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Anonymous Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Johannes Hjelmslev Eudoxus' Axiom and Archimedes' Lemma . . 2--11
Francisco Guerra Hispanic--American Contribution to the
History of Scurvy . . . . . . . . . . . 12--23
Jos. E. Hofmann Über Gregorys systematische Näherungen für
den Sektor eines
Mittelpunktkegelschnittes. (German) [On
Gregory's systematic approximations for
the sector of a midpoint conic section] 24--37
Ernest Wickersheimer Une vie des saints Côme et Damien dans un
manuscrit médical du IXe si\`ecle, suivie
d'une recette de collyre attribuée a la
m\`ere des deux saints (French) [A life
of the saints Como and Damien in a
medical manuscript of the Ninth Century,
followed by a recipe of drops attributed
to the mother of the two saints] . . . . 38--42
Luigi Belloni Über das Wappen und die vermeintliche
Triorchidie von Bartolomeo Colleoni.
(German) [On the crest and the alleged
Triorchidie of Bartolomeo Colleoni] . . 43--61
K. F. Russell An Undescribed Wooden Écorché [skinned]
Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65
Walter Artlelt Das Titelbild zur ``Fabrica'' Vesals und
Seine kunstgeschichtlichen
Voraussetzungen. (German) [The cover
picture for ``Fabrica Vesalius'' and its
art-historical conditions] . . . . . . . 66--77
Anonymous Obituaries: Ingjald Reichborn-Kjennerud
(27 June 1865--7 August 1949) . . . . . 78--86
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 95--96
Reinhold F. G. Müller Zur Aufnahme der Altmedizin in die
grossen Sammelwerke der indischen
Ärzteschulen. (German) [Accommodating age
medicine in the great collections of
Indian medical schools] . . . . . . . . 97--116
A. G. Drachman Heron and Ptolemaios . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
C. H. W. Wendt Die heiligen Ärzte in der
Ostkirchenkunst. (German) [Holy doctors
in Eastern Church art] . . . . . . . . . 132--138
Karl Schadelbauer Zwei Schreiben König Maximilians über die
Isolierung von Pestkranken. (German)
[Two letters of King Maximilian on the
isolation of plague victims] . . . . . . 139--142
H. Engell Records on Jan Swammerdam in the
Amsterdam Archives . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155
Erna Lesky Galen als Vorläufer der Hormonforschung.
(German) [Galen as a precursor of
hormone research] . . . . . . . . . . . 156--162
S. R. Ranganathan Varia: Source materials for the history
of medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--165
Anonymous Obituaries: Cecil Clifford Dobeil
(1886--1949) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--173
A. G. Drachmann Societies and Meetings: Sixth
international congress for the history
of science and Twelfth congress of the
Société internationale d'histoire de la
médecine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--190
Anonymous Books received: Books received . . . . . 191--192
Benjamin Farrington Temporis Partus Masculus: An
Untranslated Writing of Francis Bacon 193--205
Paul Von Diepgen Der Kirchenlehrere Augustin und Die
Anatomie Im Mittelalter. (German) [The
church teacher Augustine and anatomy of
the Middle Ages] . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--211
Frans Jonckheere La Circonsion des anciens Égyptiens.
(French) [Circumcision of the Ancient
Egyptians] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--234
Heinrich Von Marzell and
Günther Schmid Zur Geschichte Des Frauenblattes (\em
Chrysanthemum Balsamital). (German)
[History of the Journal for Women (\em
Chrysanthemum Balsamital)] . . . . . . . 235--241
Jean Von Anker Georg Christian Oeders Botanische Reise
in Europa Um Die Mitte Des Achtzehnten
Jahrhunderts. (German) [Georg Christian
Oeders botanical travel in Europe in the
middle of the Eighteenth Century] . . . 242--265
O. Neugebauer A Greek Table for the Motion of the Sun 266--270
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--289
Anonymous Books received: Books received . . . . . 290--292
J. E. Von Hofmann Zum Gedenken An Thomas Bradwardine.
(German) [Commemorating Thomas
Bradwardine] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--308
Kate Trauman Steinitz A Pageant of Proportion in Illustrated
Books of the 15th and 16th Century in
the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana . . . 309--333
Karl Von Schlechta Hirnforschung und Philosophische
Spekulation Im Griechischen Altertum.
(German) [Brain research and
philosophical speculation in Greek
Antiquity] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--355
Ernest Wickersheimer Paracelse \`a Strasbourg. (French)
[Paracelsus in Strasbourg] . . . . . . . 356--365
A. J. J. Van de Velde Varia: Un Musée de l'Histoire des
Sciences en Belgique. (French) [Varia: a
museum of the history of science in
Belgium] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--377
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--392
A. G. Drachmann On the Alleged Second Ktesibios . . . . 1--10
Alfred Schmid Die Elektrotherapeutischen Schriften von
Jos. Franciscus Domin. Einem wenig
bekannten Pionier der Elektrotherapie in
Jugoslavien. (German) [The
electrotherapeutic writings of Jos.
Franciscus Dominguez. An acquaintance of
pioneering electrotherapy in Yugoslavia] 11--38
Leander Von Brozovi\'c Biographisches über Joseph Franz Domin.
(German) [Biographical data about Joseph
Franz Domin] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Edward Rosen When Did Galileo Make His First
Telescope? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Kurt Feremutsch Die Grundzuege der Hirnanatomie bei Carl
Gustav Carus (1789--1869): Ein Beitrag
zur Geschichte der Medizin und der
Naturwissenschaften des beginnenden 19.
Jahrhunderts. (German) [The broad
outlines of the brain anatomy of Carl
Gustav Carus (1789--1869): A
contribution to the history of medicine
and science of the early 19th Century] 52--85
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 95--96
Erwin Stresemann and
Peter Thomsen Ornithologen-Briefe Aus Den Jahren 1816
bis 1820 Gewechselt Zwischen J. F.
Naumann und C. J. Temminck. (German)
[Ornithological letters from the years
1816 to 1820 exchanged between J. F.
Naumann and C. J. Temminck] . . . . . . 97--139
Olaf Schmidt On the Computation of the Ahargana . . . 140--180
Luigi Belloni Die figurierte Nomenklatur der ausseren
Körperteile des Menschen in der Tradition
der griechischen Manuskripte und in den
ersten gedruckten anatomischen Büchern.
(German) [The illustrated nomenclature
of the outer parts of the human body in
the tradition of Greek manuscripts and
the first printed anatomy books] . . . . 181--200
Gerhard Ers Der anatomische Merkspruch des
Angelsächsischen Salomon und Saturn.
(German) [The anatomical mnemonic of the
Anglo-Saxon Solomon and Saturn] . . . . 201--204
Irmingard Hasche-Klünder Rudolf Virchow, Infektion und
Infektionskrankheit, Bakteriologie und
Pathologie. (German) [Rudolf Virchow,
infection and infectious disease,
bacteriology and pathology] . . . . . . 205--250
Anonymous Societies and Meetings . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Ed. Fueter Varia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
E. J. Dijksterhuis Christiaan Huygens: An address delivered
at the annual meeting of the Holland
Society of Sciences at Haarlem, May
13th, 1950, on the occasion of the
completion of Huygens's
\booktitleCollected Works . . . . . . . 265--282
Robert Herrlinger Zur Frage der ersten, anatomisch
richtigen Darstellung des menschlichen
Körpers in der Malerei. (German) [On the
first anatomically correct
representation of the human body in the
art of painting] . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
Reinhold F. G. Müller Traum-Lehren altindischer Ärzte. (German)
[Dream teachings of Ancient Indian
physicians] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--313
Georg Theodor Schwarz Die systematische Arbeitsweise Albrecht
von Hallers 1708--1777. (German) [The
systematic approach of Albrecht von
Haller 1708--1777] . . . . . . . . . . . 314--348
Kurt Quecke François Rousset und die erste
Monographie über den Kaiserschnitt.
(German) [François Rousset and the first
monograph on the Caesarean section] . . 349--363
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--373
Anonymous Books received: Books received . . . . . 373--373
L. Rosenfeld Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
V. Gordon Childe Science in Preliterate Societies and the
Ancient Oriental Civilisations . . . . . 12--23
R. J. Forbes Metals and Early Science . . . . . . . . 24--31
B. Farrington The Rise of Abstract Science Among the
Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Joseph Needham Thoughts on the Social Relations of
Science and Technology in China . . . . 40--48
R. J. Forbes Metallurgy and Technology in the Middle
Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
S. Lilley Cause & effect in the history of science 58--72
R. Taton The French Revolution and the Progress
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--89
S. F. Mason The Idea of Progress and Theories of
Evolution in Science . . . . . . . . . . 90--106
Richard H. Shryock The interplay of social and internal
factors in modern medicine: an
historical analysis . . . . . . . . . . 107--125
A. Pannekoek The Discovery of Neptune . . . . . . . . 126--137
J. D. Bernal Science, Industry and Society in the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 138--165
Dorothea Waley Singer Science and Confidence in the Rational
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--182
A. G. Drachmann The Plane Astrolabe and the Anaphoric
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
H. J. J. Winter The Optical Researches of Ibn Al-Haitham 190--210
Erich Hintzsche Manuscriptum Alberti Halleri ad
Historiam Medicinae Pertinens: (Deutung
des Manuscriptes A 96 der
Burgerbibliothek Bern). (Latin/German)
[Albert Halleri' manuscript of the
relevant history of medicine:
Interpretation of the manuscript A 96 of
the Bern Municipal Library] . . . . . . 211--221
Herbert Böttger Die Embryologie Leonardos Da Vinci.
(German) [The embryology of Leonardo da
Vinci] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--235
F. Ronchese Les Dartres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--243
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--278
J. E. Hofmann Altes und Neues von der Quadratur des
Descartesschen Blattes. (German) [Old
and new on the squaring of the Cartesian
sheet] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
Jean Anker An Eighteenth Century Project for the
Propagation of Botanical Knowledge . . . 296--304
Th. H. Schlichting Das Tagebuch von Niels Stensen. (German)
[The journal of Niels Stensen] . . . . . 305--310
Margaret Morse Nice Incubation Periods Throughout the Ages 311--359
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--374
Rida A. K. Irani Arabic Numeral Forms . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Juraj Körbler Über die Krebsbehandlung des praktischen
Arztes im XVI. Jahrhundert. (German) [On
cancer treatment in medical practice of
the 16th Centuries] . . . . . . . . . . 13--22
Martin Levey Evidences of Ancient Distillation,
Sublimation and Extraction in
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
Siegfried Heller Kritische Bemerkungen zu dem 4. Kapitel
des Buches von Josef Zürcher $ \gg
$\booktitleAristoteles' werk und geist$
\ll $. (German) [Critical remarks on the
4th chapter of the book by Joseph Zürcher
\booktitleAristotle's works and spirit] 34--50
Gustav Scherz Niels Stensens Smaragdreise. (German)
[Niels Stensen's Emerald Voyage] . . . . 51--57
Erna Lesky Deutsche Galenübersetzungen zu
Beintker-Kahlenberg, Werke des Galenos,
V. (German) [German translations of
Galen in Beintker-Kahlenberg,
\booktitleWorks of Galen, V] . . . . . . 58--62
K. E. Rothschuh and
A. Schäfer Quantitative Untersuchungen über die
Entwicklung des physiologischen
Fachschrifttums (Periodica) in den
letzten 150 Jahren. (German)
[Quantitative studies on the development
of specialized physiological literature
(periodicals) in the last 150 years] . . 63--66
E. Ashworth Underwood Obituaries: Max Neuburger (8 December
1868--15 March 1955) . . . . . . . . . . 67--79
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--96
Erich Hintzsche Albrecht Hallers ``\booktitleManuscripta
Winslowiana'', ein wieder aufgefundenes
Tagebuch aus seiner Pariser Studienzeit.
(German) [Albrecht Haller's
``\booktitleManuscripta Winslowiana'', a
rediscovered diary from his Paris
student days] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Asger Aaboe On the Babylonian Origin of Some
Hipparchian Parameters . . . . . . . . . 122--125
Martin Levey Dyeing Auxiliaries in Ancient
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
Bruno Valentin Die Geschichte der Osteopsathyrosis (\em
Osteogenesis Imperfecta). (German) [The
history of Osteopsathyrosis (\em
Osteogenesis Imperfecta)] . . . . . . . 132--147
Gerhard Eis Späte Paracelsus-Exzerpte aus unbekannten
Handschriften. (German) [Late Paracelsus
excerpts from unknown manuscripts] . . . 148--162
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
Jos. E. Hofmann Über Vi\`etes Konstruktion des regelmäßigen
Siebenecks. (German) [On Vi\`ete's
construction of the regular heptagon] 177--184
George Sarton Henri Berr (1863--1954): La synth\`ese
de l'histoire et l'histoire de la
science. (French) [Henri Berr
(1863--1954): the synthesis of history
and the history of science] . . . . . . 185--197
I. V. M. Krishna Rav The Motion of the Moon in Tamil
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--220
B. L. van der Waerden Tamil Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
Karlheinz Haas Die Mathematischen Arbeiten von Johann
Hudde (1628--1704) Burgermeister von
Amsterdam. (German) [The Mathematical
Works of Johann Hudde (1628--1704),
Mayor of Amsterdam] . . . . . . . . . . 235--284
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
H. D. Turner Robert Hooke and Theories of Combustion 297--310
A. P. Hatton and
L. Rosenfeld An Analysis of Joule's Experiments on
the Expansion of Air: (Including
Original Results Not Previously
Published) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
Raymond Williamson An Ancient Urinary Vesical Calculus . . 319--324
Heinrich von Schipperges Assimilations-Zentren Arabischer
Wissenschaft Im 12. Jahrhundert.
(German) [The Arabic science
assimilation center in the 12th Century] 325--350
Dietrich Tutzke Über statistische Untersuchungen als
Beitrag zur Geschichte des
Hebammenwesens im ausgehenden 18.
Jahrhundert. (German) [On statistical
tests as a contribution to the history
of midwifery in the late 18th Centuries] 351--359
C. A. Crommelin La force d'un corps en mouvement.
(French) [The force of a body in
movement] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--368
Anonymous Obituaries: George Sarton (31 August
1884--22 March 1956) . . . . . . . . . . 369--381
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Siegfried Heller Ein Beitrag zur Deutung der
Theodoros-Stelle in Platons Dialog $ \ll
$Theaetet$ \gg $. (German) [A
contribution to the interpretation of
Theodoros' site in Plato's
\booktitleDialogue $ \ll $Theaetetus$
\gg $] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--58
Jos. E. Hofmann Ergänzende Bemerkungen zum $ \ll $
geometrischen$ \gg $
Irrationalitätsbeweis der alten Griechen.
(German) [Supplementary remarks on $ \ll
$ geometric$ \gg $ irrationality proofs
of the Ancient Greeks] . . . . . . . . . 59--72
H. J. J. Winter The Arabic Optical Mss. in the British
Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
George Rosen The fate of the concept of medical
police 1780--1890 . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
Wolfram Kock Carolus Linnaeus and Surgery . . . . . . 114--120
Mark Lesley B\=\irün\=\i on rising times and daylight
lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--141
Kurt-R. Biermann Eine Aufgabe aus den Anfängen der
Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. (German) [A
task from the beginnings of probability
theory] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--150
Martin Levey Technology of Oils, Fats and Waxes in
Ancient Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
?. Pazzini A Recently Discovered New Morgagni . . . 164--166
Jean Anker and
A. G. Drachmann Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--175
B. L. van der Waerden The Astronomical Papyrus Ryland 27 . . . 177--191
Peter Huber Über Den Nullpunkt Der Babylonischen
Ekliptik. (German) [On the zero point of
the Babylonian ecliptic] . . . . . . . . 192--208
Asger Aaboe On Babylonian Planetary Theories . . . . 209--277
A. G. Drachmann How Archimedes Expected to Move the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--282
Arthur Czwalina Über einige Beobachtungsfehler des
Ptolemäus und die Deutung ihrer Ursachen.
(German) [Some observation errors of
Ptolemy and the importance of their
cause] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--306
R. Hooykaas The concepts of ``individual'' and
``species'' in chemistry . . . . . . . . 307--322
Frans Jonckheere La Conception Égyptienne du Squelette.
(French) [The Egyptian concept of the
skeleton] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--338
Ove Brinch The Medical Problems of Henry Viii . . . 339--369
C. O. van Regteren Altena A Second Fossil From Scheuchzer's
Collection in the Teyler Museum . . . . 370--372
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--376
Arthur Czwalina Ptolemaeus, Die Bahnen Der Planeten
Venus und Merkur. (German) [Ptolemy, the
orbits of Venus and Mercury] . . . . . . 1--35
Martin Levey Food and Its Technology in Ancient
Mesopotamia: the Earliest Chemical
Processes and Chemicals . . . . . . . . 36--51
Juraj Körbler Krankheit und Tod Kaiser Diokletians.
(German) [The illness and death of
Emperor Diocletian] . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
E. Hintzsche Ein Rollbild Altchinesischer Anatomie 55--67
Reinhold F. G. Miiller Schädeleröffnungen nach indischen Sagen.
(German) [Skull openings in Indian
legends] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--81
Siegfried Lienhard Konstitution und Charakter Nach Den
Lehren Der Altindischen Medizin.
(German) [Constitution and character of
the teachings of Ancient Indian
medicine] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--93
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--108
Anonymous Book Received: Book Received . . . . . . 109--112
Johs. Lohne Thomas Harriott (1560--1621) . . . . . . 113--121
Jacob W. Lorch Gleanings on the Naked Seed Controversy 122--128
Herbert D. Deas Crystallography and Crystallographers in
England in the Early Nineteenth Century:
a Preliminary Survey . . . . . . . . . . 129--148
Martin Levey Clay and Its Technology in Ancient
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--156
Peter Berger Johann Heinrich Lamberts Bedeutung in
Der Naturwissenschaft Des 18.
Jahrhunderts. (German) [Johann Heinrich
Lambert's importance in the science of
the 18th Century] . . . . . . . . . . . 157--254
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Klaus G. König Die Stellung der Anatomen unter den
medizinischen Lehrern in Padua im 16.
Jahrhundert. (German) [The position of
anatomists among medical teachers in
Padua in the 16th Century] . . . . . . . 1--5
Johs Lohne Hooke versus Newton . . . . . . . . . . 6--52
Gundolf Keil Der deutsche Branntweintraktat des
Mittelalters. (German) [The German
brandy treatise of the Middle Ages] . . 53--100
Peter Richards Leprosy in Scandinavia . . . . . . . . . 101--133
E. S. Kennedy and
Muhammad Agha Planetary Visibility Tables in Islamic
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--140
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Edward Rosen Copernicus and Al-Bitruji . . . . . . . 145--151
Edward Rosen Copernicus and Al-Bitruji . . . . . . . 152--156
Gustav Scherz Briefe aus der Bartholinerzeit. (German)
[Letters from the Bartholin time] . . . 157--196
Stanisaw Sokól Die Bibliothek eines Barbiers aus dem
Jahre 1550. (German) [The library of a
barber from 1550] . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206
Jacob Seide The Barnacle Goose Myth in the Hebrew
Literature of the Middle Ages . . . . . 207--212
Emil Schultheiss Beitrag zur Pestliteratur des
Spätmittelalters. (German) [Contribution
to the plague literature of the Late
Middle Ages] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--219
Johns Lohne Varia: a Note on Harriott's Scientific
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Anonymous Societies and Meetings: Societies and
Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
Olaf Pedersen Master John Perks and his Mechanical
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Hermann von Orth $ \Delta I A I T A $ $ \Gamma E P O N T
\Omega N $: die Geriatrie der
griechischen Antike. (Greek/German)
[Elder provisions: geriatrics of Ancient
Greece] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--47
Rembert von Watermann Alexander von Humboldt und die chemische
Erforschung der ``Gesundheit der Luft''.
(German) [Alexander von Humboldt and the
chemical study of the ``health of the
air''] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--68
Johs Lohne The Fair Fame of Thomas Harriott: Rigaud
versus Baron von Zach . . . . . . . . . 69--84
Klaus von Schönfeldt Lucidarius --- Auszüge in astronomischen
Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts.
(German) [Excerpts in astronomical
manuscripts of the 15th Century] . . . . 85--90
A. G. Drachman Fragments from Archimedes in Heron's
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--146
Kenneth Dewhurst Dr. William Cole's (1635--1716) Letters
to Locke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--173
Per F. Dahl Ludvig A. Colding and the Conservation
of Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--188
Joachim von Thiele Ernst Mach --- Bibliographie. (German)
[Ernst Mach --- bibliography] . . . . . 189--237
Olaf Pedersen The ``Philomaths'' of 18th Century
England: a Study in Amateur Science . . 238--262
Wilson I. B. Onuigbo The Age-old Dictum on the Spread of
Tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
J. Lorch The Carpel --- a Case-History of an Idea
and a Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--291
Anonymous Obituaries: Aníbal Ruíz Moreno
(1907--1960) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--296
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Asger Aaboe On a Greek Qualitative Planetary Model
of the Epicyclic Variety . . . . . . . . 1--10
G. J. Toomer A Note on Tamil Astronomical Tables . . 11--15
Konrad Müller Ph. Melanchthon und das kopernikanische
Weltsystem. (German) [Ph. Melanchthon
and the Copernican system] . . . . . . . 16--28
Reinhold F. G. Müller Nirukti indischer Ärzte. (German)
[Nirukti Indian doctors] . . . . . . . . 29--34
Reinhold F. G. Müller Amputations-Lehren in altindischer
Medicin?. (German) [Amputation teachings
in ancient Indian medicine?] . . . . . . 35--37
Peter Diosi Bemerkungen eines Zeitgenossen über die
Verbreitungsart der Pest im Burzenlande
im Jahre 1786. (German) [Observations of
contemporaries on the method of
dissemination of the plague in
Burzenlande in 1786] . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
E. Snorrason Obituary: Edvard Gotfredsen 1899--1963 45--46
Anonymous Notes and Informations . . . . . . . . . 47--50
J. W. Herivel and
Johannes Lohne and
Asger Aaboe and
Olaf Schmidt and
Axel V. Nielsen and
Else Plejl and
Olaf Pedersen and
Olaf Pedersen and
E. Bastholm and
Eyvind Bastholm and
E. Snorrason and
Vilh. Maller-Christensen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--66
I. Scavenius Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 67--70
Anonymous Shorter Notices of Books Received . . . 71--72
E. Strubing Nahrung und Ernährung bei Hildegard von
Bingen, Äbtissin, Ärztin und
Naturforseherin (1098--1179). (German)
[Food and nutrition in Hildegard of
Bingen, abbess and medical natural
scientist (1098--1179)] . . . . . . . . 73--124
Anonymous Notes and Informations: Notes and
Informations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received . . . . 137--138
Jos. E. Hofmann Über die \booktitleExercitatio geometrica
des M. A. Ricci. (German) [On the
\booktitleExercitatio geometrica of M.
A. Ricci] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--193
Reinhold F. G. Muller Zusammenfassungen einiger derzeitiger
Beurteilungen indischer Medizin.
(German) [Summaries of some current
assessments of Indian medicine] . . . . 194--211
Juraj Körbler Zur Behandlung der Krebskrankheit mit
Bleisalben im XVIII. Jahrhundert.
(German) [On the treatment of cancer
with lead salves in the 18th Century] 212--215
L. Rosenfeld and
Else Plejl and
Wilh. Mòller-Christensen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--218
Axel V. Nielsen Contributions to the History of the
Hertzsprung--Russell Diagram . . . . . . 219--253
G. J. Toomer A Further Note on Tamil Astronomical
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--256
Javad Hamadanizadeh A Medieval Interpolation Scheme for
Oblique Ascensions . . . . . . . . . . . 257--265
Ole Knudsen A Note on Newton's Concept of Force . . 266--271
Josef Werlin Ein Feuerwerkstext aus dem 16.
Jahrhundert. (German) [A fireworks text
of the 16th Century] . . . . . . . . . . 272--287
Peter Diosi Long Term Changes in the Natural History
of Infectious Diseases . . . . . . . . . 288--292
Olof Pettersson Magic and Medicine in South African
Bantu Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--316
Anonymous Notes and Information . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--323
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 324--327
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 328--329
Derek J. De Solla Price The Babylonian ``Pythagorean Triangle''
Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Graziella Federici Vescovini Les questions de `perspective' de
Dominicus de Clivaxo. (French) [The
questions of `perspective' of Dominicus
de Clivaxo] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Anonymous Quaestiones magistri dominici de clivaxo
super perspectiva. (Latin) [The problems
of the church teachers of clivaxo [????]
on perspective] . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Gerhard Eis Tiere aus der Phiole. (German) [Animals
from the vial] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--34
Robert Kargon The Decline of the Caloric Theory of
Heat: a Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . 35--39
Juraj Korbler Eine Krebsbehandlung zu Beginn des XIX.
Jahrhunderts. (German) [A cancer
treatment at the beginning of the 19th
Century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received . . . . 62--64
H. L. L. Busard Über einige Papiere aus Vi\`etes Nachlaß
in der Pariser Biblioth\`eque Nationale.
(German) [Some papers from Vi\`etes
estate in the National Library in Paris] 65--126
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Bernard R. Goldstein A Treatise on Number Theory from a Tenth
Century Arabic Source . . . . . . . . . 129--134
Anonymous Text: The First Treatise of the Division
of Abstract Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 135--160
Josef Werlin Eine Regel zur Volumenbestimmung von
Fässern. (German) [A rule for determining
the volume of barrels] . . . . . . . . . 161--164
Reinhold F. G. Müller Können die altindischen Ärzte als
Materialisten gelten?. (German) [Can the
Ancient Indian physicians be considered
materialists?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--173
Joseph Needham Science and Society in East and West . . 174--197
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--212
Asger Aaboe On Period Relations in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--231
Bernard R. Goldstein On the Theory of Trepidation: According
to Th\=abit b. Qurra and al-Zarq\=allu
and its Implications for Homocentric
Planetary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--247
Christoph J. von Scriba Wallis und Harriot. (German) [Wallis and
Harriot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--257
Bent Sòren von Jòrgensen Berzelius und die Lebenskraft. (German)
[Berzelius and the vital force] . . . . 258--281
Herbert Friedmann The History of our Knowledge of Avian
Brood Parasitism . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--304
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 316--317
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 318--320
B. L. van der Waerden Vergleich der mittleren Bewegungen in
der babylonischen, griechischen und
indischen Astronomie. (German)
[Comparison of the mean motions in the
Babylonian, Greek and Indian astronomy] 1--18
Vot J. A. Lohne Thomas Harriot als Mathematiker.
