{"title":"Astronomical clues in unicorn iconography of the Harappan civilization","authors":"P. M. Dolas","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00030-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00030-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"57 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in History of Sciences in India: Agriculture, Medicine, Alchemical and Chemical Practices by Mira Roy, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 38, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, 2019, xxvii + 830 pp, Price–Rs. 2500/-","authors":"Bijoya Goswami","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"53 1","pages":"60-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in History of Sciences in India: Agriculture, Medicine, Alchemical and Chemical Practices by Mira Roy, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 38, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, 2019, xxvii + 830 pp, Price–Rs. 2500/-","authors":"Bijoya Goswami","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"53 1","pages":"60-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jagadis Bose’s panvitalism as intellectual history","authors":"Subrata Dasgupta","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>No aspect of Jagadis Chandra Bose’s science is more enigmatic than his concern with the relationship between the living and nonliving, explored from 1900 through 1902. Elsewhere this writer called this the ‘middle Bose’ period since it separated Bose the physicist (1894–1900) from Bose the plant physiologist (1903 and after). The essence of his insight developed in this brief period was formerly termed by this writer the ‘Boseian thesis’ and summarized as ‘There is no discontinuity between the living and nonliving’. However, a more nuanced examination of three key texts published by Bose in this period, along with supplemental archival documents reveals that his articulation of the relationship between the living and nonliving evolved in subtle and daring ways culminating in an expression of the doctrine of <i>panvitalism</i>. This doctrine—that life pervades all matter—is an <i>idea</i> about the natural world. Thus, examining Bose’s panvitalism takes us into the realm of <i>intellectual history</i>: the close study of the <i>meaning</i> of Bose’s <i>texts</i> in order to understand his <i>intention</i> in exploring the relationship of the living and nonliving, the <i>context</i> of his investigation and its relation to the texts, and <i>how</i> he arrived at his panvitalist doctrine. The intellectual history of Bose’s panvitalism is the subject of this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"202 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jagadis Bose’s panvitalism as intellectual history","authors":"Subrata Dasgupta","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>No aspect of Jagadis Chandra Bose’s science is more enigmatic than his concern with the relationship between the living and nonliving, explored from 1900 through 1902. Elsewhere this writer called this the ‘middle Bose’ period since it separated Bose the physicist (1894–1900) from Bose the plant physiologist (1903 and after). The essence of his insight developed in this brief period was formerly termed by this writer the ‘Boseian thesis’ and summarized as ‘There is no discontinuity between the living and nonliving’. However, a more nuanced examination of three key texts published by Bose in this period, along with supplemental archival documents reveals that his articulation of the relationship between the living and nonliving evolved in subtle and daring ways culminating in an expression of the doctrine of <i>panvitalism</i>. This doctrine—that life pervades all matter—is an <i>idea</i> about the natural world. Thus, examining Bose’s panvitalism takes us into the realm of <i>intellectual history</i>: the close study of the <i>meaning</i> of Bose’s <i>texts</i> in order to understand his <i>intention</i> in exploring the relationship of the living and nonliving, the <i>context</i> of his investigation and its relation to the texts, and <i>how</i> he arrived at his panvitalist doctrine. The intellectual history of Bose’s panvitalism is the subject of this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"202 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transit of sun through the seasonal nakṣatra cycle in the Vṛddha-Gārgīya Jyotiṣa","authors":"R. Iyengar, Sunder Chakravarty","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00018-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00018-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"311 1","pages":"159-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52828886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microstructural analysis and characterization of lime mortar of seventeenth century Raigad hill fort from western India","authors":"M. Singh, Rajendra Yadav","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00023-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00023-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"35 1","pages":"217-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formation-to-fall: natural history and the journey of a lesser-known genus of orchids, Monomeria","authors":"U. Shankar","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00022-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00022-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"56 1","pages":"204-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hati Puthi: the medieval Assamese manuscripts on elephant training and treatment","authors":"R. Rajkhowa","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00025-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00025-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"56 1","pages":"230-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Krishna, D. P. Mishra, Y. V. M. Reddy, B. C. Reddy
{"title":"Indigenous knowledge on ancient Indian alchemical alloying","authors":"N. Krishna, D. P. Mishra, Y. V. M. Reddy, B. C. Reddy","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00020-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00020-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":"1 1","pages":"195-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}