2nd International Conference of
the European Society for the History of Science

Cover of Chapter 1 / Full text PDF (183 kB)

Robert FOX:
Opening address of the 2nd ICESHS / Full text PDF (84 kB)

Michal KOKOWSKI:
The crucial idea of the 2nd ICESHS / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Robert FOX:
The Statement of the General Assembly of the ESHS
on teaching the history of science / Full text PDF (31 kB)

Eberhard KNOBLOCH:
Farewell address of the 2nd ICESHS / Full text PDF (70 kB)

Michal KOKOWSKI:
Acknowledgements / Full text PDF (65 kB)

Cover of Appendix / Full text PDF (185 kB)

Lists of members of the committees of the conference +
List of organisers of the conference +
List of partners of the conference +
List of sponsors of the conference / Full text PDF (90 kB)

Robert FOX:
The institutions hosting the 2nd ICESHS:
The European Society for the History of Science / Full text PDF (91 kB)

Andrzej PELCZAR:
The institutions hosting the 2nd ICESHS:
The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences / Full text PDF (128 kB)

Andrzej PELCZAR:
The institutions hosting the 2nd ICESHS:
The Jagiellonian University / Full text PDF (83 kB)

Leszek ZASZTOWT:
The institutions hosting the 2nd ICESHS:
The Institute for the History of Science
of the Polish Academy of Sciences / Full text PDF (127 kB)

Cover of Chapter 2 / Full text PDF (144 kB)

Fabio BEVILACQUA, Lidia FALOMO:
Towards a new web site of the DHST: Participatory media for a community of scholars. Possibilities and choices / Full text PDF (1,3 MB)

Ryszard J. GRYGLEWSKI:
Crossroads of medicine and chemistry in the 20th century / Full text PDF (68 kB)

Eberhard KNOBLOCH:
Alexander von Humboldt: The explorer and the scientist / Full text PDF (850 kB)

Giuliano PANCALDI:
The Republic of Letters in transition: William Thomson and
natural philosophy ca. 1850 / Full text PDF (166 kB)

Andrzej K. WROBLEWSKI:
Are we ready for common history of science? / Full text PDF (1,3 MB)

PARTICIPANTS OF DISCUSSION:

Mitchell G. ASH

Hans-Joachim BRAUN

Elvira CALLAPEZ

Roman DUDA

Robert FOX

Anne-Sophie GODFROY-GENIN

Peter HEERING

Frank JAMES

Vladimir KIRSANOV

Michal KOKOWSKI

Birute RAILIENE

Ida STAMHUIS

Sona STRBANOVA

Romualdas SVIEDRYS

Andrzej WROBLEWSKI

Robert FOX and Ronald L. NUMBERS:
Introduction

INTERVENTIONS BY:

Mitchell G. ASH:
The societies for the history of science, technology and medicine in the German-speaking Europe

Joan CADDEN:
The History of Science Society

Claude DEBRU:
The French Society for History of Science and Technology, and the Societe d'Histoire et d'Epistemologie des Sciences de la Vie

Roman DUDA:
The Polish institutions acting in the area of the history of science and medicine

Noah EFRON:
Science and Technology Studies in Israel. Seeking comparative perspective

Ernst P. HAMM:
The history of science, technology and medicine in Canada

Anja Skaar JACOBSEN:
The Danish Society for the History of Science

Frank JAMES:
The British Society for the History of Science

Eberhard KNOBLOCH:
The International Academy of the History of Science

Efthymios NICOLAIDIS:
The role and structure of IUHPS/DHST

Ida STAMHUIS

Bert THEUNISSEN:
The Gewina: The Dutch Society for the History of Medicine, Science, Mathematics and Technology

INTRODUCTION by Robert FOX

PARTICIPANTS OF DISCUSSION:

Fabio BEVILACQUA, Lidia FALOMO:
Towards a new web site of the DHST: participatory media for a community of scholars. Possibilities and choices

Hans-Joachim BRAUN

Claude DEBRU

Eberhard KNOBLOCH

Stanislav JUZNIC

Víctor NAVARRO BROTONS

Efthymios NICOLAIDIS:
Towards a common European schoolbook for secondary education

Geert J. SOMSEN:
History of Science and Euro-nationalism

Sona STRBANOVA

Geert VANPAEMEL:
One or many histories of science for Europe?