(German) [Thomas Harriot as
Mathematician] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45
Robert Kargon Newton, Barrow and the Hypothetical
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--56
Reinhold F. G. Müller Indische Blut-Bewertungen. (German)
[Indian blood reviews] . . . . . . . . . 57--62
Anonymous Notes and Information: Report on the
Danish National Committee for the
History and Philosophy of Science . . . 63--66
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
E. S. Kennedy and
Mardiros Janjanian The Crescent Visibility Table in
Al-Khw\=arizm\=\i's \booktitleZ\=\ij . . 73--78
Edward Grant Aristotle, Philoponus, Avempace, and
Galileo's Pisan Dynamics . . . . . . . . 79--93
Brian S. Cartwright N$_2$O$_4$: a Historical Survey . . . . 96--110
Hans H. Lauer Grundzüge einer medizinischen Theorie in
der Kulturmorphologie Ibn Chalduns.
(German) [Principles of medical theory
in the cultural morphology of Ibn
Khaldun] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127
H. Sommer Zwei Druckfragmente von Lorenz Fries
(1483?--1531). (German) [Two print
fragments of Lorenz Fries (1483?--1531)] 128--140
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 143--144
A. Ziggelaar, S.J. Aux origines de la Théorie des Vibrations
Harmoniques: Le P\`ere Ignace Gaston
Pardies (1636--1673): Études sur Ignace
Gaston Pardies I. (French) [On the
origins of the theory of harmonic
vibrations: Father Ignace Gaston Pardies
(1636--1673): studies on Ignace Gaston
Pardies I] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--151
Gordon Ones The Scientific Publications of Henry
Kater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--189
Donald Skabelund Cosmology on the American Frontier:
Orson Pratt's Key to the Universe . . . 190--204
Reinhold F. G. Müller Die indische Bewertung des weiblichen
Fortplanzungsstoffes (drtava). (German)
[The Indian review of the female
reproductive plan wetting substance
[????] (drtava) ] . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
Josef Werlin Eine Heidelberger Überlieferung des
Pelzbuches von Gottfried von Franken.
(German) [A Heidelberg lore of the fur
book by Gottfried of Franconia] . . . . 210--214
Edward Rosen The Moon's Orbit in Kepler's
\booktitleSomnium . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
Joachim Thiele Briefe von Gustav Theodor Fechner und
Ludwig Boltzmann an Ernst Mach. (German)
[Letters of Gustav Theodor Fechner and
Ludwig Boltzmann to Ernst Mach] . . . . 222--235
Lawrence Badash An Elster and Geitel Failure: Magnetic
Deflection of Beta Rays . . . . . . . . 236--240
Walter Böhm John Mayow und die Geschichte des
Verbrennungsexperiments. (German) [John
Mayow and the history of combustion
experiments] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--258
Reinhold F. G. Müller Indisch: Dravya (medizingeschichtlich).
(German) [Indian: Dravya (medical
history)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Reinhold F. G. Muller Einige Belege zur Bewahrung alter
Lehrsätze in neuzeitlicherer indischer
Medizin. (German) [Some evidence for
preservation of old dogmas in modern
Indian medicine] . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--274
Josef Werun Drei Zahnrezepte von Peter Ernst.
(German) [Three tooth recipes from Peter
Ernst] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
Emil Schultheiss and
Louis Tardy Short History of Epidemics in Hungary
until the Great Cholera Epidemic of 1831
(On the basis of historical sources) . . 279--301
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--309
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--319
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 320--323
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 324--327
A. G. Drachmann Archimedes and the Science of Physics 1--11
Marion Boutelle The Almanac of Azarquiel . . . . . . . . 12--19
August Ziggelaar, S.J. Les premi\`eres démonstrations du
tautochronisme de la cyclo\"\ide, et une
conséquence pour la théorie de la
vibration harmonique. Études sur Ignace
Gaston Pardies, II. (French) [The first
demonstrations of the cycloid's
tautochronism, and a consequence for the
theory of harmonic vibration. Studies on
Ignace Gaston Pardies] . . . . . . . . . 21--37
Armin Hermann Die frühe Diskussion zwischen Stark und
Sommerfeld über die Quantenhypothese (1).
(German) [Early discussions between
Stark and Sommerfeld on the quantum
hypothesis (1)] . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--59
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 71--72
Viggo M. Petersen and
Olaf Schmidt The Determination of the Longitude of
the Apogee of the Orbit of the Sun
according to Hipparchus and Ptolemy . . 73--96
O. Neugebauer Three Copernican Tables . . . . . . . . 97--106
E. S. Kennedy The Digital Computer and the History of
the Exact Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
Hartmut Broszinski Das Heilmittelglossar des Hans Suff von
Göppingen. (German) [The drunkenness-cure
glossary of Hans Suff of Göppingen] . . . 114--131
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--137
Ole Knudsen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 142--144
G. J. Toomer The Size of the Lunar Epicycle According
to Hipparchus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
Victor E. Thoren Tycho Brahe's Discovery of the Variation 151--166
Gustav Scherz Neue Stensenbriefe. (German) [New
correspondence of Stensen] . . . . . . . 167--181
Juraj Körbler Die Krebslehre des Paracelsus und die
Gegenwart. (German) [The cancer doctrine
of Paracelsus and the present] . . . . . 182--191
Isidor Greenwald Notes on the History of Goitre and of
Thyrotoxicosis in Denmark . . . . . . . 192--196
Aarno Turunen C. R. Ehrström, the Finnish Predecessor
of Ignaz Semmelweis, the Defeater of
Puerperal Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--201
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--208
O. Neugebauer The Origin of $ \gg $System B$ \ll $ of
Babylonian Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 209--214
Robert E. Nichols, Jr. Sidrak and Bokkus on the Atmospheric and
Earth Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
I. E. McGuire The Origin of Newton's Doctrine of
Essential Qualities . . . . . . . . . . 233--260
P. M. Heimann Moseley's Interpretation of X-Ray
Spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
B. L. van der Waerden Mendel's Experiments . . . . . . . . . . 275--288
S. Tchorbadjiev The Early Days of Chemistry in Bulgaria 289--302
Axel V. Nielsen A Sundial from about 1200 A.D. . . . . . 303--307
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--320
J. J. Burckhardt and
B. L. van der Waerden Das astronomische System der Persischen
Tafeln I. (German) [The astronomical
system of the Persian Table I] . . . . . 1--28
A. G. Drachmann On the named swords, especially in the
Icelandic sagas . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Joachim Telle Altdeutsche Eichentraktate aus
medizinischen Handschriften (Beiträge zur
pharmazeutischen Kleinliteratur im
ausgehenden Mittelalter). (German) [Old
German oak tracts of medical manuscripts
(contributions to the small
pharmaceutical literature of the late
Middle Ages)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--61
Otto Blüh Ernst Mach as an Historian of Physics 62--84
Joachim Thiele Ein zeitgenössisches Urteil über die
Kontroverse zwischen Max Planck und
Ernst Mach. (German) [A contemporary
assessment of the controversy between
Max Planck and Ernst Mach] . . . . . . . 85--90
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 111--112
Bent Sòren Jòrgensen Testamentum Gebri . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
Kristian Peder Moesgaard The 1717 Egyptian years and the
Copernican theory of precession . . . . 120--138
Olaf Pedersen Sagredo's Optical Researches . . . . . . 139--150
Kirsti Mòller Pedersen Roberval's Method of Tangents . . . . . 151--182
Ole Knudsen and
Kurt Mòller Pedersen The Link between `Determination' and
Conservation of Motion in Descartes'
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
A. Ziggelaar Une invention oubliée: Deux instruments
pour la construction des cadrans
solaires: Études sur Ignace Gaston
Pardies III. (French) [A forgotten
invention: Two instruments for the
construction of sundials: studies on
Ignace Gaston Pardies III] . . . . . . . 187--197
Gordon Jones Joule's Early Researches . . . . . . . . 198--219
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--227
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--238
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 238--240
A. G. Drachmann A Detail of Heron's Dioptra . . . . . . 241--247
E. S. Kennedy An Early Method of Successive
Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
J. J. Verdonk Vom Einfluß des P. de la Ramée auf Simon
Stevin. (German) [On the influence of P.
de la Ramée on Simon Stevin] . . . . . . 251--262
Curtis Wilson The Error in Kepler's Acronychal Data
for Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
Evert M. Bruins Problema Alhaseni at the Tercentenary of
Huygens' Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 269--277
Flemming Sloth Chr. Huygens' Rectification of the
Cycloid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--284
Gerhard Eis Zu Heinrich von Rees. (German) [To
Heinrich von Rees] . . . . . . . . . . . 285--290
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--312
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 313--315
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 316--321
Asger Aaboe and
Abraham Sachs Two Lunar Texts of the Achaemenid Period
from Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Lis Bernsen On the Construction of Column B in
System A of the Astronomical Cuneiform
Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
John P. Britton Ptolemy's Determination of the Obliquity
of the Ecliptic . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
Ricardo A. Caminos An Ancient Egyptian Donation Stela in
the Archaeological Museum of Florence
(Inv. No. 7207) . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
A. G. Drachmann Capital Letters and Small Letters in
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Bernard R. Goldstein Some Medieval Reports of Venus and
Mercury Transits . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
Willy Hartner Eclipse Periods and Thales' Prediction
of a Solar Eclipse: Historic Truth and
Modern Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--71
Claus Jensen Pierre Fermat's Method of Determining
Tangents of Curves and Its Application
to the Conchoid and the Quadratrix . . . 72--85
A. S. Kennedy and
Walid Ukashah Al-Khwarizmi's Planetary Latitude Tables 86--96
A. Leo Oppenheim Divination and Celestial Observation in
the Last Assyrian Empire . . . . . . . . 97--135
Richard A. Parker Some Demotic Mathematical Papyri . . . . 136--141
Viggo M. Petersen The Three Lunar Models of Ptolemy . . . 142--171
David Pingree The Later Pauli\'\.ssasiddh\=anta . . . 172--241
Derek J. De Solla Price Portable Sundials in Antiquity,
including an Account of a New Example
from Aphrodisias . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--266
Olaf Schmidt A Mean Value Principle in Babylonian
Planetary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--286
Noel Swerdlow Hipparchus on the Distance of the Sun 287--305
G. J. Toomer The Solar Theory of az-Zarqal: a History
of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--336
Peter Solon The Six Wings of Immanuel Bonfils and
Michael Chrysokokkes . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
B. L. van der Waerden Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit $ \ll
$Vergleich der mittleren Bewegungen in
der babylonischen, griechischen und
indischen Astronomie$ \gg $ (Centaurus
11, p. 1--18). (German) [Correction on
my work $ \ll $Comparison of mean
motions in Babylonian, Greek and Indian
astronomy$ \gg $ ] . . . . . . . . . . . 21--24
Kirsti Moller Pedersen Roberval's Comparison of the Arclength
of a Spiral and a Parabola . . . . . . . 26--43
David F. Larder Prout's Hypothesis: a Reconsideration 44--50
Heike Kohlsaat and
Carl Schirren Die Untersuchungen von Niels Stensen über
die Haut. Versuch einer kritischen
Betrachtung. (German) [The
investigations of Niels Stensen on the
skin. Attempt at a critical examination] 51--71
Erik Warburg Was the University of Christian III a
Twopenny University, or Was the Salary
Demanded by Leonhart Fuchs Unreasonable?
The Professors' Pay in the 16th Century 72--106
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Zeev Bechler Aristotle Corrects Eudoxus . . . . . . . 113--123
A. G. Drachmann A New Interpretation of the Golden
Horns. A Comment on Professor Willy
Hartner's Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
Bernard R. Goldstein and
Noel Swerdlow Planetary Distances and Sizes in an
Anonymous Arabic Treatise Preserved in
Bodleian Ms. Marsh 621 . . . . . . . . . 135--170
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--189
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 190--191
H. L. L. Busard Die Traktate \booktitleDe Proportionibus
von Jordanus Nemorarius und Campanus.
(German) [The tracts \booktitleDe
proportionibus of Jordanus Nemorarius
and Campanus] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--227
William Coleman Bateson and Chromosomes: Conservative
Thought in Science . . . . . . . . . . . 228--314
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--328
Claus Jensen Ab\=u Nasr Mans\=ur's Approach to
Spherical Astronomy as Developed in His
Treatise ``The Table of Minutes'' . . . 1--19
G. R. Talbot and
A. J. Pacey Antecedents of Thermodynamics in the
Work of Guillaume Amontons . . . . . . . 20--40
Ole Knudsen From Lord Kelvin's Notebook: Ether
Speculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--62
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 63--64
B. L. van der Waerden Aegyptische Planetenrechnung . . . . . . 65--91
Helmut Krieger Konstruktion bogengleicher algebraischer
Kurven in historischer Sicht. (German)
[Construction of algebraic curves of
equal arc in historical perspective] . . 92--162
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
J. E. Hofmann Reviews: \booktitleÜber eine
zahlentheoretische Aufgabe Fermats.
(German) [\booktitleOn a
number-theoretic exercise of Fermat] . . 169--202
Victor E. Thoren An `Unpublished' Version of Tycho
Brahe's Lunar Theory . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
M. Melchioris Iöstelii Lvnæ Deltqvivm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--230
John Robert Christianson Addenda to \booktitleTychonis Brahe
Opera Omnia tomus XIV . . . . . . . . . 231--247
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 253--256
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi ben Gerson's Lunar Model . . . . . 257--284
Louis Janin Le Cadran Solaire de la Mosquée Umayyade
\`a Damas. (French) [The sundial of the
Umayyade mosque in Damascus] . . . . . . 285--298
John Livingston The Mukhula, an Islamic Conical Sundial 299--308
Gerhard Eis Brief Communications: Ein Tiroler
Fragment der ``\booktitleGebrannten
Wässer'' Gabriel von Lebensteins.
(German) [A fragment of the Tyrolean
``\booktitleBurnt waters of life'' of
Gabriel von Lebenstein] . . . . . . . . 309--319
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320
C. Truesdell The Scholar's Workshop and Tools . . . . 1--10
Elizabeth Garber Aspects of the Introduction of
Probability into Physics . . . . . . . . 11--40
John Herivel The Influence of Fourier on British
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--57
Martin J. Klein Mechanical Explanation at the End of the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 58--82
Mogens Pihl The Scientific Achievements of L. V.
Lorenz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Noel Swerdlow Al-Batt\=an\=\i's Determination of the
Solar Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
August Ziggelaar, S.J. Le Tautochronisme de la Cyclo\"\ide
selon Pieter Baert: Études sur Ignace
Gaston Pardies, IV. (French) [The
tautochronism of the cycloide according
to Pieter Baert: studies on Ignace
Gaston Pardies, IV] . . . . . . . . . . 106--118
Joachim Telle Das Arzneibuch Johannes Schöners und
seine mittelhochdeutschen Quellen.
(German) [The Pharmacopoeia of John
Schoener and his Middle High German
sources] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--141
C. Truesdell Reviews: \booktitleIs There a Philosophy
of Science? An Essay Review . . . . . . 142--172
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Evert M. Bruins Tables of Reciprocals with Irregular
Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188
George A. Saliba The Meaning of \em al-jabr
wa'l-muq\=abalah . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--204
Curtis Wilson The Inner Planets and the Keplerian
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--248
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Wolfgang Hübner Kritische Bemerkungen zu zwei Texten über
die Sonnenbewegung. (German) [Critical
remarks on two texts on the movement of
the Sun] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
John W. Livingston Na\dsir al-Din al-\dTus\b\i's
al-Tadhkirah: a Category of Islamic
Astronomical Literature . . . . . . . . 260--275
Niels Therkel Jòrgensen and
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Peder Horrebow's Formulation of the
So-called Mayer Formula . . . . . . . . 276--279
Eberhard Knobloch Leibnizens Studien zur Theorie der
symmetrischen Funktionen. (German)
[Leibniz' studies in the theory of
symmetric functions] . . . . . . . . . . 280--294
Paul A. Tunbridge A Letter from Òrsted on the Effects
Produced in Bodies Subjected to
Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--300
P. J. Wallis British Philomaths --- Mid-Eighteenth
Century and Earlier . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
S. M. Gruner Defending Father Lucas: a Consideration
of the Newton--Lucas Dispute on the
Nature of the Spectrum . . . . . . . . . 315--329
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--334
E. Neuenschwander Zur Überlieferung der Archytas --- Lösung
des delischen Problems. (German) [On the
lore of Archytas --- solution of the
Delian problem] . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
G. J. Toomer The Chord Table of Hipparchus and the
Early History of Greek Trigonometry . . 6--28
Peter B. Wirth Die Venustheorie von Vasistha in der
\booktitlePañcasiddh\=antik\=a des
Var\=aha Mihira. (German) [The Venus
theory of Vasistha in the
\booktitlePañcasiddh\=antik\=a des
Var\=aha Mihira] . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
René R. J. Rohr Sonnenuhr und Astrolabium im Dienste der
Moschee. (German) [Sundial and astrolabe
in the service of the mosque] . . . . . 44--56
Hartmut Broszinski Eine Freiburger medizinische
Glossensammlung aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.
(German) [A Freiburg medical gloss
collection from the 15th Century] . . . 57--63
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Per Stròmholm Reviews: \booktitleOriginal Golden Hit.
An Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
E. Rancke-Madsen Reviews: \booktitleThe Periodic System
of Chemical Elements. An Essay Review 76--80
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
H. L. L. Busard Über einige Euklid-Scholien, die den
Elementen von Euklid, übersetzt von
Gerard von Cremona, angehängt worden
sind. (German) [Some Euclidean scholia,
which were the \booktitleElements of
Euclid, translated and extended by
Gerard of Cremona] . . . . . . . . . . . 97--128
David A. King A Double-Argument Table for the Lunar
Equation Attributed to Ibn Y\=unus . . . 129--146
P. M. Heimann Conversion of Forces and the
Conservation of Energy . . . . . . . . . 147--161
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--172
Niels Therkel Jòrgensen Peder Horrebow's Solution of the
Kepler-problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183
Z. Bechler Newton's law of forces which are
inversely as the mass: a suggested
interpretation of his later efforts to
normalise a mechanistic model of optical
dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--222
Eugene Frankel The Search for a Corpuscular Theory of
Double Refraction: Malus, Laplace and
the Price Competition of 1808 . . . . . 223--245
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--252
C. M. Taisbak Posidonius Vindicated at all Costs?
Modern Scholarship versus the Stoic
Earth Measurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--269
P. Kunitzsch New Light on al-Battani's \booktitleZij 270--274
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi ben Gerson's Preliminary Lunar
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--288
Anita M. Pampusch $ \gg $Experimental$ \ll $, $ \gg
$Metaphysical$ \ll $, and $ \gg
$Hypothetical$ \ll $ Philosophy in
Newtonian Methodology . . . . . . . . . 289--300
Victor Thoren and
Charles Gow and
Kent Honeycutt An Early View of Galactic Rotation . . . 301--314
Anonymous Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--324
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--328
Olaf Schmidt A System of Axioms for the Archimedean
Theory of Equilibrium and Centre of
Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--35
David Pingree Vasistha's Theory of Venus: the
Misinterpretation of an Emendation . . . 36--39
J. Thiele Zur Analyse der Bewegungsempfindungen.
Briefe von Josef Breuer an Ernst Mach.
(German) [On the analysis of the
sensations of movement. Letters of Josef
Breuer to Ernst Mach] . . . . . . . . . 40--53
D. R. Oldroyd Mineralogy and the `Chemical Revolution' 54--71
Gerhard Eis Der Einfluss der mittelalterlichen
Botanik auf die Gartenliteratur des
16.--18. Jahrhunderts. (German) [The
influence of Medieval botany on the
garden literature of the 16th--18th
Centuries] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 81--84
L. Rosenfeld Review: \booktitleLife and Works of
Baron Cauchy --- French --- by C. A.
Valson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
K. M. Pedersen Review: \booktitlePlanck's Original
Papers in Quantum Physics --- Classic
Papers in Physics --- by H. Kangro . . . 81--82
L. Rosenfeld Review: \booktitleForced Movements,
Tropisms, and Animal Conduct --- by J.
Loeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
O. Pedersen Review: \booktitlePharmacographia Indica
--- History of Principal Drugs of
Vegetable Origin Met with in British
India --- by W. Dymock, C. J. K. Warden,
and D. Hooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
L. Rosenfeld Review: \booktitleClimate Through Ages
--- by C. E. P. Brooks . . . . . . . . . 84--84
R. P. Lorch The Astronomy of J\=abir ibn Aflah . . . 85--107
René R. J. Rohr and
Louis Janin Deux astrolabes --- quadrants turcs.
(French) [Two astrolabes --- Turkish
quadrants] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--124
Johan Henrik Wanscher The History of Wilhelm Johannsen's
Genetical Terms and Concepts from the
Period 1903 to 1926 . . . . . . . . . . 125--147
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--156
O. Pedersen Review: \booktitleAtlas of Planets ---
by V. D. Callatay and A. Dollfus . . . . 148--149
K. M. Pedersen Review: \booktitleBirth of Navigational
Science --- Solving in 18th-Century of
Problem of Finding Longitude at Sea ---
by E. G. Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
O. Pedersen Review: \booktitleScientific Thought
1900--1960 --- Selective Survey --- by
R. Harre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
A. Keller Review: \booktitleRoman and Islamic
Water-Lifting Wheels --- by T. Schioler 151--152
T. Schioler Review: \booktitleWindmills --- Research
Status with Respect to Origin and
Occurrence --- German --- by J. C.
Notebaart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
E. Bastholm \booktitleHistory of Medical
Illustrating. 2. 1600 to Present Day ---
German --- by M. Putscher . . . . . . . 153--153
L. Rosenfeld Review: \booktitleToward Scientific
Research, 1822-1972 --- German --- by H.
Querner and H. Schipperges . . . . . . . 154--154
H. Sheppard Review: \booktitleTestament of Alchemy,
Being Revelations of Morienus to Khalid
Ibn Yazid --- by L. Stavenhagen . . . . 154--155
V. Mòller-Christensen Review: \booktitleDivided Legacy ---
History of Schism in Medical Thought ---
by H. L. Coulter . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
K. M. Pedersen Review: \booktitleLetters --- German ---
by L. Euler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
K. P. Moesgaard Elements of Planetary, Lunar, and Solar
Orbits, 1900 BC to AD 1900, Tabulated
for Historical Use . . . . . . . . . . . 157--181
J. J. Bikerman Theories of Capillary Attraction . . . . 182--206
U. Hoyer How Did Carnot Calculate Mechanical
Equivalent of Heat? . . . . . . . . . . 207--219
H. A. M. Snelders Researches of Dutch Chemists About
Nature of Sulfides . . . . . . . . . . . 220--237
A. Keller Review: \booktitleScience and
Civilization in China. 4. Physics and
Physical Technology. 3. Civil
Engineering and Nautics --- by Joseph
Needham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
D. A. W. Koning Review: \booktitleMedical and Technical
Prescriptions of Central Netherlands ---
Dutch --- by W. L. Braekman . . . . . . 239--240
Evert M. Bruins The Part in Ancient Egyptian Mathematics 241--251
Gillian R. Evans Duc Oculum. Aids to Understanding in
Some Mediaeval Treatises on the Abacus 252--263
Louis Janin Un cadran solaire juif. (French) [A
Jewish sundial] . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--272
G. N. Cantor William Robert Grove, the Correlation of
Forces, and the Conservation of Energy 273--290
Hans-Werner Schütt Zur Entdeckungsgeschichte des Apatits.
(German) [History of the Discovery of
Apatite] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
E. Rancke-Madsen The Discovery of an Element . . . . . . 299--313
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--328
Y. Doldsamplonius Review: \booktitleSplendid Work on
Arithmetic --- French --- by ?.
Assamawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
J. O. Fleckenstein Review: \booktitleImportant Commentaries
on Dyadik by G. W. Leibniz --- German
--- by H. Zacher . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
G. A. Saliba Review: \booktitleSurvey of Almagest ---
by O. Pedersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
J. D. North Review: \booktitleSource Book in
Medieval Science --- by E. Grant . . . . 319--320
D. A. King Review: \booktitleCommentary Upon
Birunis Kitab-Tahdid-Al-Amakin --- by E.
S. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--323
J. D. North Review: \booktitleReception of
Copernicus Heliocentric Theory --- by J.
Dobrzycki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
F. Guerra Review: \booktitleAncient
Ophthalmological Agents ---
Pharmaco-Historical Study of Collyria
and Seals for Collyria Used During Roman
Antiquity, as Well as of Most Frequent
Components of Collyria --- by H. Nielsen 325--325
E. Bastholm Review: \booktitleTenements of Clay ---
by A. Sorsby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
T. J. Trenn Review: \booktitleModern Age and
Enlightenment --- Origin of Modern
Science and Philosophy --- German --- by
J. Mittelstrass . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--328
A. G. Drachmann Ktesibios's Waterclock and Heron's
Adjustable Siphon . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
R. P. Lorch The Astronomical Instruments of J\=abir
ibn Aflah and the Torquetum . . . . . . 11--35
B. L. van der Waerden On The Motion of Venus in the
Pañcasiddh\=antik\=a . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
Edward Rosen Copernicus' \booktitleAxioms . . . . . . 44--49
Knud Erik Sòrensen A Study of the \booktitleDe proportione
motus by Marcus Marci de Kronland . . . 50--76
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
E. Glahn Review: \booktitleScience and
Civilization in China --- by Joseph
Needham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
J. A. Lohne Review: \booktitleCorrespondence of
Newton, I --- by Hall and Tilling . . . 78--80
M. B. Hall Review: \booktitleRobert Boyle and
Scientific Virtuoso Movement --- Italian
--- by C. Pighetti . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
P. M. Heimann Review: \booktitleHistorical
Introduction to Philosophy of Science
--- by J. Losee . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
K. P. Moesgaard Symposium on Copernicus . . . . . . . . 81--82
T. J. Trenn Review: \booktitleTime, Passion, and
Knowledge --- Reflections on Strategy of
Existence --- by J. T. Fraser . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 85--88
Frans Bruin and
Margaret Bruin The Equator Ring, Equinoxes and
Atmospheric Refraction . . . . . . . . . 89--111
Sabetai Unguru A Very Early Acquaintance with
Apollonius of Perga's Treatise on Conic
Sections in the Latin West . . . . . . . 112--128
Kristtan Peder Moesgaard and
Leif Kahl Kristensen The Bright Stars of the Zodiac, a
Catalogue for Historical Use . . . . . . 129--158
Margaret Campbell Explanations of Mendel's Results . . . . 159--174
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
S. M. Ashfaque Review: \booktitleGears from Greeks ---
Antikythera Mechanism --- Calendar
Computer from ca 80 BC --- by D. D.
