
pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4863-5 . . . . . . 559--561
Anonymous Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--569
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 571--575
Anonymous Under the Sign of Galileo: the New Museo
di Storia della Scienza . . . . . . . . vii--xii
Matthew D. Eddy The Alphabets of Nature: Children, Books
and Natural History in Scotland, Circa
1750--1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii-22
Marco Segala Lagrange: `Why I Left Turin and Never
Went Back Again' . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40
Marianne Sommer From Descent To Ascent --- the Human
Exception in the Evolutionary Synthesis 41--67
Armando De Palma and
Germana Pareti Tra Cambiamenti Radicali e
Conservazione: l'Indagine Sui Fenomeni
Bioelettrici Nella Germania Del Secondo
Ottocento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--100
Marie-José Durand-Richard Planimeters and Integraphs in the 19th
Century. Before the Differential
Analyser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--124
Christoph Lüthy Magnifying Eighteenth-Century Microscopy 125--134
Massimo Rinaldi Antiquity and Middle Ages . . . . . . . 135--136
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Luca Bianchi,
\booktitlePour une histoire de la
`double vérité'. Paris: Vrin, 2008. 192
pp., ISBN 978-2-7116-2147-7 . . . . . . 136--137
Stefania Fortuna Book Review: Monica H. Green,
\booktitleMaking Women's Medicine
Masculine. The Rise of Male Authority in
Pre-Modern Gynaecology. Oxford: Univ.
Press, 2008. xx + 409 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-921149-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Marco Beretta Book Review: Lucretius, \booktitleDe
Natuur van de dingen. Uitgegeven,
vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekenineng
voorzien door Piet Schrijvers.
Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, 2008.
612 pp., ISBN 978-90-6554-424-7 . . . . 138--140
Sabrina Grimaudo Book Review: Susan P. Mattern,
\booktitleGalen and the Rhetoric of
Healing. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. 279 pp., ISBN
978-0-8018-8835-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Elly Dekker Book Review: David Pingree,
\booktitleEastern Astrolabes. Historic
Scientific Instruments of the Adler
Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Volume
II. Chicago, 2009, 268 pp. ISBN
978-1-891220-02-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Elisa Andretta Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 142--144
Maria Rosa Antognazza Book Review: Daniel Garber,
\booktitleLeibniz: Body, Substance,
Monad. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2009. xxii + 428 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-956664-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Alessandro Ottaviani Book Review: Leah Knight, \booktitleOf
Books and Botany in Early Modern
England. Sixteenth-Century Plants and
Print Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
xvi + 163 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-6586-1 145--146
Maria Conforti Book Review: Alessandro Pastore e
Giovanni Rossi, \booktitlePaolo Zacchia.
Alle origini della medicina legale
(1584--1659). Milano: F. Angeli, 2008.
351 pp., ISBN 978-88-568-0023-4 . . . . 146--148
Vincent Barras Book Review: Marion Maria Ruisinger,
\booktitlePatientenwege. Die
Konsiliarkorrespondenz Lorenz Heisters
(1683--1758) in der Trew Sammlung
Erlangen. Institut fur Geschichte der
Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung,
MedGG-Beihefte 28. Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag, 2008. 308 pp., ISBN
978-3-515-08806-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Ferdinando Abbri Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Marco Panza Book Review: J. B. Shank, \booktitleThe
Newton Wars and the Beginning of the
French Enlightenment. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2008. xvi + 572 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-74945-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
William R. Shea Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 152--153
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Paolo Bussotti (a cura di),
\booktitleFederigo Enriquese la cultura
europea, pubblicazioni Centro Studi
Enriques, 7. La Spezia: Agora edizioni,
2008. 298 + viii pp., ISBN
978-88-6067-089-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Marco Beretta Book Review: Fabio Minazzi (a cura di),
\booktitleLudovico Geymonat. Un maestro
del Novecento. Il filosofo, il
partigiano e il docente. Milano:
Edizioni Unicopli, 2009. 694 pp.,
illus., ISBN 978-88-4001-368-7 . . . . . 155--156
Elena Canadelli Book Review: M. J. S. Hodge,
\booktitleDarwin Studies. A Theorist and
his Theories in their Contexts.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 354 pp., ISBN
978-0-7546-5939-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Karl Möbius,
\booktitleAsthetik der Tierwelt.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.
188 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-09281-4 . . . . 157--158
Luigi Cerruti Book Review: Eric R. Scerri,
\booktitleThe Periodic Table. Its Story
and Its Significance. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007. xxii + 346 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-19-530573-9 . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Giulio Peruzzi Book Review: Sandra Linguerri e
Raffaella Simili (a cura di),
\booktitleEinstein parla italiano.
Itinerari e polemiche. Bologna: Edizioni
Pendragon, 2008. x + 359 pp., ISBN
978-88-8342-530-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Tilman Sauer Book Review: Richard Staley,
\booktitleEinstein's Generation. The
Origins of the Relativity Revolution.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2008. x + 494 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-77056-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
Angela N. H. Creager Book Review: Bruno Strasser,
\booktitleLa fabrique d'une nouvelle
science: La biologie moléculaire \`a l'âge
atomique (1945--1964). Firenze: Leo S.
Olschki Editore, 2006. xxxiii + 450 pp.,
ISBN 978-88-222-5496-1 . . . . . . . . . 161--163
Giorgio G. C. Palumbo General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Horst Bredekamp, Birgit
Schneider, und Vera Dünkel (ed.),
\booktitleDas Technische Bild.
Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte
wissenschaftlicher Bilder. Berlin:
Akademie Verlag, 2008. 231 pp., ISBN
978-3-05-004496-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio
(Hg.), \booktitleDie Hand. Elemente
einer Medizin- und Kulturgeschichte.
Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010. xviii + 480
pp., ISBN 978-3-8258-1958-3 . . . . . . 165--166
William Gallois Book Review: Paul Glennie and Nigel
Thrift, \booktitleShaping the Day: A
History of Timekeeping in England and
Wales 1300--1800. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. xi + 456 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-19-927820-6 . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Elisa Bonaiuti and
Iolanda Rolfo Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--183
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas Did Abraham Ibn Ezra Maintain a
Circumsolar Arrangement of Venus and
Mercury? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
Jorge M. Escobar Kepler's Generalization of the Law of
Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--240
Nausicaa Elena Milani Il Syst\`eme di Régis e le Sue Immagini
Tra Nuova Filosofia e Censura . . . . . 241--297
Alessio Raimondi Il Contributo di Lamarck alla Fondazione
della Meteorologia Moderna . . . . . . . 299--316
Roberto Angeloni On the Cultural Relationship Between
Niels Bohr and Harald Hòffding . . . . . 317--356
Simone Bianchi Gli Strumenti di Giovan Battista Amici
Dalla Vecchia Specola di Firenze al
Nuovo Osservatorio di Arcetri . . . . . 357--382
Stefano Gattei Copernicus' Terse Argument Scientific
and Philosophical Foundations of the
Heliocentric Hypothesis . . . . . . . . 383--396
Maria Teresa Monti ``Archaeology'' of Sources for a Genuine
``Genetics'' of Theories. in Memory of
Carlo Castellani . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--404
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--443
Arjan van Dijk Publisher's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Marco Beretta Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and
Claudio Pogliano Ways of Voyaging through the Human Body 7--19
Dario De Santis Maiden Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--49
Claudio Pogliano Lumen in obscuris: the Winding Road of
Modern Endoscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--82
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia The Importance of Being Florentine: A
Journey around the World for Wax
Anatomical Venuses . . . . . . . . . . . 83--108
Irina Podgorny Modern Embalming, Circulation of Fluids,
and the Voyage through the Human
Arterial System: Carl L. Barnes and the
Culture of Immortality in America . . . 109--131
Ramona Braun Voyaging in the Vein: Medical
Experimentation with Heart Catheters in
the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . 132--158
Elena Canadelli `Scientific Peep Show' the Human Body in
Contemporary Science Museums . . . . . . 159--184
Pierre Cassou-Nogus Exploring the Brain, Looking for
Thoughts: on Asimov's Second Fantastic
Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--200
Alberto Brodesco I've Got you under my Skin: Narratives
of the Inner Body in Cinema and
Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--221
Jan Eric Olsn The Body Voyage as Visual Representation
and Art Performance . . . . . . . . . . 222--241
Ileana Chinnici and
Donatella Randazzo A Manuscript by Jesse Ramsden at Palermo
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--264
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Anonymous The 2011 European Museum Academy Prize
to the Museo Galileo . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Matteo Martelli Greek Alchemists at Work: 'Alchemical
Laboratory' in the Greco--Roman Egypt 271--311
Francesco Barreca The Allegory of War in Johannes Kepler's
\booktitleAstronomia Nova . . . . . . . 312--333
Francesco Luzzini Multa curiosa Vallisneri's Early Studies
on Earth Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 334--354
Marco Beretta Rinman, Diderot, and Lavoisier: New
Evidence Regarding Guillaume François
Rouelle's Private Laboratory and
Chemistry Course . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--379
Gianni Micheli Sistemi di Sapere a Confronto . . . . . 381--389
Andrea Bernardoni Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and
Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Fabio Acerbi Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Tome 2.1:
Livres II et III . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Fabio Acerbi Pappus of Alexandria: Book 4 of the
Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Antonella Sannino Opus praeclarum de imaginibus
astrologicis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Matteo Martelli The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to
Prophet of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Fabio Acerbi Arquimedes, Sobre l'esfera i el cilindre 401--402
Guido Giglioni Lettere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Andrea Gualandi On Sunspots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Centres of Medical Excellence? Medical
Travel and Education in Europe,
1500--1789 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Andrea Bernardoni The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics,
Instruments and Print in Renaissance
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Andrea Bernardoni Glossario Leonardiano: Nomenclatura
delle macchine nei codici Madrid e
Atlantico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Antonio Clericuzio Philosophie et alchimie la Renaissance
et l'Age Classique. Scolastique et
alchimie (XVIe--XVIIe si\`ecles);
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation
of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures
with Polemical Fire . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Natacha Fabbri La Musurgia Universalis di Athanasius
Kircher. Contenuti, fonti, terminologia 416--417
Francesco Barreca Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God,
and Human Understanding from the Middle
Ages to Early Modern Europe . . . . . . 418--419
Maria Conforti The World Makers: Scientists of the
Restoration and the Search for the
Origins of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 420--421
Francesco Ciuti Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa
Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio . . . . . . . 422--423
Peter A. Mazur Corpi invasi e viaggi dell'anima:
Santit, possessioni, esorcismo dalla
teologia barocca alla medicina
illuminista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--425
Maria Teresa Monti La di ferenza tra la dottrina di Stahl e
la mia in patologia e terapia . . . . . 426--427
Andrea Strazzoni L'arbre et le labyrinthe, Descartes
selon l'ordre des Lumi\`eres . . . . . . 428--431
Lisa Roscioni Liberi tutti: Manicomi e psichiatri in
Italia: una storia del Novecento . . . . 432--433
Elena Canadelli Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography,
and the History of Art . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Claudio Pogliano The Cambridge History of Science. Vol.
6: the Modern Biological and Earth
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
Andrea Bernardoni Spaces and Collections in the History of
Science: the Laboratorio Chimico
Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440
Paolo Mazzarello Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's
Medical Bacteriology . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Stphane Schmitt Über Galvanismus und deutsche Trumereien.