Andrzej WROBLEWSKI

FINAL REMARKS by Michal KOKOWSKI

Cover of Chapter 6 / Full text PDF (301 kB)

Claude DEBRU:
Some reflections on recent developments and possible initiatives to foster the role
of the history of science in education and training in Europe / Full text PDF (69 kB)

Muriel GUEDJ, Sylvain LAUBE:
History of sciences in the French teacher education / Full text PDF (223 kB)

Peter HEERING:
Historical experiments as an access to epistemological aspects
in physics teacher / Full text PDF (33 kB)

Juozas Al. KRIKSTOPAITIS, Romualdas SVIEDRYS:
History of Science Master's Program - transfer and adaptation:
The Lithuanian case / Full text PDF (97 kB)

C. ZARAGOZA, J.M. FERNANDEZ-NOVELL:
Young students turn the history of science into an educational theatre / Full text PDF (367 kB)

Cover of Chapter 7 / Full text PDF (299 kB)

Maria Rosa MASSA, Fatima ROMERO VALLHONESTA, Iolanda GUEVARA CASANOVA:
Teaching mathematics through history: Some trigonometric / Full text PDF (365 kB)

Maria STRECHT ALMEIDA:
Historical case studies as teaching tools: A case from erythrocyte aging / Full text PDF (89 kB)

C. ZARAGOZA, J.M. FERNANDEZ-NOVELL:
Bridging the gap between secondary school and the history of science:
An educational experience / Full text PDF (209 kB)

Cover of Chapter 8 / Full text PDF (318 kB)

Martin COUNIHAN:
Public understanding of the history of science / Full text PDF (98 kB)

Suzanne DEBARBAT:
Public understanding of science: The example of
astronomy at the Observatoire de Paris / Full text PDF (224 kB)

Robert FOX:
History and the public understanding of science:
Problems, practices and perspectives / Full text PDF (103 kB)

Cristina OLIVOTTO, Antonella TESTA:
Galileo at the cinema / Full text PDF (1,5 MB)

Cover of Chapter 9 / Full text PDF (294 kB)

Hans-Joachim BRAUN:
A hole in the Iron Curtain: The International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
as a bridge between East and West, 1968-1990 / Full text PDF (33 kB)

Nadezdha KUSHLAKOVA:
Mathematicians of Polish origin in Ukraine: Scientific and pedagogical activities of
A.P. Psheborskiy in Kharkov Mathematical Society (1898-1922) / Full text PDF (206 kB)

Luis SARAIVA:
The Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the development of mathematics in Portugal
in the 19th century / Full text PDF (71 kB)

Cover of Chapter 10 / Full text PDF (371 kB)

Stefan Witold ALEXANDROWICZ:
Polish initiative in creation of the International Union for
Quaternary Research (INQUA) / Full text PDF (147 kB)

Roman DUDA:
The Lvov School of mathematics / Full text PDF (108 kB)

Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI:
Ludwik Fleck as a medical scientist, microbiologist and immunologist / Full text PDF (122 kB)

Jiri JINDRA:
Jaroslav Heyrovsky and Wiktor Kemula: the Czech and Polish / Full text PDF (169 kB)

Piotr KÖHLER, Denis J. CARR:
A somewhat obscure discoverer of plasmodesmata:
Eduard Tangl (1848-1905) / Full text PDF (163 kB)

Izabela KRZEPTOWSKA-MOSZKOWICZ:
Emil Godlewski Senior's contribution to creating the basis
of modern plant physiology in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Full text PDF (155 kB)

Slawomir LOTYSZ:
KER and War: Polish synthetic rubber in American war efforts, 1941-45 / Full text PDF (226 kB)

Aurika RICHKIENE:
Two international achievements of Lithuanians in the experimental botany science
of twentieth century / Full text PDF (336 kB)

