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- Front cover + Copyright + Table of contents: pp. i- xxi / Full text PDF (615 kB)
- Michal Kokowski: Foreword: p. 1 / Full text PDF (73 kB)
- CHAPTER 1. / Introduction to the 2ND
ICESHS: pp. 2-14
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) - APPENDIX / Organization of the
2ND ICESHS
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)
- CHAPTER 2. /
Plenary Lectures: pp. 15-92
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)
- CHAPTER 3. /
Round-Table Discussion 0: pp. 93-104
History of science in education and training in Europe:
What new prospects? / Full text PDF (530 kB)
Chairman: Claude DEBRU
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
- CHAPTER 4. /
Round-Table Discussion 1: pp. 105-118
Working Together: History of Science Societies Around the World / Full text PDF (586 kB)
Chairmen:
Ronald L. NUMBERS
Eberhard KNOBLOCH
Robert FOX and Ronald L. NUMBERS:
IntroductionINTERVENTIONS BY:
Mitchell G. ASH:
The societies for the history of science, technology and medicine in the German-speaking EuropeJoan CADDEN:
The History of Science SocietyClaude DEBRU:
The French Society for History of Science and Technology, and the Societe d'Histoire et d'Epistemologie des Sciences de la VieRoman DUDA:
The Polish institutions acting in the area of the history of science and medicineNoah EFRON:
Science and Technology Studies in Israel. Seeking comparative perspectiveErnst P. HAMM:
The history of science, technology and medicine in CanadaAnja Skaar JACOBSEN:
The Danish Society for the History of ScienceFrank JAMES:
The British Society for the History of ScienceEberhard KNOBLOCH:
The International Academy of the History of ScienceEfthymios NICOLAIDIS:
The role and structure of IUHPS/DHSTIda STAMHUIS
Bert THEUNISSEN:
The Gewina: The Dutch Society for the History of Medicine, Science, Mathematics and Technology
- CHAPTER 5. /
Round-Table Discussion 2: pp. 119-131
The History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe:
Barriers and Opportunities / Full text PDF (663 kB)
Chairmen:
Robert FOX
Michal KOKOWSKI
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 choicesHans-Joachim BRAUN
Claude DEBRU
Eberhard KNOBLOCH
Stanislav JUZNIC
Víctor NAVARRO BROTONSEfthymios NICOLAIDIS:
Towards a common European schoolbook for secondary educationGeert J. SOMSEN:
History of Science and Euro-nationalismSona STRBANOVA
Geert VANPAEMEL:
One or many histories of science for Europe?Andrzej WROBLEWSKI
FINAL REMARKS by Michal KOKOWSKI
- CHAPTER 6. / Symposium
E-1: pp. 132-148
History of science in education and training in Europe: What new prospects?
Organizers of the symposium:
Claude Debru,Jaroslav FOLTA
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
Claude Debru
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)
- CHAPTER 7. / Symposium
E-2: pp. 149-165
VARIA
Organizers of the symposium:
Claude Debru, Jaroslav FOLTA
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
Andrzej Pelczar
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)
- CHAPTER 8. / Symposium RE: pp. 166-181
History and the Public Understanding of Science
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
Martin COUNIHAN
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)
- CHAPTER 9. / Symposium
R-1: pp. 182-192
The role of national and international societies in the history of science
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Robert FOX
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)
- CHAPTER 10. / Symposium
R-2: pp. 193-288
Achievements of Central Europe in Science, in the light of historical studies
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Roman DUDA, Andrzej PELCZAR, Juraj SEBESTA, Sona STRBANOVA, Eva Katalin VAMOS
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)
- CHAPTER 11. / Symposium
R-3: pp. 289-298
History of astronomy in the late medieval and early modern periods
Organizers and chairmen of the symposium:
Jose CHABAS, Richard L. KREMER
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)
- CHAPTER 12. / Symposium R-4
: pp. 299-351
Nicholas Copernicus in focus
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
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)
- CHAPTER 13. / Symposium R-5
: pp. 352-378
Leibniz on Science, Medicine and Technology: A European Project of the Leibniz-Edition
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Hartmut HECHT
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)
- CHAPTER 14. / Symposium
R-6: pp. 379-410
Natural scientists in Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918
Organizers of the symposium:
Mitchell G. ASH, Juliane MIKOLETZKY
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Mitchell G. ASH, Paulus EBNER, Juliane MIKOLETZKY
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)
- CHAPTER 15. / Symposium
R-7: pp. 411-428
Scientific connections between Austria and Poland
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
W. Gerhard POHL
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)
- CHAPTER 16. / Symposium
R-8: pp. 429-478
Weights and measures: The first integration in Europe?