Zur Rezeption romantischer
Naturforschung in Frankreich zwischen
1800 und 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--445
Ferdinando Abbri The Making of Modern Science. Science,
Technology, Medicine, and Modernity:
1789-1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Stefano Gattei Science and Its History: A Reassessment
of the Historiography of Science . . . . 448--450
Lise Gosseye Representing Light across Arts and
Sciences: Theories and Practices . . . . 451--452
Stefano Spataro Scorci di storia della scienza . . . . . 453--454
Lavinia Maddaluno The Scientific Life: A Moral History of
a Late Modern Vocation; Never Pure:
Historical Studies of Science as if It
Was Produced by People with Bodies,
Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and
Society, and Struggling for Credibility
and Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--458
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 459--463
Anonymous Contents Volume 26 (2011) . . . . . . . 465--468
Ferdinando Abbri Paolo Rossi: 30 December 1923--14
January 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Andrea Bernardoni Leonardo and the ``Chemical Arts'' . . . 11--55
Lavinia Maddaluno Unveiling Nature: Wonder and Deception
in Eighteenth-Century London Shows and
Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--80
Marco Menin Jean-Jacques Rousseau vitaliste: La
moralisation de l'hygi\`ene médicale
entre régime diététique et éthique
alimentaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--109
Maria Pia Donato Science on the Fringe of the Empire: the
Academy of the Linceans in the Early
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 110--140
Claudio Pogliano Penfield's Homunculus and Other
Grotesque Creatures from the Land of If 141--162
Marco Beretta Imaging the Experiments on Respiration
and Transpiration of Lavoisier and
Séguin: Two Unknown Drawings by Madame
Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--191
Eileen Reeves Grand Designs: Mutio Oddi in Exile from
Urbino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--205
José Pardo-Tomás Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 207--209
Willliam Shea Book Review: Natacha Fabbri,
\booktitleDe l'utilité de l'harmonie.
Filosofia, scienza e musica in Mersenne,
Descartes e Galileo. Pisa: Edizioni
della Normale, 2008. xvi + 314 pp., ISBN
978-88-7642-321-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Filippo Camerota Book Review: Anthony Gerbino and Stephen
Johnston, \booktitleCompass and Rule:
Architecture as Mathematical Practice in
England. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2009. 208 pp., ISBN
978-0-300-15093-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 212--214
Elisabetta Corsi Book Review: Noël Golvers and Efthymios
Nicolaidis, \booktitleFerdinand Verbiest
and Jesuit Science in 17th century
China. An annotated edition and
translation of the Constantinople
manuscript (1676). Athens-Leuven:
Ferdinand Verbiest Institute; Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Chinese
Studies --- XIX; Institute for
Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic
Research Foundation --- 108; Sources of
Modern Greek Literature and Learning,
2009. 381 pp., 117 ill., ISBN
978-960-7916-83-9, 978-90-801833-9-1 . . 215--217
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Book Review: Alessandro Pastore,
\booktitleVeleno. Credenze, crimini,
saperi nell'Italia moderna. Bologna: Il
Mulino, 2010. 254 pp., ill., ISBN
978-88-15-13873-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Matteo Vagelli Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 220--221
Alberto Meschiari Book Review: Brian Bracegirdle,
\booktitleA History of Photography with
the Light Microscope. Quekett
Microscopical Club, 2010, viii + 221
pp., ill., ISBN 978-0-9564591-1-4 . . . 222--223
Maria Conforti Book Review: Luca Ciancio, \booktitleLe
colonne del Tempo. Il ``Tempio di
Serapide'' a Pozzuoli nella storia della
geologia, dell'archeologia e dell'arte
(1750--1900). Firenze: Edifir, 2009. 342
pp., ill., ISBN 978-88-7970-416-8 . . . 224--227
Alessandro Nuvolari Book Review: Ross Thomson,
\booktitleStructures of Change in the
Mechanical Age. Technological Innovation
in the United States 1790--1865.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
Marco Bresadola General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and
Irina Podgorny Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia The Science of Santa Claus: Discussions
on the Manna of Nicholas of Myra in the
Modern Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--269
Glyn Redworth God's Gift? Sacred Relics, Gift Giving,
and Luisa de Carvajal's Preparation of
the Holy During the Long Reformation . . 270--288
Irina Podgorny Changing the Dead to Statues of Stone:
the Synthesis of Fossils, Petrifaction,
Photography, and the Chemistry of the
Gorgonean Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--308
Silvia Marinozzi The Embalming Art in the Modern Age: the
Mummies of Caroline, Letizia and
Joachim-Napoleon Agar as Examples of
Funerary Rites in the Napoleonic Empire 309--329
Nélia Dias Nineteenth-Century French Collections of
Skulls and the Cult of Bones . . . . . . 330--347
María Eugenia Constantino and
Antonio Lafuente The Hidden Logistics of Longinos's
Novohispanic Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . 348--370
Gerlind Rüve Focusing on the Exception to the Rule
for a Time: on the Border Between Life
and Death in a Case of Scheintod in 1833 371--392
Hubert Knoblauch The Decline of Clinical Dissections and
the ``Culture of Death'' . . . . . . . . 393--410
Maria Grazia Grazzini Documenta inedita . . . . . . . . . . . 411--467
Marco Bresadola Wax Anatomy and the Material Culture of
Enlightenment Science . . . . . . . . . 469--476
Carl Ipsen The Last Word on Italian Science? . . . 477--488
Elio Nenci Book Review: Matteo Valleriani,
\booktitleGalileo Engineer. Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science
vol. 269, Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 320
pp., ISBN 978-90-481-8644-0 . . . . . . 489--490
Stefano Gattei Book Review: Horst Bredekamp (ed.),
\booktitleGalileo's O. Vol. I: Galileo's
Sidereus Nuncius. A Comparison of the
Proof Copy (New York) with Other
Paradigmatic Copies, ed. by Irene Brückle
and Oliver Hahn; vol. II: Paul Needham,
\booktitleGalileo Makes a Book. The
First Edition of Sidereus Nuncius,
Venice 1610. Berlin: Akademie Verlag,
2011, 192, 249 pp.; ISBN
978-3-05-005095-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 491--495
Claudio Pogliano Book Review: Renato G. Mazzolini and
Hans--Jörg Rheinberger (eds.),
\booktitleDiffering Routes to Stem Cell
Research: Germany and Italy.
Bologna-Berlin: Il Mulino-Duncker &
Humblot, 2012, 272 pp., ISBN
978-88-15-23878-8; 978-3-428-13849-4 . . 496--499
Anonymous Contents Volume 27 (2012) . . . . . . . 501--503
Marco Beretta and
Alessandro Tosi Tennis and the Scientific Revolution . . 1--4
Annarita Angelini Praecisio and Conjecture: Cusanus' Ball
Game and the `Learned Ignorance' of the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18
Marco Beretta Training Tennis Players through Natural
Philosophy: From Scaino's Trattato to
Garsault's Art du paumier . . . . . . . 19--42
Concetta Pennuto Jeu de la paume: Health of the Body and
the Mind in Early Modern Medicine . . . 43--65
Stefano Gattei Galileo and Tennis: Reconciling the New
Physics with Commonsense . . . . . . . . 66--84
Alessandro Tosi Tennis in Early Modern Visual Culture 85--114
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Jeu de Paume & Jeux de la Raison in
Seventeenth-Century Optics . . . . . . . 115--141
Edith Dudley Sylla Jacob Bernoulli and the Mathematics of
Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--163
Christine Lehman Alchemy Revisited by the Mid-Eighteenth
Century Chemists in France: An
Unpublished Manuscript by Pierre-Joseph
Macquer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--216
Paolo Brenni Gerard L'Estrange Turner 22 January
1926--19 July 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . 217--222
Ken Saito Antiquity and the Middle Ages . . . . . 223--228
Monica Ugaglia Book Review: Tony Roark,
\booktitleAristotle on Time. A Study of
the Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2011. 248 pp., ISBN
978-1-107-00262-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
Ferdinando Abbri Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 232--234
Valentina Pugliano Book Review: James Shaw and Evelyn
Welch, \booktitleMaking and Marketing
Medicines in Renaissance Florence (Clio
Medica 89/The Wellcome Series in the
History of Medicine). Amsterdam and New
York: Rodopi, 2011. 356 pp., ISBN
978-90-420-3156-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 238--239
Helge Kragh Book Review: Kostas Gavro\uglu, Ana
Simões, \booktitleNeither Physics nor
Chemistry: A History of Quantum
Chemistry. Cambridge, Mass.: Mit Press,
2012, pp. xiv + 351 . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Vera Keller Re-entangling the Thermometer: Cornelis
Drebbel's Description of his
Self-regulating Oven, the Regiment of
Fire, and the Early History of
Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--275
Emmanuel Pécontal Les mires méridiennes lointaines de
l'Observatoire de Lyon: Recherches
bibliographiques, archivistiques et
archéologiques. (French) [Distant
meridian patterns of the Observatory of
Lyon: bibliographic, archival, and
archaeological searches] . . . . . . . . 276--312
Claudio Pogliano Eye, Mind, Hand: Filippo Pacini's
Microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--344
Stefano Gattei The Wandering Scot: Thomas Seget's \em
album amicorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--463
Sven Dupré The Transnational Galileo: a Telescopic
View from Somewhere . . . . . . . . . . 465--476
Giulia Ecca Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
Giorgio Strano Book Review: David A. King,
\booktitleAstrolabes from Medieval
Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, Variorum,
2011. xvi + 404 pp., ill., ISBN
978-1-4094-2593-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 480--481
Matteo Martelli Book Review: Michaël Martin, \booktitleLa
magie dans l'antiquité. Paris: Ellipses
Édition, 2012. 159 pp., ISBN
978-2-7298-7304-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Elio Nenci Renaissance and Early Modern Science . . 484--486
Florence Grant Book Review: Sven Dupré and Christoph
Lüthy (eds.), \booktitleSilent
Messengers. The Circulation of Material
Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern
Low Countries. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2011.
387 pp., ISBN 978-3-8258-1635-3 . . . . 487--489
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Pamela O. Long,
\booktitleArtisan / Practitioners and
the Rise of the New Sciences,
1400--1600. Corvallis: Oregon State
University Press, 2011. xii + 196 pp.,
Ill., ISBN 978-0-87071-609-6 . . . . . . 490--491
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Cesare S. Maffioli,
\booktitleLa via delle acque
(1500--1700): Appropriazione delle arti
e trasformazioni delle matematiche.