Voula SARIDAKIS:
Establishing an Astronomical Network from Gdansk: Johannes Hevelius' exchange
with the European scientific community / Full text PDF (176 kB)

Warfolomey SAVCHUK:
The naturalist I. Puluj and discovery of the X-rays / Full text PDF (250 kB)

Jirí SEKERAK:
Gregor Mendel and the scientific milieu of his discovery / Full text PDF (155 kB)

Olena SHCHERBAK:
L.I. Kordysch and the development of theoretical physics in the first part
of the 20th century in the Ukraine: All-European context / Full text PDF (138 kB)

Bronislaw SREDNIAWA:
Scientific and personal contacts of Polish physicists with Albert Einstein / Full text PDF (310 kB)

Andrzej SRODKA, Ryszard W. GRYGLEWSKI, Wojciech SZCZEPANSKI:
Browicz or Kupffer cells? / Full text PDF (180 kB)

Eva Katalin VAMOS:
Three generations of natural scientists in Hungary 1848-1918 / Full text PDF (293 kB)

Cover of Chapter 11 / Full text PDF (300 kB)

Jose CHABAS, Richard L. KREMER:
Introduction / Full text PDF (94 kB)

Jose CHABAS:
From Toledo to Venice:
The "Alfonsine Tables" of Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi / Full text PDF (108 kB)

Petr HADRAVA, Alena HADRAVOVA:
Reflection of Iohannes Sindel's eclipse instrument in Iohannes Schoner's
"Opera mathematica" / Full text PDF (133 kB)

Alena HADRAVOVA, Petr HADRAVA:
Astronomy in Paulerinus's 15th Century Encyclopaedia
"Liber viginti arcium" / Full text PDF (133 kB)

Richard L. KREMER:
Reworking the Alfonsine Tables in Cracow.
The Tabulae Aureae of Petrus Gaszowiec (1448) / Full text PDF (91 kB)

Henrique LEITAO:
Building a new discipline with old tools: Astronomical techniques in
16th century theoretical navigation / Full text PDF (81 kB)

Michael H. SHANK:
Regiomontanus as a physical astronomer / Full text PDF (85 kB)

Jaroslaw WLODARCZYK:
Astronomical observations in the time of Copernicus:
Tradition and novelty / Full text PDF (116 kB)

Cover of Chapter 12 / Full text PDF (297 kB)

Henryk BARANOWSKI:
Bibliografia Kopernikowska T. 1-3 (Copernican Bibliography Vol. 1-3) / Full text PDF (109 kB)

Peter BARKER:
Towards a cognitive history of the Copernican revolution / Full text PDF (291 kB)

Marian BISKUP:
Investigations on the life and extensive works of Nicolas Copernicus / Full text PDF (156 kB)

Andre GODDU:
Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler on linear distances / Full text PDF (195 kB)

Einar H. GUDMUNDSSON, Eyjolfur KOLBEINS, Thorsteinn VILHJALMSSON:
Copernicanism in Iceland / Full text PDF (202 kB)

Michal KOKOWSKI:
Nicholas Copernicus in focus of interdisciplinary research / Full text PDF (325 kB)

Andreas KÜHNE:
The early Copernican biographies and portraits as part of
the reception of Copernicus / Full text PDF (214 kB)

Howard MARGOLIS:
How Copernicus saw what Ptolemy and everyone else
for 1400 years missed / Full text PDF (64 kB)

Rienk H. VERMIJ:
The Leiden interpretation of Copernicus' theory of the universe / Full text PDF (92 kB)

Cover of Chapter 13 / Full text PDF (293 kB)

Vladimir KIRSANOV:
Leibniz in Paris / Full text PDF (440 kB)

Eberhard KNOBLOCH, Hartmut HECHT:
Series VIII of the Leibniz-Edition: An introduction to
a modern presentation of unknown manuscripts / Full text PDF (1,4 MB)

Achim TRUNK:
An early concept of G.W. Leibniz regarding medicine / Full text PDF (206 kB)

Cover of Chapter 14 / Full text PDF (316 kB)

Mitchell G. ASH:
The natural sciences in the late Habsburg Monarchy:
Institutions, networks, practices / Full text PDF (134 kB)