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
E. Olszewski Review: \booktitleMechanics from
Antiquity to Present Day --- Russian ---
by A. T. Grigorian and I. B. Pogrebysski 176--179
O. Neugebauer Review: \booktitleKepler, 400 Years ---
by A. Beer and P. Beer . . . . . . . . . 179--179
S. Tekeli Review: \booktitleEuropean Clocks and
Watches in the Near East --- by O. Kyrz 179--181
F. Guerra Review: \booktitleHistorical
Bibliography on Science and Technology
in Spain --- Spanish --- by J. M. López
Piñero, M. Pesetroig, and L. García
Ballester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
W. Petri Review: \booktitleDevelopment of 1st
Academy of Natural Sciences --- Russian
--- by J. C. Kopelevic . . . . . . . . . 181--182
V. Mòller-Christensen Review: \booktitleDivided Legacy ---
History of Schism in Medical Thought. 1.
Patterns Emerge --- Hippocrates to
Paracelsus --- by H. L. Coulter . . . . 182--183
E. Snorrason Review: \booktitleHistory of Royal
College of Physicians of London --- by
A. M. Cooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
E. Ranckemadsen Review: \booktitleJohn Dalton ---
Critical-Assessment of His Life and
Science --- by A. Thackray . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received . . . . 185--188
Jacques Sesiano Un Mémoire d'Ibn al-Hay\underlinetham sur
un Probl\`eme arithmétique solide.
(French) [A note of Ibn
Al-Hay\underlinetham on a Solid
Arithmetic Problem] . . . . . . . . . . 189--195
Ulrich Hoyer Über die Unvereinbarkeit der drei
Keplerschen Gesetze mit der
Aristotelischen Mechanik. (German) [On
the incompatibility of Kepler's three
laws with Aristotelian mechanics] . . . 196--209
Rachel Laudan William Smith. Stratigraphy without
Palaeontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--226
Michael Ruse The Scientific Methodology of William
Whewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--257
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--267
D. Pingree Review: \booktitleHeliocentric System in
Greek, Persian and Indican Astronomy ---
German --- Naturforschende Gesellschaft
in Zurich --- by B. L. van der Waerden 258--260
C. J. Scriba Review: \booktitleAfrica Counts ---
Numbers and Pattern in African Culture
--- by C. Zaslavsky . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
J. Telle Review: \booktitleProblem of Metals in
Antique Science --- French --- by R.
Halleux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--263
H. Mehrtens Review: \booktitleScience and Values ---
Patterns of Tradition and Change --- by
A. Thackray and E. Mendelsohn . . . . . 263--264
A. G. Keller Review: \booktitleDiffusion of New
Industrial Processes --- International
Study --- by L. Nabseth and G. F. Ray 264--265
K. M. Pedersen Review: \booktitleHarold G. J. Moseley:
Life and Letters of an English
Physicist, 1887--1915 --- by J. L.
Heilbron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
W. Petri Historical-Mathematical Studies . . . . 266--267
C. M. Taisbak Perfect Numbers: a Mathematical Pun? An
Analysis of the Last Theorem in the
Ninth Book of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 269--275
Richard Rohr Le cadran solaire analemmatique.
(French) [The analemmatic sundial] . . . 276--278
Keith Hutchison Mayer's Hypothesis: a Study of the Early
Years of Thermodynamics . . . . . . . . 279--304
Henry Frankel Alfred Wegener and the Specialists . . . 305--324
Anonymous Short Notices of Books Received: Short
Notices of Books Received . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 327--329
L. Brackbernsen Review: \booktitleScience Awakening. 2.
--- by B. L. van der Waerden . . . . . . 327--328
J. Thorsen Review: \booktitleHistory of Quantum
Theory --- German --- by F. Hund . . . . 328--329
O. Pedersen Review: \booktitleIsis Cumulative
Bibliography --- by M. Whitrow . . . . . 330--331
C. J. Scriba Review: \booktitleDialog on Introduction
to Arithmetic and Algebra --- German ---
by G. W. Leibniz . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
P. M. Heimann Review: \booktitleMethod and Appraisal
in Physical Sciences --- Critical
Background to Modern Science, 1800--1905
--- by C. Howson . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--332
P. M. Heimann $ \gg $Geometry and Nature$ \ll $:
Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli's Theory of
Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
Karl Heinrich Wiederkehr Von frühen Ideen über eine regelmäßige
Gestalt kleinster Materieteilchen bis zu
Delisles und Bergmans Vorarbeiten für
Haüys Kristallstrukturtheorie. (German)
[Early ideas of a regular shape smallest
particles of matter up to Delisle and
Bergmans preparations for Haüys' crystal
structure theory. (German)] . . . . . . 27--43
George B. Kauffman Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
(1826--1897) and Sophus Mads Jòrgensen
(1837--1914). Their Correspondence from
1870 to 1897 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--63
Crajg B. Waff Newton and the Motion of the Moon An
Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--75
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 85--87
Jacques Sesiano Les Méthodes d'analyse indéterminée chez
Abu Kasmil. (French) [The
indeterminate-analysis methods of Abu
Kasmil] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--105
J. A. Lohne Nova Experimenta Crystalli Islandici
Disdiaclastici. (Latin) [New experiments
on Icelandic birefringent crystals] . . 106--148
Syed Mohammad Ashfaque Astronomy in the Indus Valley
Civilization: a Survey of the Problems
and Possibilities of the Ancient Indian
Astronomy and Cosmology in the Light of
Indus Script Decipherment by the Finnish
Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--193
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--200
Noel M. Swerdlow A Summary of the Derivation of the
Parameters in the
\booktitleCommentariolus from the
Alfonsine Tables with an Appendix on the
Length of the Tropical Year in Abraham
Zacuto's \booktitleAlmanach Perpetuum 201--213
Menso Folkerts Regiomontanus als Mathematiker. (German)
[Regiomontanus as Mathematician] . . . . 214--245
Knud Erik Sòrensen A Study of the \booktitleDe proportione
motus by Marcus Marci de Kronland . . . 246--277
Karl Heinrich Wiederkehr René-Just Haüys Strukturtheorie der
Kristalle. (German) [René-Just Haüy's
crystal-structure theory] . . . . . . . 278--299
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--328
André Allard Le petit traité d'Isaac Argyre sur la
racine carrée. (French) [The little
treatist of Isaac Argyre on the square
root] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--43
Javad Hamadanizadeh Interpolation Schemes in Dast\=ur
al-Munajj\=un . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--52
Ole Knudsen Electric Displacement and the
Development of Optics after Maxwell . . 53--60
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 72--76
Wilbur R. Knorr Archimedes' Neusis-Constructions in
Spiral Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--98
Kirsti Mòller Pedersen A Note on Bartholin and the Problem of
Debeaune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--107
John M. Nicholas Newton's Extremal Second Law . . . . . . 108--130
Karl Heinrich Wiederkehr René-Just Haüys Konzeption vom
individuellen integrierenden Molekül,
ihre Widerlegung, und seine Ansichten
über kristallbildende Kräfte. (German)
[René-Just Haüy's concept of
individually-integrated molecules, their
refutation, and his views on
crystal-forming power] . . . . . . . . . 131--156
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--161
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 162--164
S. D. Sharma and
S. S. Lishk Length of the Day in Jaina Astronomy . . 165--176
Karl Heinrich Wiederkehr Das Weiterwirken der Haüyschen Idee von
der Polyedergestalt der Moleküle in der
Chemie, die Umgestaltung der Haüyschen
Strukturtheorie durch Seeber und
Delafosse, und Bravais' Entdeckung der
Gittertypen. (German) [The continuing
influence of the idea of the Haüys
polyhedral theory of molecules in
chemistry, the transformation of Haüys'
structural theory by Seeber and
Delafosse, and Bravais' discovery of
lattice type] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186
Walter Kaiser Karl Bädekers Beitrag zur
Halbleiterforschung. (German) [Karl
Baedeker's contribution to semiconductor
research] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--200
Nils Roll-Hansen The Genotype Theory of Wilhelm Johannsen
and its Relation to Plant Breeding and
the Study of Evolution . . . . . . . . . 201--235
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 236--240
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
J. Sachs and
G. J. Toomer Otto Neugebauer, Bibliography,
1925--1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--280
J. Sesiano Note sur trois théor\`emes de Mécanique
d'al-Q\=uh\=\i et leur conséquence.
(French) [Note on three theorems in
mechanics by d'al-Q\=u\=\i and their
consequences] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--297
Louis Janin Astrolabe et cadran solaire en
projection stéréographique horizontale . . 298--314
A. J. Briginshaw The axiomatic geometry of Space--Time:
An assessment of the work of A. A. Robb 315--323
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--332
P. B. Paisley and
D. R. Oldroyd Science in the Silver Age: Aetna, a
Classical Theory of Volcanic Activity 1--20
August Ziggelaar Die Erklärung des Regenbogens durch
Marcantonio de Dominis, 1611. Zum
Optikunterricht am Ende des 16.
Jahrhunderts. (German) [The explanation
of the rainbow by Marc Antonio de
Dominis, 1611. On teaching optics at the
end of the 16th Century] . . . . . . . . 21--50
J. Z. Buchwald The Hall Effect and Maxwellian
Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part I:
the Discovery of a New Electric Field 51--99
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 100--104
David A. King New Light on the \booktitleZ\=\iij
al-Saf\=aa'ih of Ab\=u Ja$^c$ far
al-Kh\=azin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
J. Z. Buchwald The Hall Effect and Maxwellian
Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part II:
the Unification of Theory, 1881--1893 118--162
C. Truesdell An Essay Review of \booktitleGeschichte
der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer
wichtigsten Anwendungen. (German)
[History of mechanical principles and
their main applications] . . . . . . . . 163--175
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Menso Folkerts Probleme der Euklidinterpretation und
ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der
Mathematik. (German) [Problems of Euclid
interpretation and their importance for
the development of mathematics] . . . . 185--215
Jane L. Jervis Vögelin on the Comet of 1532: Error
Analysis in the 16th Century . . . . . . 216--229
John Hendry Newton's Theory of Colour . . . . . . . 230--251
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
B. L. van der Waerden The ($ 2 \colon n $ ) Table in the Rhind
Papyrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
Helge Kragh Anatomy of a Priority Conflict: the Case
of Element 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--301
Ernan McMullin Galileo against the Philosophers An
Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--311
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Reprints and New Editions . . . . . . . 329--332
O. Neugebauer On the Orientation of Pyramids . . . . . 1--3
Olaf Schmidt On Plimpton 322. Pythagorean Numbers in
Babylonian Mathematics . . . . . . . . . 4--13
Asger Aaboe Observation and Theory in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--35
Lis Brack-Bernsen Some Investigations on the Ephemerides
of the Babylonian Moon Texts, System A 36--50
Kristian Peder Moesgaard The Full Moon Serpent. A Foundation
Stone of Ancient Astronomy?: the Full
Moon Serpent. A Foundation Stone of
Ancient Astronomy? . . . . . . . . . . . 51--96
G. J. Toomer Hipparchus' Empirical Basis for His
Lunar Mean Motions: a historical
footnote to Olaf Pedersen, a Survey of
the \booktitleAlmagest, 161--64 . . . . 97--109
Chr. M. Taisbak An Archimedean Proof of Heron's Formula
for the Area of a Triangle;
Reconstructed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
B. L. van der Waerden The Conjunction of 3102 B.C. . . . . . . 117--131
Bernard R. Goldstein The Status of Models in Ancient and
Medieval Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 132--147
Willy Hartner An Unusual Value for the Length of the
Meridian Degree: 66 1/2 Miles, in Ibn
Y\=unus' \dH\=akimitic \booktitleZ\=\ij 148--152
Richard Lorch The sphera solida and Related
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--161
E. S. Kennedy Astronomical Events from a Persian
Astrological Manuscript . . . . . . . . 162--177
Owen Gingerich Appendix to E. S. Kennedy ``Astronomical
Events from a Persian Astrological
Manuscript'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
J. D. North Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches 181--211
Noel M. Swerdlow Long-period Motions of the Earth in
\booktitleDe revolutionibus . . . . . . 212--245
August Ziggelaar The Sine Law of Refraction Derived from
the Principle of Fermat --- Prior to
Fermat? The Theses of Wilhelm Boelmans
S.J. in 1634 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--262
Jesper Lützen The Relationship between Pascal's
Mathematics and his Philosophy . . . . . 263--272
Alan E. Shapiro Newton and Huygens' Explanation of the $
22^\circ $ Halo . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--287
D. T. Whiteside Kepler, Newton and Flamsteed on
Refraction Through a `Regular Aire': the
Mathematical and the Practical . . . . . 288--315
Kirsti Andersen An Impression of Mathematics in Denmark
in the Period 1600--1800 . . . . . . . . 316--334
Kurt Mòller Pedersen Roger Joseph Boscovich and John Robison
on Terrestrial Aberration . . . . . . . 335--345
Ole Knudsen 19th Century Views on Induction in
Moving Conductors . . . . . . . . . . . 346--360
Mogens Pihl Two Contributions of L. V. Lorenz to
Mathematical Physics . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
Menso Folkerts Mittelalterliche mathematische
Handschriften in westlichen Sprachen in
der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Ein vorläufiges Verzeichnis. (German)
[Mathematical Medieval manuscripts in
Western languages in the Herzog August
Library in Wolfenbüttel: A provisional
list] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--49
G. C. Smith De Morgan and the Laws of Algebra . . . 50--70
Laurie M. Brown Yukawa's Prediction of the Meson . . . . 71--132
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--154
Gillian R. Evans Boethius' Geometry and the Four Ways . . 161--165
William G. Siesser Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg: Founder
of Micropaleontology . . . . . . . . . . 166--188
John Hendry Bohr--Kramers--Slater: a Virtual Theory
of Virtual Oscillators and Its Role in
the History of Quantum Mechanics . . . . 189--221
William Glen The First Potassium--Argon Geomagnetic
Polarity Reversal Time Scale; a
Premature Start by Martin G. Rutten . . 222--238
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--252
Wilbur Richard Knorr The Hyperbola-Construction in the
Conics, Book II: Ancient Variations on a
Theorem of Apollonius . . . . . . . . . 253--291
O. Neugebauer On the Computus Paschalis of
``Cassiodorus'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--302
B. R. Goldstein and
D. Pingree Astronomical Computations for 1299 from
the Cairo \booktitleGeniza . . . . . . . 303--318
Gerhard H. Müller and
Marshall R. Wheeler Misinterpretations of Réaumur's
Description of Small Flies . . . . . . . 319--327
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--348
M. J. Klein Albert Einstein --- Four Commemorative
Lectures --- Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., C. P.
Snow, Howard Stein, and Ilya Prigogine 344--345
Wilbur R. Knorr Observations on the Early History of the
Conies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
Dieter Ullmann Die ersten Messungen der
Schallgeschwindigkeit in Luft und das
Schallortungsverfahren von Jonas
Meldercreutz. (German) [The first
measurements of the speed of sound in
air and the sound localization method of
Jonas Meldercreutz] . . . . . . . . . . 25--37
Margaret Campbell Mendel's Theory: Its Context and
Plausibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--69
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--81
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 82--84
Philip Lervig What Is Heat? C. Truesdell's View of
Thermodynamics. A Critical Discussion 85--122
D. W. Jordan D. E. Hughes Self-induction and the
Skin-Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--153
Helge Kragh Erwin Schrödinger and the Wave Equation:
the Crucial Phase . . . . . . . . . . . 154--197
Inge Grythe Some Remarks on the Early S-Matrix . . . 198--203
Bernhard D. Haage Das alchemistische Bildgedicht vom
`Nackten Weib' in seiner bisher ältesten
Überlieferung. (German) [The alchemical
image from the poem `\booktitleNaked
woman' in its earliest archaeological
lore] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--214
Gillian R. Evans Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
David A. King Brief Communications: Brief
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--240
Judith R. Goodstein The Italian Mathematicians of Relativity 241--261
Peter Galison The Discovery of the Muon and the Failed
Revolution against Quantum
Electrodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--316
V. P. Mel'nikov Some Details in the Prehistory of the
Discovery of Element 72 . . . . . . . . 317--322
C. Truesdell Euler's Contribution to the Theory of
Ships and Mechanics: An Essay Review . . 323--335
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--340
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 341--344
Mogens Esrom Larsen On the Possibility of a Pre-Euclidean
Theory of Proportions . . . . . . . . . 1--25
Jacques Sesiano Une arithmétique médiévale en langue
provençale. (French) [A Medieval
arithmetic in the Provençal language] . . 26--75
P. Kraft and
P. Kroes Adaptation of Scientific Knowledge to an
Intellectual Environment. Paul Forman's
``\booktitleWeimar Culture, Causality,
and Quantum Theory, 1918--1927'':
Analysis and Criticism . . . . . . . . . 76--99
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--108
E. S. Kennedy Two Persian Astronomical Treatises by
Nas\=\ir al-D\=\in al T\=us\=\i . . . . 109--120
James G. O'Hara Gauß` Method for Measuring the
Terrestrial Magnetic Force in Absolute
Measure: Its Invention and Introduction
in Geomagnetic Research . . . . . . . . 121--147
Peter Barker and
Bernard R. Goldstein Is Seventeenth Century Physics Indebted
to the Stoics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--164
C. M. Taisbak Brief Communications: Eleven
Eighty-Thirds. Ptolemy's reference to
Eratosthenes in \booktitleAlmagest 1.12 165--167
Tivadar Vida Brief Communications: Niels Stensens
Ungarnreise im Jahre 1669. (German)
[Niels Stensen's Hungarian Voyage in the
Year 1669] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188
R. Böker Über Namen und Identifizierung der
ägyptischen Dekane. (German) [The name
and identification of the Egyptian
Deans] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--217
Jan A. van Maanen Hendrick van Heuraet (1634--1660?): His
Life and Mathematical Work . . . . . . . 218--279
Y. Maeyama Ancient Stellar Observations:
Timocharis, Aristyllus, Hipparchus,
Ptolemy --- the Dates and Accuracies . . 280--310
Alexander Jones A Greek Saturn Table . . . . . . . . . . 311--317
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--336
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 337--339
J. L. Berggren The Origins of al-B\=\ir\=un\=\i's
``Method of the \em Z\=\ijes'' in the
Theory of Sundials . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Irmtraut Scheele Der Zoologe Henrik Kròyer (1799--1870)
und die deutsch-dänischen
Wissenschaftsbeziehungen. (German) [The
Zoologist Henrik Kròyer (1799--1870) and
German--Danish Scientific Relations] . . 17--30
Craig Fraser D'Alembert's Principle: the Original
Formulation and Application in Jean
d'Alembert's Traité de Dynamique (1743) 31--61
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--93
Bjarne Huldén and
Kate Larsen and
Olaf Pedersen Aage Gerhard Drachmann (1891--1980): a
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--107
Y. Tzvi Langermann The Book of Bodies and Distances of
Habash al-H\=as\=\ib . . . . . . . . . . 108--128
Leonard Curchin and
Roger Herz-Fischler De quand date le premier rapprochement
entre la suite de Fibonacci et la
division en extreme et moyenne raison?.
(French) [When was the first
reconciliation between the Fibonacci
series and division in extreme and mean
reason?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Kirsti Andersen and
Henrik Meyer Georg Mohr's three books and the
\booktitleGegenübung auf Compendium
Euclidis Curiosi . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--144
Craig Fraser D'Alembert's Principle: the Original
Formulation and Application in Jean
d'Alembert's \booktitleTraité de
Dynamique (1743) . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 163--167
Jan P. Hogenduk Diocles and the Geometry of Curved
Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
Bernard R. Goldstein Star Lists in Hebrew . . . . . . . . . . 185--208
L. S. Chekin Elements of the Rational Method in
Gervase of Tilbury's Cosmology and
Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217
Jean-Paul Guiot Sechs unveröffentlichte Briefe von Johann
Wilhelm Ritter (1776--1810). (German)
[Six unpublished letters of Johann
Wilhelm Ritter (1776--1810)] . . . . . . 218--243
Alexander von Rüger Die Molekularhypothese in der Theorie
der Kapillarerscheinungen (1805--1873).
(German) [The molecular hypothesis in
the theory of capillary phenomena
(1805--1873)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--276
Peter Òhrstròm Guldberg and Waage on the Influence of
Temperature on the Rates of Chemical
Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--287
Jed Z. Buchwald Oliver Heaviside, Maxwell's Apostle and
Maxwellian Apostate . . . . . . . . . . 288--330
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--348
Sylvia Couchoud Essai d'une nouvelle interprétation du
premier probl\`eme du Papyrus
Mathématique Démotique 10520 du British
Museum. (French) [Essay on a new
interpretation of the first problem of
the Demotic Mathematical Papyrus 10520
in the British Museum] . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Allan G. Bromley Notes on the Antikythera Mechanism . . . 5--27
Michio Yano The Ch'i-yao jang-tsai-chüeh and its
Ephemerides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Jerzy Dobrzycki One Copernican Table . . . . . . . . . . 36--39
Dieter Ullmann Helmholtz--Koenig--Waetzmann und die
Natur der Kombinationstöne. (German)
[Helmholtz--Koenig--Waetzmann and the
nature of the combination tones] . . . . 40--52
H. A. M. Snelders The Dutch Physical Chemist J. J. van
Laar (1860--1938) versus J. H. van't
Hoff's `Osmotic School' . . . . . . . . 53--71
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--83
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 84--87
J. E. Hofmann Johann Bernoullis Kreisrektifikation
durch Evolventenbildung. (German)
[Johann Bernoulli's circle rectification
by formation of the involute] . . . . . 89--99
R. M. Nugayev Special Relativity as a Step in the
Development of the Quantum Programme:
Revolution in a Revolution . . . . . . . 100--109
James T. Cushing The Importance of Heisenberg's
$S$-Matrix Program for the Theoretical
High-Energy Physics of the 1950's . . . 110--149
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--164
René R. J. Rohr Les cadrans solaires universels de
Jacques Ozanam. (French) [The sundials
of Jacques Ozanam] . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
S. D'Agostino Maxwell's Dimensional Approach to the
Velocity of Light . . . . . . . . . . . 178--204
Nancy J. Nersessian ``Why wasn't Lorentz Einstein?'' An
Examination of the Scientific Method of
H. A. Lorentz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--242
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
George Saliba The Determination of New Planetary
Parameters at the Maragha Observatory 249--271
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi ben Gerson's Theory of Planetary
Distances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--313
Arie Leegwater The Development of Wilhelm Ostwald's
Chemical Energetics . . . . . . . . . . 314--337
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 338--339
Alexander Jones On Some Borrowed and Misunderstood
Problems in Greek Catoptrics . . . . . . 1--17
Jacques Sesiano Survivance médiévale en Hispanie d'un
probl\`eme né en Mésopotamie. (French)
[Medieval survival in New Spain of a
problem born in Mesopotamia] . . . . . . 18--61
Osmo Kurola Classical Geometry in the Service of
Geodesy: Samuel Klingenstierna's
Calculation of the Radius of Curvature
of the Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--85
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--89
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Christina Horst Roseman Hour Tables and Thule in Pliny's
\booktitleNatural History . . . . . . . 93--105
Kirsti Andersen The Central Projection in One of
Ptolemy's Map Constructions . . . . . . 106--113
Helge Kragh The Beginning of the World: Georges
Lema\^\itre and the Expanding Universe 114--139
Jonathan Treitel Confirmation with Technology: the
Discovery of the Tau Lepton . . . . . . 140--180
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--195
B. L. van der Waerden The Astronomical System of the Persian
Tables II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211
Sonja Brentjes Untersuchungen zum Nicomachus Arabus.
(German) [Studies on Nicomachus Arabus] 212--292
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--309
Anonymous Book Received: Books Received . . . . . 310--314
E. S. Kennedy Two Medieval Approaches to the Equation
of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
H. J. M. Bos Tractional Motion and the Legitimation
of Transcendental Curves . . . . . . . . 9--62
K. H. Wiederkehr Christian Samuel Weiß (1780--1856) unter
dem Einfluss der romantischen
Naturphilosophie und sein Briefwechsel
mit H. Chr. Oersted über Atomistik und
Dynamik. (German) [Christian Samuel
Weiss (1780--1856) under the influence
of Romantic philosophy of nature and his
correspondence with H. Chr. Òrsted about
atomism and dynamism] . . . . . . . . . 63--85
Jed Buchwald The Rational and the Historical: An
Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
B. L. van der Waerden The Motion of Venus in Greek, Egyptian
and Indian Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
R. C. Gupta New Indian Values of $ \pi $ from the
M\=anava Súlba S\=utra . . . . . . . . . 114--125
Felix von Schmeidler Über die Realität der von W. Herschel
berichteten Beobachtungen der Ringe des
Uranus. (German) [On the reality of the
observations of the rings of Uranus
reported by W. Herschel] . . . . . . . . 126--140
Thomas Archibald Tension and Potential from Ohm to
Kirchhoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163
K. A. F. Fischer Brief Communication . . . . . . . . . . 164--167
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--180
Kazuo Muroi Extraction of Cube Roots in Babylonian
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--188
O. Neugebauer and
G. Saliba On Greek Numerology . . . . . . . . . . 189--206
E. J. Aiton Polygons and Parabolas: Some Problems
Concerning the Dynamics of Planetary
Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
Burghard Weiss Die Widerlegung der Theorie der molécules
puppiformes. Eine verschollene
Abhandlung von Augustin Jean Fresnel.
(German) [The refutation of the theory
of puppiforme molecules. A lost treatise
of Augustin Jean Fresnel] . . . . . . . 222--258
Helmut Schübert Das Verschwinden des elektrischen
Widerstandes. (German) [hTe
disappearance of electrical resistance] 259--299
Klaus Hentschel Zwei vergessene Texte Moritz Schlicks.
(German) [Two forgotten texts of Moritz
Schlick] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--311
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--337
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 338--340
John P. Britton An Early Function for Eclipse Magnitudes
in Babylonian Astronomy . . . . . . . . 1--52
Jacques Sesiano Koptisches Zahlensystem und
(griechisch-)koptische
Multiplikationstafeln nach einem
arabischen Bericht. (German) [Coptic
number system and (Greek-) Coptic
multiplication tables according to an
Arab report] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65
S. D'Agostino Pourquoi Hertz et non pas Maxwell,
a-t-il découvert les ondes électriques?.