Firenze: Olschki, 2010, ill., 394 pp.,
ISBN 978-88-222-6008-6 . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Maria Conforti Book Review: Craig Martin,
\booktitleRenaissance Meteorology,
Pomponazzi to Descartes. Baltimore, The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
213 pp., ISBN 978-1-4214-0187-4 . . . . 494--495
Maria Chiara Milighetti Book Review: Michel Paoli e Monica
Preti, \booktitleL'Arioste et les Arts,
Milano, Officina Libraria-Paris, Musée du
Louvre, 2012. 336 pp., ISBN Musée du
Louvre: 978-2-35031-368-9, ISBN Officina
Libraria: 978-88-89854-68-6 . . . . . . 496--497
Lisa Lillie Book Review: Alina Payne, \booktitleThe
telescope and the compass. Teofilo
Gallaccini and the Dialogue between
architecture and science in the age of
Galileo. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki
Editore, 2012. 240 pp., ISBN
978-88-222-6122-9, ISSN 0066-6815 . . . 498--499
Donato Verardi Book Review: Ornella Pompeo Faracovi,
\booktitleLo specchio alto. Astrologia e
filosofia fra Medioevo e prima et\`a
moderna, Bruniana & Campanelliana,
Supplementi, XXXII --- Studi, 11,
Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa 2012. 205
pp., ISBN 978-88-6227-449-4 . . . . . . 500--502
Marco Beretta Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
E. C. Spary Book Review: Daniela Bleichmar,
\booktitleVisible Empire: Botanical
Expedition and Visual Culture in the
Hispanic Enlightenment. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2012. 286 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-05853-5 506--508
Angelo Adamo Modern and Contemporary Science . . . . 509--510
Imogen Clarke Book Review: Helge Kragh,
\booktitleNiels Bohr and the Quantum
Atom. The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure
1913--1925. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012. vi + 410 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-965498-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: Irina Podgorny,
\booktitleCharlatanes. Crónicas de
remedios incurables. Buenos Aires:
Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2012. 352 pp.,
ISBN 978-987-1673-67-4 . . . . . . . . . 513--514
Corinna Guerra Book Review: Leslie Tomory,
\booktitleProgressive Enlightenment. The
Origins of the Gaslight Industry,
1780-1820. Cambridge: The MIT Press,
2012. ISBN 978-0-262-01675-9 . . . . . . 515--517
Lavinia Maddaluno General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--521
Matteo Martelli Book Review: Efthymios Nicolaidis,
\booktitleScience and Eastern Orthodoxy.
From the Greek Fathers to the Age of
Globalization, translated by Susan
Emanuel. Baltimore, John Hopkins
University Press (``Medicine, Science,
and Religion in Historical Context''),
2011. xviii + 252 pp., ISBN-13:
978-1-4214-0298-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 522--523
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Theodore W. Pietsch,
\booktitleTrees of Life. A Visual
History of Evolution. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
358 pp., ISBN 978-1-4214-0479-0 . . . . 524--526
Anonymous Contents Volume 28 (2013) . . . . . . . 527--529
Matteo Valleriani Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Courtney Roby Experiencing Geometry in Roman
Surveyors' Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--52
Joyce van Leeuwen Thinking and Learning from Diagrams in
the Aristotelian Mechanics . . . . . . . 53--87
Harald Siebert Transformation of Euclid's Optics in
Late Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--126
Matteo Valleriani Ancient Pneumatics Transformed during
the Early Modern Period . . . . . . . . 127--173
Peter McLaughlin Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
Jim Bennett and
Giorgio Strano The So-Called `Chaucer Astrolabe' from
the Koelliker Collection, Milan . . . . 179--229
Mich\`ele Mertens Book Review: \booktitlePseudo-Democrito,
Scritti alchemici: con il commentario di
Sinesio, edizione critica del testo
greco, trad. e commento di Matteo
Martelli, pref. di Tiziano Dorandi
(Textes et Travaux de Chrysopoeia, 12).
Paris: Séha-Milano: Arch\`e, 2011. 523
pp. ISBN 978-88-7252-319-3 . . . . . . . 231--234
Dario Tessicini Book Review: Monica Azzolini,
\booktitleThe Duke and the Stars:
Astrology and Politics in Renaissance
Milan (I Tatti Studies in Italian
Renaissance History). Cambridge (MA) ---
London: Harvard University Press, 2013.
370 pp., ISBN 978-0-674-06663-2 . . . . 235--238
Maurizio Cambi Book Review: Eva del Soldato,
\booktitleSimone Porzio: Un aristotelico
tra natura e grazia. Roma: Edizioni di
Storia e Letteratura, 2010. xvi + 352
pp., ISBN 978-88-6372-275-8 . . . . . . 239--243
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Aline Durand (ed.),
\booktitleDes outils des machines et des
hommes: études offertes \`a Georges
Comet. With the collaboration of Laurent
Maggiori. Aix-en-Provence: Presses
universitaires de Provence, 2012, 236
p.: ill., ritr.; 21cm, Cahiers
d'histoire des techniques, 1158-8403; 8,
ISBN 978-2-85399-797-3 . . . . . . . . . 244--247
Stefano Gattei Book Review: Stephen Greenblatt,
\booktitleThe Swerve: How the World
Became Modern. New York-London: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2011. 356 pp., ISBN
978-0-393-34340-3; \$26.95} . . . . . . 248--250
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: Matteo Valleriani (ed.),
\booktitleMetallurgy, Ballistics and
Epistemic Instruments. The Nova scientia
of Nicol\`o Tartaglia. A New Edition
(Sources 6, Edition open access).
Berlin: Max Planck Research Library for
the History and Development of
Knowledge, 2013. 56+304 pp., ISBN
978-3-8442-5258-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Erhard Weigel,
\booktitlePhilosophia Mathematica,
Theologia Naturalis Solida (Clavis
Pansophiae 3,4). Stuttgart-Bad
Cannstatt: Fromman-Holzboog Verlag,
2013, 2 voll. lxvii + 372 pp.; lvii +
436 pp., ISBN 978-3-7728-2540-8 . . . . 254--255
Luigi Pepe Book Review: Roger Hahn (ed.),
\booktitleCorrespondance de Pierre Simon
Laplace (1749--1727). 2 vols. Turnhout:
Brepols, 2013. 1416 p., ISBN
978-2-503-54129-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 256--259
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: Elena Canadelli,
\booktitle``Pi\`u positivo dei
positivisti'': Antropologia, psicologia,
evoluzionismo in Tito Vignoli. Pisa:
ETS, 2013. 188 pp., ISBN
978-88-467-3603-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Francesco Barreca Book Review: Andrea Del Centina and
Alessandra Fiocca, \booktitleGuglielmo
Libri matematico e storico della
matematica: L'irresistibile ascesa
dall'Ateneo Pisano all'Institut de
France. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2010.
XXI, 320, xxii pp. + CD-ROM, ISBN
978-88-222-6003-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Gianni Micheli Book Review: Pierre Souffrin,
\booktitleÉcrits d'histoire des sciences.
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. 497
pp., ISBN 978-2-251-42047-9 . . . . . . 265--272
Lucio Fregonese Book Review: Peter Heering and Roland
Wittje (eds.), \booktitleLearning by
Doing: Experiments and Instruments in
the History of Science Teaching.
Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2011. 362, pp. ISBN
978-3-515-09842-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 273--275
Lucio Fregonese Book Review: Klaus Staubermann (ed.),
\booktitleReconstructions: Recreating
Science and Technology of the Past.
Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland,
2011. xii + 276 pp., ISBN
978-1-905267-48-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 276--278
Giangiacomo Martines Isidore's Compass . . . . . . . . . . . 279--311
Yousef Yassi The Magic Jar and Other Devices from 9th
Century Persia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--323
Dominique Raynaud A Tentative Astronomical Dating of Ibn
al-Haytham's Solar Eclipse Record . . . 324--358
Pietro T. Omodeo The Authenticity of Amerigo Vespucci's
\em Mundus Novus and Information Untold
about His Third Journey . . . . . . . . 359--388
Antonio Sánchez An Official Image of the World for the
Hispanic Monarchy . . . . . . . . . . . 389--438
Juan Miguel Suay and
David Teira Kites: The Rise and Fall of a Scientific
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--463
Solveig Jülich Colouring the Human Landscapes . . . . . 464--497
Massimo Ricciardi and
Maria Laura Castellano Domenico Cirillo's Collections . . . . . 499--530
Serafina Cuomo Book Review: Domninus of Larissa,
\booktitleEncheiridion and Spurious
Works. Introduction, critical text,
English translation, and commentary by
Peter Riedlberger (Mathematica Graeca
Antiqua 2), Pisa and Roma: Fabrizio
Serra Editore, 2013. 285 pp., ISBN
978-88-6227-567-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 531--534
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: Angela Bandinelli,
\booktitleLe origini chimiche della
vita. Legami tra la Rivoluzione di
Lavoisier e la Biologia di Lamarck.
Firenze: Olschki, 2013. 252 pp., ISBN
978-88-222-6270-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 535--538
Arianna Borrelli and
Michael Korey and
Volker R. Remmert Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
Emma L. Perkins and
Liba Taub ``Perhaps Irrelevant'' . . . . . . . . . 9--36
Karsten Gaulke Perfect in Every Sense . . . . . . . . . 37--74
Samuel Gessner Heavenly Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 75--95
Jasmin Mersmann Moving Shadows, Moving Sun . . . . . . . 96--123
Denis Ribouillault Atlas and Hercules in the Garden . . . . 124--160
Carolin Behrmann Metrics of Justice . . . . . . . . . . . 161--194
Simone Bianchi and
Daniele Galli Les Observatoires astronomiques en
Italie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--227
Ileana Chinnici and
Paolo Brenni The Palermo Merz Equatorial Telescope 228--279
Alessandro Ottaviani The Coral of Death . . . . . . . . . . . 281--319
Andrea Candela The Radium Terrors . . . . . . . . . . . 320--344
Anke Timmermann Alchemy in Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . 345--511
Giulia Ecca Book Review: \booktitleL'Empirisme
d'Épicure, written by Julie Giovacchini 513--516
Matteo Martelli Book Review: \booktitleThe Secrets of
Alchemy, written by Lawrence M. Principe 517--519
Elio Nenci Book Review: \booktitleLe strade della
tecnica. Tecnologia e pratica della
scienza nel mondo antico, written by
Giovanni Di Pasquale . . . . . . . . . . 520--522
Giorgio Strano Book Review: \booktitleI Pronostici di
Domenico Maria da Novara, edited by
Fabrizio B\`onoli, Giuseppe Bezza, Salvo
De Meis, Cinzia Colavita . . . . . . . . 523--524
Sophie Brockmann Book Review: \booktitleThe Bishop's
Utopia. Envisioning Improvement in
Colonial Peru, written by Emily Berquist
Soule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--527
Maria Conforti and
Jeanne Peiffer Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--541
Meghan C. Doherty Giving Light to Narrative . . . . . . . 543--569
Maria Conforti Illustrating Pathologies in the First
Years of the \em Miscellanea Curiosa,
1670--1687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--609
Samuel Gessner The Journals and the Instrument Maker 610--636
Elena Canadelli Authoritative Images . . . . . . . . . . 637--674
Charlotte Bigg Travelling Scientist, Circulating Images
and the Making of the Modern Scientific
Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--698
Francesco Barreca Chicago--Arcetri 1933 . . . . . . . . . 699--707
Antonio Clericuzio Science in 17th Century Rome . . . . . . 709--714
Giorgio Strano Book Review: \booktitleIllustrating the
Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages, written
by Elly Dekker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--717
Andrea Battistini Book Review: \booktitleGalileo.