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS
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)
- CHAPTER 17. / Symposium
R-9: pp. 479-515
Global Physics and Local Research in the 20th Century
Organizers of the symposium:
Helge KRAGH, Pasquale TUCCI
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Helge KRAGH, Maiken LOLCK, Pasquale TUCCI
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)
- CHAPTER 18. / Symposium
R-10: pp. 516-571
From Maria Sklodowska-Curie to the 21st Century: Working on Women and Science in History of Science
Organizers of the symposium:
Annette B. VOGT, Maria RENTETZI
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Ida H. STAMHUIS, Sona STRBANOVA, Annette B. VOGT
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)
- CHAPTER 19. / Symposium
R-11: pp. 572-613
Botanical gardens within global and local dynamics: Sociability, professionalization and diffusion of knowledge
Organizers of the symposium:
Nicolas ROBIN, John Dixon HUNT, Volker WISSEMANN
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Nicolas ROBIN, Volker WISSEMANN
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)
- CHAPTER 20. / Symposium
R-12: pp. 614-636
Changes of paradigms in biological sciences between Renaissance and modern times
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Alicja ZEMANEK
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)
- CHAPTER 21. / Symposium
R-13: p. 637
The standardization of medical practices
and the making of historiographic transitions (Cancelled)
Cover of Chapter 21 / Full text PDF (245 kB)
- CHAPTER 22. / Symposium
R-14: pp. 638-667
Progress in Science and Science in Progress: Cultural Perspectives
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Claude DEBRU
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)
- CHAPTER 23. / Symposium
R-15: p. 668
Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP):
(Re)assessing some of historiographic issues (Cancelled)
Cover of Chapter 23 / Full text PDF (247 kB)
- CHAPTER 24. / Symposium
R-16: pp. 669-704
The Iberian World and the modern science: A comparative perspective
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Victor NAVARRO BROTONS
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)
- CHAPTER 25. / Symposium
R-17: pp. 705-767
Politically Active Scientists in the 20th Century
Organizers and chairmen of the symposium:
Geert J. SOMSEN, Christopher A. J. CHILVERS, Patrick PETITJEAN, Vidar ENEBAKK
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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)
- CHAPTER 26. / Symposium
R-18: pp. 768-837
Circulating Knowledge: A European perspective on communication of science
Organizers of the symposium:
Geert VANPAEMEL, Bert THEUNISSEN
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
David BANEKE, Lodewijk C. PALM,
Geert VANPAEMEL, Bert THEUNISSEN
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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)
- CHAPTER 27. / Symposium
R-19: pp. 838-872
How to understand and write the History of Science?
(or: Methodology of the History of Science)
Organizer and chairman of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
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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)
- CHAPTER 28. / Symposium
R-Varia I: pp. 873-912
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairpersons of sessions of the symposium:
Roman DUDA, Stephanie DUPOUY, Andrzej K. WROBLEWSKI
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)
- CHAPTER 29. / Symposium
R-Varia II: pp. 913-941
Mathematics, Exact and Natural Sciences
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
Fabio BEVILACQUA
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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)
- CHAPTER 30. / Symposium
R-Varia III: pp. 942-972
Chemistry
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
W. Gerhard POHL
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)
- CHAPTER 31. / Symposium
R-Varia IV: pp. 973-982
Scientists and Politics
Organizer of the symposium:
Michal KOKOWSKI
Chairman of sessions of the symposium:
Geert SOMSEN
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)