(French) [Why Hertz, and not Maxwell,
discovered electric waves] . . . . . . . 66--76
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83
Benno van Dalen A Statistical Method for Recovering
Unknown Parameters from Medieval
Astronomical Tables . . . . . . . . . . 85--145
Francesca Rochberg-Halton Babylonian Seasonal Hours . . . . . . . 146--170
Jan P. Hogendijk The Mathematical Structure of Two
Islamic Astrological Tables for `Casting
the Rays' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--202
Helge Kragh Concept and Controversy: Jean Becquerel
and the Positive Electron . . . . . . . 203--240
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 249--256
Wilbur R. Knorr On Archimedes' Construction of the
Regular Heptagon . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271
Bernard R. Goldstein and
Alan C. Bowen On Early Hellenistic Astronomy:
Timocharis and the First Callippic
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--293
Roser Puig Al-Zarq\=alluh's Graphical Method for
Finding Lunar Distances . . . . . . . . 294--309
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Tycho Brahe's Discovery of Changes in
Star Latitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--323
K. A. Jensen The Early History of Organic Sulfur
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--335
L. N. Kryzhanovsky Brief Communication: the Invention of
the Resistor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--339
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--351
Lis Brack-Bernsen and
Olaf Schmidt Bisectable Trapezia in Babylonian
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
Lis Brack-Bernsen On the Babylonian Lunar Theory: a
Construction of Column $ \Phi $ from
Horizontal Observations . . . . . . . . 39--56
John P. Britton A Tale of Two Cycles: Remarks on Column
$ \Phi $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
J. L. Mancha Ibn al-Haytham's Homocentric Epicycles
in Latin Astronomical Texts of the XIVth
and XVth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . 70--89
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Alexander Jones Babylonian and Greek Astronomy in a
Papyrus Concerning Mars . . . . . . . . 97--114
J. D. North Astronomical Symbolism in the Mithraic
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--148
T. Hayashi and
T. Kusuba and
M. Yano The Correction of the M\=adhava Series
for the Circumference of a Circle . . . 149--174
H. H. Kubbinga Les origines de la théorie cellulaire;
les $ \ll $ molécules organiques$ \gg $
de Buffon. (French) [The origins of
cellular theory: Buffon's `organic
molecules'] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--213
Helmut Rechenberg and
Laurie M. Brown Yukawa's Heavy Quantum and the Mesotron
(1935--1937) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--252
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--292
Jens Hòyrup On Parts of Parts and Ascending
Continued Fractions An Investigation of
the Origins and Spread of a Peculiar
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--324
Paolo Mancosu and
Ezio Vailati Detleff Clüver: An Early Opponent of the
Leibnizian Differential Calculus . . . . 325--344
Günter Bierhalter Zyklische Zeitvorstellung, Zeitrichtung
und die frühen Versuche einer Deduktion
des Zweiten Hauptsatzes der
Thermodynamik. (German) [Cyclical
conception of time, the direction of
time, and the early trials of a
deduction of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics] . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--367
Dieter Britz Cold Fusion: An Historical Parallel . . 368--372
August Ziggelaar, S.J. Did the Jesuits Denounce Galileo?: An
Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Books Received: Book Received . . . . . 381--388
Jan P. Hogendijk Desargues' Brouillon Project and the
Conics of Apollonius . . . . . . . . . . 1--43
Kirsti Andersen Desargues' Method of Perspective Its
Mathematical Content, Its Connection to
Other Perspective Methods and Its
Relation to Desargues' Ideas on
Projective Geometry . . . . . . . . . . 44--91
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--96
John P. Britton and
Christopher B. F. Walker A 4th Century Babylonian Model for
Venus: B.M. 33552 . . . . . . . . . . . 97--118
Leonid N. Kryzhanovsky Richmann's Experiment and the
Electrophorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
Keith Hutchison Idiosyncrasy, Achromatic Lenses, and
Early Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . 125--171
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--192
Wilbur R. Knorr On the Principle of Linear Perspective
in Euclid's Optics . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210
Craig G. Fraser Mathematical Technique and Physical
Conception in Euler's Investigation of
the Elastica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--246
Thomas Archibald Riemann and the Theory of Electrical
Phenomena: Nobili's Rings . . . . . . . 247--271
Herman Erlichson How Newton Went from a Mathematical
Model to a Physical Model for the
Problem of a First Power Resistive Force 272--283
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
Jesús M. Montserrat and
Luis Navarro The Water Cycle in Lucretius . . . . . . 289--308
J. L. Berggren Medieval Islamic Methods for Drawing
Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe . . . . 309--344
Herman Erlichson Newton's First Inverse Solutions . . . . 345--366
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--376
H. Dalgas Christiansen Decanal Star Tables for Lunar Houses in
Egypt? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Philippe Provençal Observations Zoologiques de'Abd
al-Lat\^\if al-Ba\`gdâd\^\i . . . . . . . 28--45
Herman Erlichson Newton and Hooke on Centripetal Force
Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--63
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's Resolution of Individual
Planetary Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's `Distance Law' --- Myth not
Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--120
A. E. L. Davis Grading the Eggs (Kepler's
Sizing-Procedure for the Planetary
Orbit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--142
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's Road to Damascus . . . . . . . 143--164
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's Physical Framework for
Planetary Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--190
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius Practical Arabic Mathematics: Measuring
the Muqarnas by al-K\=ash\=i . . . . . . 193--242
Herman Erlichson Newton's Polygon Model and the Second
Order Fallacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258
Jan Seidler and
Irena Seidlerová Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des
Dopplerschen Prinzips. (German) [The
genesis of Doppler Principle] . . . . . 259--304
Helge Kragh Ludvig Lorenz and the Early Theory of
Long-distance Telephony . . . . . . . . 305--324
Bronis\law \'Sredniawa The Collaboration of Marian Smoluchowski
and Theodor Svedberg on Brownian Motion
and Density Fluctuations . . . . . . . . 325--355
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--375
Eivind Lorenzen The Proto-Ionic Capital from Larisa (a
brief history of ancient metrology) . . 1--21
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Christian Marinus Taisbak A Tale of Half Sums and Differences
Ancient Tricks with Numbers . . . . . . 22--32
Herman Erlichson Galileo and High Tower Experiments . . . 33--45
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Salvo D'Agostino Hertz's Researches and Their Place in
Nineteenth Century Theoretical Physics 46--77
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--82
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--96
Dan Ch. Christensen Spying on Scientific Instruments. The
Career of Jesper Bidstrup . . . . . . . 209--244
Olivier Darrigol The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
from Faraday to Hertz . . . . . . . . . 245--360
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--381
Leigh Riley The Lunar Velocity Function in System B
First-Crescent Ephemerides . . . . . . . 1--51
Ali Behboud Greek Geometrical Analysis . . . . . . . 52--86
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 93--96
Benno van Dalen On Ptolemy's Table for the Equation of
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--153
Freddy Litten Die Carathéodory-Nachfolge in München
1938--1944. (German) [The
Carathéodory-Succession in Munich
1938--1944] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--172
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
Lis Brack-Bernsen and
Olaf Schmidt On the Foundations of the Babylonian
Column $ \Phi $: Astronomical
Significance of Partial Sums of the
Lunar Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--209
Herman Erlichson Huygens and Newton on the Problem of
Circular Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--229
Margaret Bradley Prony the Bridge-Builder: the Life and
Times of Gaspard de Prony, Educator and
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--268
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
Herman Erlichson Resisted Inverse-square Centripetal
Force Motion along Newton's Great
`Look-Alike', the Equiangular Spiral . . 279--303
Boris Mayerhofer Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung bei
Hermann von Helmholtz. (German) [The
Principle of Least Action by Hermann von
Helmholtz] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--320
Stefan L. Wolff Von der Hydrodynamik zur kinetischen
Gastheorie --- Oskar Emil Meyer.
(German) [On hydrodynamics in the
kinetic theory of gases --- Oskar Emil
Meyer] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--348
Helge Kragh Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 349--354
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--367
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 368--371
J. Sesiano Le Kit\=ab al-Mis\=a\dha d'Ab\=u K\=amil 1--21
Joseph W. Dauben Charles S. Peirce, Evolutionary
Pragmatism and the History of Science 22--82
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
B. Vitrac La Définition V.8 des \booktitleEléments
d'Euclide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Christian Marinus Taisbak Zeuthen and Euclid's \booktitleData 86:
Algebra -- or a Lemma about intersecting
Hyperbolas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--139
J. L. Berggren Al-K\=uh\=\i's ``Filling a Lacuna in
Book II of Archimedes'' in the Version
of Na\ds\=\ir al-D\=\in-\dT\=us\=\i . . 140--207
Wilbur R. Knorr The Wrong Text of Euclid: on Heiberg's
Text and its Alternatives . . . . . . . 208--276
Maurice Caving The Debate between H. G. Zeuthen and H.
Vogt (1909--1915) on the Historical
Source of the Knowledge of Irrational
Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--292
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
A. Aaboe and
J. L. Berggren Didactical and Other Remarks on Some
Theorems of Archimedes and
Infinitesimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--316
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José ChabáS Ibn al-Kammâd's Star List . . . . . . . . 317--334
Helge Kragh Gamow's Game: The Road to the Hot Big
Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--361
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--376
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 377--381
Alexander Jones Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman
Period: I. The Standard Lunar Scheme . . 1--36
Clara Silvia Roero Giovanni Battista Benedetti and the
Scientific Environment of Turin in the
16th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--66
Antoni Malet Barrow, Wallis, and the Remaking of
Seventeenth Century Indivisibles . . . . 67--92
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Karine Chemla Reflections on the World-wide History of
the Rule of False Double Position, or:
How a Loop was Closed . . . . . . . . . 97--120
Michael Eckert Mathematik auf Abwegen: Ferdinand
Lindemann und die Elektronentheorie.
(German) [Mathematics Gone Wrong:
Ferdinand Lindemann and electron theory] 121--140
Giorgio Dragoni and
Giulio Maltese Quirino Majorana's Research on
Gravitational Absorption: a Case Study
in the Misinterpreted Experiment
Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--187
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--192
Qu Anjing On Hypotenuse Diagrams in Ancient China 193--210
Alexander Jones Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman
Period: II. Tables for Solar Longitude 211--229
Theokritos Kouremenos Mathematical Rigor and the Origin of the
Exhaustion Method . . . . . . . . . . . 230--252
Herman Erlichson Evidence that Newton used the Calculus
to discover some of the Propositions in
his \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . 253--266
Salvo D'Agostino Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves: An
Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--272
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 285--289
Gerrylynn K. Roberts Physical Chemists for Industry: the
Making of the Chemist at University
College London, 1914--1939 . . . . . . . 291--310
Anita Kildebaek Nielsen and
Helge Kragh An Institute for Dollars: Physical
Chemistry in Copenhagen Between the
World Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
A. M. Amorim Da Costa The Mirror of the Portuguese Chemical
Laboratories in the First Decades of the
Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 332--342
Mudis \vSalkauskas A Note on the Rise of Chemistry in the
Baltic States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
Nathan M. Brooks Chemistry in War, Revolution, and
Upheaval: Russia and the Soviet Union,
1900--1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--367
Franco Calascibetta Chemistry in Czechoslovakia between 1919
and 1939: J. Heyrovskýa and the Prague
Polarographic School . . . . . . . . . . 368--381
Alexander Jones Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman
Period III. Planetary Epoch Tables . . . 1--41
C. Sichau Ein nationales Experiment und seine
Auswirkungen auf einen
wissenschaftlichen Versuch: Die
Einführung des Government Grant und die
Joule--Thomson-Experimente von C.
Sichau. (German) [A national experiment
and its impact on a scientific
experiment: The introduction of the
Grant Government and the Joule--Thomson
experiments of C. Sichau] . . . . . . . 42--80
Nils Roll-hansen Pasteur: an Underestimated Hero of
Science: An Essay Review . . . . . . . . 81--93
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
J.-P. Brunet and
R. Nadal and
Cl. Vibert-Guigue The Fresco of the Cupola of Qusayr$^c$
Amra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Joséa Chabáas and
Antoni Roca Early Printing of Astronomy: the Lunari
of Bernat de Granollachs . . . . . . . . 124--134
Emil Kring Lauridsen and
Niels Abrahamsen The History of Astatic Magnet Systems
and Suspensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--169
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--176
Henry Mendell Reflections on Eudoxus, Callippus and
their Curves: Hippopedes and
Callippopedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--275
J. Sesiano An Early Form of Greek Algebra . . . . . 276--302
Niccoló Guicciardini Did Newton use his calculus in the
\booktitlePrincipia? . . . . . . . . . . 303--344
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--384
Anonymous Editorial Note: Editorial Note . . . . . 1--2
Erik V. D. Vleuten Constructing Centralized Electricity
Supply in Denmark and The Netherlands:
An Actor Group Perspective . . . . . . . 3--36
J. A. C. Lagaaij and
G. P. J. Verbong Different Visions of Power the
Introduction of Nuclear Power in The
Netherlands 1955--1970 . . . . . . . . . 37--63
Henry Nielsen and
Keld Nielsen and
Flemming Petersen and
Hans Siggaard Risò and the Attempts to Introduce
Nuclear Power into Denmark . . . . . . . 64--92
Mogens Rüdiger The Natural Gas Controversy the
Introduction of Natural Gas in Denmark,
1972--84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--111
Matthias Heymann A Fight of Systems? Wind Power and
Electric Power Systems in Denmark,
Germany, and the USA . . . . . . . . . . 112--136
G. P. J. Verbong Wind Power in The Netherlands,
1970--1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--160
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen Interpreting Wind Power vs. the Electric
Power System: a Danish Case-Study . . . 161--177
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 178--181
Stefan L. Wolff Leo Arons --- Physiker und Sozialist.
(German) [Leo Arons --- physicist and
socialist] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--212
Glen Van Brummelen The Astronomical System in M\=us\=a ibn
Nawbakht's Astrological Treatise, the
Kit\=ab al-K\=amil . . . . . . . . . . . 213--243
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--250
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 251--251
Jutta Berger Grenzgänge zwischen Physik und Chemie:
Thermodynamik und chemische Kinetik ---
kein Happy-End im 19. Jahrhundert.
(German) [Boundaries between physics and
chemistry: thermodynamics and chemical
kinetics --- no happy ending in the 19th
Century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--279
Lis Brack-Bernsen and
Hermann Hunger The Babylonian Zodiac: Speculations on
its invention and significance . . . . . 280--292
Christian Marinus Taisbak Splitting a Square Analysis of Euclid's
Elements xiii.10 . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--318
Jesús M. Montserrat and
Luis Navarro The atomistic view of heat in Lucretius 1--20
Jens Hòyrup Jacobus de Florentia,
\booktitleTractatus algorismi (1307),
the chapter on algebra (Vat. Lat. 4826,
fols 36$^v$ --45$^v$) . . . . . . . . . 21--69
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--74
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 75--75
Alexander Jones Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman
Period IV Solar Tables Based on a
Non-Hipparchian Model . . . . . . . . . 77--88
John M. Steele A Re-analysis of the Eclipse
Observations in Ptolemy's
\booktitleAlmagest . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
Joost Mertens The Development of the Dry Battery:
Prelude to a Mass Consumption Article
(1882--1908) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--134
Tito M. Tonietti Does Newton's Musical Model of
Gravitation Work?: a mistake and its
meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--149
Anonymous Review essay: Review essay . . . . . . . 150--153
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--157
Ove Von Spaeth Dating the Oldest Egyptian Star Map . . 159--179
C. Michel-Nozi\`eres Second Millennium Babylonian Water
Clocks: a physical study . . . . . . . . 180--209
J. Fermor and
J. M. Steele The design of Babylonian waterclocks:
Astronomical and experimental evidence 210--222
Peter J. Huber Babylonian Short-Time Measurements:
Lunar Sixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--234
Anonymous Review Article: National Histories of
Science, the Dutch Case . . . . . . . . 235--239
Anonymous Review Article: Reviews . . . . . . . . 240--247
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Jan Frercks Creativity and Technology in
Experimentation: Fizeau's Terrestrial
Determination of the Speed of Light . . 249--287
David Topper ``I know that what I am saying is rather
obscure \ldots'': on Clarifying a
Passage in Galileo's Dialogue . . . . . 288--296
Luis M. Ribeiro Saraiva A Survey of Portuguese Mathematics in
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 297--318
Helge Kragh Before quantum chemistry: Erich Hückel
and the physics-chemistry interface . . 1--16
Sonja Brentjes Two comments on Euclid's
\booktitleElements? On the relation
between the Arabic text attributed to
al-Nayrìzì and the Latin text ascribed to
Anaritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--55
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--67
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Michael A. Day Oppenheimer on the Nature of Science . . 73--112
Anonymous Book Review: Review essay: Chinese
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
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Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
Detlef D. Spalt Curt Schmieden's Non-standard Analysis
--- a Method of Dissolving the Standard
Paradoxes of Analysis . . . . . . . . . 137--175
Johannes Von Koch Die Mondeklipsen von BM 41004 rev. 18.
(German) [The Lunar Eclipse of BM 41004
rev. 18] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--183
Anja Skaar Jacobsen Spirit and Unity: Òrsted's Fascination by
Winterl's Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 184--218
Olivier Darrigol The Historians' Disagreements over the
Meaning of Planck's Quantum . . . . . . 219--239
Dieter Hoffmann On the Experimental Context of Planck's
Foundation of Quantum Theory . . . . . . 240--259
Rajinder Singh Max Born's Role in the Lattice Dynamic
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--277
Lars Gislén and
J. C. Eade South East Asian Eclipse Calculations 278--307
Anonymous Book Review: Reviews . . . . . . . . . . 308--310
Anonymous Book Review: Books Received . . . . . . 311--313
Anonymous Book Review: Books Received . . . . . . 311--313
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Jens Hòyrup Existence, substantiality, and
counterfactuality Observations on the
status of mathematics according to
Aristotle, Euclid, and others . . . . . 1--31
Helge Kragh The Vortex Atom: a Victorian Theory of
Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--114
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen On Altar Constructions with Square
Bricks in Ancient Indian Ritual . . . . 115--126
Hiroyuki Konno Ritz's Discovery of the Lyman Series
before 1913 and Lyman's Indifference to
the Bohr Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
Christian Leitz Remarks about the Appearance of Mars in
the Tomb of Senenmut in Western Thebes 140--142
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
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Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Michiyo Nakane and
Craig G. Fraser The Early History of Hamilton--Jacobi
Dynamics 1834--1837 . . . . . . . . . . 161--227
J. R. Christianson The Legacy of Tycho Brahe . . . . . . . 228--247
Peter C. Kjærgaard Competing Allies: Professionalisation
and the Hierarchy of Science in
Victorian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 248--288
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--310
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Editorial: Editors' Introduction . . . . 1--3
Anonymous Publications of Bernard R. Goldstein . . 4--15
Lis Brack-Bernsen The Path of the Moon, the Rising Points
of the Sun, and the Oblique Great Circle
on the Celestial Sphere . . . . . . . . 16--31
Francesca Rochberg Lunar Data in Babylonian Horoscopes . . 32--45
John P. Britton On Corrections for Solar Anomaly in
Babylonian Lunar Theories . . . . . . . 46--58
Alan C. Bowen Cleomedes and the Measurement of the
Earth: a Question of Procedures . . . . 59--68
Alexander Jones A Posy of \booktitleAlmagest Scholia . . 69--78
David Pingree A Greek Ephemeris for 796: the Work of
Stephanus the Philosopher? . . . . . . . 79--82
Anne Tihon Une table grecque de vitesse lunaire
(Laurentianus 28/26). (French) [A Greek
table of lunar speed (Laurentianus
28/26)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--99
A. Mark Smith Ptolemy, Alhacen, and Ibn Mu'adh and the
Problem of Atmospheric Refraction . . . 100--115
J. L. Berggren and
Glen Van Brummelen Al-Samaw'al versus al-K\=uh? on the
Depression of the Horizon . . . . . . . 116--129
John North Winchester 1067 . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--141
José Chabás Were the Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
First Used by Their Authors? . . . . . . 142--150
Danielle Jacquart Bernard de Gordon et l'astrologie.
(French) [Bernard de Gordon and
astrology] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--158
Paul Kunitzsch and
Y. Tzvi Langermann A Star Table from Medieval Yemen . . . . 159--174
Michael H. Shank Rings in a Fluid Heaven: the
Equatorium-Driven Physical Astronomy of
Guido de Marchia (fl. 1292--1310) . . . 175--203
David A. King 14th-Century England or 9th-Century
Baghdad? New Insights on the Elusive
Astronomical Instrument Called Navicula
de Venetiis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--226
Gad Freudenthal `Instrumentalism' and `Realism' as
Categories in the History of Astronomy:
Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs.
Gersonides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--248
Ruth Glasner Gersonides Unusual Position on
``Position'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--263
J. L. Mancha Right Ascensions and Hippopedes:
Homocentric Models in Levi ben Gerson's
Astronomy I. First Anomaly . . . . . . . 264--283
Tony Lévy Immanuel Bonfils (XIVe s.): fractions
décimales, puissances de 10 et opérations
arithmétiques. (French) [Immanuel Bonfils
(14th Century): decimal fractions,
powers of 10, and arithmetic operations] 284--304
Richard L. Kremer Wenzel Faber's Table for Finding True
Syzygy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--329
N. M. Swerdlow Tycho Brahe's Early Lunar Theory and the
Lunar Eclipse of 31 January 1599 . . . . 1--40
Peter Barker How Rothmann Changed His Mind . . . . . 41--57
Giora Hon Putting Error to (Historical) Work:
Error as a Tell-tale in the Studies of
Kepler and Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . 58--81
Julio Samsó Abraham Zacut and José Vizinho's
\booktitleAlmanach Perpetuum in Arabic
(16th--19th C.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--97
Karl-Heinz Schlote Carl Neumanns Forschungen zur
Potentialtheorie. (German) [Carl
Neumann's research on potential theory] 99--132
Lars Gislén Analysis of the Astronomical Information
in Tachard: ``\booktitleVoyage to Siam
in the Year 1685'' . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
Louise Hollywood and
John M. Steele Acronycal Risings in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 163--188
C. K. Young Archimedes's iron hand or claw -- a new
interpretation of an old mystery . . . . 189--207
J. Schönbeck Thomas Clausen und die quadrierbaren
Kreisbogenzweiecke. (German) [Thomas
Clausen and the squarable two-cornered
arc] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--229
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--241
Reviel Netz Eudemus of Rhodes, Hippocrates of Chios
and the Earliest form of a Greek
Mathematical Text . . . . . . . . . . . 243--286
Ida H. Stamhuis and
Paul M. M. Klep The Stubbornness of Various Ways of
Knowledge was not typically Dutch; the
Statistical Mind in a Pre-Statistical
Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--317
Anonymous Comment on: \booktitleThe Statistical
Mind in a Pre-Statistical Era: The
Netherlands 1750--1850, edited by Paul
M. M. Ckep and Ida H. Stahuis delivered
at The Free University of Amsterdam on
September 4, 2002 by Theodore M. Porter,
University of California in Los Angeles 318--330
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Lis Brack-Bernsen The ``days in excess'' from MUL.APIN on
the ``first intercalation'' and ``water
clock'' schemes from MUL.APIN . . . . . 1--29
Ad Maas Institutionalised Individualism
Amsterdam Physics between the World Wars 30--59
Jean Michel Delire Quadratures, circulature and the
approximation of $ \sqrt {2} $ in the
Indian \'Sulba-sútras . . . . . . . . . . 60--71
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--85
Jan P. Hogendijk Applied Mathematics in Eleventh Century
Al-Andalus: Ibn Mu$^c$\=adh al-Jayy\=an?
and his Computation of Astrological
Houses and Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . 87--114
Peter Von Heering and
Daniel Osewold Ein Problem, zwei Wissenschaftler, drei
Instrumente. (German) [One problem, two
scientists, three instruments] . . . . . 115--139
Robert J. Deltete \booktitleDie Lehre von der Energie.
(German) [The Theory of Energy]: Georg
Helm's Energetic Manifesto . . . . . . . 140--162
Dennis W. Duke Hipparchus' Eclipse Trios and Early
Trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--177
Roger T. Macfarlane and
Paul S. Mills Bright and Conspicuous Stars in Ptolemy
and Hipparchus: on the mistranslation of
$ \epsilon \kappa \phi \alpha \nu \eta
\varsigma $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Lis Brack-Bernsen and
John M. Steele Eclipse Prediction and the Length of the
Saros in Babylonian Astronomy . . . . . 181--206
Heiner Fangerau and
Irmgard Müller National Styles? Jacques Loeb's Analysis
of German and American Science Around
1900 in his Correspondence with Ernst
Mach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--225
Alexander Jones and
Dennis Duke Ptolemy's Planetary Mean Motions
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--235
Nathan Sidoli Heron's Dioptra 35 and Analemma Methods:
An Astronomical Determination of the
Distance between Two Cities . . . . . . 236--258
Jaume Navarro J. J. Thomson on the Nature of Matter:
Corpuscles and the Continuum . . . . . . 259--282
Giora Hon Kant vs. Legendre on Symmetry: Mirror
Images in Philosophy and Mathematics . . 283--297
Piedad Yuste Algebra and Geometry in the Old
Babylonian Period: Matters Concerning
Reeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--315
D. Fragoulis and
A. Skembris and
C. Papaodysseus and
P. Rousopoulos and
Th. Panagopoulos and
M. Panagopoulos and
C. Triantafyllou and
A. Vlachopoulos and
C. Doumas Origins and Application of Geometry in
the Thera Prehistoric Civilization ca.