Scienziato e umanista, written by John
L. Heilbron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--724
Susana Gómez López Book Review: \booktitleArte y ciencia en
el barroco español, written by José Ramón
Marcaida López . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--728
Fabrizio Baldassarri Book Review: \booktitleCommunicating
Observations in Early Modern Letters
(1500--1675). Epistolography and
Epistemology in the Age of the
Scientific Revolution, edited by Dirk
van Miert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--733
Luca Tonetti Book Review: \booktitleGiorgio Baglivi,
Della tarantola. Lo studio di un medico
nel Salento del XVII secolo, edited by
Concetta Pennuto . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--737
Marco Segala Book Review: \booktitleParis savant.
Parcours et rencontres au temps des
Lumi\`eres, written by Bruno Belhoste 738--740
Corinna Guerra Book Review: \booktitleÉmilie du Châtelet
et Marie-Anne Lavoisier. Science et
genre au XVIII si\`ecle, written by
Keiko Kawashima . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--744
Harm Schröter Book Review: \booktitleSolvay. A History
of a Multinational Family Firm, written
by Kenneth Bertrams, Nicolas Coupain,
Ernst Homburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--747
Susan Mossman Book Review: \booktitleAluminum Dreams.
The Making of Light Modernity, written
by Mimi Sheller . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--750
Marco Segala Book Review: \booktitleScientific Babel.
How Science Was Done Before And After
Global English, written by Michael
Gordin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--753
Ezio Vaccari Per un archivio della corrispondenza
degli scienziati italiani. (Italian)
[Toward an archive of correspondence of
Italian scientists] . . . . . . . . . . ??
Vittoria Feola Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Riccarda Suitner Radical Reformation and Medicine in the
Late Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--31
Sylvie Neven Recording and Reading Alchemy and
Art-Technology in Medieval and Premodern
German Recipe Collections . . . . . . . 32--49
Cornelis J. (Kees-Jan) Schilt ``To Improve upon Hints of Things'' . . 50--77
Charles van den Heuvel and
Scott B. Weingart and
Nils Spelt and
Henk Nellen Circles of Confidence in Correspondence 78--106
Vittoria Feola Paris, Rome, Venice, and Vienna in Peter
Lambeck's Network . . . . . . . . . . . 107--128
Stefano Gulizia Printing and Instrument Making in the
Early Modern Atlantic, 1520--1600 . . . 129--162
Paolo Savoia The Book of the Sick of Santa Maria
della Morte in Bologna and the Medical
Organization of a Hospital in the
Sixteenth-Century . . . . . . . . . . . 163--235
Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleEcht Tierisch!
Die Menagerie des Fürsten, written by
Sabine Haag (ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleFlora: Federico
Cesi's Botanical Manuscripts. Vol. I ---
II --- III. The Paper Museum of Cassiano
dal Pozzo. Series B --- Natural History,
Part Seven, written by Brent Elliott,
Luigi Guerrini and David Pegler . . . . 240--242
Erna Fiorentini Book Review: \booktitleObserving by
hand: sketching the nebulae in the
nineteenth century, written by Omar W.
Nasim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleThe Limits of
Matter. Chemistry, Mining and
Enlightenment, written by Hjalmar Fors 246--249
Eleanor Chan Beautiful Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 251--287
Susana Gómez López The Encounter of the Emblematic
Tradition with Optics . . . . . . . . . 288--331
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen Necessary, Not Sufficient . . . . . . . 332--360
Christine Lehman What is the ``True'' Nature of Diamond? 361--407
Sara Campanella The ``Abyssal Society'' . . . . . . . . 408--438
Elena Canadelli Marble Busts and Fish Fossils . . . . . 439--483
Pamela H. Smith Other Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--488
Lisa Skogh Introduction: The Varied Role of the
Amateur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--498
Paul Taylor The Birth of the Amateur . . . . . . . . 499--522
Vera Keller Art Lovers and Scientific Virtuosi? . . 523--548
Richard J. Oosterhoff Lovers in Paratexts . . . . . . . . . . 549--583
Simona Valeriani Lovers, Gentlemen and Farmers . . . . . 584--609
Paolo Brenni Instruments, Tools and Materials . . . . 611--646
Barbara Tramelli Book Review: \booktitleDaughters of
Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in
Early Modern Italy, written by Meredith
K. Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--650
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleSabliers
d'Autrefois --- Hourglasses of the Past
--- Clessidre d'Altri Tempi, edited by
Anna Dominique, Éric Delalande . . . . . 651--652
Alexander Wragge-Morley Book Review: \booktitleObserving the
World through Images: Diagrams and
Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and
Science, edited by Nicholas Jardine and
Isla Fay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--655
Luca Tonetti Book Review: \booktitleRealdo Colombo,
De re anatomica libri XV. Anatomia,
edited by Gianluigi Baldo . . . . . . . 656--659
Déborah S. Dubald Book Review: \booktitleLe Musée de
l'Homme. Histoire d'un musée-laboratoire,
edited by Claude Blankaert . . . . . . . 660--662
Giulia Ecca Book Review: \booktitleThe Aristotelian
Problemata Physica. Philosophical and
Scientific Investigations, edited by
Robert Mayhew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--666
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: \booktitleLo scudo contro
il vaiolo. Antonio Miglietta e la
profilassi nel Regno di Napoli
(1801--1826), written by Caterina Tisci 667--668
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitle\OEuvres de
Lavoisier. Correspondance. Avant-propos
de Henri Kagan. Édition dirigée par
Patrice Bret. Volume VII 1792--1794,
edited by Patrice Bret . . . . . . . . . 669--672
Elena Canadelli Book Review: \booktitleWorld's Fairs on
the Eve of War. Science Technology &
Modernity 1937--1942, written by Robert
H. Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low, &
Arthur P. Molella . . . . . . . . . . . 673--675
Yousef Yassi Al-Jazari's Water Clocks . . . . . . . . 1--24
Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio On the Function, Utility, and Fragility
of the Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
Fabio Cafagna Images of Transparency and Resurrection
from Leonardo da Vinci to Crisóstomo
Martínez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--84
Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin ``\ldots Che i matti dicano
spropositi''. A Discussion of Cometary
Theory and Superstition in Seventeenth
Century Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--110
Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer and
Yolanda Gil Vincenzo Vincenzi, ``Geometer and
Engineer to Cardinal Borja'' . . . . . . 111--145
Carmela Morabito David Ferrier's Experimental
Localization of Cerebral Functions and
the Anti-Vivisection Debate . . . . . . 146--165
Eva Åhrén Figuring Things Out . . . . . . . . . . 166--211
Alessandro Ottaviani Race, Ethnicity and Antisemitism in
George Alexis Montandon between
Kulturkreislehre, Hologenesis and
Mendelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--252
Mattia Della Rocca and
Claudio Pogliano Different Histories from 20th Century
Neuroscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--260
Tara H. Abraham Between the Mind Twist and the Brain
Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--285
Cornelius Borck Soups and Sparks Revisited . . . . . . . 286--329
Claudio Pogliano Lucky Triune Brain . . . . . . . . . . . 330--375
Mattia Della Rocca Of the Artistic Nude and Technological
Behaviorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--411
Flora Lysen It Blinks, It Thinks? . . . . . . . . . 412--439
Silvia Casini Beyond the Neuro-Realism Fallacy . . . . 440--471
Carmela Morabito Plastic Maps: The New Brain
Cartographies of the 21st-Century
Neurosciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--500
Eva Struhal Introduction Introduction . . . . . . . 501--513
Denis Ribouillault Seeing Christ, Reading Nature . . . . . 514--555
Elisabeth Oy-Marra ``Nel conoscere le cose tutte della
natura'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--582
Frank Fehrenbach Cut Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--614
Joris van Gastel Campania Felix? . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--639
Itay Sapir Shadowy Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--657
Frances Gage Air, Wind, Sun, Spirit . . . . . . . . . 658--682
Eva Struhal Natural Painting and the New Science in
Seventeenth-Century Florence . . . . . . 683--708
Federica Favino Other Gaspare Berti's Legacy . . . . . . 709--773
Francesca Antonelli Book Review: \booktitleFemmes de
sciences de l'Antiquité au XIXe si\`ecle.
Réalités et représentations, edited by
Adeline Gargam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--777
Stefano Salvia Book Review: \booktitleLa filosofia
naturale di Giovanni Ciampoli, written
by Federica Favino . . . . . . . . . . . 778--781
Irene Galandra Cooper Book Review: \booktitleIl segreto di san
Gennaro. Storia naturale di un miracolo
napoletano, written by Francesco Paolo
de Ceglia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782--784
Gragorio Saldarriaga Book Review: \booktitleFood and Health
in Early Modern Europe. Diet, Medicine
and Society, 1450--1800, written by
David Gentilcore . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--787
Jean-François Gauvin Book Review: \booktitleCurious & Modern
Inventions. Instrumental Music as
Discovery in Galileo's Italy, written by
Rebecca Cypess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--790
Liborio Dibattista Book Review: \booktitleHaeckel's
Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud,
written by Nick Hopwood . . . . . . . . 791--793
Marco Segala Book Review: \booktitleThe Invention of
Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New
World, written by Andrea Wulf . . . . . 794--796
Erika Luciano Book Review: \booktitleVannevar Bush da
ingegnere a tecnologo. La nascita della
societ\`a dell'informazione, written by
Benedetta Campanile . . . . . . . . . . 797--799
Alan Dorin and
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides The Silver Triton . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
Nurit Golan A Portal to Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 25--55
Paola Giacomoni The Light of the Emotions . . . . . . . 56--87
Klaus Staubermann Investigating Vision . . . . . . . . . . 88--103
Lorenzo Leporiere Mediums and Science in Early 20th
Century Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--136
Argante Ciocci Book Review: \booktitleThe Twelfth
Chapter of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci in
its 1202 version, Bollettino di Storia
delle Scienze Matematiche, by Enrico
Giusti (ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleMedicine and
Humanism in Late Medieval Italy. The
Carrara Herbal in Padua, by Sarah R.
Kyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Paolo Savoia Book Review: \booktitleThe Optics of
Giambattista Della Porta (ca.
1535--1615): A Reassessment, by Arianna
Borrelli, Giora Hon, Yaakov Zik (eds.) 144--147
Sietske Fransen Book Review: \booktitleEye for Detail:
Images of Plants and Animals in Art and
Science, 1500--1630, by Florike Egmond 148--150
Kit Heintzman Book Review: \booktitleThe Paper Museum
of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B, Parts
IV--V: Natural History: Birds, Other
Animals and Natural Curiosities, by
Henrietta McBurney, Ian Rolfe, Caterina
Napoleone, and Paula Findlen (eds.),
with Carlo Violani, Onno Wijnands,
Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Eufrasia
Roselló-Izquierdo, Arthur McGregor, and
Kathie Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--154
Luigi Traetta Book Review: \booktitleItalian
Psychology and Jewish emigration under
Fascism. From Florence to Jerusalem and
New York, by Patrizia Guarnieri . . . . 155--157
Benedetta Campanile Book Review: \booktitleScience without
Frontiers. Cosmopolitanism and National
Interests in the World of Learning,
1870--1940, by Robert Fox . . . . . . . 158--160
Ariane Dröscher Book Review: \booktitleThe Beautiful
Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y
Cajal, by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso
Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky (eds.) . . 161--162
Stefano Spataro Book Review: \booktitleIl mistero degli
antichi astronauti, by Marco Ciardi . . 163--165
Carla Petrocelli Book Review: \booktitleThe Turing Guide,
by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark
Sprevak, and Robin Wilson . . . . . . . 166--168
Richard Dunn Book Review: \booktitleNavigation: A
Very Short Introduction, by Jim Bennett 169--170
Rienk Vermij On the Function of Dedications in Early
Modern Scientific Books . . . . . . . . 171--197
Thijs Hagendijk Learning a Craft from Books . . . . . . 198--235
Emmanuelle Chapron Tools for Science . . . . . . . . . . . 236--264
Huib Zuidervaart and
Tiemen Cocquyt The Early Development of the Achromatic
Telescope Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 265--344
Guillaume Durey and
Denis Beaudouin and
André Pierre Legrand and
Brigitte Leridon Le télescope pyrhéliométrique de Charles
Féry et la mesure de la température du
Soleil. (French) [The pyrheliometric
telescope of Charles Fery and the
measurement of the temperature of the
Sun] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--371
Claudio Pogliano ``Conscience d'outil'' . . . . . . . . . 373--378
Francesca Antonelli Book Review: \booktitleSentimental
Savants: Philosophical Families in
Enlightenment France, by Meghan K.
Roberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Ludovica Marinucci Book Reviews: Paolo Savoia,
\booktitleCosmesi e chirurgia. Bellezza,
dolore e medicina nell'Italia moderna.
Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2017,
232 pp., 19.50EUR, ISBN:
978-88-7075-982-2. & Annarita Angelini,
\booktitleMatematica e immaginazione nel
Rinascimento. Milano: Editrice
Bibliografica, 2017, 198 pp., 18.50EUR,
ISBN: 978-88-7075-951-8. & Carlo Bovolo,
\booktitleI cattolici italiani e la
scienza. Il discorso apologetico sulla
stampa clericale nell'et\`a del
positivismo. Milano: Editrice
Bibliografica, 2017, 144 pp., 16.50EUR,
ISBN: 978-88-7075-986-0. & Francesco
Barreca, \booktitleLa scienza che fu.
Idee e strumenti di teorie abbandonate.
Milano: Editrice Biblio-grafica, 2017,
128 pp., 16.50EUR, ISBN:
978-88-7075-952-5. & Claudio Pogliano,
\booktitleStorie di cervelli.
Dall'antichit\`a al Novecento. Milano:
Editrice Bibliografica, 2017, 208 pp.,
19.50EUR, ISBN: 978-88-7075-981-5 . . . 382--385
Lorenzo Leporiere Book Review: \booktitleLos límites de la
ciencia. Espiritismo, hipnotismo y el
estudio de los fenómenos paranormales
(1850--1930), by Annette Müllberger (ed.) 386--388
Elizabeth Yale Book Review: \booktitleScience in the
Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, by
Lorraine Daston (ed.) . . . . . . . . . 389--392
Marco Segala Book Review: \booktitleAlfred Wegener.
Science, Exploration, and the Theory of
Continental Drift, by Mott T. Greene . . 393--396
Luca Ciancio and
Domenico Laurenza Visual Representation in Earth Sciences
History after ``The Emergence'':
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--414
Ivano Dal Prete The Ruins of the Earth: Learned
Meteorology and Artisan Expertise in
Fifteenth-Century Italian Landscapes . . 415--441
Domenico Laurenza Images and Theories: The Study of
Fossils in Leonardo, Scilla and Hooke 442--463
Luca Ciancio ``Immoderatus fervor ad intra
coërcendus'': Reactions to Athanasius
Kircher's Central Fire in Jesuit Science
and Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--504
Anna Marie Roos and
Edwin D. Rose Book Review: Lives and Afterlives of the
\booktitleLithophylacii Britannici
ichnographia (1699), the First
Illustrated Field Guide to English
Fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--536
Elly Dekker Book Review: The Astronomical Framework
Underlying the \booktitleSala di Galatea 537--561
Janis Bell A Treatise on Mirrors Attributed to
Matteo Zaccolini . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--584
Francesca Antonelli Lavoisier and Music: An Analysis of
\booktitleNotes sur la Musique (1778)
within Its Cultural Context . . . . . . 585--630
Yasmin Haskell Book Review: \booktitleScience Writing
in Greco-Roman Antiquity, by Liba Taub 631--633
Lavinia Maddaluno Book Review: \booktitleRuins Past,
Modernity in Italy (1744--1836), by
Sabrina Ferri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--636
Stefano Daniele Book Review: \booktitleAlchemy,
Medicine, and Commercial Book
Production. A Codicological and
Linguistic Study of the Voigts--Sloane
Manuscript Group, by Alpo Honkapohja . . 637--640
Argante Ciocci Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Practitioners and the Transformation of
Natural Knowledge in Early Modern
Europe, by Lesley B. Cormack, Steven A.
Walton, John A. Schuster, ed. . . . . . 641--644
Bradford Bouley Book Review: \booktitleProfessors,
Physicians, and Practices in the History
of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy
Siraisi, by Gideon Manning and Cynthia
Klestinec, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--647
Chiara Pepe Book Review: \booktitleLogica e magica.
Giovan Battista Della Porta e i segreti
della natura, by Donato Verardi . . . . 648--650
William J. Ryan Book Review: \booktitleThe Experiential
Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and
Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, by
Pablo F. Gómez . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--653
Dario Tessicini Book Review: \booktitleAfter the
Scientific Revolution: Thinking Globally
about the Histories of the Modern
Sciences, by J. B. Shank, ed. . . . . . 654--656
Yvan Prkachin Book Review: \booktitleBeing Brains:
Making the Cerebral Subject, by Fernando
Vidal and Francisco Ortega . . . . . . . 657--660
Sarah Tocchetti Book Review: \booktitleSynthetic: How
Life Got Made, by Sophia Roosth . . . . 661--663
Bernard Pouderon La procréation des vierges chez les
gnostiques et leurs contemporains
orthodoxes (IIe s.): De l'empreinte du
regard \`a la parthénogén\`ese. (French)
[The procreation of virgins among the
Gnostics and their Orthodox
contemporaries (2nd century): From the
impression of the gaze to
parthenogenesis] . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
John Davis A Medieval English Astrolabe Now in
Innsbruck, Linked to the Lancastrian
Court and with a Chaucer Connection . . 27--68
Ilaria Ampollini Celestial Globes and Popular Astronomy:
Giuseppe Toaldo Translator of Jérôme
Lalande . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--98
Catalina Valdés and
Magdalena Montalbán ``\ldots It Was Highly Desirable They
Should Be Illustrated'': Images from the
U.S. Navy Astronomical Expedition in
Chile (1849--1852) . . . . . . . . . . . 99--127
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez and
Jaume Sastre-Juan The Failed Technology Museum of
Catalonia: Engineers and the Politics of
the Musealization of Technology in
Barcelona (1929--1939) . . . . . . . . . 128--154
Lucia Raggetti Book Review: Apollonius of Tyana's
\booktitleGreat Book of Talismans . . . 155--182
Noam Andrews Book Review: Diagnosis:
\booktitleMelencolia I . . . . . . . . . 183--187
Cynthia Klestinec Book Review: \booktitlePious
Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the
Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe,
by Bradford A. Bouley . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Elio Nenci Book Review: \booktitleJanello Torriani
and the Spanish Empire. A Vitruvian
Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific
Revolution, by Cristiano Zanetti . . . . 192--194
Argante Ciocci Book Review: \booktitleCieli in
contraddizione. Giovanni Battista
Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo,
by Flavia Marcacci . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
Charley Ladee Book Review: \booktitleInteractive and
Sculptural Printmaking in the
Renaissance, by Suzanne Karr Schmidt . . 198--200
Simon Werrett Book Review: \booktitleArtisanal
Enlightenment: Science and the
Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France, by
Paola Bertucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
Paolo Savoia Book Review: \booktitleCreatures Born of
Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity
of Spontaneous Generation, by Daryn
Lehoux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Rossella De Ceglie Book Review: \booktitleLe monde dans un
carnet. Alexander von Humboldt en Italie
(1805), by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet . . . . 207--210
Liborio Dibattista Book Review: \booktitleVivarium.
Experimental, Quantitative, and
Theoretical Biology at Vienna's
Biologische Versuchsanstalt, by Gerd B.
Müller, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Marco Beretta and
Ulf Larsson Prizes and Awards in Science before
Nobel: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
Marco Beretta Names as Rewards: The Ambiguous Role of
Eponyms in the History of Science . . . 219--235
Serafina Cuomo Rewarding Science in Ancient Greece and
Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--245
Liba Taub Celebrating Science in Ancient Greece
and Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--257
Monica Azzolini There Were No Medals To Be Won:
Scientific Duels in the Italian
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--283
Rebekah Higgitt ``In the Society's Strong Box'': A
Visual and Material History of the Royal
Society's Copley Medal, c. 1736--1760 284--316
Patrice Bret Funding and Directing Research or
Rewarding Scientific Achievements?: Two
Centuries of Prizes at the Academy of
Sciences in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . 317--355
Sven Widmalm Normal Science: Prizes in the Swedish
Academy of Sciences before Nobel . . . . 356--376
Jenny Beckman ``Sections of One Great Institution'':
Prizes, Publications, and Transnational
Communication at the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences in the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--391
Paolo Brenni Prizes, Medals and Honourable Mentions:
How Instrument Makers Were Rewarded at
19th-Century Exhibitions . . . . . . . . 392--420
Svante Lindqvist Salon des Refusés . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--426
Paolo Savoia Cheesemaking in the Scientific
Revolution: A Seventeenth-Century Royal
Society Report on Dairy Products and the
History of European Knowledge . . . . . 427--455
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleFor the Love of
Science: The Correspondence of J. H. de
Magellan (1722--1790), by Roderick W.
Home, Isabel M. Malaquias, Manuel F.
Thomaz (ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--459
Lucia Bucciarelli Book Review: \booktitleIsaac Newton and
Natural Philosophy, by Niccol\`o
Guicciardini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--462
Ovanes Akopyan Book Review: \booktitleSing Aloud
Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance
Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony, by
Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen
(eds.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
Wei Yu Wayne Tan Book Review: \booktitleMaking Time:
Astronomical Time Measurement in
Tokugawa Japan, by Yulia Frumer . . . . 465--467
Cristiano Zanetti Book Review: \booktitleEngineering the
Eternal City: Infrastructure,
Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge
in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome, by
Pamela O. Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--471
Gustave Lester Book Review: \booktitleDarwin's Evolving
Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the
Sin of Speculation, by Alistair Sponsel 472--474
Fabio Lusito Book Review: \booktitleJohn von Neumann,
Matematica hilbertiana e fondamenti
della meccanica quantistica, by Rossella
Lupacchini (ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477
Elisabetta Basso Book Review: \booktitleThe Human Body in
the Age of Catastrophe. Brittleness,
Integration, Science, and the Great War,
by Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers . . 478--480
Benedetta Campanile Book Review: \booktitleL'élite sous la
mitraille. Les normaliens, les
mathématiques et la Grande Guerre,
1900-1925, by David Aubin . . . . . . . 481--483
Cinzia Bettineschi and
Giulia Deotto and
Donald James Ian Begg and
Gianmario Molin and
Paola Zanovello and
Alessia Fassone and
Christian Greco and
Matilde Borla, Ivana Angelini A Dig through Archives and Depots:
Rediscovering the Inlay Workshop of
Tebtynis and Its Materials . . . . . . . 485--516
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Book Review: An Overlooked Construction
Manual for the \booktitleQuadrans
Vetustissimus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--534
Adam Fix Book Review: \booktitleEsperienza,
Teacher of All Things: Vincenzo
Galilei's Music as Artisanal
Epistemology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--574
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani Agricultural Science in Napoleonic
Universities: Didactic and Research in
Pavia, Bologna and Padua . . . . . . . . 575--601
Claudio Pogliano Unconventional Views of Racial Brains in
the 19th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--634
Joaquín Sánchez de Lollano Prieto and
Alicia Sánchez Ortiz Contributions to Animal Ceroplastics:
The Sculptor Cristóbal Garrigó de Nis
(1800--1863) and the Anatomical Cabinet
of the Royal Veterinary School in Madrid 635--660
Lavinia Maddaluno Four Unpublished Letters from Nicolas
Fatio de Duillier to Isaac Newton:
Networks and Alchemical Knowledge . . . 661--702
Giulia Ecca Book Review: \booktitleGalien de Pergame
ou la rhétorique de la Providence.