Paulus EBNER:
Physicists and chemists at the University of Agriculture
(Hochschule für Bodenkultur) in Vienna between 1872 and 1918 / Full text PDF (113 kB)

Juliane MIKOLETZKY:
Physicists and chemists at the University of Vienna of Technology around 1900:
Mobility and career patterns / Full text PDF (126 kB)

Yurij HOLOVATCH, Roman PLYATSKO:
Physicists and chemists at the University of Lviv / Lwow / Lemberg in
the second half of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century / Full text PDF (147 kB)

Robert ROSNER:
Scientists and mathematicians in Czernowitz University / Full text PDF (270 kB)

Arne SCHIRRMACHER:
On searching national and scientific identities: Philipp Lenard's early career
in Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Anglo-Saxon world / Full text PDF (85 kB)

Felicitas SEEBACHER:
Searching for excellence - appointments to chairs at the Medical Faculty of Vienna University
in the 19th Century: Strategies for success or political programs? / Full text PDF (227 kB)

Sona STRBANOVA:
Mobility of chemistry professors of the Prague Charles Ferdinand University
at the turn of the 19th century: Where and why? / Full text PDF (72 kB)

Cover of Chapter 15 / Full text PDF (287 kB)

Hermann HUNGER:
Smoluchowski and Vienna / Full text PDF (108 kB)

Roman PLYATSKO:
From Galicia to Vienna: Scientific careers of I. Puluj and I. Horbaczewski / Full text PDF (203 kB)

W. Gerhard POHL:
The theory of Brownian motion - one hundred years old / Full text PDF (788 kB)

Rudolf Werner SOUKUP:
Michael Sendivogius: An alchemist and Austrian-Polish double agent
of the beginning 17th century / Full text PDF (168 kB)

Cover of Chapter 16 / Full text PDF (292 kB)

Maria Teresa BORGATO:
The first applications of the metric system in Italy / Full text PDF (219 kB)

Suzanne DEBARBAT, Simone DUMONT:
The Decimal Metric System: Facing scientists and population in France / Full text PDF (201 kB)

Klaus HENTSCHEL:
Gauß, Meyerstein and Hanoverian precision weights and measures / Full text PDF (152 kB)

Frans van LUNTEREN:
The Netherlands and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Juan NAVARRO LOIDI, Pilar MERINO SAENZ:
The units of length in the Spanish treatises of military engineering / Full text PDF (175 kB)

Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS:
Weights and measures: The Greek efforts
to integrate the metric system / Full text PDF (663 kB)

Fatima PAIXAO, Fatima Regina JORGE:
Success and constraints in the adoption
of the metric system in Portugal / Full text PDF (322 kB)

Romualdas SVIEDRYS:
In search of common standards: The 1650 computer of Casimir Simienowicz
for weight conversions / Full text PDF (64 kB)

Karl-Heinz ZIESSOW:
Money - from virtual reality to the real thing: Emerging national currencies and the
transformation of traditional peasant economy in Northwest Germany / Full text PDF (201 kB)

Cover of Chapter 17 / Full text PDF (299 kB)

Leonardo GARIBOLDI:
Developing a technique for researches in cosmic-ray physics:
Nuclear emulsions from Bristol to Europe / Full text PDF (256 kB)

Helge KRAGH:
The internationalization of physical cosmology / Full text PDF (71 kB)

Maiken LOLCK:
Greenland Ice Sheet Project: Collaboration of local specialisations on
global problems / Full text PDF (63 kB)

Jaume NAVARRO:
The reception of the De Broglie principle in England / Full text PDF (70 kB)

Cristina OLIVOTTO:
The Mediterranean flights and the G-Stack collaboration (1952-1955):
A first example of European collaboration in particle physics / Full text PDF (164 kB)

Karl-Heinz SCHLOTE:
From Möbius to Heisenberg: Mathematical and theoretical physics
in Leipzig 1830-1945 / Full text PDF (256 kB)

Juraj SEBESTA:
Triangle collaboration / Full text PDF (151 kB)