1650 BC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--340
Helge Kragh Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
Peter Barker New Work in Early Modern Science . . . . 1--2
Mark A. Waddell The World, As It Might Be: Iconography
and Probabilism in the \booktitleMundus
subterraneus of Athanasius Kircher . . . 3--22
Katherine A. Tredwell The Melanchthon Circle's English
Epicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31
Patrick J. Boner Kepler's Living Cosmology: Bridging the
Celestial and Terrestrial Realms . . . . 32--39
John Friesen Hutchinsonianism and the Newtonian
Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
Tofigh Heidarzadeh The Reception of Newton's Theory of
Cometary Tail Formation . . . . . . . . 50--65
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen and
Charlotte Methuen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68
Renzo Baldasso The Role of Visual Representation in the
Scientific Revolution: a Historiographic
Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--88
Giora Hon and
Bernard R. Goldstein Adding Velocities without Exceeding the
Velocity of Light: Wilhelm Wien's
Algorithm (1904) and Albert Einstein's
Light Postulate (1905) . . . . . . . . . 89--113
Kristian Peder Moesgaard and
Peder Anker and
Mark Clark and
Marta Gómez Martínez and
Anja Skaar Jacobsen and
Jole Shackelford and
Michael Eckert and
Jacqueline Stedall and
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and
Helge Kragh Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--129
Anonymous Books Received: Books Received . . . . . 130--131
Donald R. Forsdyke Heredity as Transmission of Information:
Butlerian `Intelligent Design' . . . . . 133--148
Tito M. Tonietti The Mathematical Contributions of
Francesco Maurolico to the Theory of
Music of the 16th Century (The Problems
of a Manuscript) . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--200
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Louis Olivier: a Mathematician Only
Known Through his Publications in
\booktitleCrelle's Journal During the
1820s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--231
Hanne Andersen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
Kerry V. Magruder Global Visions and the Establishment of
Theories of the Earth . . . . . . . . . 234--257
Kenneth L. Taylor Marivetz, Goussier, and Planet Earth: a
Late Enlightenment Geo-Physical Project 258--283
Marianne Klemun Natural Science and Geology as a Medium
of Integration: the Versammlung
deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in
Prague in 1837 and the Meetings of
German Natural Scientists and Physicians
during the `Vormärz' (1822--1848) . . . . 284--297
Rodney Grapes Alexander McKay and the Discovery of
Lateral Displacement on Faults in New
Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--313
Peter C. Kjærgaard and
Rajinder Singh and
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and
Micah Ross and
Donald B. Wagner and
Paolo Palmieri and
Helge Kragh and
Bruce J. Hunt and
Christian Forstner and
Marie Louise Thomsen and
Adrian Rice and
Jens Hòyrup and
Henrik Knudsen and
Peter C. Kjærgaard and
Henry Nielsen and
Giora Hon and
Helge Kragh Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--336
Anonymous Author Index: Index for Volume 48 . . . 337--339
Hanne Andersen Editorial: Centaurus --- The Official
Journal of the European Society for the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Eberhard Knobloch Alexander von Humboldt --- The Explorer
and the Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14
Björn Brüsch Provisions Made for Prosperity and
Affluence: Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr
von Stein zum Altenstein and the
Establishment of the Gärtnerlehranstalt
in Prussia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--55
Simon O. Rebsdorf Bengt Strömgren: Interstellar Glow,
Helium Content, and Solar Life Supply,
1932--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--79
Jan Frercks Immaterial Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 81--113
Raf De Bont A Serpent without Teeth. The
Conservative Transformism of
Jean-Baptiste d'Omalius d'Halloy
(1783--1875) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--137
Per Pippin Aspaas and
Truls Lynne Hansen Geomagnetism by the North Pole, anno
1769: the Magnetic Observations of
Maximilian Hell during his Venus Transit
Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--164
Anonymous ESHS: History of Science in Education
and Training in Europe: What New
Prospects? Round Table Discussion at the
Second European Society for the History
of Science Conference in Cracow on 9
September 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--171
Len Berggren Asger Hartvig Aaboe: 26 April 1922 to 19
January 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--177
Theodore Arabatzis Reviews: \booktitleGrowing Explanations.
Historical Perspectives on Recent
Science --- Edited by M. Norton Wise . . 178--179
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Reviews: \booktitleMathematics Unbound:
the Evolution of an International
Mathematical Research Community,
1800--1945 --- Edited by Karen H.
Parshall and Adrian C. Rice . . . . . . 179--181
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleScience and Religion,
400 BC--AD 1550: From Aristotle to
Copernicus --- by Edward Grant and
\booktitleScience and Religion,
1450--1900: From Copernicus to Darwin
--- by Richard G. Olson . . . . . . . . 181--182
Poul R. Kruse Reviews: \booktitleGeschichte der
Pharmazie. Vol. II: Von der Frühen
Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. (German)
[History of Pharmacy. Vol II: From the
Early Modern Period to the Present] ---
by Rudolf Schmitz . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Darin Hayton Martin Bylica at the Court of Matthias
Corvinus: Astrology and Politics in
Renaissance Hungary . . . . . . . . . . 185--198
Anita Kildebæk Nielsen Fashioning and Demarcation of the Danish
Chemical Community in the 19th Century 199--226
Dirk VanDelft Facilitating Leiden's Cold: the
International Association of
Refrigeration and the
Internationalisation of Heike Kamerlingh
Onnes's Cryogenic Laboratory . . . . . . 227--245
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleFrom Here to
Eternity. Ernst Haeckel and Scientific
Faith --- by Mario A. Di Gregorio . . . 246--247
Ana Simões Reviews: \booktitleShifting and
Rearranging: Physical Methods and the
Transformation of Modern Chemistry ---
by Carsten Reinhardt . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Anja Skaar Jacobsen Reviews: \booktitleChemistry, Medicine,
and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila
(1787--1853) and His Times --- Edited by
José Ramón Bertomeu--Sánchez; Agustí
Nieto-Galan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Henrik Knudsen Reviews: \booktitleThe Science-Industry
Nexus: History, Policy, Implications ---
Edited by Karl Grandinl; Nina Wormbs;
Sven Widmalm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleThe Beginnings of
Piezoelectricity. A Study in Mundane
Physics --- by Shaul Katzir . . . . . . 251--252
Annette Lykknes Reviews: \booktitlePerspectives on
Scandinavian Science in the Early
Twentieth Century --- Edited by Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze; H. Kragh Sòrensen . . 253--254
Alan E. Shapiro Reviews: \booktitleThinking with
Objects: the Transformation of Mechanics
in the Seventeenth Century --- by
Domenico Bertoloni Meli . . . . . . . . 254--255
Jens Hòyrup Reviews: \booktitleEssays on Early
Medieval Mathematics: the Latin
Tradition --- by Menso Folkerts . . . . 255--256
Ida H. Stamhuis and
Hanne. Andersen Editorial: the Control of a Healthy
Society: Institutionalizing Statistics
in the 19$^{th}$ Century . . . . . . . . 257--257
Theodore M. Porter Introduction: the Statistical Office as
a Social Observatory . . . . . . . . . . 258--260
Gabriel K. Wolfenstein Recounting the Nation: the General
Register Office and Victorian
Bureaucracies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--288
Morgane Labbé Institutionalizing the Statistics of
Nationality in Prussia in the 19th
Century (from local bureaucracy to
state-level census of population) . . . 289--306
Ida H. Stamhuis A Nineteenth-Century Statistical Society
that Abandoned Statistics . . . . . . . 307--336
Andrea Rusnock Medical Statistics and Hospital
Medicine: the Case of the Smallpox
Vaccination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--359
Hanne Andersen Editorial: Centaurus at Volume 50:
Looking into the archives . . . . . . . 1--3
S. Lilley From the Archives: Cause & Effect in the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 4--18
Helge Kragh Commentary 01 on Lilley 1953 and
Truesdell 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
C Truesdell From the Archives: the Scholar's
Workshop and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Kurt Mòller Pedersen Commentary: Commentary 02 on Lilley 1953
and Truesdell 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Theodore Arabatzis Commentary: Commentary 03 on Lilley 1953
and Truesdell 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
Hasok Chang Commentary: Commentary 04 on Lilley 1953
and Truesdell 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Jutta Schickore Commentary: Commentary 05 on Lilley 1953
and Truesdell 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
George Rosen From the Archives: the Fate of the
Concept of Medical Police 1780--1890 . . 46--62
Christopher Hamlin Commentary: Commentary 01 on Rosen 1957 63--69
Michael Knipper Commentary: Commentary 02 on Rosen 1957 70--72
J. D. Bernal From the Archives: Science, Industry and
Society in the Nineteenth Century . . . 73--100
Ruth Schwartz Cowan Commentary: Commentary 01 on Bernal 1953 101--102
Mikael Hård Commentary: Commentary 02 on Bernal 1953 103--104
Peter Galison From the Archives: the Discovery of the
Muon and the Failed Revolution against
Quantum Electrodynamics . . . . . . . . 105--159
Peter Galison Commentary: Commentary 01 on Galison
1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
Allan Franklin Commentary: Commentary 02 on Galison
1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--165
David Kaiser Commentary: Commentary 03 on Galison
1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Bernard R. Goldstein From the Archives: the Status of Models
in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy . . . 168--183
Bernard R. Goldstein Commentary: Commentary 01 on Goldstein
1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--188
Peter Barker Commentary: Commentary 02 on Goldstein
1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
Alan C. Bowen From the Archives: Cleomedes and the
Measurement of the Earth: a Question of
Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--204
Eberhard Knobloch Commentary on Bowen 2003 . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Notes on Contributors: Notes on
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--209
Friedrich Steinle and
Gregor Schiemann Introduction: the Empirical and the
Formal --- Tensions in Scientific
Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Olivier Darrigol Empirical Challenges and Concept
Formation in the History of
Hydrodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--232
Michael Eckert Theory from Wind Tunnels: Empirical
Roots of Twentieth Century Fluid
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--253
Art. R. T. Jonkers The Pursuit of Magnetic Shadows: the
Formal-Empirical Dipole Field of
Early-Modern Geomagnetism . . . . . . . 254--289
Gregory A. Good Between Data, Mathematical Analysis and
Physical Theory: Research on Earth's
Magnetism in the 19th Century . . . . . 290--304
Giora Hon and
Bernard R. Goldstein What Keeps the Earth in Its Place? The
Concept of Stability in Plato and
Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--323
Patrick J. Boner Kepler's Early Astrological Calendars:
Matter, Methodology and
Multidisciplinarity . . . . . . . . . . 324--328
Klaus Hentschel Reviews: \booktitleObjectivity --- by
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison . . . 329--330
Ursula Klein Reviews: \booktitleThe artificial and
the natural: an evolving polarity ---
Edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and William R. Newman . . . . . . . . . 330--332
Philip J. Davis Reviews: \booktitleThe Geometry of An
Art: the History of the Mathematical
Theory of Perspective from Alberti to
Monge --- by Kirsti Andersen . . . . . . 332--334
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Reviews: \booktitleThe Good Life in the
Scientific Revolution. Descartes,
Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of
Virtue --- by Matthew Jones . . . . . . 334--335
Giora Hon Reviews: \booktitleThe Art of
Conjecturing, Together with Letter to a
Friend on Sets in Court Tennis --- by
Jacob Bernoulli (Trans. with an
introduction and notes by Edith Dudley
Sylla) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
Hans Henrik Hjermitslev Reviews: \booktitleHerbert Spencer and
the invention of modern life --- by Mark
Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--339
Anita Kildebæk Nielsen Reviews: \booktitleThe Periodic Table:
Its Story and Its Significance --- by
Eric R. Scerri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Wolfgang L. Reiter Reviews: \booktitleAufrecht im Sturm der
Zeit: Der Physiker James Franck
1882--1964. (German) [Upright in the
storm of time: the physicist James
Franck 1882--1964] --- by Jost Lemmerich 341--342
Finn Aaserud Reviews: \booktitleThe Mental Aftermath:
the Mentality of German Physicists
1945--1949 --- by Klaus Hentschel . . . 342--343
Christian Forstner Reviews: \booktitlePhysiker zwischen
Autonomie und Anpassung. Die Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft im Dritten
Reich --- Edited by Dieter Hoffmann and
Mark Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleParticle Metaphysics:
a Critical Account of Subatomic Reality
--- by Brigitte Falkenburg . . . . . . . 345--345
Matthias Knopp Reviews: \booktitleRockets and missiles:
the life story of a technology --- by A.
Bodoing van Riper . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Matthias Heymann Reviews: \booktitleIngenium: five
machines that changed the world --- by
Mark Denny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Matthias Heymann Reviews: \booktitleNetworking Europe.
Transnational Infrastructures and the
Shaping of Europe, 1850--2000 --- Edited
by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser 348--349
Anonymous Editorial: Journals Under Threat: a
Joint Response from History of Science,
Technology and Medicine Editors . . . . 1--4
Maria Rentetzi and
Sally G. Kohlstedt Introduction: Gender and Networking in
Twentieth-Century Physical Sciences . . 5--11
Staffan Wennerholm On the Outskirts of Physics: Eva von
Bahr as an Outsider Within in Early 20th
Century Swedish Experimental Physics . . 12--36
Sally G. Kohlstedt and
Suzanne M. Fischer Unstable Networks Among Women in
Academe: the Legal Case of Shyamala
Rajender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--62
Maria Rentetzi Gender, Science and Politics: Queen
Frederika and Nuclear Research in
Post-war Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--87
Faidra Papanelopoulou and
Peter C. Kjærgaard Making the Paper: Science and Technology
in Spanish, Greek and Danish Newspapers
Around 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
Matiana González-Silva and
Néstor Herran Ideology, Elitism and Social Commitment:
Alternative Images of Science in Two fin
de si\`ecle Barcelona Newspapers . . . . 97--115
Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou and
Faidra Papanelopoulou and
Spyros Tzokas The Public Image(s) of Science and
Technology in the Greek Daily Press,
1908--1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--142
Casper Andersen and
Hans H. Hjermitslev Directing Public Interest: Danish
Newspaper Science 1900--1903 . . . . . . 143--167
Jeffrey A. Oaks Reviews: \booktitleFibonacci's
\booktitleDe Practica Geometrie --- by
Barnabas Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Patrick J. Boner Reviews: \booktitleThe Limits of
Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis
of Renaissance Astrology --- by Steven
Vanden Broecke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Jole Shackelford Reviews: \booktitle`Magic is no magic',
the wonderful world of Simon Stevin ---
by Jozef T. Devreese and Guido Vanden
Berghe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
Joan Steigerwald Reviews: \booktitleScience without laws:
model systems, cases, exemplary
narratives --- Edited by Angela N. H.
Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and N. Norton
Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Helge Kragh Styles of Science and Engineering: the
Case of Early Long-Distance Telephony 175--188
Kerry V. Magruder Jesuit Science After Galileo: the
Cosmology of Gabriele Beati . . . . . . 189--212
Vitor Bonifácio and
Isabel Malaquias and
João Fernandes Taking Internal Advantage of External
Events --- Two Astronomical Examples
From Nineteenth Century Portugal . . . . 213--234
Peter C. Kjærgaard Reviews: \booktitleThe Shock of the Old:
Technology and Global History Since 1900
--- by David Edgerton . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Daniel Becker Reviews: \booktitleMüller's Lab. The
Story of Jakob Henle, Theodor Schwann,
Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von
Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Remak,
Ernst Haeckel, and Their Brilliant,
Tormented Advisor --- by Laura Otis . . 236--237
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Hasok Chang We Have Never Been Whiggish (About
Phlogiston) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264
Daan Wegener Science and Internationalism in Germany:
Helmholtz, Du Bois-Reymond and Their
Critics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--287
Giora Hon and
Bernard R. Goldstein Spotlight on: the Nature of Scientific
Change: in Pursuit of Conceptual Change:
the Case of Legendre and Symmetry . . . 288--293
Roger Ariew Spotlight on: The Nature of Scientific
Change: Some Reflections on Thomas
Kuhn's Account of Scientific Change . . 294--298
Alan C. Bowen Spotlight on: the Nature of Scientific
Change: From Description to Prediction:
an Unexamined Transition in Hellenistic
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Friedrich Steinle Spotlight on: the Nature of Scientific
Change: Scientific Change and Empirical
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--313
Xiang Chen and
Peter Barker Spotlight on: the Nature of Scientific
Change: Process Concepts and Cognitive
Obstacles to Change: Perspectives on the
History of Science and Science Policy 314--320
Diana Davids Hinton Reviews: \booktitleScientists and
Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in
America, 1820--1890 --- by Paul Lucier 321--322
Marco Nòrskov Pedersen Reviews: \booktitleThe Robot: the Life
Story of a Technology --- by Lisa Nocks 323--324
Peter Barker Reviews: \booktitleScientific Research
in World War II: What Scientists Did in
the War --- Edited by Ad Maas and Hans
Hooijmaijers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--326
Jesper Lützen and
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Introduction: in Honour of Kirsti
Andersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Jesper Lützen The Algebra of Geometric Impossibility:
Descartes and Montucla on the
Impossibility of the Duplication of the
Cube and the Trisection of the Angle . . 4--37
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Throwing Some Light on the Vast Darkness
that is Analysis: Niels Henrik Abel's
Critical Revision and the Concept of
Absolute Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 38--72
Marianne Marcussen To Kirsti: `From Art History with
Love\ldots' Perspective: Then and Now,
and Artistic Practice . . . . . . . . . 73--88
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science ---- Announcement: 4th
International Conference of the European
Society for the History of Science
(Barcelona, 18--20 November 2010) Hosted
by: Societat Catalana d'Hist\`oria de la
Ci\`encia i de la T\`ecnica (SCHCT) the
circulation of science and technology 89--90
Elodie Vieille Blanchard Modelling the Future: an Overview of the
`Limits to Growth' Debate . . . . . . . 91--116
Olivier Darrigol The Analogy between Light and Sound in
the History of Optics from the Ancient
Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 1 . . . . . 117--155
Steven Wepster Reviews: \booktitleThe Mathematics of
the Heavens and the Earth: the Early
History of Trigonometry --- by Glen van
Brummelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Nicolaas Rupke Reviews: \booktitleEin `Diplomat aus den
Wäldern des Orinoko.' Alexander von
Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und
Frankreich --- by Ulrich Päßler . . . . . 157--158
Shaul Katzir Reviews: \booktitleDer Komet in der
Entladungsröhre Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm
Foerster und die Elektrizität im
Weltraum. (German) [The comet in the
discharge tube: Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm
Foerster and electricity in space] ---
by Michael Hedenus . . . . . . . . . . . 158--160
György Darvas Reviews: \booktitleFrom Summetria to
Symmetry: the Making of a Revolutionary
Scientific Concept --- by Giora Hon and
Bernard R. Goldstein . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
Jane Maienschein Reviews: \booktitleThe Cambridge History
of Science. Volume 6. The Modern
Biological and Earth Sciences --- edited
by Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone 162--163
Peter Heering Reviews: \booktitleUnsichtbare Hände. Zur
Rolle von Laborassistenten, Mechanikern,
Zeichern u.a. Amanuenses in der
physikalischen Forschungs- und
Entwicklungsarbeit. (German) [Invisible
hands. On the role of lab assistants,
mechanics, Zeichern [??], etc.
Amanuenses in physical research and
development work] --- edited by Klaus
Hentschel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Thomas Steinhauser Reviews: \booktitleThe Kaiser Wilhelm
Society under National Socialism ---
edited by Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse
and Mark Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--166
Milena Wazeck Reviews: \booktitleEinstein's
Generation: the Origins of the
Relativity Revolution --- by Richard
Staley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168
Annette Lykknes Reviews: \booktitleTrafficking materials
and gendered experimental practices:
radium research in early 20th century
Vienna --- by Maria Rentetzi . . . . . . 168--170
Michael Eckert Reviews: \booktitleMathematicians
Fleeing from Nazi Germany. Individual
Fates and Global Impact --- by Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
Anja Skaar Jacobsen Reviews: \booktitleQuantenmechanik im
Kalten Krieg: David Bohm und Richard
Feynman --- by Christian Forstner . . . 171--172
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science --- Announcement: 4th
International Conference of the European
Society for the History of Science,
Barcelona, 18--20 November 2010: the
circulation of science and technology 173--174
Kristian H. Nielsen Technological Trajectories in the
Making: Two Case Studies from the
Contemporary History of Wind Power . . . 175--205
Olivier Darrigol The Analogy between Light and Sound in
the History of Optics from the Ancient
Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 2 . . . . . 206--257
Peter J. Bowler Reviews: \booktitlePopularizing Science
and Technology in the European
Periphery, 1800--2000 --- edited by
Faidra Papanelopoulou . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Nuria Valverde Pérez Reviews: \booktitleSecret Science:
Spanish Cosmography and the New World
--- by María M. Portuondo . . . . . . . . 259--260
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleNaturens Tankelæser:
En Biografi om Hans Christian Òrsted ---
by Dan Ch. Christensen . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Geoffrey Cantor Reviews: \booktitleDriven to Innovate: a
Century of Jewish Mathematicians and
Physicists --- by Ioan James . . . . . . 262--264
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Reviews: \booktitleIsaac Newton on
Mathematical Certainty and Method --- by
Niccol\`o Guicciardini . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Massimo Mazzotti Reviews: \booktitleThe Newton Wars and
the Beginning of the French
Enlightenment --- by John Bennett Shank 265--267
Emma Spary Reviews: \booktitleThe English Virtuoso:
Art, Medicine and Antiquarianism in the
Age of Empiricism --- by Craig Ashley
Hanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Kaat Wils Reviews: \booktitleWomen in Science. A
Social and Cultural History --- by Ruth
Watts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science --- Announcement: 4th
International Conference of the European
Society for the History of Science,
Barcelona, 18--20 November 2010 the
circulation of science and technology 271--272
Pnina G. Abir-Am Spotlight on Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: Comparing Strategic,
Political, and Economic Agendas in the
United States of America, Europe, and
East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
John Krige Spotlight on: Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: Building the Arsenal
of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--296
Naomi Oreskes Spotlight on: Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: Science, Technology
and Free Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . 297--310
Ronald E. Doel Spotlight on: Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: Does Scientific
Intelligence Matter? . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
Pnina G. Abir-Am Spotlight on: Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Post-WW2
Transnational Ecology of Science Policy:
from Solitary Splendor in the Inter-war
Era to a `Me Too' Agenda in the 1950s 323--337
Peter J. Westwick Spotlight on: Post-WW2 Transatlantic
Science Policies: the International
History of the Strategic Defense
Initiative: American Influence and
Economic Competition in the Late Cold
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--351
David Cahan Reviews: \booktitleHermann von
Helmholtz's Mechanism: the Loss of
Certainty. A Study on the Transition
from Classical to Modern Philosophy of
Nature --- by Gregor Schiemann . . . . . 352--353
Robert Brain Reviews: \booktitleA Tenth of a Second:
a History --- by Jimena Canales . . . . 353--355
Melanie Keene Reviews: \booktitleScience for All: the
Popularization of Science in Early
Twentieth--Century Britain --- by Peter
J. Bowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Jeff Hughes Reviews: \booktitleA Nuclear Winter's
Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
--- by Lawrence Badash . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Eugene Cittadino Reviews: \booktitleModern Nature: the
Rise of the Biological Perspective in
Germany --- by Lynn K. Nyhart . . . . . 358--360
So\vna \vStrbá\vnová European Society for the History of
Science --- Letter from the Future
President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Truus Van Bosstraeten Dogs and Coca-Cola: Commemorative
Practices as part of Laboratory Culture
at the Heymans Institute Ghent,
1902--1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--30
Stefano Bordoni Beyond Electromagnetic and Mechanical
World-views: J. Larmor's Models of
Matter and Energy in the Early 1890s . . 31--54
Nathan Sidoli Heron of Alexandria's Date . . . . . . . 55--61
Jonathan Simon Reviews: \booktitlethe Historiography of
the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of
Interpretation in the History of Science
--- by John McEvoy . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Gábor Á. Zemplén Reviews: \booktitleAutobiography and
Natural Science in the Age of
Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau
--- by Kuhn Bernhard . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Hermione Giffard Reviews: \booktitleMissiles for the
Fatherland: Peenemünde, National
Socialism and the V-2 Missile --- by
Michael B. Petersen . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
Sonja Brentjes Reviews: \booktitleStudies in al-Kimya$
\prime $: Critical Issues in Latin and
Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry --- Ahmad
Y. al-Hassan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Lissa Roberts Reviews: \booktitleJames Watt, Chemist:
Understanding the Origins of the Steam
Age --- by David Philip Miller . . . . . 68--69
Ann Saetnan Reviews: \booktitleThe Statistical Mind
in Modern Society. The Netherlands
1850--1940 --- edited by Jacques G. S.
J. van Maarseveen, Paul M. M. Klep & Ida
H. Stamhuis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
Simone Turchetti Reviews: \booktitleUranium Wars. The
Scientific Rivalry That Created the
Nuclear Age --- by Amir D. Aczel . . . . 71--73
Sven Dupré Reviews: \booktitlethe Social and
Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution --- by Gideon Freudenthal &
Peter McLaughlin . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science --- Announcement: the 2010
General Assembly was held at the
conclusion of the 4th International
Conference of the European Society for
the History of Science, in the Institut
d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, on 20
November 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Ana Carneiro and
Marianne Klemun Instruments of Science --- Instruments
of Geology; Introduction to Seeing and
Measuring, Constructing and Judging:
Instruments in the History of the Earth
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
Marianne Klemun The Geologist's Hammer --- `Fossil'
Tool, Equipment, Instrument and/or
Badge? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--101
Ezio Vaccari Travelling with Instruments: Italian
Geologists in the Field in the 18th and
19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--115
Isabel Malaquias and
Manuel S. Pinto Searching for Modernization ---
Instruments in the Development of Earth
Sciences in Portugal (18th Century) . . 116--134
Thomas Brandstetter Time Machines: Model Experiments in
Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145
Teresa Salomé Mota A Bursting Landscape in the Middle of
Portugal: Theories and Experiments by
Georges Zbyszewski . . . . . . . . . . . 146--163
Silvia F. De M. Figueirôa Minerals Scrutinized: Alberto Betim Paes
Leme (1883--1938) and the Application of
Spectrography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--175
Gregory A. Good Measuring the Inaccessible Earth:
Geomagnetism, \em in situ Measurements,
Remote Sensing, and Proxy Data . . . . . 176--189
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science --- Announcement: Universities
in Central Europe --- Crossroads of
Scholars from all over the World 29
September 2011--1 October, 2011, Charles
University in Prague, Czech Republic,
First Circular . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
John Henry `Mathematics Made No Contribution to the
Public Weal': Why Jean Fernel
(1497--1558) Became a Physician . . . . 193--220
Martin Clutton-Brock and
David Topper The Plausibility of Galileo's Tidal
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--235
Steven A. Walton Reviews: \booktitleMaterials and
Expertise in Early Modern Europe:
Between Market and Laboratory --- edited
by Ursula Klein and Emma C. Spary . . . 236--237
Sadiah Qureshi Reviews: \booktitleSpectacle of
Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern
British Culture --- by Nadja Durbach . . 237--238
Jan Faye Reviews: \booktitleQuantum Theory at the
Crossroads. Reconsidering the 1927
Solvay Conference --- by Guido
Bacciagaluppi and Antony Valentini . . . 238--240
Marion Thomas Reviews: \booktitleLooking for a Few
Good Males. Female Choice in
Evolutionary Biology --- by Erika
Lorraine Milam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Chunglin Kwa Reviews: \booktitleScience: a Four
Thousand Year History --- by Patricia
Fara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244
Laurence Brockliss Reviews: \booktitleÉchanges
franco-britanniques entre savants depuis
le XVIIe si\`ecle. Franco--British
Interactions in Science since the
Seventeenth Century --- edited by Robert
Fox and Bernard Joly . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Rienk Vermij Reviews: \booktitleCopernicus and the
Aristotelian Tradition. Education,
Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus'
Path to Heliocentrism --- by André Goddu 245--247
James E. McClellan III Reviews: \booktitleKnowledge and
Colonialism: Eighteenth-Century
Travellers in South Africa --- by
Siegfried Huigen . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Jens Hòyrup Reviews: \booktitleMathématiques et
connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée.
(French) [Mathematics and knowledge of
the real world before Galileo] ---
edited by Rommevaux, Sabine . . . . . . 248--251
Alessandro Nuvolari Reviews: \booktitlePursuing Power and
Light. Technology and Physics from James
Watt and Albert Einstein --- by Bruce J.
Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Raffaele Pisano and
M. Rosa Massa--Esteve European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Helge Kragh A Controversial Molecule: the Early
History of Triatomic Hydrogen . . . . . 257--279
Sofie Onghena The Survival of 19th-Century Scientific
Optimism: the Public Discourse on
Science in Belgium in the Aftermath of
the Great War (ca. 1919--1930) . . . . . 280--305
Antonin Durand and
Laurent Mazliak Revisiting the Sources of Borel's
Interest in Probability: Continued
Fractions, Social Involvement,
Volterra's Prolusione . . . . . . . . . 306--332
Robert Peckham Reviews: \booktitleUrban Modernity:
Cultural Innovation in the Second
Industrial Revolution --- by Miriam R.
Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler,
Robert H. Kargon and Morris Low . . . . 333--334
Neil Tarrant Reviews: \booktitleGalileo Engineer ---
by Matteo Valleriani . . . . . . . . . . 334--336
Garland E. Allen Reviews: \booktitleBiology and Ideology:
from Descartes to Dawkins --- Edited by
Denis Alexander and Ron Numbers . . . . 336--338
Matteo Valleriani Reviews: \booktitleExplanation and
Teleology in Aristotle's Science --- by
Mariska Leunissen . . . . . . . . . . . 338--340
Jean-Luc Chappey Reviews: \booktitleScience in the
Nursery. The Popularisation of Science
in Britain and France, 1761--1901 ---
Edited by Laurence Tailarach-Vielmas . . 340--342
William Thomas Reviews: \booktitleHigher Speculations:
Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in
Physics and Cosmology --- by Helge Kragh 342--343
Sarah Hutton Reviews: \booktitleReconfiguring the
World: Nature, God, and Human
Understanding from the Middle Ages to
Early Modern Europe --- by Margaret J.
Osler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345
Raffaele Pisano European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Karin Tybjerg Introduction: Cosmos and Cogwheels ---
The Work of Ole Ròmer (1644--1710) . . . 1--3
Leif Kahl Kristensen and
Kurt Mòller Pedersen Roemer, Jupiter's Satellites and the
Velocity of Light . . . . . . . . . . . 4--38
Frances Willmoth Römer, Flamsteed, Cassini and the Speed
of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--57
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Conjunctions in Paris: Interactions
between Ròmer and Huygens . . . . . . . . 58--76
Karin Tybjerg `Senses and Hands to the Same Degree as
Thought' --- Ole Ròmer's Mechanical
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--102
So\vna \vStrbá\vnová and
Milada Sekyrková European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
John Van Wyhe and
Mark J. Pallen The `Annie Hypothesis': Did the Death of
His Daughter Cause Darwin to `Give up
Christianity'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123
Stefano Bordoni Unearthing a Buried Memory: Duhem's
Third Way to Thermodynamics. Part 1 . . 124--147
John D. Norton and
Bryan W. Roberts Article with response: Article:
Galileo's Refutation of the
Speed-Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated 148--164
Carla Rita Palmerino Article with response: Response:
Aggregating Speeds and Scaling Motions:
a Response to Norton and Roberts . . . . 165--176
W. R. Laird Article with Response: Response:
Stillman Drake on Salviati's Proof . . . 177--181
John D. Norton and
Bryan W. Roberts Article with Response: Reply to
Response: the Scaling of Speeds and
Distances in Galileo's Two New Sciences:
a Reply to Palmerino and Laird . . . . . 182--191
Eleanor Robson Reviews: \booktitleWrestling with
Nature: From Omens to Science --- edited
by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers and
Michael H. Shank . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
John Holmes Reviews: \booktitleDarwin the Writer ---
by George Levine . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Scott Mandelbrote Reviews: \booktitleSelling Science in
the Age of Newton. Advertising and the
Commoditization of Knowledge --- by
Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth . . . . . . . . . 194--196
Christoph Lehner Reviews: \booktitleEinstein's
Unification --- by Jeroen van Dongen . . 196--199
E. R. Truitt Reviews: \booktitleSublime Dreams of
Living Machines: the Automaton in the
European Imagination --- by Minsoo Kang 199--200
Heiner Fangerau Reviews: \booktitleForensic Medicine in
Western Society: a History --- by
Katherine D. Watson . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Raffaele Pisano European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Simone Turchetti Sword, Shield and Buoys: a History of
the NATO Sub-Committee on Oceanographic
Research, 1959--1973 . . . . . . . . . . 205--231
Stefano Bordoni Unearthing a Buried Memory: Duhem's
Third Way to Thermodynamics. Part 2 . . 232--249
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleA Short History of
Scientific Thought --- by John Henry . . 250--251
Thomas Ahnert Reviews: \booktitleConsiderations,
Encouragements, Improvements. Die Select
Society in Edinburgh, 1754--1764 --- by
Iris Fleßenkämper . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Carl Niekerk Reviews: \booktitleThe Anatomy of
Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age
of Enlightenment --- by Andrew S. Curran 252--254
Denise Phillips Reviews: \booktitleWissen, Arbeit,
Freundschaft. Ökonomien und soziale
Beziehungen an den Akademien in London,
Paris und Berlin um 1700 --- by
Sebastian Kühn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
Matthew C. Hunter Reviews: \booktitleSilent Messengers:
the Circulation of Material Objects of
Knowledge in the Early Modern Low
Countries --- edited by Sven Dupré and
Christoph Lüthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Hans-Joachim Dahms Reviews: \booktitleMichael Polanyi and
his Generation. Origins of the Social
Construction of Science --- by Mary Jo
Nye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
Ayesha Nathoo Reviews: \booktitleTissue Culture in
Science and Society: the Public Life of
a Biological Technique in Twentieth
Century Britain --- by Duncan Wilson . . 259--261
So\vna \vStrbá\vnová European Society for the History of
Science: the Moscow S. I. Vavilov
Institute for the History of Science and
Technology Celebrates Its Eightieth
Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264
Astrid Elbers The Establishment of the New Field of
Radio Astronomy in the Post-War
Netherlands: a Search for Allies and
Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--285
Margaret W. Rossiter Spotlight on: Using the Past to Enhance
the Future: Introduction to Spotlight on
Using the Past to Enhance the Future . . 286--287
Margaret W. Rossiter Spotlight on: Using the Past to Enhance
the Future: the More You Look, the More
You Find: Archives of Recent American
Women Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--291
Tanya Zanish-Belcher Spotlight on: Using the Past to Enhance
the Future: the Archives of Women in
Science and Engineering and Future
Directions for Oral History: Questions
for Women Scientists . . . . . . . . . . 292--298
Troy Eller Spotlight on: Using the Past to Enhance
the Future: Publicity, Recruitment, and
History: Society of Women Engineers . . 299--304
Jessica Sedgwick Spotlight on: Using the Past to Enhance
the Future: the Archives for Women in
Medicine: Documenting Women's
Experiences and Contributions at Harvard
Medical School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--310
Kostas Gavro\uglu Essay Review: the STEP (Science and
Technology in the European Periphery)
Initiative: Attempting to Historicize
the Notion of European Science . . . . . 311--327
Evert Peeters Reviews: \booktitleTechnology and the
Making of The Netherlands. The Age of
Contested Modernization, 1890--1970 ---
Edited by Schot H. Lintsen and A. Rip 328--329
Raffaele Pisano European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
Eric Kirchner and
Mohammad Bagheri Color Theory in Medieval Islamic
Lapidaries: Nìsh\=ab\=urì, T\=usì and
K\=ash\=anì . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Geoffrey Blumenthal On Lavoisier's Achievement in Chemistry 20--47
Harold J. Cook Reviews: \booktitleInventing Chemistry:
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the
Chemical Arts --- by John C. Powers . . 48--49
Jérôme Lamy Reviews: \booktitleInto the Cosmo. Space
Exploration and Soviet Culture ---
edited by James T. Andrew and Asif A.
Siddiqi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Helmut Muller-Sievers Reviews: \booktitleThe Romantic Machine.
Utopian Science and Technology after
Napoleon --- by John Tresch . . . . . . 50--52
Elisa Romano Reviews: \booktitleWhat Did the Romans
Know? An Inquiry into Science and
Worldmaking --- by Daryn Lehoux . . . . 52--54
Claudia Kemper Reviews: \booktitleThe Pontecorvo
Affair: a Cold War Defection and Nuclear
Physics --- by Simone Turchetti . . . . 54--56
Pietro D. Omodeo Reviews: \booktitleThe Copernican
Question: Prognostication, Skepticism,
and Celestial Order --- by Robert S.
Westman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
David Freis Reviews: \booktitleFrom Melancholia to
Prozac: a History of Depression ---
Clark Lawlor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Miguel Garcia-Sancho Reviews: \booktitleThe Cybernetic Brain:
Sketches of Another Future --- by Andrew
Pickering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Claude Debru Neuenschwander Lecture, ESHS 2012:
Postwar Science in Divided Europe: a
Continuing Cooperation . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Anonymous Fifth International Conference of the
ESHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Christine von Oertzen and
Maria Rentetzi and
Elizabeth S. Watkins Finding Science in Surprising Places:
Gender and the Geography of Scientific
Knowledge. Introduction to `Beyond the
Academy: Histories of Gender and
Knowledge' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
Elaine Leong Collecting Knowledge for the Family:
Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge
in the Early Modern English Household 81--103
Carla Bittel Woman, Know Thyself: Producing and Using
Phrenological Knowledge in 19th-Century
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--130
Kirsten Leng An `Elusive' Phenomenon: Feminism,
Sexology and the Female Sex Drive in
Germany at the Turn of the 20th Century 131--152
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's
Role in Reframing North American
Museums, 1880--1930 . . . . . . . . . . 153--174
Christine von Oertzen Science in the Cradle: Milicent Shinn
and Her Home-Based Network of Baby
Observers, 1890--1910 . . . . . . . . . 175--195
Gianna Pomata Amateurs by Choice: Women and the
Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in
20th Century Historical Writing . . . . 196--219
Matthias Heymann and
Janet Martin-Nielsen Introduction: Perspectives on Cold War
Science in Small European States . . . . 221--242
Peder Roberts Intelligence and Internationalism: The
Cold War Career of Anton Bruun . . . . . 243--263
Friso Hoeneveld and
Jeroen van Dongen Out of a Clear Blue Sky? FOM, The Bomb,
and The Boost in Dutch Physics Funding
after World War II . . . . . . . . . . . 264--293
Nikolaj Petersen The Politics of US Military Research in
Greenland in the Early Cold War . . . . 294--318
Henry Nielsen and
Henrik Knudsen Too Hot to Handle: The Controversial
Hunt for Uranium in Greenland in the
Early Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--343
D. J. Kinney Selling Greenland: The Big Picture
Television Series and the Army's Bid for
Relevance during the Early Cold War . . 344--357
Anonymous The European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Manolis Patiniotis Between the Local and the Global:
History of Science in the European
Periphery Meets Post-Colonial Studies 361--384
Laura E. Turner and
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Cultivating the Herb Garden of
Scandinavian Mathematics: The Congresses
of Scandinavian Mathematicians,
1909--1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--411
Roger D. Launius The Strange Career of the American
Spaceplane: The Long History of Wings
and Wheels in Human Space Operations . . 412--432
Mary Jo Nye Reviews: \booktitleIs Water H$_2$O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism --- by
Hasok Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
Niall Hodson Reviews: \booktitleCommunities of
Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine
in the Renaissance --- by Nancy G.
Siraisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Megan Raby Reviews: \booktitleOrdering Life: Karl
Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition ---
by Kristin Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Raz Chen-Morris Reviews: \booktitleA History of Optics
from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth
Century --- by Olivier Darrigol . . . . 438--439
Sophie Brockmann Reviews: \booktitleVisible Empire:
Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture
in the Spanish Enlightenment --- by
Daniela Bleichmar . . . . . . . . . . . 439--441
Jonathan Simon Reviews: \booktitleThe Savant and the
State: Science and Cultural Politics in
Nineteenth-Century France --- Robert Fox 441--443
David Sepkoski Reviews: \booktitleTrees of Life: A
Visual History of Evolution --- Theodore
W. Pietsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Christian Marchetti Reviews: \booktitleThe Nationalization
of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg
Empire 1848--1918 --- edited by Mitchell
G. Ash and Jan Surman . . . . . . . . . 444--446
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science: 6th International Conference of
the ESHS ``Communicating Science,
Technology And Medicine'' Lisbon, 4--6
September 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Kim G. Helsvig The Abel Prize: The Missing Nobel in
Mathematics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--30
Steffen Ducheyne `s Gravesande's Appropriation of
Newton's Natural Philosophy, Part I:
Epistemological and Theological Issues 31--55
Koen Vermeir Reviews: \booktitleArt and Science in
the Early Modern Netherlands --- edited
by Eric Jorink and Bart Ramakers . . . . 56--57
Helge Kragh Reviews: \booktitleTraditions and
Transformations in the History of
Quantum Physics --- edited by Shaul
Katzir, Christoph Lehner, and Jürgen Renn 58--59
Nuria Valverde Pérez Reviews: \booktitleEating the
Enlightenment. Food and the Sciences in
Paris, 1670-1760 --- by Emma C. Spary 59--61
Tirthankar Roy Reviews: \booktitleScience between
Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on
the Transmission, Adoption and
Adaptation of Knowledge --- edited by
Feza Günergun and Dhruv Raina . . . . . . 61--62
Charles T. Wolfe Reviews: \booktitlePenser L'Ordre
Naturel, 1680--1810 --- edited by Adrien
Paschoud and Nathalie Vuillemin . . . . 62--65
Staffan Müller-Wille Reviews: \booktitleAcolytes of NATURE:
Defining natural SCIENCE in Germany,
1770--1850 --- by Denise Phillips . . . 65--67
Barbara Tramelli Reviews: \booktitleInfluences: Art,
Optics and Astrology in the Italian
Renaissance --- by Mary Quinlan-McGrath 67--68
E. R. Truitt Reviews: \booktitleAndroids in the
Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and
Cultures of the Self --- by Adelheid
Voskuhl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
Pieter Dhondt Honorary Doctoral Degrees as Expressions
of Political and Cultural Relationships
at Nordic University Jubilees
(1840--1911) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--96
Steffen Ducheyne 's Gravesande's Appropriation of
Newton's Natural Philosophy, Part II:
Methodological Issues . . . . . . . . . 97--120
Ivo Schneider Reviews: \booktitleBaroque Science ---
by Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris . . . . 121--123
Peder Anker Reviews: \booktitleThe Gaia Hypothesis:
Science on a Pagan Planet --- by Michael
Ruse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Andrea Westermann Reviews: \booktitleThe Earthquake
Observers. Disaster Science from Lisbon
to Richter --- by Deborah R. Coen . . . 124--126
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra Reviews: \booktitleShores of Knowledge:
New World Discoveries and the Scientific
Imagination --- by Joyce Appleby . . . . 126--128
Aviva Rothman Reviews: \booktitleKepler's Cosmological
Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the
Soul --- by Patrick J. Boner . . . . . . 128--129
Jonathan Reinarz Reviews: \booktitleStudies of Skin Color
in the Early Royal Society --- by
Cristina Malcolmson . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Deborah Elise White Reviews: \booktitleWorm Work: Recasting
Romanticism --- by Janelle A. Schwarz 131--133
Mary Orr New Observations on a Geological Hotspot
Track: Excursions in Madeira and Porto
Santo (1825) by Mrs T. Edward Bowdich 135--166
Pedro M. P. Raposo and
Ana Simões and
Manolis Patiniotis and
José R. Bertomeu-Sánchez Moving Localities and Creative
Circulation: Travels as Knowledge
Production in 18th-Century Europe . . . 167--188
Sarah Hutton Reviews: \booktitleSeduced by Logic:
Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and
the Newtonian Revolution --- by Robyn
Arianrhod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Lissa Roberts Reviews: \booktitleMatter and Method in
the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of
Another Order --- by Victor Boantza . . 190--192
Laurent Loison Reviews: \booktitleOutsider Scientists:
Routes to Innovation in Biology ---
Edited by Oran Harman and Michael R.
Dietrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Michael Page Reviews: \booktitleNovel Science:
Fiction and the Invention of
Nineteenth-Century Geology --- by
Adelene Buckland . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
József Illy Reviews: \booktitleEinstein's Berlin: In
the Footsteps of a Genius --- by Dieter
Hoffmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
Matthias Heymann Reviews: \booktitleScience, Geopolitics
and Culture in the Polar Region. Norden
Beyond Borders --- Edited by Sverker
Sörlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Adrian C. Brock Reviews: \booktitleThe Sciences of the
Soul: The Early Modern Origins of
Psychology --- by Fernando Vidal . . . . 198--200
Robert-Jan Wille Reviews: \booktitleScientists and
Scholars in the Field. Studies in the
History of Fieldwork and Expeditions ---
by Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael
Harbsmeier and Christopher J. Ries . . . 200--201
Anonymous Foreword: Contemporary Russian
Scholarship on the History of Science in
Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Dimitri A. Bayuk History of Science in Russia: The IIET
in Moscow and St. Petersburg . . . . . . 205--228
Marina Loskutova Early Research on Insect Pests in the
Russian Empire: Bureaucracy, Academic
Community and Local Knowledge in the
1830s--1840s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--253
Anastasia Fedotova Forestry Experimental Stations: Russian
Proposals of the 1870s . . . . . . . . . 254--274
Galina Krivosheina Long Way to the Anthropological
Exhibition: The Institutionalization of
Physical Anthropology in Russia . . . . 275--304
Olga Elina Between Local Practices and Global
Knowledge: Public Initiatives in the
Development of Agricultural Science in
Russia in the 19th Century and Early
20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--329
Eduard I. Kolchinsky Nikolai Vavilov in the years of Stalin's
`Revolution from Above' (1929--1932) . . 330--358
Maria Do Mar Gago Things of Darkness: Genetics, Melanins
and the Regime of Salazar (1936--1952) 1--27
E. C. Spary Reviews: \booktitleCatching Nature in
the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of
Natural History in the Eighteenth
Century --- by Mary Terrall . . . . . . 28--29
Kaat Wils Reviews: \booktitleFor Better or For
Worse? Collaborative Couples in the
Sciences --- edited by Annette Lykknes,
Donald L. Opitz and Brigitte Van
Tiggelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
Matthias Heymann Reviews: \booktitleHow Reason almost
Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of
Cold War Rationality --- by Paul
Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine
Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm and
Michael D. Gordin . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Maria Rentetzi Reviews: \booktitleWomen Scientists in
America: Forging a New World since 1972
--- by Margaret W. Rossiter . . . . . . 33--35
Christian Reiß Reviews: \booktitleEmil du Bois-Reymond:
Neuroscience, Self and Society in
Nineteenth Century Germany --- by
Gabriel Finkelstein . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Jürgen Renn Neuenschwander Lecture, ESHS 2014: From
the History of Science to the History of
Knowledge --- and Back . . . . . . . . . 37--53
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Christopher A. J. Chilvers Five Tourniquets and a Ship's Bell: The
Special Session at the 1931 Congress . . 61--95
Geoffrey Blumenthal Astrology and Copernicus's Early
Experiences in the World of Renaissance
Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--115
Hermione Giffard Reviews: \booktitleEngineers and the
Making of the Francoist Regime --- by
Lino Camprubí . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Jonathan Simon Reviews: \booktitleThe Limits of Matter:
Chemistry, Mining and Enlightenment ---
by Hjalmar Fors . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Carsten Timmermann Reviews: \booktitleGeneric: The
Unbranding of Modern Medicine --- by
Jeremy A. Greene . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Aviva Rothman Reviews: \booktitleGalileo's Idol:
Gianfrancesco Sagredo & the Politics of
Knowledge --- by Nick Wilding . . . . . 120--122
Tim Fulford Reviews: \booktitleMary Somerville and
the World of Science --- by Allan
Chapman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Leon Antonio Rocha Reviews: \booktitleThe Classification of
Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization
of Knowledge --- by Donna J. Drucker . . 123--125
Rina Knoeff Reviews: \booktitleCommercial Visions:
Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the
Dutch Golden Age --- by Dániel Margócsy 125--126
Matthias Schemmel Reviews: \booktitleFrom Sight to Light:
The Passage from Ancient to Modern
Optics --- by A. Mark Smith . . . . . . 126--128
Koen Vermeir Introduction: Preface: Electricity and
Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Koen Vermeir Electricity and Imagination:
Post-romantic Electrified Experience and
the Gendered Body. An Introduction . . . 131--155
Paul Gilmore John Neal's Lightning Imagination:
Electricity against Romantic Organicism 156--172
Iwan Rhys Morus No Mere Dream: Material Culture and
Electrical Imagination in Late Victorian
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--191
Ulf Otto Enter Electricity: An Allegory's Stage
Appearance between Verité and Varieté . . 192--211
Sam Halliday Electricity and Homosexuality: from
19th-century American Sexual Health
Literature to D. H. Lawrence . . . . . . 212--228
Sebestian Kroupa \em Ex epistulis Philippinensibus: Georg
Joseph Kamel SJ (1661--1706) and His
Correspondence Network . . . . . . . . . 229--259
Roberto Lalli Reviews: \booktitleHeisenberg in the
Atomic Age: Science and the Public
Sphere --- by Cathryn Carson . . . . . . 260--261
Stephen Pemberton Reviews: \booktitleThe Genealogy of a
Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race --- by
Myles W. Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--263
Brendan Dooley Reviews: \booktitleThe Crown and the
Cosmos. Astrology and the Politics of
Maximilian I --- by Darin Hayton . . . . 263--265
Alina Marktanner Reviews: \booktitleSeeing Like a Rover.
How Robots, Teams and Images Craft
Knowledge of Mars --- by Janet Vertesi 265--266
Jane Murphy Reviews: \booktitleLearned Patriots:
Debating Science, State, and Society in
the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire --- by
Alper Yalçìnkaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
Gabriel Henderson Reviews: \booktitleMasters of
Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the
Quest for Ground Truth --- by Phaedra
Daipha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Emma Perkins Reviews: \booktitleScientific
Instruments on Display --- by Silke
Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara
Miniati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--271
Raffaele Pisano Reviews: \booktitleTunnel Visions: The
Rise and Fall of the Superconducting
Super Collider --- by Michael Riordan,
Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne W. Kolb 271--273
Marius Turda Reviews: \booktitleUrologie und
Nationalsozialismus. Eine Studie zu
Medizin und Politik als Ressourcen
füreinander --- by Matthis Krischel . . . 273--274
Kate Kangaslahti Reviews: \booktitleWorld's Fairs on the
Eve of War: Science, Technology and
Modernity, 1937--1942 --- by Robert H.
Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low and
Arthur P. Molella . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Klaus Hentschel Reviews: \booktitleServing the Reich:
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics
under Hitler --- by Philip Ball . . . . 276--277
Karine Chemla Presidential Address ESHS 2014: Proof,
Generality and the Prescription of
Mathematical Action: A Nanohistorical
Approach to Communication . . . . . . . 278--300
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
Matthieu Husson and
Richard L. Kremer Introduction: How do Writings in the
Early Astral Sciences Reveal
Mathematical Practices and
Practitioners? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Seb Falk Learning Medieval Astronomy through
Tables: The Case of the Equatorie of the
Planetis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--25
Liang Li Template Tables and Computational
Practices in Early Modern Chinese
Calendric Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 26--45
Matthieu Husson Exploring the Temporality of Complex
Computational Practice: Two Eclipse
Notes by John of Murs in the ms Escorial
O II 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--65
Sho Hirose Two Versions of a Description of the
Armillary Sphere in Parame'svara's
\booktitleGoladipika . . . . . . . . . . 66--86
Daniel Patrick Morgan Sphere Confusion: A Textual
Reconstruction of Astronomical
Instruments and Observational Practice
in First-millennium CE China . . . . . . 87--103
Richard L. Kremer Playing with Geometrical Tools: Johannes
Stabius's Astrolabium imperatorium
(1515) and Its Successors . . . . . . . 104--134
Oliver Hochadel and
Miquel Carandell Baruzzi and
Clara Florensa Introduction: Scuffles, Scoops and
Scams: The Construction of Prehistoric
Knowledge in Newspapers . . . . . . . . 135--147
Maddalena Cataldi Inventing the Menton Man. Rivi\`ere's
Discovery as Reflected in the French
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--165
Irina Podgorny The Daily Press Fashions a Heroic
Intellectual: The Making of Florentino
Ameghino in Late Nineteenth-Century
Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--184
Laura Valls Plana A Mammoth in the Park: Palaeontology,
Press and Popular Culture in Barcelona
(1870--1910) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202
Oliver Hochadel One Skull and Many Headlines: The Role
of the Press in the Steinau Hoax of 1911 203--218
Clara Florensa `Darwin was Wrong.' The International
Media Coverage of the Oreopithecus '
Reinterpretation (1956--1959) . . . . . 219--238
Miquel Carandell Baruzzi The First American Scoop: The Pedra
Furada Controversy in Newspapers
(1978--2015) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
Kari Tove Elvbakken and
Annette Lykknes Relationships between Academia, State
and Industry in the Field of Food and
Nutrition: The Norwegian Chemist Sigval
Schmidt-Nielsen (1877--1956) and His
Professional Roles, 1900--1950 . . . . . 257--280
Daniele Cozzoli Ethno-biology during the Cold War:
Biocca's Expedition to Amazonia . . . . 281--309
Laurent Loison Reviews: \booktitleThe Life Organic, The
Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots
of Epigenetics --- by Erik L. Peterson 310--311
Sokhieng Au Reviews: \booktitleOld Age, New Science:
Gerontologists and Their Biosocial
Visions, 1900--1960 --- by Hyung W. Park 311--313
Cyrus C. M. Mody Reviews: \booktitleA Companion to the
History of American Science --- by
Georgina M. Montgomery and Mark A.