Médecine, littérature et pouvoir \`a Rome,
by Caroline Petit . . . . . . . . . . . 703--705
Florin-Stefan Morar Book Review: \booktitleKnowledge of
Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in
Early Modern Japan, by Federico Marcon 706--708
Paolo Savoia Book Review: \booktitleRecipes and
Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science,
and the Household in Early Modern
England, by Elaine Leong . . . . . . . . 709--712
Stefan Hanß Book Review: \booktitleExotic Animals in
the Art and Culture of the Medici Court
in Florence, by Angelica Groom . . . . . 713--716
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen Book Review: \booktitleInsect Artifice:
Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt, by
Marisa Anne Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--719
Eleonora Loiodice Book Review: \booktitleCronaca di una
cometa non annunciata. Astronomia e
comunicazione della scienza nel XVIII
secolo, by Ilaria Ampollini . . . . . . 720--721
Ivana Gambaro Book Review: \booktitleI Diari Berlinesi
(1857--1859) di Giovanni Virginio
Schiaparelli, by Clara Silvia Roero,
Pasquale Tucci, ed. . . . . . . . . . . 722--724
Fabio Lusito Book Review: \booktitleL'inferno sulla
vetta, by Paolo Mazzarello . . . . . . . 725--728
Katie Baca Book Review: \booktitleA Lab of One's
Own: Science and Suffrage in the First
World War, by Patricia Fara . . . . . . 729--731
Miriam Blanco Cesteros `O$ \delta $$ \omicron$$ \nu $$ \tau$$
\accent ' \iota $$ \zeta$$ \omega $: New
Clues on Ancient Book Production from
Alchemical Papyri . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen A Woodblock's Career: Transferring
Visual Botanical Knowledge in the Early
Modern Low Countries . . . . . . . . . . 20--63
Cali Buckley Pathos, Eros, and Curiosity: The History
and Reception of Ivory Anatomical Models
from the Seventeenth Century to Today 64--89
Erika Luciano and
Chiara Pizzarelli ``The Theory of Practice'': The Role of
Collections in Technical and Scientific
Teaching in Turin (1845--1861) . . . . . 90--113
Manuel Xavier Meanings of Practice, Morals of Error:
The Case of Gago Coutinho's Salmoiraghi
Theodolites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--140
Elisabetta Sirgiovanni and
Alessandro Aruta From the Madhouse to the Docu-Museum:
The Enigma Surrounding the Cerletti-Bini
ECT Apparatus Prototype . . . . . . . . 141--164
Sarah-Maria Schober Book Review: \booktitleA New Order of
Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in
Reformation Nuremberg, by Hannah Murphy 165--168
Hannah Marcus Book Review: \booktitleReading Galileo:
Scribal Technologies and the Two New
Sciences, by Renée Raphael . . . . . . . 169--171
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleDutch
Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy
of Science. From Regius to 's Gravesande
1640--1750, by Andrea Strazzoni . . . . 172--174
Noam Andrews Book Review: \booktitleThe Philosophy
Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's
Teaching Cabinet, 1766--1820, by Ethan
W. Lasser (ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
Dorit Brixius Book Review: \booktitleWorlds of Natural
History, by Helen A. Curry, Nicholas
Jardine, James A. Secord and Emma Spary
(eds.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Marco Fontani Book Review: \booktitleThe Politics of
Chemistry. Science and Power in
Twentieth-Century Spain, by Agustí
Nieto-Galan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Andrea Candela Book Review: \booktitleGreening the
Alliance. The Diplomacy of NATO's
Science and Environmental Initiatives,
by Simone Turchetti . . . . . . . . . . 183--185
Pedro M. P. Raposo Other Worlds within a Hand's Reach:
Planetary Models from the Sixteenth
Century through the Early Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
Samuel Gessner and
Michael Korey and
Karsten Gaulke The Anomalous Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 191--234
Rory McEvoy George Graham and the Orrery . . . . . . 235--250
Luís Tirapicos and
Thomas Horst Francesco Bianchini (1662--1729) and the
Origins of Planetary Globes . . . . . . 251--273
Pedro M. P. Raposo Recounting the Orbs . . . . . . . . . . 274--299
Louise E. Devoy Lunar Crater Models . . . . . . . . . . 300--332
Claudia Swan Early Modern Geometries . . . . . . . . 333--340
Rebecca Zorach Stones, Snowflakes, and Insect Eggs . . 341--363
Suzanne Karr Schmidt Pfinzing and Friends . . . . . . . . . . 364--386
Raz Chen-Morris Geometry and the Making of Utopian
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe . . . . 387--412
Lawrence Lipking Johannes Kepler and Twenty-First-Century
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--428
Antonio Clericuzio Descartes, Stensen and the Quest for
Visible Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . 429--440
Federico Pierucci Book Review: \booktitleHobbes and
Galileo: Method, Matter and the Science
of Motion, by Gregorio Baldin. Cham:
Springer, 2020. XXIII, 216 pp., 31 b/w
ill. 79,99 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-030-41413-9 441--443
Arianna Borrelli Book Review: \booktitlePerspective as
Practice. Renaissance Cultures of
Optics, by Sven Dupré (ed.). Turnhout,
Belgium: Brepols, 2019. 512 p., 143 b/w
ill. + 46 colour ill. 90 EUR. ISBN:
978-2-503-58107-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 444--447
Stefano Tomassetti Book Review: \booktitleMateria medica.
Savoirs et usages des médicaments aux
époques médiévales et modernes, by Philip
Rieder, François Zanetti (eds.). Geneva:
Librairie Droz, 2018.312 pp. \$45.60.
ISBN: 978-2-600-05878-0} . . . . . . . . 448--450
Paolo Savoia Book Review: \booktitleFood, Social
Politics and the Order of Nature in
Renaissance Italy, by Allen J. Grieco.
Milan: Officina Libraria (for Europe);
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
(rest of the world), 2019. 327 pp., 35
color plates. 28 EUR. ISBN
978-88-336-7039-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--454
Lavinia Maddaluno Book Review: \booktitleNewton the
Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the
Quest for Nature's ``Secret Fire'', by
William R. Newman. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2019. 560 pp. \$39.95/
\pounds 34.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17487-7} 455--457
Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleÖkonomien
botanischen Wissens. Praktiken der
Gelehrsamkeit in Basel um 1600, by
Davina Benkert. [Basler Beiträge zur
Geschichtswissenschaft 188],
Basel/Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. 352
pp., 21 illustrations of which 12 in
colour, 58 EUR. ISBN (printed):
978-3-7965-4073-8; ISBN eBook (PDF):
978-3-7965-4155-1; DOI
10.24894/978-3-7965-4155-1 . . . . . . . 458--460
Lucia Dacome and
Meghan C. Doherty and
Dahlia Porter and
Courtney Roby Unruly Objects --- Material
Entanglements in the Arts and Sciences 461--470
Robin E. Rider Equations as Unruly Objects . . . . . . 471--505
Reviel Netz Why Were Greek Mathematical Diagrams
Schematic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--535
Emily R. Anderson Printing the Bespoke Book . . . . . . . 536--560
Sarah Basham The Reader's Body in Seventeenth-Century
Chinese Statecraft Texts . . . . . . . . 561--605
Jaipreet Virdi Material Traces of Disability . . . . . 606--631
Elizabeth Neswald Things That Don't Talk Much and Things
That Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--659
Sarah Michel Scripps The Downfall of the Diorama . . . . . . 660--684
Mary Learner Embroidering the New Science . . . . . . 685--717
Isabelle Pantin Le monument du savoir galiléen dans le
mouvement continu de la recherche
collaborative. (French) [The Galilean
monument of knowledge in the continuous
movement of collaborative research] . . 719--736
Andrea Bernardoni Book Review: \booktitleLe macchine nel
mondo antico. Dalle civilt\`a
mesopotamiche a Roma imperiale, by
Giovanni Di Pasquale. Roma:Carocci,
2019. 241pp. 18 EUR. ISBN:
978-88-430-9589-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 737--739
Pamela Mackenzie Book Review: \booktitleAesthetic
Science: Representing Nature in the
Royal Society of London, 1650--1720, by
Alexander Wragge-Morley. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2020.
243pp. \$40. ISBN: 978-0-226-68086-6} 740--742
Monica Azzolini Book Review: \booktitleAfter the Flood.
Imagining the Global Environment in
Early Modern Europe, by Lydia Barnett.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2019. 264 pp. \$49,95. ISBN:
978-1-4214-2951-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 743--745
Luigi Cerruti and
Elena Ghibaudi Book Review: \booktitleLa scienza
Impossibile. Percorsi dell'alchimia in
Francia tra Ottocento e Novecento, by
Leonardo Anatrini, Marco Ciardi. Roma:
Carocci, 2020. 212 pp. 22 EUR. ISBN:
978-88-430-9620-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 746--749
Carlo Bovolo Book Review: \booktitleDonne e scienza
nella Roma dell'Ottocento, by Federica
Favino. Roma: Carocci, 2020. 212 pp. 22
EUR. ISBN: 978-88-430-9620-6 . . . . . . 750--752
Fabio Lusito Book Review: \booktitleOmbre nella
mente. Lombroso e lo scapigliato, by
Maria Antonietta Grignani, Paolo
Mazzarello. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,
2020. 174 pp. 15 EUR. ISBN:
978-88-399-3411-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 753--755
Laura Schettini Book Review: \booktitleDonne
delinquenti. Il genere e la nascita
della criminologia, by Silvano Montaldo
Roma: Carocci, 2019. 356 pp. 32 EUR.