Pasquale TUCCI, Leonardo GARIBOLDI:
Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini: A cosmopolitan scientist / Full text PDF (186 kB)

Roland WITTJE:
Nuclear physics instrumentation in Norway: 1933-1955 / Full text PDF (88 kB)

Cover of Chapter 18 / Full text PDF (316 kB)

Brigitte BISCHOF:
Women in physics in Vienna / Full text PDF (206 kB)

Jean-Jacques DREIFUSS, Natalia TIKHONOV:
The intersection of personal and academic history:
Lina Stern (1878-1968) / Full text PDF (99 kB)

Kristina ESPMARK:
A scientific outsider: Astrid Cleve von Euler and her passion for research / Full text PDF (183 kB)

Anne FELLINGER:
Women radio-chemists facing radioactive risks in France / Full text PDF (157 kB)

Anastasia LADA, Olga FOTAKOPOULOU, Katerina CHATZIKONSTANTINOU:
Portraying gender / Full text PDF (388 kB)

Juliette LELOUP:
The women who defended a thesis in mathematics in France during
the interwar period / Full text PDF (137 kB)

Annette LYKKNES, Lise KVITTINGEN, Anne Kristine BORRESEN:
From fertile centers to seeding the periphery. Ellen Gleditsch:
Pioneer woman from Norway / Full text PDF (70 kB)

Gisela MATEOS:
The absence of women in neutrino physics / Full text PDF (89 kB)

Maria RENTETZI:
Gender transformations in physics in the 1960s:
The case of the Greek Research Center 'Dimokritos' / Full text PDF (90 kB)

Helga SATZINGER:
Women do physiology, men do chemistry: Epistemological problems
and a gendered division of labour in sex hormone research, 1920-40s / Full text PDF (50 kB)

Felicitas SEEBACHER:
'Roses for the Gentlemen'. The 'question of women's rights' in
medical studies at the University of Vienna before 1897 / Full text PDF (241 kB)

Ida H. STAMHUIS:
Women in the new disciplines of radioactivity and genetics:
Comparative remarks / Full text PDF (33 kB)

Annette B. VOGT:
Anneliese Maier and her contribution to the history of science / Full text PDF (175 kB)

Cover of Chapter 19 / Full text PDF (310 kB)

Denis DIAGRE:
Did colonization boost international relations between botanical gardens?
The Belgian situation / Full text PDF (150 kB)

Olga Yu. ELINA:
Private botanical gardens in Russia: Between noble culture and scientific
professionalization (1760s-1917) / Full text PDF (185 kB)

Patricia D. HARDIN:
Andreas Gryphius and the Instructive Garden / Full text PDF (148 kB)

Antoine JACOBSOHN:
Three little-known botanical gardens at Versailles (1762-1851):
A comparative analysis of their project and of the social and
intellectual trajectory of their creators / Full text PDF (102 kB)

Marianne KLEMUN:
Space, state, territory, region and habitat: Alpine gardens in the Habsburg
countries / Full text PDF (73 kB)

Kamil KULPINSKI:
Janczewski's collections of Ribes sp. at Botanic Garden, Museum and Herbarium
of the Institute of Botany of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow / Full text PDF (73 kB)

Finola O'KANE:
'Mixing foreign trees with the natives': The form and ideology of
Irish botanic gardens and arboreta / Full text PDF (73 kB)

Bastian RÖTHER, Daniela FEISTAUER, Uta MONECKE:
The 'Society of Corresponding Botanists' as Pflanzschule
for botanical gardens / Full text PDF (398 kB)

Dawn SANDERS:
Balancing the interplay between botanic gardens and schools:
The work of William Hales and Lilian Clarke / Full text PDF (182 kB)

Rene SIGRIST, Eric WIDMER, Wladimir BERELOWITCH:
Botanical networks in the 18th and early 19th century:
A sociological investigation / Full text PDF (78 kB)

Jose Pedro SOUSA-DIAS:
Friedrich Welwitsch and the knowledge of materia medica
in nineteenth century Angola / Full text PDF (102 kB)

Cover of Chapter 20 / Full text PDF (293 kB)

