viernes, 26 de noviembre de 2010

Science in context

Fabio Acerbi (2010). Two Approaches to Foundations in Greek Mathematics: Apollonius and Geminus. Science in Context, 23, pp 151-186 doi:10.1017/S0269889710000037

Fabio Acerbi (2010). Homeomeric Lines in Greek Mathematics. Science in Context, 23, pp 1-37 doi:10.1017/S0269889709990226

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (2009). Egg-Forms and Measure-Bodies: Different Mathematical Practices in the Early History of the Modern Theory of Convexity. Science in Context, 22, pp 85-113 doi:10.1017/S0269889708002081

Roy Wagner (2009). For Some Histories of Greek Mathematics. Science in Context, 22, pp 535-565 doi:10.1017/S0269889709990159

(2009). Geometrical Figures and Generality in Ancient China and Beyond: Liu Hui and Zhao Shuang, Plato and Thabit ibn Qurra – CORRIGENDUM. Science in Context, 22, pp 647-650 doi:10.1017/S0269889709990196

Karine Chemla (2005). Geometrical Figures and Generality in Ancient China and Beyond: Liu Hui and Zhao Shuang, Plato and Thabit ibn Qurra. Science in Context, 18, pp 123-166 doi:10.1017/S0269889705000396

Andrea Loettgers (2007). Getting Abstract Mathematical Models in Touch with Nature. Science in Context, 20, pp 97-124 doi:10.1017/S0269889706001153

Jun Yong Hoon (2006). Mathematics in Context: A Case in Early Nineteenth-Century Korea. Science in Context, 19, pp 475-512 doi:10.1017/S0269889706001049

Leo Corry (2005). Introduction: Science in Latin-American Contexts – Historical Studies. Science in Context, 18, pp 173-178 doi:10.1017/S0269889705000438

Caroline Torra-Mattenklott (2005). The Fable as Figure: Christian Wolff's Geometric Fable Theory and Its Creative Reception by Lessing and Herder. Science in Context, 18, pp 525-552 doi:10.1017/S0269889705000657

jueves, 25 de noviembre de 2010

The British Journal for the History of Science

JONATHAN Y. TSOU (2005). MICHAEL HEIDELBERGER and FRIEDRICH STADLER (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 9. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Pp. x+440. ISBN 1-4020-0509-1. £87.00, €138.00, $127.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 355-356 doi:10.1017/S0007087405247271

JACKIE STEDALL (2005). MENSO FOLKERTS, Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS751. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 382. ISBN 0-86078-895-4. £59.50 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 358-359 doi:10.1017/S0007087405267274

CATHERINE EAGLETON (2005). DAVID A. KING, The Ciphers of the Monks: A Forgotten Number-Notation of the Middle Ages. Boethius, 44. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 506. ISBN 3-515-07640-9. DM 199.49, €102.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 359-360
JENS HØYRUP (2005). JÜRGEN SCHÖNBECK, Euklid. Vita Mathematica, 12. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2003. Pp. x+264. ISBN 3-7643-6584-6. €82.24, SFr 128.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 223-225 doi:10.1017/S0007087405246964

KIM PLOFKER (2005). HELAINE SELIN (ed.) and UBIRATAN D'AMBROSIO (advisory ed.), Mathematics across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics. Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 2. Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xx+479. ISBN 0-7923-6481-3. £135.00, $217.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 102-103 doi:10.1017/S0007087404216685

DAVID C. LINDBERG (2005). RICHARD S. BROOKS and DAVID K. HIMROD, Science and Religion in the English-Speaking World, 1600–1727: A Bibliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature. American Theological Library Association Bibliography Series, 46. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Pp. xxxiv+620. ISBN 0-8018-4011-1. $85.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 107-107 doi:10.1017/S0007087404256680

JACKIE STEDALL (2005). AMIR R. ALEXANDER, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+293. ISBN 0-80473-260-4. £46.95 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 108-109 doi:10.1017/S0007087404266687

STEFANO GATTEI (2005). STEVE FULLER, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+472. ISBN 0-226-26896-9. £14.50, $22.50 (paperback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 38, pp 121-122 doi:10.1017/S0007087404376685

M. EILEEN MAGNELLO (2006). THEODORE M. PORTER, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ and London: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+342. ISBN 0-691-11445-5. £22.95, $35.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 39, pp 619-620 doi:10.1017/S0007087406429058

IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS (2006). HANS NIELS JAHNKE (ed.), A History of Analysis. History of Mathematics, 24. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2003. Pp. xi+422. ISBN 0-8218-2623-9. $89.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 39, pp 126-127 doi:10.1017/S0007087406247897

CLAIRE Brock (2006). The public worth of Mary Somerville. The British Journal for the History of Science, 39, pp 255-272 doi:10.1017/S0007087405007612

SARAH HUTTON (2007). NOEL MALCOLM and JACQUELINE STEDALL, John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 657. ISBN 0-19-856484-8. £90.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 40, pp 287-288 doi:10.1017/S0007087407009582

Francesca Bray (2007). Benjamin A. Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxviii+567. ISBN 0-674-01685-8. £35.95 (hardback).

Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+308. ISBN 0-674-02306-4. $35.00, £22.95, €29.80 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 40, pp 439-441 doi:10.1017/S0007087407000039

Sachiko Kusukawa (2007). John Brooke and Ian Maclean (eds.), Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+373. ISBN 0-19-926897-5. $120.00, £65.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 40, pp 603-605 doi:10.1017/S0007087407000428

Judith V. Grabiner (2008). Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 41, pp 298-300 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001064

Josipa G. Petrunić (2009). Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+217. ISBN 978-0-8018-8709-3. £33.50 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 42, pp 119-121 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001939

Ivor Grattan-Guinness (2009). Jeremy J. Gray and Karen H. Parshall (eds.), Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London: London Mathematical Society, 2007. Pp. vii+336 pp. ISBN 978-0-8218-4343-7. $69.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 42, pp 304-305 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002398

Ivor Grattan-Guinness (2010). The role of an editor: some remarks on Whiteside's edition of Newton's mathematical papers. The British Journal for the History of Science, 43, pp 105-112 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000257

Alexander Jones (2010). Eleanor Robson, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvii+441. ISBN 978-0-691-09182-2. £35.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 43, pp 286-288 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000518

Josipa G. Petrunić (2010). Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. vii+918. ISBN 978-19-921312-2. £85.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 43, pp 289-291 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000531

Alison Adam (2010). Claire G. Jones, Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+264. ISBN 978-0-230-55521-1. £55.00 (hardback).. The British Journal for the History of Science, 43, pp 494-496 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001135