ISBN: 978-88-430-9827-9 . . . . . . . . 756--758
Elena Canadelli Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Raffaele Danna Figuring Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--48
Yousef Yassi and
Reza Yassi Al-Khazini's Balance of Wisdom . . . . . 49--66
Silke Ackermann and
Louise Devoy Humfrey Cole Revisited . . . . . . . . . 67--94
Luca Ciancio Promoting Empirical Knowledge in
Habsburg Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--118
Flavia Marcacci Seeing at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . 119--142
Omar Olivares Sandoval The Scientific Images of the Axolotl by
José María Velasco and Their Role in
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Thinking 143--166
Connemara Doran Instrumentalizing and Visualizing the
Cosmic First Light . . . . . . . . . . . 167--192
Sabrina Minuzzi Printing Medical Knowledge . . . . . . . 193--197
Sabrina Minuzzi 15th-Century Practical Medicine in Print 199--263
Sandra Cavallo Early Vernacular Medical Advice Books
and Their Popular Appeal in Early Modern
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--303
Elma Brenner The Reception, Consumption and Broader
Context of a French Vernacular Plague
Tract Printed in 1495 . . . . . . . . . 304--324
Tessa Storey The Lament of the Melons . . . . . . . . 325--355
Andrea van Leerdam Popularising and Personalising an
Illustrated Herbal in Dutch . . . . . . 356--393
Bruno Barreiros and
Palmira Fontes da Costa Materia Medica and the History of the
Book in Seventeenth-Century Portugal . . 394--430
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore The Triumph of Theriac . . . . . . . . . 431--470
Giacomo Savani Book Review: \booktitlePublic Baths and
Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity. A
Study of the Evidence from Italy, North
Africa and Palestine A.D. 285--700, by
Sadi Maréchal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--473
Tim Wingard Book Review: \booktitleThe
Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval
and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives,
by Nigel Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
Lu Zhao Book Review: \booktitlePhysiognomy in
Ming China: Fortune and the Body, by
Xing Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
Tessa Storey Book Review: \booktitleForgotten
Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health
in Late Renaissance Italy, by Sharon
Strocchia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--482
Enrico Giusti Book Review: \booktitleFermat et les
débuts modernes de la géométrie, by Roshdi
Rashed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleBurchard de
Volder and the Age of the Scientific
Revolution, by Andrea Strazzoni . . . . 487--490
Fabrizio Baldassarri Book Review: \booktitleCrocologia. A
Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of
Plants, by Sally Francis and Maria
Teresa Ramandi, eds. . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia Book Review: \booktitleLa philosophie de
la biologie avant de la biologie. Une
histoire du vitalisme, by Charles Wolfe &
\booktitleThe Gestation of German
Biology. Philosophy and Physiology from
Stahl to Schelling, by John H. Zammito 493--496
Maria Conforti Book Review: \booktitlePlague and the
city, by Lukas Engelmann, John
Henderson, and Christos Lynteris, eds 497--499
Francesco Cassata Book Review: \booktitleBlood Relations.
Transfusion and the Making of Human
Genetics, by Jenny Bangham . . . . . . . 500--502
Mauro Capocci and
Claudio Pogliano Science and Race . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--515
Staffan Müller-Wille Corners, Tables, Lines . . . . . . . . . 517--531
Efram Sera-Shriar Constructing the ``Jewish Type'' . . . . 532--567
Claudio Pogliano A Tricky Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--610
Lucas Orlando Iannuzzi Lidio Cipriani (1892--1962), the
Photographs in His Popular Science
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--645
Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva and
Juanma Sánchez Arteaga Alfred Russel Wallace and the Models of
Amazonian ``Indians'' Displayed at the
Crystal Palace Ethnological Exhibition 646--675
Beatrice Falcucci Visualizing Colonial Power . . . . . . . 676--722
Ricardo Roque The Logic of Skull Writing . . . . . . . 723--753
Dayana Ariffin Spatializing Differences . . . . . . . . 754--778
Otso Kortekangas Putting the Suenjel Sámi on the Map . . . 779--804
Anonymous Back matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--809
Anonymous Front matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Stefan Laube and
Sergei Zotov Vial Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--41
Anthony Turner Recycling Early Modern Mathematical
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--58
Oscar Seip Giulio Camillo's Theatre of Knowledge
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--83
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and
Fabio Lusito In the Footsteps of Galileo . . . . . . 84--117
Georgiana D. Hedesan Alchemy and Paracelsianism at the Casino
di San Marco in Florence . . . . . . . . 119--143
Federica Favino Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's Last Will
(1679, December 31st) . . . . . . . . . 144--173
Marco Beretta Paolo Brenni (1954--2021) . . . . . . . 175--206
Paolo Freguglia A New Edition of Leonardo Fibonacci's
\booktitleLiber Abbaci . . . . . . . . . 207--213
Tommaso Duranti Book Review: \booktitleHealers in the
Making. Students, Physicians, and
Medical Education in Medieval Bologna
(1250--1550), by Kira Robison . . . . . 215--217
Stefano Tomassetti Book Review: \booktitleSaints,
Infirmity, and Community in the Late
Middle Ages, by Jenni Kuuliala . . . . . 218--220
Cristiano Zanetti Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo
ingegnere, by Andrea Bernardoni . . . . 221--223
Marie-Louise Leonard Book Review: \booktitleFlorence Under
Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early
Modern City, by John Henderson . . . . . 224--226
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleThe
Transmutations of Chymistry. Wilhelm
Homberg and the Académie Royale des
Sciences, by Lawrence M. Principe . . . 227--230
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh Book Review: \booktitleTranslation at
Work: Chinese Medicine in the First
Global Age, by Harold J. Cook, ed. . . . 231--233
Joshua Nall Book Review: \booktitleMaps of the Moon.
Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth
Century to the Space Age, by Thomas
Haddad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Mauro Mandrioli Book Review: \booktitleA Tale of Two
Viruses. Parallels in the Research
Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial
Viruses, by Neeraja Sankaran . . . . . . 237--239
David Ceccarelli Book Review: \booktitleCatastrophic
Thinking. Extinction and the Value of
Diversity from Darwin to the
Anthropocene, by David Sepkoski . . . . 240--242
Fabrizio Baldassarri The Seed, the Tree, the Fruit, the Juice 243--253
Fabrizio Baldassarri A Clockwork Orange . . . . . . . . . . . 255--283
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney ``To Multiply Corn Two-Hundred-Fold'' 284--314
Dana Jalobeanu and
Oana Matei Spiritual Technologies . . . . . . . . . 315--345
Christoffer Basse Eriksen Picturing Seeds of Poppies . . . . . . . 346--373
Pamela Mackenzie Contested Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--396
Anthony Turner The Astrolabe and the Book in 16th
Century France . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--420
Alessandro Ottaviani A Chapter in the Debate on Chordate
Phylogeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--478
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Book Review: \booktitleLa Thériaque.
Histoire d' un rem\`ede millénaire, by
Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise
Micheau, eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
H. Darrel Rutkin Book Review: \booktitleAstrology,
Almanacs, and the Early Modern English
Calendar, by Phebe Jensen . . . . . . . 482--484
Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi Book Review: \booktitleLa biblioteca di
Leonardo, by Carlo Vecce, ed. . . . . . 485--488
Alessandro Ottaviani Book Review: \booktitleNatural desiderio
di sapere. Roma barocca fra vecchi e
nuovi mondi, by Sabina Brevaglieri . . . 489--491
Justin Begley Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of
Robert Boyle's Sister, by Michelle DiMeo 492--494
Elena Serrano Book Review: \booktitleMaterial Lives.
Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the
18th Century, by Serena Dyer . . . . . . 495--497
Thibaut Serviant-Fine Book Review: \booktitleStrange Blood.
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood
Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and
Beyond, by Boel Berner . . . . . . . . . 498--500
Peter Mason Book Review: \booktitleFlorentino
Ameghino y Hermanos. Empresa Argentina
de Paleontología Ilimitada, by Irina
Podgorny & Los argentinos vienen de los
peces. Ensayo de filogenia nacional, by
Irina Podgorny . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504
Paolo Mazzarello Book Review: \booktitleBrain and Race. A
History of Cerebral Anthropology, by
Claudio Pogliano . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--507
Claudio Giorgione Book Review: \booktitleLa Forma del
Tempo (The Shape of Time), by Lavinia
Galli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--511
Fedra A. Pizzato Objects of Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . 513--527
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu Displaying Archaeology and Circulating
Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--563
Fedra A. Pizzato Between the History of the Earth and the
History of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--589
Lucila Mallart Archaeology, Archival Practices and
National Identities in the Iconographic
Repertoire of Spain (1915--1929) . . . . 590--614
Simona Troilo Visions of the Empire . . . . . . . . . 615--642
Oliver Hochadel Facing Our Ancestors . . . . . . . . . . 643--673
Lucia Raggetti Alchemical Waters Run Deep . . . . . . . 675--692
Klaus F. Steinsiepe Leonardo da Vinci, the Ventricles of the
Brain, and the Foramen of Monro . . . . 693--709
Valentina Vignieri For the Digital Reconstruction of
Leonardo's \booktitleCodex Atlanticus 711--720
Raffaele Danna Book Review: \booktitleAnachronisms in
the History of Mathematics: Essays on
the Historical Interpretation of
Mathematical Texts, by Niccol\`o
Guicciardini, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . 721--723
Chiara Beneduce Book Review: \booktitleLe Moyen Âge et
les sciences, by Danielle Jacquart and
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, eds. . . . 724--730
Sara Taglialagamba Book Review: \booktitleLo specchio di
Leonardo. Scritture e libri del genio
universale, by Marco Cursi . . . . . . . 731--735
Biagio Mazzella Book Review: \booktitleThe Shape of Sex.
Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the
Renaissance, by Leah DeVun . . . . . . . 736--738
David Salomoni Book Review: \booktitleNew World Objects
of Knowledge. A Cabinet of Curiosities,
by Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel, eds. 739--741
Carolin Lange Book Review: \booktitlePainting with
Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography,
and the Temporally Evolving Chemical
Object, by Matthew C. Hunter . . . . . . 742--743
Mauro Mandrioli Book Review: \booktitleGetting Under Our
Skin. The Cultural and Social History of
Vermin, by Lisa T. Sarasohn . . . . . . 744--746
Mary Chapman Book Review: \booktitleScience
Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century
Britain: Constructing Scientific
Communities, by Gowan Dawson, Bernard
Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, and
Jonathan R. Topham, eds. . . . . . . . . 747--749
Arthur McIvor Book Review: \booktitleGerms in the
English Workplace, c1880--1945, by Laura
Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--752
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Book Review: \booktitleNature's
Diplomats. Science, Internationalism,
and Preservation, 1920--1960, by Raf De
Bont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--755
Anonymous Back matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--763
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Anonymous Front matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Umberto Veronesi ``The Lute of Wisdom'' . . . . . . . . . 1--31
Noël Golvers A Dutch Pharmacist in Early Modern Rome 32--71
Jean-François Gauvin Huygens's Carriole . . . . . . . . . . . 72--102
Simon Dumas Primbault How Leibniz Read Pascal's Geometry . . . 103--136
Ruth Ezra Corpuscular Conchology . . . . . . . . . 137--164
Hans Laurens de Jonge Depicting Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--192
Yingtian He Book Review: \booktitleThinking in
Cases: Ancient Greek and Imperial
Chinese Case Narratives, by Markus
Asper, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
Robert Vinkesteijn Book Review: \booktitlePseudo-Galenica.