Sabine BRAUCKMANN:
The embryonic tree: A themata of Entwickelungsgeschichte / Full text PDF (72 kB)

Piotr KLEPACKI:
The evolution of the ethnobotany as the field of science
in 19th and 20th century / Full text PDF (66 kB)

Mikhail KONASHEV:
The evolutionary synthesis and Th. Dobzhansky / Full text PDF (166 kB)

Andrea UBRIZSY SAVOIA:
Relationship between Libri Picturati A. 16-30 and printed Renaissance botanical work.
Some new data on 'Clusius Codex' and the mycological 'Cesi Codex' / Full text PDF (395 kB)

Alicja ZEMANEK, Bogdan ZEMANEK:
Methodology of Renaissance botany and the 'Libri picturati' (A. 18-30)
watercolour collection / Full text PDF (237 kB)

Cover of Chapter 21 / Full text PDF (245 kB)

Cover of Chapter 22 / Full text PDF (289 kB)

Claude DEBRU:
Scientific progress: A qualitative view / Full text PDF (112 kB)

Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA:
Erratic progresses: Model of the erraticism / Full text PDF (136 kB)

Ernst P. HAMM:
Mennonites, science and progress in the Dutch Enlightenment / Full text PDF (187 kB)

Aleksandar PETROVIC:
Back to progress: one or more scientific paradigms / Full text PDF (146 kB)

Henk WALS:
How does knowledge accumulate?
Circulation-processes in a long-term perspective / Full text PDF (86 kB)

Frank D.A. WEGENER:
On the relationship between the natural and the
human sciences: Energetic sociology / Full text PDF (117 kB)

Cover of Chapter 23 / Full text PDF (247 kB)

Cover of Chapter 24 / Full text PDF (294 kB)

Vítor BONIFACIO, Isabel MALAQUIAS, Joao FERNANDES:
Reacting to external events: Solar eclipses as catalysts of the Portuguese astronomical development in the second half of the nineteenth century / Full text PDF (162 kB)

Susana GOMEZ:
The words and things of Arias Montano / Full text PDF (145 kB)

Tayra M.C. LANUZA-NAVARRO, Ana Cecilia AVALOS-FLORES:
Astrological prophecies and the Inquisition in the Iberian World / Full text PDF (196 kB)

Víctor NAVARRO BROTONS:
Spain and the Low Countries: Aspects of the scientific relationship
in the sixteenth century / Full text PDF (177 kB)

Eduard RECASENS GALLART:
Geometrical studies in 17th century Spain
and their counterparts in European mathematics / Full text PDF (143 kB)

Antoni ROCA-ROSELL, Maria Rosa MASSA, Carles PUIG-PLA,
Francesc X. BARCA, Guillermo LUSA:
The Military Academy for Mathematics of Barcelona (1720)
and its role in the history of engineering in Spain / Full text PDF (151 kB)

Cover of Chapter 25 / Full text PDF (307 kB)

Finn AASERUD:
Niels Bohr's mission for an 'open world' / Full text PDF (105 kB)

Heloisa Maria BERTOL DOMINGUES:
The concept of nature and environmental projects:
UNESCO in its first decade / Full text PDF (172 kB)

Kenneth BERTRAMS:
interwar Western Europe and North America / Full text PDF (68 kB)

Yannick BEZIN:
The rationalism beyond science: The politic and religious
activism of the Union Rationaliste / Full text PDF (166 kB)

Jimena CANALES:
Einstein, Bergson, and the experiment that failed:
Intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations / Full text PDF (115 kB)

Christopher A. J. CHILVERS:
These twisted times: The Russian delegation to the 1931 Congress
and the battle for Russian science in the 1930s / Full text PDF (33 kB)

Vidar ENEBAKK:
The second generation of historians of the social relations of science / Full text PDF (66 kB)

Heiner FANGERAU:
Biology and war: American biology and international science / Full text PDF (119 kB)

Anja Skaar JACOBSEN:
Cold War ideology and international science politics:
Rosenfeld versus Bohr / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Patrick PETITJEAN:
The 'Periphery Principle': UNESCO and the international
commitment of scientists after World War II / Full text PDF (217 kB)