Largent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
Charles Thorpe Reviews: \booktitleThe Hope and Vision
of J. Robert Oppenheimer --- by Michael
A. Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Oliver Hochadel Reviews: \booktitleA Companion to the
History of Science, Blackwell Companions
to World History--- by Bernard Lightman 316--318
Abraham C. Flipse Reviews: \booktitleThe Territories of
Science and Religion--- by Peter
Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320
Per Pippin Aspaas Reviews: \booktitleJesuit Science and
the End of Nature's Secrets--- by Mark
A. Waddell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--322
Renzo Baldasso Reviews: \booktitleVisual Cultures in
Science and Technology. A Comparative
History--- by Klaus Hentschel . . . . . 322--324
Philippe Fontaine Reviews: \booktitleRational Action: The
Sciences of Policy in Britain and
America, 1940--1960--- by William Thomas 324--326
Massimiliano Badino Young Scholar Lecture ESHS 2016: What
Have the Historians of Quantum Physics
Ever Done for Us? . . . . . . . . . . . 327--346
Anonymous European Society for the History of
Science: New Feature: Now History of
Science in Romania . . . . . . . . . . . 347--352
Matthias Heymann 1970s: Turn of an Era in the History of
Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Rüdiger Graf Détente Science? Transformations of
Knowledge and Expertise in the 1970s . . 10--25
Michael Egan Survival Science: Crisis Disciplines and
the Shock of the Environment in the
1970s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--39
Elke Seefried Globalized Science. The 1970s Futures
Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--57
Cyrus C. M. Mody Square Scientists and the Excluded
Middle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--71
Mark Thomas Young Nature as Spectacle; Experience and
Empiricism in Early Modern Experimental
Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--96
Nathaniel Knight Geography, Race and the Malleability of
Man: Karl von Baer and the Problem of
Academic Particularism in the Russian
Human Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Maarten Couttenier `With the Risk of Being Called
Retrograde'. Racial Classifications and
the Attack on the Aryan Myth by
Jean-Baptiste d'Omalius d'Halloy
(1783--1875) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--151
Dániel Margócsy Book Review: \booktitleMedieval Robots:
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art --- by
E. R. Truitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Jonathan Reinarz Book Review: \booktitleRise of the
Modern Hospital: An Architectural
History of Health and Healing,
1870--1940 --- by J. Kisacky . . . . . . 153--155
Robert G. W. Anderson Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Chemistry. A Very Short Introduction ---
by W. H. Brock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Sven Widmalm Book Review: \booktitleScience without
Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National
Interests in the World of Learning,
1870--1940 --- by R. Fox . . . . . . . . 156--157
Lino Camprubi Book Review: \booktitleEngineering the
Environment. Phytotrons and the Quest
for Climate Control in the Cold War ---
by D. P. Munns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Anonymous Israel and Europe. Building Bridges via
the History of Science . . . . . . . . . 160--165
Annette Mülberger and
Jaume Navarro The promises of science. Historical
perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
Jaume Navarro Promising redemption. Science at the
service of secular and religious agendas 173--188
Thomas Mormann Scientific worldviews as promises of
science and problems of philosophy of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--203
Annette Mülberger The persuasive rhetoric of a manifesto
(1870): Ribot's promise of an
``independent'' psychological science 204--222
Shaul Katzir ``In war or in peace:'' The
technological promise of science
following the First World War . . . . . 223--237
Peter J. Bowler The promise of science in early
20th-century popular literature . . . . 238--250
Alexandre Guilbaud and
Christophe Schmit A historiographical overview of the
current state of research into Jean Le
Rond D'Alembert (1717--1783) . . . . . . 251--262
Françoise Launay From Jean Le Rond to D'Alembert: a route
enlightened by new archival data . . . . 263--273
Ir\`ene Passeron How to read D'Alembert's correspondence? 274--284
Christophe Schmit Beginnings of a new science.
D'Alembert's \booktitleTraité de
dynamique and the French Royal Academy
of Sciences around 1740 . . . . . . . . 285--299
Guillame Jouve The first works of D'Alembert and Euler
about the problem of vibrating strings
from the perspective of their
correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--307
Fabrice Ferlin New insights into major theoretical
research in optics in the Age of
Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--319
Alexandre Guilbaud D'Alembert's contribution to the
\booktitleEncyclopédie: A review of
research on the inventory of his
articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--328
Dagmar Comtesse and
Moritz Epple Between appropriation and rejection:
Translating D'Alembert into German, and
D'Alembert on translation . . . . . . . 329--341
Koen Vermeir Celebrating 15 years of the European
Society for the History of Science . . . 1--2
Marcin Krasnodebski Throwing light on photonics: The
genealogy of a technological paradigm 3--24
Laurent Mazliak The beginnings of the Soviet
encyclopedia. The utopia and misery of
mathematics in the political turmoil of
the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
Silvia Fernanda de M. Figueirôa A French author in a Brazilian library:
Nerée Boubée (1806--1862) and his
textbooks on geological sciences . . . . 52--68
Yiwen Zhu How were Western written calculations
introduced into China? --- An analysis
of the \booktitleTongwen suanzhi
(Arithmetic Guidance in the Common
Language, 1613) . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86
Elaine Leong Read. Do. Observe. Take note! . . . . . 87--103
Koen Vermeir and
Claude Debru and
Robert Fox and
Eberhard Knobloch and
Helge Kragh and
Sona Strbánová and
Fabio Bevilacqua and
Karine Chemla and
Antoni Malet Fifteen years of the history of science
in Europe: Personal reflections by the
ESHS presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--123
Laurent Loison The gene: From genetics to postgenomics 124--125
Maarten Van Dyck Kuhn's structures of scientific
revolutions at fifty. Reflections on a
science classic . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Joeri Bruyninckx The age of electroacoustics:
Transforming science and sound . . . . . 128--130
Vanessa Heggie Science in an extreme environment: The
1963 American Mount Everest expedition 130--131
Harry Oosterhuis Sexual politics and feminist science:
Women sexologists in Germany 1900--1933 131--133
Antonio Sánchez and
Henrique Leitão Artisanal culture in early modern
Iberian and Atlantic worlds . . . . . . 135--140
William Eamon Corn, cochineal, and quina: The ``Zilsel
Thesis'' in a colonial Iberian setting 141--158
Paula De Vos Rosewater and Philosophers' Oil:
Thermo-chemical processing in medieval
and early modern Spanish pharmacy . . . 159--172
Antonio Sánchez Charts for an empire. A global trading
zone in early modern Portuguese nautical
cartography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188
Henrique Leitão Instruments and artisanal practices in
long distance oceanic voyages . . . . . 189--202
Edward Collins Interactions of Portuguese artisanal
culture in the maritime enterprise of
16th-century Seville . . . . . . . . . . 203--215
Bruno Almeida Transmitting nautical and cosmographical
knowledge in the 16th and 17th
centuries: The case of Pedro Nunes . . . 216--229
Anonymous The ESHS Officers and the Scientific
Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Marianne Klemun and
Marina Loskutova and
Anastasia Fedotova Skulls and blossoms: Collecting and the
meaning of scientific objects as
resources from the 18th to the 20th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
Maddalena Napolitani ``Born with the taste for science and
the arts'': The science and the
aesthetics of Balthazar-Georges Sage's
mineralogy collections, 1783--1825 . . . 238--256
Olga Elina A passion for plants: Collections and
power games in botany in the Russian
Empire from the 18th to the early 19th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--275
Erki Tammiksaar and
Ken Kalling ``I was stealing some skulls from the
bone chamber when a bigamist cleric
stopped me.'' Karl Ernst von Baer and
the development of physical anthropology
in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--293
Nadezhda V. Slepkova and
Tatiana I. Yusupova The Zoological Museum of the St.
Petersburg Academy of Sciences,
1860s--1910: From an academic institute
to a public museum . . . . . . . . . . . 294--314
Anastasia Fedotova and
Tomasz Samojlik and
Piotr Daszkiewicz Killing for museums: European bison as a
museum exhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--332
Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen The rise and fall of the Belgian
Forestry Museum and Geographic Arboretum
(1900--1980): A political origin and a
winning opportunity for science? . . . . 333--349
Koen Vermeir Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jaume Sastre-Juan and
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez Fun and fear: The banalization of
nuclear technologies through display . . 2--13
Alison Boyle ``Banishing the atom pile bogy'':
Exhibiting Britain's first nuclear
reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--32
Jaume Sastre-Juan ``If You Tilt This Game, Will It
Explode?'': The politics of nuclear
display at the New York Hall of Science
(1966--1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
Tatiana Kasperski Children, nation and reactors: Imagining
and promoting nuclear power in
contemporary Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . 51--69
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez and
Ana Macaya-Andrés Making fun of the atom: Humor and
pleasant forms of anti-nuclear
resistance in the Iberian Peninsula,
1974--1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--90
C. Philipp E. Nothaft An Alfonsine universe: Nicol\`o Conti
and Georg Peurbach on the threefold
motion of the fixed stars . . . . . . . 91--110
Antoni Malet Science and power: Francoist Spain
(1939--1975) as a case study . . . . . . 111--132
Christophe Lécuyer Book Review: \booktitleModels of
innovation: The history of an idea, by
Beno\^\it Godin, Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2017, 344 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
José Carlos Loredo-Narciandi Book Review: \booktitleDetrás de la
cortina. El sexo en España (1790--1950),
by Jean Louis Guereña, Madrid: Cátedra
2018, 630 p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Annick Horiuchi Book Review: \booktitleMaking Time:
Astronomical Time Measurement in
Tokugawa Japan, by Yulia Frumer,
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 2018, 272 p. . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Jonathan Regier and
Koen Vermeir Introduction: History of early astronomy
in \booktitleCentaurus . . . . . . . . . 139--142
István Rév Neither objective nor subjective . . . . 143--152
Georgi Georgiev Cold War atmosphere: Distorted
information and facts in the case of
Free Europe balloons . . . . . . . . . . 153--177
Ruxandra Petrinca Radio waves, memories, and the politics
of everyday life in socialist Romania:
The case of Radio Free Europe . . . . . 178--199
Joanna Walewska-Choptiany Listening through the Iron Curtain: RFE
and Polish Radio in the ``fog of war'' 200--231
Jan Surman Terminology between chemistry and
philology: A Polish interdisciplinary
debate in 1900? . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--253
Ana Simões Looking back, stepping forward:
Reflections on the sciences in Europe 254--267
Antonio Sánchez Practical knowledge and empire in the
early modern Iberian world. Towards an
artisanal turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--281
M\`onica Balltondre Pla Book Review: García, Dauder, S., Sedeño,
Eulalia Pérez. \booktitleLas ``mentiras''
científicas sobre las mujeres [Scientific
``lies'' about women]. Editorial
Catarata, Madrid, 2017, 256 pp. . . . . 282--284
Montserrat Cañedo-Rodríguez Book Review: Edited by Oliver Hochadel,
Agustín Nieto-Galán. \booktitleUrban
histories of science. Making knowledge
in the city, 1820--1940. Abingdon:
Routledge, 2019, 252 pp. . . . . . . . . 284--285
Annette Lykknes and
Brigitte Van Tiggelen The periodic system: The (multiple)
values of an icon . . . . . . . . . . . 287--298
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Reconceptualizing chemical elements
through the construction of the periodic
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
Chris Campbell The periodic table as an icon: A
perspective from the philosophy of
Charles Sanders Peirce . . . . . . . . . 311--328
Helge Kragh The periodic system and the idea of a
chemical element: From Mendeleev to
superheavy elements . . . . . . . . . . 329--344
Brigitte Van Tiggelen and
Annette Lykknes A tale of resilience: The periodic table
after radioactivity and the discovery of
the neutron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--359
Ann E. Robinson Chemical pedagogy and the periodic
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--378
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen The periodic tableau: Form and colours
in the first 100 years . . . . . . . . . 379--404
Karoliina Pulkkinen Values and periodicity: Mendeleev's
reception of the equations of Mills,
Chicherin, and Vincent . . . . . . . . . 405--423
Robert Fox Savants and diplomats: The politics of
commemoration at the Berthelot
centenary, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--442
Enrico Giannetto Book Review: Raphael,Renée [Jennifer].
\booktitleReading Galileo: Scribal
technologies and the two new sciences.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2017, xii + 265 pp. ISBN:
978-1-4214-2177-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Lukas Rieppel Book Review: Adrian Currie.
\booktitleRock, bone, and ruin: An
optimist's guide to the historical
sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Life
and mind: Philosophical issues in
biology and psychology, 2018, 376 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-262-03726-6 . . . . . . . . 444--446
Davide Cellamare Book Review: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle.
\booktitleCultural anatomies of the
heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas,
Calvin, and Harvey. Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xxvii + 171
pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-93652-9 . . . . . . 446--448
Olivier Darrigol Book Review: Helge Kragh.
\booktitleLudvig Lorenz: A
nineteenth-century theoretical
physicist. Copenhagen, Denmark: Det
kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab,
2018, 280 pp. ISBN 978-87-7304-417-9 . . 448--449
Lucio Mare Book Review: Edited by Andrault,
Raphaële, Lærke, Mogens. \booktitleSteno
and the philosophers. Leiden, The
Netherlands: Brill. Brill's Studies in
Intellectual History, 2018, xii + 291
pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-36064-8 . . . . . . 449--451
Scott A. Walter Book Review: Roberto Lalli.
\booktitleBuilding the general
relativity and gravitation community
during the Cold War. Cham, Switzerland:
Springer. Springer Briefs in History of
Science and Technology, 2017, xiv + 168
pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-54654-4 . . . . . . 451--453
Helge Kragh Book Review: Volny Fages.
\booktitleSavantes nébuleuses: L'origine
du monde entre marginalité et autorité
scientifique (1860--1920). Paris,
France: Editions EHESS, 2018, 362 pp.
ISBN: 978-2-7132-2726-4 . . . . . . . . 453--455
Alexander S. Blum Book Review: Hentschel, Klaus.
\booktitlePhotons: The history and
mental models of light quanta.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
International Publishing, 2018, xiii +
231 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-95251-2 . . . . 455--456
Koen Vermeir What about editors? . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Aileen Fyfe and
Anna Gielas Introduction: Editorship and the editing
of scientific journals, 1750--1950 . . . 5--20
Noah Moxham ``Accoucheur of literature'': Joseph
Banks and the \booktitlePhilosophical
Transactions, 1778--1820 . . . . . . . . 21--37
Anna Gielas Turning tradition into an instrument of
research: The editorship of William
Nicholson (1753--1815) . . . . . . . . . 38--53
Alexander Stoeger Putting astronomy on the map: The launch
of the first geographical-astronomical
journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--68
Bill Jenkins Commercial scientific journals and their
editors in Edinburgh, 1819--1832 . . . . 69--81
Joris Vandendriessche Turning journals into encyclopaedias:
Medical editorship and reprinting in the
Low Countries (1815--1860) . . . . . . . 82--97
Jenny Beckman Editors, librarians, and publication
exchange: The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences in the long 19th century . . . 98--110
Melinda Baldwin The business of being an editor: Norman
Lockyer, Macmillan and Company, and the
editorship of \booktitleNature,
1869--1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Aileen Fyfe Editors, referees, and committees:
Distributing editorial work at the Royal
Society journals in the late 19th and
20th centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--140
Christián C. Carman Vestiges of the emergence of
overspecification and indifference to
visual accuracy in the mathematical
diagrams of medieval manuscripts . . . . 141--157
Ilana Wartenberg A non-linear transmission of Euclid's
\booktitleElements in a medieval Hebrew
calendrical treatise . . . . . . . . . . 158--180
Ofer Elior What did medieval readers take to be
``Al-\dHajjaj's version'' of Euclid's
\booktitleElements? The evidence of MS
Paris, BnF, héb. 1011 . . . . . . . . . . 181--197
Koen Vermeir \booktitleCentaurus at 70: Editors'
perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--205
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: Edited by Christoph Lüthy,
Claudia Swan, Paul J. J. M. Bakker,
Claus Zittel. \booktitleImage,
imagination, and cognition: Medieval and
Early Modern theory and practice.
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Intersections 55, 2018. xvi + 324 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-36574-2 . . . . . . . . 206--208
Eric Chaney Book Review: Edited by Sonja Brentjes.
\booktitleTeaching and learning the
sciences in Islamicate societies
(800--1700). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols
Publishers, Studies on the Faculty of
Arts, History and Influence 3, 2019, 334
pp. ISBN 978-2-503-57445-5 . . . . . . . 208--209
Sorana Corneanu Book Review: Marr, Alexander, Garrod,
Raphaële, Ramón Marcaida, José, Oosterhoff,
Richard J.. \booktitleLogodaedalus: word
histories of ingenuity in Early Modern
Europe. Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2018, xviii + 358 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4541-3 . . . . . . . . 209--211
Angela Axworthy Book Review: Oosterhoff, Richard J..
\booktitleMaking mathematical culture:
University and print in the circle of
Lef\`evre d'Étaples. Oxford, United
Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2018,
xiv + 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-882352-0 211--213
Kim M. Hajek Book Review: Le Bras, Anatole.
\booktitleUn enfant \`a l'asile. Vie de
Paul Taesch (1874--1914). Paris, France:
CNRS Editions, 2018, 298 pp. ISBN:
978-2-271-11500-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
Joris Vandendriessche Book Review: Csiszar, Alex.
\booktitleThe scientific journal:
Authorship and the politics of knowledge
in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, IL:
Chicago University Press, 2018, 368 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-226-55337-5 . . . . . . . . 216--217
Ovidiu Babes Book Review: George Andrei Iavorenciuc.
\booktitleCunoastere si occidentalizare:
O istorie a stiintei românesti de la
jumatatea secolului XIX pâna la
\^\inceputul secolului XX. Cluj-Napoca,
Romania: Editura Mega, 2018, 494 pp.
ISBN: 978-606-543-951-1 . . . . . . . . 218--218
Koen Vermeir Editorial: Doing history in the time of
COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
Erica Charters and
Richard A. McKay The history of science and medicine in
the context of COVID-19 . . . . . . . . 223--233
Monica H. Green Emerging diseases, re-emerging histories 234--247
P. Wenzel Geissler and
Ruth J. Prince Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during
the first weeks of COVID-19 in western
Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--256
Angela Ki Che Leung Chinese state and society in epidemic
governance: a historical perspective . . 257--262
John Henderson The invisible enemy: Fighting the plague
in early modern Italy . . . . . . . . . 263--274
Kristin Heitman Authority, autonomy and the first London
Bills of Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
Nükhet Varlik Rethinking the history of plague in the
time of COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
Margaret Pelling ``Bosom vipers'': Endemic versus
epidemic disease . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--301
Beno\^\it Pouget Book Review: \booktitleQuarantine,
cholera, and international health
spaces: Reflections on 19th-century
European sanitary regulations in the
time of SARS-CoV-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 302--310
Frédéric Keck Asian tigers and the Chinese dragon:
Competition and collaboration between
sentinels of pandemics from SARS to
COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--320
Flavio D'Abramo and
Sybille Neumeyer A historical and political epistemology
of microbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--330
Brian Dolan It wasn't supposed to be a coronavirus:
The quest for an influenza
A(H5N1)-derived vaccine and the limits
of pandemic preparedness . . . . . . . . 331--343
Florence Bretelle-Establet Science, demons, and gods in the battle
against the COVID-19 epidemic . . . . . 344--353
Anne-Emanuelle Birn How to have narrative-flipping history
in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--369
David S. Jones COVID-19, history, and humility . . . . 370--380
Doina-Cristina Rusu and
Dana Jalobeanu Giovan Battista Della Porta and Francis
Bacon on the creative power of
experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--392
Doina-Cristina Rusu Using instruments in the study of
animate beings: Della Porta's and
Bacon's experiments with plants . . . . 393--405
Arianna Borrelli Giovan Battista Della Porta's
construction of pneumatic phenomena and
his use of recipes as heuristic tools 406--424
Dana Jalobeanu Enacting recipes: Giovan Battista Della
Porta and Francis Bacon on technologies,
experiments, and processes of nature . . 425--446
Cesare Pastorino Beyond recipes: The Baconian natural and
experimental histories as an epistemic
genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--464
Adam Morawiec Book Review: \booktitleItinerarium
Wittichi ex Calendarium Sculteti: New
biographical evidence on the Breslau
mathematician Paul Wittich (ca.
1546--ca. 1587) . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
Alexis Lycas The Patterned Guidelines of Shazhou
(Shazhou tujing) and geographical
practices in Tang China . . . . . . . . 479--497
E. C. Spary Publishing virtue: Medical
entrepreneurship and reputation in the
Republic of Letters . . . . . . . . . . 498--521
Cindy Hodoba Eric Artificial apertures: The archaeology of
Ramazzini's \booktitleDe fontium in
17th-century Earth historiography . . . 522--541
Dana Jalobeanu and
Oana Matei Treating plants as laboratories: A
chemical natural history of vegetation
in 17th-century England . . . . . . . . 542--561
Chris Manias Dinosaur Histories . . . . . . . . . . . 562--565
Doubravka Olsáková Book Review: John Krige, \booktitleHow
knowledge moves. Writing the
transnational history of science and
technology. Chicago, IL: The University
of Chicago Press, 2019, 408 pp.,
paperback. ISBN: 978-0-226-60599-9 . . . 566--567
Carl Antonius Lemke Duque Book Review: Jan Jakub, \booktitleSurman
Universities in Imperial Austria
1848--1918. A social history of a
multilingual space. West Lafayette, IN:
Purdue University Press, 2019, 460 pp.,
\$49.95, ISBN: 978-1-55753-837-6} . . . 567--570
María M. Portuondo Book Review: \booktitleYdea astronomica
de la fabrica del mundo y movimiento de
los cuerpos celestiales. Cedillo Díaz,
Juan Miguel Angel Granada Félix Gómez
Crespo Barcelona, Spain: Unversitat de
Barcelona, 2019, 484 pp. ISBN:
978-84-9168-164-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 570--571
Pratik Chakrabarti Book Review: Suman, Seth,
\booktitleDifference and disease:
Medicine, race, and the
eighteenth-century British Empire.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2018, 336 pp. ISBN:
978-1-108-41830-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 572--573
Theodore Arabatzis Book Review: Jaume Navarro,
\booktitleEther and modernity: The
recalcitrance of an epistemic object in
the early twentieth century. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2018, 272 pp.,
Hardcover, \$85.00. ISBN:
978-0-19-879725-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 573--575
Susana Gómez López Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni,
\booktitleMeli Mechanism. A visual,
lexical, and conceptual history.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2019, xii+188 pp. ISBN:
978-0-8229-4547-5; 0-8229-4547-9 . . . . 576--577
Ivan Malara Book Review: Mehl, Édouard.
\booktitleDescartes et la fabrique du
monde. Le probl\`eme cosmologique, de
Copernic \`a Descartes. Paris, France:
Presses Universitaires de France.
Épiméthée, 2019, 424 pp. ISBN:
978-2-13-080065-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 578--579
Arianna Borrelli Book Review: Emily, Herring, Kevin
Matthew Jones, Konstantin Kiprijanov,
Laura Sellers Chilton. \booktitleThe
past, present, and future of integrated
history and philosophy of science.
London, England: Routledge, 2019,
xiii+256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8153-7985-0;
978-1-351-21482-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581
Marco Storni Book Review: Shank, John Bennett.
\booktitleBefore Voltaire: The French
origins of ``Newtonian mechanics'',
1680--1715. Chicago, IL and London, UK:
The University of Chicago Press, 2018,
ix + 444 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-50929-7 . . 581--583
Vivian Nutton Book Review: Murphy, Hannah. \booktitleA
new order of medicine. The rise of
physicians in Reformation Nuremberg.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2019, x + 262 pp. ISBN:
978-0-8229-4560-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 583--584
Angela Schwarz Book Review: Berg Matthias, Thiel Jens.
\booktitleEuropäische
Wissenschaftsakademien im ``Krieg der
Geister''. Reden und Dokumente 1914 bis
1920 (Acta Historica Leopoldina, Vol.
72). Stuttgart, Germany:
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft,
2018, 319 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8047-3797-6 584--586
Justin Begley Book Review: Cavendish, Margaret. Edited
by Anne M. Thell. \booktitleGrounds of
natural philosophy. Peterborough, ON:
Broadview Press, 2020, 264 pp. ISBN:
978-1-55481-387-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 586--588
Frederick Gregory Book Review: Steigerwald, Joan.
\booktitleExperimenting at the
boundaries of life: Organic vitality in
Germany around 1800. Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019,
xii + 460 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4553-6 588--589
Ruben Celani Book Review: Álvarez Mari-Tere, Villaseñor
Black Charlene. \booktitleRenaissance
futurities: Science, art, invention.
Oakland, CA: University of California
Press, 2019, 238 pp. ISBN:
978-0-520-29698-5; 978-0-520-96951-3 . . 590--592
Doina-Cristina Rusu Book Review: Omodeo Pietro Daniel.
\booktitleBernardino Telesio and the
natural sciences in the Renaissance.
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019,
xvi + 285 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-35263-6;
978-90-04-35264-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 592--594
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and
Martin Mahony Introduction --- Up, down, round and
round: Verticalities in the history of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--611
Patrick Anthony Mines, mountains, and the making of a
vertical consciousness in Germany ca.
1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--630
Michael S. Reidy Darwin's vertical thinking: Mountains,
mobility, and the imagination in
19th-century geology . . . . . . . . . . 631--646
Staffan Bergwik Elevation and emotion: Sven Hedin's
mountain expedition to Transhimalaya,
1906--1908 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--669
Johannes Mattes National spaces and deepest places:
Politics and practices of verticality in
speleology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--696
Adriana Minor Up-and-down journeys: The making of
Latin America's uniqueness for the study
of cosmic rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--719
Dania Achermann Vertical glaciology: The second
discovery of the third dimension in
climate research . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--743
Matthew Henry Making weather vertical: Meteorology and
the temporalities of infrastructural
atmospheres in New Zealand, ca.
1920--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--762
Antony Adler Deep horizons: Canada's underwater
habitat program and vertical dimensions
of marine sovereignty . . . . . . . . . 763--782
Paul Merchant Verticalities in oral histories of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--796
Pieter van Wingerden Science on the edge of empire: E. A.
Forsten (1811--1843) and the Natural
History Committee (1820--1850) in the
Netherlands Indies . . . . . . . . . . . 797--821
Michael D. Gordin What do we talk about when we talk about
language and science? . . . . . . . . . 822--825
Sven Dupré Book Review: Lissa L. Roberts, Simon
Werrett. \booktitleCompound histories:
Materials, governance and production,
1760--1840. Leiden, The Netherlands and
Boston, MA: Brill, 2018, xiv --- 388 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-32549-4 . . . . . . . . 826--828
Rafael Huertas Book Review: Andrew, Scull.
\booktitlePsychiatry and its
discontents. Oakland, CA: University of
California Press, 2019, 345 pp. ISBN:
978-0-520-97357-2; 978-0-520-30549-6 . . 828--830
Robert Brain Book Review: Bonea, Amelia, Dickson,
Melissa, Shuttleworth, Sally, Wallis,
Jennifer. \booktitleAnxious Times:
Medicine & modernity in
nineteenth-century Britain. Pittsburgh,
PA: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2019, vii + 312 pp. ISBN:
978-0-8229-4551-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 830--832
Daniel López González Book Review: Newell Catherine L..