The Formation of the Galenic Corpus from
Antiquity to the Renaissance, by
Caroline Petit, Simon Swain, and
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, eds. . . . . . . 196--198
Alessandra Celati Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science,
and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, by
Hannah Marcus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201
José Pardo-Tomás Book Review: \booktitleNatura ed
esattezza all'alba della scienza
galileiana. Le `Observationes' di Fabio
Colonna, by Alessandro Ottaviani . . . . 202--204
Kristy Wilson Bowers Book Review: \booktitleHealth and
Healing in the Early Modern Iberian
World: A Gendered Perspective, by
Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens,
eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Kimberley Skelton Book Review: \booktitleThe Moving
Statues of Seventeenth-Century
Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks,
Fountains, Labyrinths, by Angela
Vanhaelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
Marco Storni Book Review: \booktitleGeminiano
Montanari e altri studi di storia della
scienza nella prima et\`a moderna, by
Salvatore Rotta . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Arden Hegele Book Review: \booktitleKept from All
Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the
Dilemma of Human Contact in Late
Nineteenth-Century Literature, by Kari
Nixon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
Thomas Preveraud Book Review: \booktitleAu bureau de la
revue. Une histoire de la publication
scientifique (XIXe--XXe si\`ecle), by
Valérie Tesni\`ere . . . . . . . . . . . 217--219
Connemara Doran Book Review: \booktitleBeyond Sputnik
and the Space Race. The Origins of
Global Satellite Communications, by Hugh
R. Slotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
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Elena Canadelli Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Amandine Victoria Didouan ``To Draw a Body, Human or Beast, One
Must Study Anatomy'' . . . . . . . . . . 225--249
Rahul Bhaumik Picturing the Snakes . . . . . . . . . . 251--277
Hannah Kaemmer Description or Design . . . . . . . . . 278--310
Chia-Yun Wu The Search for the Tang Royal Domain
(Wangji [Chinese characters]) . . . . . 311--339
Didier Kahn Les quatre versions successives du
\booktitleCours de Chimie d'Étienne de
Clave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--395
Lucia Raggetti The Humours and the Dyes . . . . . . . . 397--443
Monica Azzolini Under the Surface . . . . . . . . . . . 445--463
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: \booktitleLines of Thought:
Branching Diagrams and the Medieval
Mind, by Ayelet Even-Ezra . . . . . . . 465--468
Giorgio Strano Book Review: \booktitleAn
Early-Fourteenth-Century English
Astrolabe in Milan and Contemporary
Anglo-Italian Politics, by John Davis 469--471
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: \booktitleRenaissance
Invention. Stradanus's Nova Reperta, by
Lia Markey, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474
Georgiana D. Hedesan Book Review:
\booktitlePseudo-Paracelsus. Forgery and
Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and
Natural Philosophy, by Didier Kahn and
Hiro Hirai, eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477
Elisa Novi Chavarria Book Review: \booktitleMedicina sotto il
vulcano. Corpi e salute a Napoli in
et\`a moderna, by Maria Conforti . . . . 478--480
Andrea Strazzoni Book Review: \booktitleIl metodo al
tavolo anatomico. Descartes e la
medicina, by Fabrizio Baldassarri . . . 481--484
Marco Beretta Book Review: \booktitleSpaces of
Enlightenment Science, by Gordon McOuat
and Larry Stewart, eds. . . . . . . . . 485--487
Déborah Dubald Book Review: \booktitleUrban Histories
of Science: Making Knowledge in the
City, 1820--1940, by Oliver Hochadel and
Agustí Nieto-Galan, eds. . . . . . . . . 488--490
Nivedita Mukherjee Book Review: \booktitleCancer Virus
Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, by
Gregory J. Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . 491--494
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Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke Enclosing the Open Fields . . . . . . . 495--519
Francesca Campani Objects of Pleasure . . . . . . . . . . 520--552
Claudia Cristalli From Postal Scale to Psychological
Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--582
David Ceccarelli Handling and Photographing Fossils . . . 583--607
Claudio Pogliano ``Other than as illustration'' . . . . . 608--650
Stefano Daniele The Angel and the Thief with the Pearl
Earrings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--689
Alessandro Tripepi International Perspectives on the
Florentine Edition of Apollonius'
\booktitleConics . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--710
Claudio Pogliano New Teche at the Museo Galileo . . . . . 711--714
Johannes-Geert Hagmann Unimaginable. How Van Leeuwenhoek's
Microscope Changed the World . . . . . . 715--717
Isabelle Pantin Book Review: \booktitleLynceorum
Historia. Le `Schede Lincee' di Martin
Fogel, by Michele Camerota, Alessandro
Ottaviani, and Oreste Trabucco, eds. . . 719--721
Alexi Baker Book Review: \booktitleGiuseppe Campani,
``Inventor Romae,'' an Uncommon Genius,
by Silvio A. Bedini . . . . . . . . . . 722--724
Francesca Antonelli Book Review: \booktitleLaura Bassi.
Donne, genere e scienza nell'Italia del
Settecento, by Marta Cavazza . . . . . . 725--727
Barbara Orland Book Review: \booktitleBodily Fluids,
Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth
Century Boerhaave School, by Robert E.
Verwaal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--730
Alessandro Minelli Book Review: \booktitlePlants and
Politics in Padua during the Age of
Revolution, 1820-1848, by Ariane Dröscher 731--733
Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitlePasteur's Empire:
Bacteriology and Politics in France, its
Colonies, and the World, by Aro Velmet 734--737
Mauro Mandrioli Book Review: \booktitleQuel che resta.
Scheletri e altri resti umani come beni
culturali, by Maria Giovanna Belcastro,
Giorgio Manzi, and Jacopo Moggi Cecchi,
eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--740
Eugenio Bertozzi Book Review: \booktitleHistorical
Scientific Instruments in Contemporary
Education, by Elizabeth Cavicchi and
Peter Heering, eds. . . . . . . . . . . 741--743
Catarina Madruga Book Review: \booktitleMobile Museums
Collections in Circulation, by Felix
Driver, Mark Nesbitt, and Caroline
Cornish, eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--746
Anonymous Back matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--752
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Anonymous Front matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Laurence Guignard The Amateur Scientist's Workshop
(1800--1950) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Maria Angelica Esmeral Henriquez To Press, Dry, Organise, and Represent 11--34
Laurent Baridon Eug\`ene Viollet-le-Duc, an Amateur
Orologist on the Cusp between
Romanticism and Positivism . . . . . . . 35--50
Nathalie Richard The Work of a Dilettante or a Grand
Amateur? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--75
Volny Fages Émile Belot's Models, or an Engineer's
Quest for Scientific Legitimacy . . . . 76--98
Florent Serina Pierre Janet's Secret Garden, or the
Botanical Collection of a
Psychopathologist . . . . . . . . . . . 99--115
Laurence Guignard The Amateur Astronomer as Image Producer 116--140
Hervé Guillemain The Pendulum that Diagnoses and Cures 141--161
Federica Gigante A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew
Inscriptions in Verona . . . . . . . . . 163--192
Erika Luciano Retaining and Mobilising Geometric
Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216
Fedra A. Pizzato Botanical Museum, University of Padua 217--221
Rachele Scuro Book Review: \booktitleUomini e fiumi.
Per una storia idraulica ed agraria
della bassa pianura del Po (1450--1620),
by Franco Cazzola . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
Marco Storni Book Review: \booktitleUnderground
Mathematics. Craft Culture and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Europe, by
Thomas Morel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
Pietro D. Omodeo Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
Society. Numbers and Measures in Early
Modern South India, by Senthil Babu D. 232--237
Mauro Mandrioli Book Review: \booktitleIn the Herbarium.
The Hidden World of Collecting and
Preserving Plants, by Maura C. Flannery 238--240
Paula DeVos Book Review: \booktitleMerchants of
Medicines. The Commerce and Coercion of
Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth
Century, by Zachary Dorner . . . . . . . 241--243
Michael A. Osborne Book Review: \booktitleVictims of
Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian
Britain, by Helen Louise Cowie . . . . . 244--246
Ageliki Lefkaditou Book Review: \booktitleBones and Bodies.
How South African Scientists Studied
Race, by Alan G. Morris . . . . . . . . 247--249
Paola Bernadette Di Lieto Book Review: \booktitleThe Italian
Genius on Display. The First National
Exhibition of History of Science
(Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of
Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy, by
Francesco Barreca . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Gerardo Ienna Book Review: \booktitleScienziati e
guerra fredda. Tra collaborazione e
diritti umani, by Elisabetta Bini and
Elisabetta Vezzosi, eds. . . . . . . . . 252--254
Stephen Johnston Book Review: \booktitleCatalogue of
Surveying and Related Instruments: Museo
Galileo, by Jim Bennett . . . . . . . . 255--257
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Hansun Hsiung Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
Elena Paulino Montero Touching Female Memories in the
Purification Funerary Chapel in Burgos
(c. 1482--1531) . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--304
Mackenzie Cooley Likeness across Nature . . . . . . . . . 305--337
Elena Serrano Touching the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . 338--361
Ester García Moscardó Bodies and Objects in the Hispanic
Occupation of Tahiti . . . . . . . . . . 362--389
Hansun Hsiung The Gentleman, the Detective, and the
Housewife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--416
Harriet Palfreyman Medical Masculinity and the Sensation of
Suffering in Leonard Portal Mark's
\booktitleAcromegaly (1912) . . . . . . 417--443
Ludmilla Jordanova Touching Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--450
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia In Search of the Phoenix in
Eighteenth-Century Naples . . . . . . . 451--485
Elly Dekker On Dating the Stars on the Rete of the
Verona Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--490
Didier Kahn An Early Renaissance Hebrew Alchemical
Treatise in French Translation (ca.
1540)? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--528
Giorgio Strano In Memory of James (Jim) Arthur Bennett
(1947--2023) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--536
Giulia Scalas Book Review: \booktitleBodily Fluids in
Antiquity, by Mark Bradley, Victoria
Leonard, and Laurence Totelin, eds. . . 537--539
Saskia Klerk Book Review: \booktitleMaking
Physicians. Traditions, Teaching, and
Trials at Leiden University, 1575-1639,
by Evan R. Ragland . . . . . . . . . . . 540--542
Fabrizio Baldassarri Book Review: \booktitleSkepticism
Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural
Philosophy, by Melissa Lo . . . . . . . 543--544
Ivana Bicak Book Review: \booktitleDangerous Drugs:
The Self-Presentation of the
Merchant-Poet Joannes Six van Chandelier
(1620--1695), by Ronny Spaans . . . . . 545--546
Elena Maria Rita Rizzi Book Review: \booktitleCollective
Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern
Academy, by Anna Marie Roos and Vera
Keller, eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--549
Elizabeth Kambas Book Review: \booktitleLadies of Honor
and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and
Politics in Enlightened Spain, by Elena
Serrano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--553
Ferdinando Abbri Book Review: \booktitleThe Arsenal of
the Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. The
Laboratories of Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier (1743-1794), by Marco Beretta
and Paolo Brenni . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--557
Pedro M. P. Raposo Book Review: \booktitleThe Astronomer's
Chair: A Visual and Cultural History, by
Omar W. Nasim . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--560
Laura Schettini Book Review: \booktitleL'universit\`a
delle donne. Accademiche e studentesse
dal Seicento a oggi, by Andrea Martini e
Carlotta Sorba, eds. . . . . . . . . . . 561--563
Natacha Fabbri Book Review: \booktitleFemmes de
science. Quatre si\`ecles de conquêtes,
entre langue et littérature, by Natasa
Raschi and Cristina Trinchero, eds. . . 564--566
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