Jahnavi PHALKEY:
'The lack of scientific liaison':
A.V. Hill and science research in Colonial India / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Simon Olling REBSDORF:
'Science is not national, but scientists are':
International 20th century astronomy and Danish astronomers / Full text PDF (156 kB)

Rajinder SINGH:
The Nobel Laureate CV Raman and his contacts
with the European men of science / Full text PDF (237 kB)

Geert J. SOMSEN:
Committing to internationalism: Mediating
activities of Dutch scientists, 1900-1950 / Full text PDF (132 kB)

Mikulas TEICH:
J.D. Bernal as historian of science / Full text PDF (78 kB)

Mathieu TRICLOT:
Norbert Wiener's politics and the history of cybernetics / Full text PDF (114 kB)

Ulrike WUNDERLE:
The International Conferences on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and Cold War confrontation: Scientific internationalism in the 1950s and 1960s / Full text PDF (78 kB)

Cover of Chapter 26 / Full text PDF (267 kB)

David BANEKE:
The scientific intelligentsia: Science and society
in the Netherlands, 1890-1940 / Full text PDF (96 kB)

Emilia CURRAS, Enrique WULFF:
Integration in Europe of human genetics results obtained by
Spaniards in the USA. A historical perspective / Full text PDF (230 kB)

Ab FLIPSE:
Science, religion and emancipation: Dutch Calvinist and Roman-Catholic
responses to modernity in the early 20th century / Full text PDF (65 kB)

Albrecht HEEFFER:
The role of typographical fixity in the acceptance of algebraic symbolism
in sixteenth-century Europe / Full text PDF (63 kB)

Janneke van der HEIDE:
Scientific culture in The Netherlands: Darwinism and
popular culture, 1870-1885 / Full text PDF (97 kB)

Ton van HELVOORT:
The 'Americanisation' of Dutch universities in the 1960s and 70s:
The case of chemistry at the University of Groningen / Full text PDF (69 kB)

Marijn J. HOLLESTELLE:
Paul Ehrenfest as a mediator / Full text PDF (151 kB)

Zibartas Juozas JACKUNAS:
Local vs global knowledge: Is it a meaningful dichotomy? / Full text PDF (39 kB)

Laurent MAZLIAK, Pavel SISMA:
New Scientific Relations in Europe at the End of World War I: The example of
mathematics through Frechet in Strasbourg and Hostinsky in Brno / Full text PDF (194 kB)

Alberto MESCHIARI:
Exchanges in science between Giovanni Battista Amici
and European scientists / Full text PDF (125 kB)

Lodewijk C. PALM:
Leeuwenhoek's letters and the circulation of knowledge:
Individual preferences / Full text PDF (72 kB)

Jeannette van der SANDEN:
Knowledge transfer about sex and gender:
The case of women's studies in the Netherlands / Full text PDF (181 kB)

Eckhard SCHINKEL:
New sources, new look - the Ostrodzko-Elblaski Canal / Poland:
About the network origins of its inclined planes / Full text PDF (167 kB)

Bert THEUNISSEN:
The 'Holsteinisation' of the Dutch dairy cattle breeds
in the 1970s and 1980s / Full text PDF (73 kB)

Geert VANPAEMEL:
Science communication strategies of amateurs and
professional scientists in nineteenth century Belgium / Full text PDF (157 kB)

Huib J. ZUIDERVAART:
'The latest news about the heavens': The European contact- and
correspondence-network of Dutch astronomers in mid-18th century / Full text PDF (385 kB)

Cover of Chapter 27 / Full text PDF (313 kB)

Liliya ABRAROVA, Natalia KNEKHT:
The image of science: The unity of philosophy,
methodology and the history of science / Full text PDF (108 kB)

Xavier CALVO-MONREAL:
Writing the history of Catalan Molecular Biology:
Using correspondence, interviews and papers / Full text PDF (137 kB)

Anne-Sophie GODFROY-GENIN:
Creating a cross-comparative methodology to study
engineering education and profession in Europe today / Full text PDF (166 kB)