\booktitleDestined for the stars: Faith,
the future and America's final frontier.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2019, 292 pp. ISBN:
978-0-8229-4556-7; 0-8229-4556-8 . . . . 832--833
Roger Smith Book Review: Dezs\Ho Gurka,
\booktitleChanges in the image of man
from the Enlightenment to the Age of
Romanticism: Philosophical and
scientific receptions of (physical)
anthropology in the 18--19th centuries.
Budapest, Hungary: Gondolat, 2019, 280
pp. ISBN: 978-963-693-300-5 . . . . . . 834--835
Mariana Sanchez Book Review: Navarro Brotons Víctor.
\booktitleJerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas,
cosmología y humanismo en la época del
Renacimiento. Val\`encia, Spain:
Universitat de Val\`encia, 2019, 324 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-9134-439-1 . . . . . . . . 835--837
Paulo Jesus Book Review: Thibaud, Trochu.
\booktitleWilliam James: Une autre
histoire de la psychologie. Paris,
France: CNRS Éditions, 2018, 375 pp.
ISBN: 978-2-271-12300-8 . . . . . . . . 837--839
Miruna Achim Book Review: Matthew James Crawford,
Joseph M. Gabriel. \booktitleDrugs on
the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing
knowledge in the early modern Atlantic
world. Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ix + 384 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4562-8 . . . . . . . . 839--841
Matthew Adamson and
Roberto Lalli Global perspectives on science
diplomacy: Exploring the
diplomacy-knowledge nexus in
contemporary histories of science . . . 1--16
S. Waqar H. Zaidi Scientists as political experts: Atomic
scientists and their claims for
expertise on international relations,
1945--1947 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
Li Zhang and
Yanmei Zhu Technical assistance versus cultural
export: George Cressey and the U.S.
Cultural Relations Program in wartime
China, 1942--1946 . . . . . . . . . . . 32--50
Matthew Adamson and
Simone Turchetti Friends in fission: US--Brazil relations
and the global stresses of atomic
energy, 1945--1955 . . . . . . . . . . . 51--66
Cláudia Castelo and
Frederico Ágoas Inter-African cooperation in the social
sciences in the era of decolonization: a
case of science diplomacy . . . . . . . 67--83
Ann E. Robinson Attempting neutrality: Disciplinary and
national politics in a Cold War
scientific controversy . . . . . . . . . 84--102
Roberto Lalli Crafting Europe from CERN to Dubna:
Physics as diplomacy in the foundation
of the European Physical Society . . . . 103--131
Jirí Janác and
Doubravka Olsáková On the road to Stockholm: A case study
of the failure of Cold War international
environmental initiatives (Prague
Symposium, 1971) . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--149
Sam Robinson Scientific imaginaries and science
diplomacy: The case of ocean
exploitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--170
Aviva Rothman Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
in context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--191
Marco Storni Cartography, geodesy, and the
heliocentric theory: Yves Simonin's
unpublished papers . . . . . . . . . . . 192--209
Erica Charters and
Kristin Heitman How epidemics end . . . . . . . . . . . 210--224
Paolo Savoia Virtual Bologna ESHS 2020 conference
report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Anonymous The ESHS Officers and the Scientific
Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Maria Rentetzi and
Kenji Ito The material culture and politics of
artifacts in nuclear diplomacy . . . . . 233--243
Toshihiro Higuchi and
Jacques E. C. Hymans Materialized internationalism: How the
IAEA made the Vinca Dosimetry
Experiment, and how the experiment made
the IAEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--261
Matthew Adamson Orphaned atoms: The first Moroccan
reactor and the frameworks of nuclear
diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--276
Lif Lund Jacobsen and
Irina Fedorova and
Julia Lajus The seismograph as a diplomatic object:
The Soviet--American exchange of
instruments, 1958--1964 . . . . . . . . 277--295
Kenji Ito The scientific object and material
diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes
from the United States to Japan in 1950 296--319
Clara Florensa A nuclear monument the size of a
football field: The diplomatic
construction of soil nuclearity in the
Palomares accident (Spain, 1966) . . . . 320--338
Alberto Bardi Scientific interactions in colonial,
multilinguistic, and interreligious
contexts: Venetian Crete and the
manuscript \booktitleMarcianus latinus
VIII.31 (2614). A preliminary study . . 339--352
James Brannon \textitThe Sphere of Anthony Ascham:
Sources for the earliest-known
English-language cosmography based on
Sacrobosco's \booktitleDe Sphaera . . . 353--380
Steffen Ducheyne and
Jip van Besouw Readers of the first edition of Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia on the relation
between gravity, matter, and divine and
natural causation: British public
debates, 1687--1713 . . . . . . . . . . 381--395
Kari Tove Elvbakken and
Helle Margrete Meltzer Research, knowledge, and policy on
goitre and iodine in Norway (1850--2016) 396--415
Oana Matei Recipes and thrift in early modern and
modern knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--420
Victor Gysembergh Book Review: Alan C. Bowen and Francesca
Rochberg. \booktitleHellenistic
astronomy: The science in its contexts,
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies,
Leiden: Brill, 2020, xxxii + 751 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-40056-6;
978-90-04-24336-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Matthieu Husson Book Review: Richard Dunn, Silke
Ackermann, Giorgio Strano.
\booktitleHeaven and earth united:
Instruments in astrological contexts.
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2018,
xiv + 286 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-38143-8 423--424
Douglas Jesseph Book Review: Crippa, Davide.
\booktitleThe impossibility of squaring
the circle in the 17th century: A debate
among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz.
Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2019,
viii + 184 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-01637-1 424--427
John Henry Book Review: Ann Blair and Kaspar
Greyerz. \booktitlePhysico-theology:
Religion and science in Europe,
1650--1750. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2020, ix + 274 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3846-7 . . . . . . . . 427--429
Anne-Laurence Caudano Book Review: Edited by Efthymios
Nicola\"\idis, \booktitleGreek alchemy
from late antiquity to early modernity,
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018, 198
pp. + 21 col. ill. ISBN:
978-2-503-58191-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Ana Carneiro Book Review: Edited by Annette Lykknes,
Brigitte Tiggelen. \booktitleWomen in
their element: Selected women's
contributions to the periodic system.
Singapore, Singapore: World Scientific,
2019, xxiv + 531 pp. ISBN:
978-981-12-0628-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433
Geoff Rayner-Canham Book Review: Scerri, Eric. \booktitleThe
periodic table: Its story and its
significance (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2020, 504 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-19-091436-3 . . . . . . . . 433--434
Santiago Guzmán Gámez Book Review: Nieto-Galan, Agustí.
\booktitleThe politics of chemistry:
Science and power in twentieth-century
Spain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 284 pp. ISBN:
978-1-108-48243-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
John Slater Book Review: Pimentel, Juan.
\booktitleFantasmas de la ciencia
española. Madrid, Spain: Marcial Pons
Historia/Fundación Jorge Juan, 2020, 418
pp. ISBN: 978-84-17945-01-5 . . . . . . 436--438
Luc Berlivet Book Review: Edited by Anderson,
Warwick, Roque, Ricardo, Santos, Ricardo
Ventura. \booktitleLuso-tropicalism and
its discontents: The making and unmaking
of racial exceptionalism. New York, NY:
Berghahn, 2019, 316 pp. ISBN:
978-1-78920-113-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440
José Carlos Sánchez-González Book Review: Jenkins, Bill.
\booktitleEvolution before Darwin:
Theories of the transmutation of species
in Edinburgh, 1804--1834. Edinburgh, UK:
Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 232
pp. ISBN: 978-1-4744-4578-8 . . . . . . 440--442
Stephen Gaukroger Book Review: Jürgen Renn. \booktitle
evolution of knowledge: Rethinking
science for the Anthropocene. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020,
584 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-17198-2 . . . . 442--444
Roger Smith Book Review: Gaukroger, Stephen.
\booktitleCivilization and the culture
of science: Science and the shaping of
modernity, 1795--1935. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2020, 519 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-19-884907-0 . . . . . . . . 444--446
Bonnie G. Smith Book Review: Edited by Bittel Carla,
Leong Elaine, von Oertzen Christine.
\booktitleWorking with paper: Gendered
practices in the history of knowledge.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2019, 310 pp. ISBN:
978-0-8229-4559-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Teresa Álvarez Book Review: Smith, Roger. \booktitleThe
sense of movement: An intellectual
history. London, UK: Process Press,
2019, 444 pp. ISBN: 978-1-899209-24-8 448--449
Roger Smith Book Review: Mayer, Andreas.
\booktitleThe science of walking:
Investigations into locomotion in the
long nineteenth century. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 2020, 232
pp. ISBN: 139780226328355;
139780226352480 . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--451
Ana Simões and
Maria Paula Diogo Mapping the ESHS community: A brief
summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Graeme Gooday Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851--1916):
an introduction to the spotlight section 453--458
Graeme Gooday ``A many-sided crystal'': Understanding
the manifold legacy of Silvanus Phillips
Thompson (1851-1916) . . . . . . . . . . 459--474
Geoffrey Cantor Thompson, Biographer . . . . . . . . . . 475--488
Matthew Stanley No slaves to words: S. P. Thompson's
theory of history . . . . . . . . . . . 489--498
Stathis Arapostathis and
Anna Guagnini Living in between: the commercial side
of Silvanus P. Thompson's engineering 499--512
Andrew M. A. Morris ``The joint labours of ingenious men'':
John Smeaton's Royal Society network and
the Eddystone Lighthouse . . . . . . . . 513--531
Rienk Vermij Simon Stevin through the lens of his
dedications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--545
Mitchell G. Ash History of science in Central and
Eastern Europe: Studies from Poland,
Hungary, and Croatia . . . . . . . . . . 546--552
Vedran Duanci\'c Recent trends in the history of science
in Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--568
Jan Surman Productive marginalities: the history of
science in/about Poland since 1989 . . . 569--584
Gábor Á. Zemplén History of science in Hungary:
Stewardship and audience in periods of
institutional and political change . . . 585--602
Jean Paul Van Bendegem Book Review: De Bock, Dirk & Vanpaemel,
Geert. \booktitleRods, sets and arrows:
the rise and fall of modern mathematics
in Belgium. New York, NY: Springer,
2019, xxii + 293 pp. ISBN:
978-3-030-20598-0; 978-3-030-20599-7 . . 603--604
Katherine D. Watson Book Review: Francesco Paolo Ceglia.
\booktitleThe body of evidence: Corpses
and proofs in Early Modern European
medicine. Leiden, The Netherlands:
Brill, 2020, x + 355 pp. ISBN:
978-90-04-28481-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 604--606
Dennis Bryson Book Review: Solovey, Mark.
\booktitleSocial science for what?
Battles over public funding for the
``other sciences'' at the National
Science Foundation. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2020, 398 + x pp. ISBN:
978-0-262-53905-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 606--608
Rémi Franckowiak Book Review: Lawrence M. Principe.
\booktitleThe transmutations of
chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the
Académie royale des sciences. Chicago,
IL: The University of Chicago Press,
2020, 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-70078-6 609--611
Geoff Rayner-Canham Book Review: Eric Scerri, Ghibaudi,
Elena. \booktitleWhat is a chemical
element? A collection of essays by
chemists, philosophers, historians, and
educators. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN:
978-0-19-093378-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
Annette Lykknes Book Review: Rayner-Canham, Geoff.
\booktitleThe periodic table: Past,
present, and future. Singapore: World
Scientific, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN:
978-981-12-1848-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
Margaret Schotte Book Review: Adler, Antony.
\booktitleNeptune's laboratory: Fantasy,
fear, and science at sea. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2019, 256 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-674-97201-8 . . . . . . . . 614--616
Jürgen Renn Book Review: Simões, Ana, Sousa, Ana
Matilde. \booktitleThe global adventure
of science: Einstein, Eddington and the
eclipse. Lisbon, Portugal: Chili com
Carne, 2019, 245 pp. ISBN:
978-989-8363-41-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617
Koen Vermeir \booktitleCentaurus: Past and Future . . 619--620
Felix Frey and
Jonas Schädler Making power visible: Codifications,
infrastructures, and representations of
energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--630
Daniela Russ Deciphering economic futures:
Electricity, calculation, and the power
economy, 1880--1930 . . . . . . . . . . 631--650
Jonas van der Straeten Measuring progress in megawatt:
Colonialism, development, and the
``unseeing'' electricity grid in East
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--674
Laura Hindelang Oil media: Changing portraits of
petroleum in visual culture between the
US, Kuwait, and Switzerland . . . . . . 675--694
Nicole Hesse Visible winds: The production of new
visibilities of wind energy in West
Germany, 1973--1991 . . . . . . . . . . 695--713
Samuel Gessner Trepidation spheres: Variant
representations of the eighth sphere and
the debate about the movement of the
apogees and the fixed stars in Alfonsine
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--754
Gonzalo Luis Recio The Earth's eccentricity in Kepler's
refutation of the Tychonic approach to
the problem of Mars . . . . . . . . . . 755--761
Claire Gantet The dissemination of mesmerism in
Germany (1784--1815): Some patterns of
the circulation of knowledge . . . . . . 762--778
Beatriz Medori The American Society for the Control of
Cancer in the Portuguese Institute of
Oncology's \booktitleBulletin:
Rethinking nationalism . . . . . . . . . 779--803
Fabio Bevilacqua and
Salvatore Esposito 40 years of history of physics in Italy 804--806
Lis Brack-Bernsen Book Review: Christine Proust and John
Steele. \booktitleScholars and
scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk.
Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Why the
Sciences of the Ancient World Matter \bf
2, 2019, x + 274 pp. ISBN:
978-3-030-04175-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 807--809
Ilana Wartenberg Book Review: Stern, Sacha. \booktitleThe
Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE.
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019, xxii, 576
pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-38866-6 . . . . . . 810--811
Charles Burnett Book Review: Lawrence-Mathers, Anne.
\booktitleMedieval meteorology:
Forecasting the weather from Aristotle
to the Almanac. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2020, 224 pp., ISBN:
978-1-108-40600-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 811--814
Ruben E. Verwaal Book Review: Margócsy, Dániel Somos, Mark
and Joffe, Stephen N.. The
\textitFabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A
worldwide descriptive census, ownership,
and annotations of the 1543 and 1555
editions. Leiden, The Netherlands:
Brill, 2018, xix + 517 pp. ISBN:
978-90-04-33629-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 814--816
Tzuchien Tho Book Review: Mugnai, Massimo, Van Ruler,
Han, Wilson, Martin. \booktitleLeibniz:
Dissertation on combinatorial art,
Translated with introduction and
commentary. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2020, 320 pp. ISBN:
978-0-19-883795-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 816--818
Mattia Mantovani Book Review: Raynaud, Dominique.
\booktitleEye representation and ocular
terminology from antiquity to Helmholtz.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Wayenborgh.
Hirschberg History of Ophthalmology ---
The Monographs. Volume 16, 2020, xvi +
636 pp. ISBN: 978-90-6299-468-7 . . . . 819--822
Yaël Nazé Book Review: Aubin, David.
\booktitleFemmes, vulgarisation et
pratique des sciences au si\`ecle des
Lumi\`eres: Les Dialogues sur
l'astronomie et la Lettre sur la figure
de la Terre de César--François Cassini de
Thury. Turnhout: Brepols, 310 pp. ISBN:
978-2-503-58603-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 822--823
Ana Simões and
Maria Paula Diogo Historiographical reflections on
sciences in Europe: Perspectives from
\booktitleCentaurus . . . . . . . . . . 824--829
Koen Vermeir and
Theodore Arabatzis \booktitleCentaurus: Continuing as an
Open Access Journal . . . . . . . . . . ??
Erica Charters Information, Expertise, and Authority:
The Many Ends of Epidemics . . . . . . . ??
Natalie M. Linton and
Francesca Anne Lovell-Read and
Emma Southall and
Hyojung Lee and
Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov and
Robin N. Thompson and
Hiroshi Nishiura When Do Epidemics End? Scientific
Insights from Mathematical Modelling
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nils Christian Stenseth and
Katharine Rose Dean and
Barbara Bramanti The End of Plague in Europe . . . . . . ??
Lori Jones The Last Time That We Can Say The Plague
Raged: Historicizing Epidemics . . . . . ??
Paul Slack End of a Pandemic? Contemporary
Explanations for the End of Plague in
Eighteenth-Century England . . . . . . . ??
Xiaoping Fang Ending Pandemics in Mao's China:
Politics, Technology, and Epidemiology ??
Atsuko Naono The Last mile of Elimination of Malaria
in Myanmar? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jean Segata Chikungunya in Brazil, An Endless
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Virginia Stewart Berridge The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics:
HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009 and Policy . . ??
Cristiana Bastos The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis,
AIDS, and Measles . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christoph Gradmann This is the End: Eradicating
Tuberculosis in Modern Times . . . . . . ??
Clark Spencer Larsen and
Fabian Crespo Paleosyndemics: a Bioarchaeological and
Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious
Diseases in the Past . . . . . . . . . . ??
James L. A. Webb, Jr. Historical Epidemiology and the Single
Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease . . . ??
Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr. Epidemics that End with a Bang . . . . . ??
Paul Kelton The End of Smallpox for Indigenous
Peoples in the United States,
1898--1903: an Unnoticed Finale . . . . ??
Margaret Pelling Mythological Endings: John Snow
(1813--1858) and the History of American
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roderick Bailey Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples,
1943--44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Arthur Rose Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending ??
Einar Wigen The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic
Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dorothy Apedaile Book Review: Johan P. Mackenbach,
\booktitleA History of Population
Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jorge Castro-Tejerina Book Review: Erica Fretwell,
\booktitleSensory Experiments:
Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics
of Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Thomas Morel Book Review: Ursula Klein,
\booktitleTechnoscience in History:
Prussia, 1750--1850 . . . . . . . . . . ??
Pietro Daniel Omodeo Book Review: Andrea Strazzoni,
\booktitleDutch Cartesianism and the
Birth of Philosophy of Science: From
Regius to 's Gravesande . . . . . . . . ??
Jean-Guy Prévost Book Review: Laurent Mazliak and Rossana
Tazzioli (eds), \booktitleMathematical
Communities in the Reconstruction After
the Great War 1918--1928: Trajectories
and Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Per Wisselgren Book Review: Kirsti Niskanen and Michael
J. Barany (eds), \booktitleGender,
Embodiment, and the History of the
Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and
Contestations . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christophe Sander Rendering Magnetism Visible. Diagrams
and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700 ??
Alberto Bardi The Cosmos in your Hand. A Note on
Regiomontanus' Astrological Interests ??
Paolo Savoia Knowing Nature by its Surface: Butchers,
Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners and
Physicians in Early Modern Italy . . . . ??
Christián C. Carman On Tycho's Calculation of the
Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental
Star of Tycho's Catalog . . . . . . . . ??
Fabrizio Li Vigni Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute.
Origins, Models and Organization of the
Cradle of Complexity Sciences . . . . . ??
Hein Brookhuis Transforming Big Science in Belgium
Management Consultants and the
Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear
Research Center (SCK CEN) 1980--1990 . . ??
Marcin Krasnod\kebski Lost Green Chemistries: History of
Forgotten Environmental Trajectories . . ??
Angélica Morales Book Review: Paula S. De Vos. Compound
Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the
Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain . . . ??
Michael J. Neufeld Book Review: David P. D. Munns and Kärin
Nickelsen. \booktitleFar Beyond the
Moon: a History of Life Support Systems
in the Space Age . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sara J. Schechner Book Review: Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas,
Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan
Szpiech (eds). \booktitleAstrolabes in
Medieval Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Juan M. Zaragoza Book Review: Rita Felski and Stephen
Muecke. \booktitleLatour and the
Humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joel Barnes Book Review: Hoffenberg,Peter H.
\booktitleA Science of our own:
Exhibitions and the rise of Australian
public science . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Oliver Hochadel Science at the Zoo. An Introduction . . ??
Helen Cowie A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and
London 1853 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christian Reiß Knowing is surviving. The Mexican
Axolotl, two Paris Zoos and the Role of
Practical Knowledge in Keeping Unknown
Animals, 1850--1876 . . . . . . . . . . ??
Oliver Hochadel How to get into the Pouch. Solving the
riddle of the kangaroo birth
(1826--1926) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Elle Larsson ``Here they are in flesh and feather'':
Walter Rothschild's ``private zoo'' and
the preparation and taxonomic study of
cassowaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Katherine McLeod How to Display a Hoatzin: Animal Care
and Conservation Science in the early
20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Violette Pouillard Animal nutrition, animal experiments,
and the zoo as a laboratory, London Zoo
--- Paris Ménagerie, 19th century--ca.
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Marianna Szczygielska Undoing Extinction. The Role of Zoos in
Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse,
1922--1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Miquel Carandell Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami:
Knowledge and practices in the Barcelona
Zoo ``Aquarama'' in the 1960s . . . . . ??
Koen Vermeir Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kostas Gavroglu The Sisyphean Fate of History of
Science: Unmoved Scientists,
Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed
Politicians (2020 Gustav Neuenschwander
Prize Lecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Simon Schaffer Orientations and Disorientations in the
History of Science: How Measures Made a
Difference at the Imperial Meridian
(2022 Gustav Neuenschwander Prize
Lecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Steven Vanden Broecke Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the
Catholic Reformation. The Early Debate
on Thomas Fienus's Embryology in the
Spanish Netherlands (1620--1629) . . . . ??
Emma Prevignano A Passport for the Metre: The Diplomatic
Recognition of the Metric System in a
Changing International Order
(1785--1799) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gianna Katsiampoura An Appraisal of the Current Status of
Research on Byzantine Sciences: an Essay
Review of Lazaris Stavros (ed.),
\booktitleA Companion to Byzantine
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Maarten Van Dyck Galilean Challenges: an Essay Review of
Jochen Büttner, \booktitleSwinging and
Rolling. Unveiling Galileo's Unorthodox
Path from a Challenging problem to a New
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrew Janiak What was Newtonianism in Enlightenment
Europe? An Essay Review of: Helmut Pulte
and Scott Mandelbrote (eds),
\booktitleThe Reception of Isaac Newton
in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Daniele Cozzoli The Age of Molecular Biology: an Essay
Review of Soraya de Chadarevian,
\booktitleHeredity Under the Microscope:
Chromosomes and the Study of the Human
Genome; Michel Morange, \booktitleThe
Black Box of Biology: a History of the
Molecular Revolution; Robin Wolfe
Scheffler, \booktitleA Contagious Cause:
The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and
the Rise of Molecular Medicine . . . . . ??
Anne-Emanuelle Birn Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or
Embeddig Bromides? An Essay Review of:
Juan Del Llano and Lino Camprubi,
\booktitleSociedad Entre Pandemias; John
Fabian Witt, \booktitleAmerican
Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from
Smallpox to COVID-19; Alex de Waal,
\booktitleNew Pandemics, Old Politics:
Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and
its Alternatives; Frank M. Snowden,
\booktitleEpidemics and Society: From
the Black Death to the Present . . . . . ??
Sebastian Felten Book Review: Wolfgang Lef\`evre,
\booktitleMinerva Meets Vulcan:
Scientific and Technological Literature,
1450--1750 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Benedicto Acosta Book Review: Richard J. Oosterhoff, José
Ramon Marcaida, and Alexander Marr
(eds). \booktitleIngenuity in the
Making: Matter and Technique in Early
Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Emma Spary Book Review: Elizabeth A. Williams,
\booktitleAppetite and Its Discontents:
Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat,
1750--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sam Fernandez-Garrido Book Review: Elizabeth Reis,
\booktitleBodies in Doubt. An American
History of Intersex . . . . . . . . . . ??
Guillaume Linte and
Paul-Arthur Tortosa `The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World':
Thinking, Dwelling in and Shaping
Pathogenic Environments . . . . . . . . ??
Guillaume Linte ``The Salvation of the Seamen'':
Ventilation, Naval Hygiene and French
Overseas Expansion during the Early
Modern Period (c. 1670--1790) . . . . . ??
Paul-Arthur Tortosa Aetiologies of Blame. Fevers,
Environment, and Accountability in a War
Context (France and Italy, c. 1800) . . ??
Marco Emanuele Omes ``In aria sana''. Conceptualising
Pathogenic Environments in the Popular
Press: Northern Italy, the 1820s--1840s ??
Costanza Bonelli ``Some Typically African Risks'':
Safeguarding the Health of Italian
Settlers during the Fascist Empire
(1935--1941) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lea Delmaire Locating the Health Hazard, Surveilling
the Gecekondu. The Tuberculosis Control
Pilot-area of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul
(1961--1963) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Martin Grünfeld and
Karin Tybjerg Collections, Knowledge and Time . . . . ??
Karin Tybjerg The Anamnesis of Medical Collections:
The Role of Past Collections in
Diagnosis and Prognosis . . . . . . . . ??
Joshua Nall and
Boris Jardine The Lab in the Museum, or: Using New
Scientific Instruments to Look at Old
Scientific Instruments . . . . . . . . . ??
Adrian Van Allen Entangled Timelines: Crafting Types of
Time Through Making Museum Specimens . . ??
Frédéric Keck Filling China's Gaps: Viral Banks and
Bird Collections as Museums for
Pandemics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Xan Chacko and
Jenny Bangham Lively Stasis: Care and Routine in
Living Collections of Flies and Seeds ??
Tiziana Nicoletta Beltrame A Matter of Dust: From Infrastructures
to `Infra-thin' in Museum Maintenance ??
Martin Grünfeld and
Adam Bencard and
Louise Whiteley From Mausoleum to Living Room:
Practicing Metabolic Carpentry in the
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ken Arnold Epilogue: Redeeming the Past, Present
and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Irina Podgorny and
Nathalie Richard Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Claudia Espejel Nation in Pieces. The Gathering of an
Archaeological Collection in Late
Nineteenth-century Mexico: The First
Collection of Francisco Plancarte y
Navarrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Miruna Achim Carving an Origin for Mexico's Ancient
Cultures: Jade Artifacts and the
Question of their Provenance in
Nineteenth-Century Science . . . . . . . ??
Xavier Ulled Bertran and
José Pardo-Tomás From Private to Public (and Vice Versa).
Scientific Collections in Barcelona,
1830--1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Maria Margaret Lopes Objects and Contradictions on the Move:
From Private Collections to Provincial
Brazilian Museums . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Serge Reubi How Do Objects Enter and Exit
Collections? Exchanging Material Culture
over the Atlantic, 1920--1940 . . . . . ??
Laura Chazaro-Garcia How Do Anatomies Become Exhibition
Objects? From Provincial Museums to
(Inter)national Collections . . . . . . ??
Susana Valeria García South American Landowners, Herbaria and
Scientific Sciability Networks
(1880s--1910s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Stefanie Gänger `The Finest in Any Museum in the World'.
Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in
the Southern Andes, c. 1850--1911 . . . ??
Pietro Corsi Of Names, Labels and Books in
Nineteenth-Century Tuscan
Paleontological Collections . . . . . . ??