Michal KOKOWSKI:
A meta-history of science and methodology of
the history of science urgently needed! / Full text PDF (185 kB)

Clara PINTO-CORREIA:
Adjectives, footnotes and captions: Historiographic biases
against preformation in mid-war accounts of embryology / Full text PDF (68 kB)

Jarmo PULKKINEN:
Technological metaphors and history of science/ Full text PDF (129 kB)

Maria STRECHT ALMEIDA:
Controversies and concept changes in erythrocyte aging studies:
A look into the dynamics of the research area / Full text PDF (88 kB)

Cover of Chapter 28 / Full text PDF (343 kB)

Juozas BANIONIS:
The studies and the history of mathematics at the
university of Lithuania in 1920-1940 / Full text PDF (135 kB)

Stephanie DUPOUY:
Mapping the face: Anatomy of passions by
J. Parsons, P. Camper and C. Bell / Full text PDF (95 kB)

Stanislav JUZNIC:
Gruber's machine-ship: Early machine boats in Habsburg Empire / Full text PDF (214 kB)

Ewa KACZMARZYK:
The history of natural research in the northern part
of the Silesia-Cracow Upland between the middle of the
19th century and the end of the 20th century / Full text PDF (155 kB)

Ken KALLING, Erki TAMMIKSAAR:
Restructuring the connections: Scientific networks of
the University of Tartu shattered by language shifts / Full text PDF (68 kB)

Christelle RABIER:
Surgeons in the courtroom: Forensic expertise
and local power at Paris and London, 1760-1790 / Full text PDF (70 kB)

Ewelina TYLINSKA:
The revival of the Vilnius University in 1919:
Historical conditions and importance for Polish science / Full text PDF (193 kB)

Andrzej J. WOJCIK:
Jubilee of Jan Hempel's 'Geognostic map of coalfield in Polish Kingdom' / Full text PDF (206 kB)

Cover of Chapter 29 / Full text PDF (287 kB)

Carlo ARTEMI:
The last paper by Ettore Majorana: An analysis / Full text PDF (126 kB)

Vahur MAGI:
From the 17th century to the present-day in Estonia:
Evolution of exact and natural sciences / Full text PDF (133 kB)

Richard K. MERRITT:
Mathematics science and memory: Florentine painting and the
origins of the experimental model during the Italian Renaissance / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Miroslav Tibor MOROVICS, Andrej SPERKA:
The beginnings of scientific interests in electrical phenomena
in Hungarian Kingdom / Full text PDF (779 kB)

Raffaele PISANO:
Brief historical notes on the theory of centres of gravity / Full text PDF (222 kB)

Cover of Chapter 30 / Full text PDF (285 kB)

Maria C. BURGUETE:
The philosophy of computational chemistry II / Full text PDF (1,3 MB)

Maria Elvira CALLAPEZ:
The USA and the EU: Two perspectives on phthalates / Full text PDF (164 kB)

Soledad ESTEBAN SANTOS:
Liebig and Wöhler and the concept of isomerism / Full text PDF (210 kB)

Nuria PEREZ-PEREZ:
Controlling infectious diseases at the end of 18th century in Spain / Full text PDF (159 kB)

Alicja RAFALSKA-LASOCHA, Wieslaw LASOCHA, Anna JASINSKA:
Cold light in the painting? Group portrait in the Chemist's House' / Full text PDF (292 kB)

Cover of Chapter 31 / Full text PDF (286 kB)

Ralph J. DESMARAIS:
George Orwell and the Radial Scientific Left in Britain, 1945-1950 / Full text PDF (74 kB)

Sylvain LAUBE:
Attitudes of French and Austrian scientific institutions, 1938-1945 / Full text PDF (96 kB)

Christiane NIVET:
1848: Gregor Mendel, the monk who wanted to be a citizen / Full text PDF (89 kB)

Françoise OLIVIER-UTARD:
Edmond Rothé as an early figure of a committed intellectual
at Strasbourg University, 1919-1942 / Full text PDF (232 kB)

Index of names of authors: pp. 983-985 / Full text PDF (120 kB)