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The gravitational influence of Jupiter on the Ptolemaic value for the eccentricity of Saturn 木星引力对土星离心率托勒密值的影响
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00271-y
Christián C. Carman
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引用次数: 1
The development of the concept of uniform convergence in Karl Weierstrass’s lectures and publications between 1861 and 1886 一致收敛概念在卡尔·魏尔斯特拉斯1861年至1886年的演讲和出版物中的发展
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00266-9
Klaus Viertel
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引用次数: 3
BM 76829: A small astronomical fragment with important implications for the Late Babylonian Astronomy and the Astronomical Book of Enoch BM 76829:一个小的天文碎片,对巴比伦晚期天文学和以诺天文学著作具有重要意义
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00268-7
Jeanette C. Fincke, Wayne Horowitz, Eshbal Ratzon
{"title":"BM 76829: A small astronomical fragment with important implications for the Late Babylonian Astronomy and the Astronomical Book of Enoch","authors":"Jeanette C. Fincke,&nbsp;Wayne Horowitz,&nbsp;Eshbal Ratzon","doi":"10.1007/s00407-020-00268-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00407-020-00268-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>BM 76829, a fragment from the mid-section of a small tablet from Sippar in Late Babylonian script, preserves what remains of two new unparalleled pieces from the cuneiform astronomical repertoire relating to the zodiac. The text on the obverse assigns numerical values to sectors assigned to zodiacal signs, while the text on the reverse seems to relate zodiacal signs with specific days or intervals of days. The system used on the obverse also presents a new way of representing the concept of numerical ‘zero’ in cuneiform, and for the first time in cuneiform, a system for dividing the horizon into six arcs in the east and six arcs in the west akin to that used in the Astronomical Book of Enoch. Both the obverse and the reverse may describe the periodical courses of the sun and moon, in a similar way to what is found in astronomical texts from Qumran, thus adding to our knowledge of the scientific relationship between the two cultures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50982,"journal":{"name":"Archive for History of Exact Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00407-020-00268-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50501813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Back to the roots of vector and tensor calculus: Heaviside versus Gibbs 回到矢量和张量微积分的根:Heaviside和Gibbs
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-11-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00264-x
Alessio Rocci
{"title":"Back to the roots of vector and tensor calculus: Heaviside versus Gibbs","authors":"Alessio Rocci","doi":"10.1007/s00407-020-00264-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00407-020-00264-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881–1884. This original document is preserved in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Heaviside studied Gibbs’s work very carefully and wrote some annotations in the margins of the booklet. He was a strong defender of Gibbs’s work on vector analysis against quaternionists, even if he criticised Gibbs’s notation system. The aim of our paper is to analyse Heaviside’s annotations and to investigate the role played by the American physicist in the development of Heaviside’s work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50982,"journal":{"name":"Archive for History of Exact Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00407-020-00264-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47448391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Correction to: What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888 更正:海因里希·赫兹在1887年至1888年对电波的发现
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-11-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00267-8
Jed Buchwald, Chen-Pang Yeang, Noah Stemeroff, Jenifer Barton, Quinn Harrington
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引用次数: 0
Hobbes’s model of refraction and derivation of the sine law 霍布斯折射模型及正弦定律的推导
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-11-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00265-w
Hao Dong
{"title":"Hobbes’s model of refraction and derivation of the sine law","authors":"Hao Dong","doi":"10.1007/s00407-020-00265-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00407-020-00265-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims both to tackle the technical issue of deciphering Hobbes’s derivation of the sine law of refraction and to throw some light to the broader issue of Hobbes’s mechanical philosophy. I start by recapitulating the polemics between Hobbes and Descartes concerning Descartes’ optics. I argue that, first, Hobbes’s criticisms do expose certain shortcomings of Descartes’ optics which presupposes a twofold distinction between real motion and inclination to motion, and between motion itself and determination of motion; second, Hobbes’s optical theory presented in <i>Tractatus Opticus I</i> constitutes a more economical alternative, which eliminates the twofold distinction and only admits actual local motion, and Hobbes’s derivation of the sine law presented therein, which I call “the early model” and which was retained in <i>Tractatus Opticus II</i> and <i>First Draught</i>, is mathematically consistent and physically meaningful. These two points give Hobbes’s early optics some theoretical advantage over that of Descartes. However, an issue that has baffled commentators is that, in <i>De Corpore</i> Hobbes’s derivation of the sine law seems to be completely different from that presented in his earlier works, furthermore, it does not make any intuitive sense. I argue that the derivation of the sine law in <i>De Corpore</i> does make sense mathematically if we read it as a simplification of the early model, and Hobbes has already hinted toward it in the last proposition of <i>Tractatus Opticus I</i>. But now the question becomes, why does Hobbes take himself to be entitled to present this simplified, seemingly question-begging form without having presented all the previous results? My conjecture is that the switch from the early model to the late model is symptomatic of Hobbes’s changing views on the relation between physics and mathematics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50982,"journal":{"name":"Archive for History of Exact Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00407-020-00265-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42526867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Operator calculus: the lost formulation of quantum mechanics 算子演算:量子力学的遗失公式
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00262-z
Gonzalo Gimeno, Mercedes Xipell, Marià Baig
{"title":"Operator calculus: the lost formulation of quantum mechanics","authors":"Gonzalo Gimeno,&nbsp;Mercedes Xipell,&nbsp;Marià Baig","doi":"10.1007/s00407-020-00262-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00407-020-00262-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditionally, “the operator calculus of Born and Wiener” has been considered one of the four formulations of <i>quantum mechanics</i> that existed in 1926. The present paper reviews the operator calculus as applied by Max Born and Norbert Wiener during the last months of 1925 and the early months of 1926 and its connections with the rise of the new quantum theory. Despite the relevance of this operator calculus, Born–Wiener’s joint contribution to the topic is generally bypassed in historical accounts of quantum mechanics. In this study, we analyse the paper that epitomises the contribution, and we explain the main reasons for the apparent lack of interest in Born and Wiener’s work. We argue that they did not solve the main problem for which the tool was intended, that of linear motion, because of their reluctance to use Dirac delta functions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50982,"journal":{"name":"Archive for History of Exact Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00407-020-00262-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47165442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Pipe flow: a gateway to turbulence 管道流动:湍流的入口
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00263-y
Michael Eckert
{"title":"Pipe flow: a gateway to turbulence","authors":"Michael Eckert","doi":"10.1007/s00407-020-00263-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00407-020-00263-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pipe flow has been a challenge that gave rise to investigations on turbulence—long before turbulence was discerned as a research problem in its own right. The discharge of water from elevated reservoirs through long conduits such as for the fountains at Versailles suggested investigations about the resistance in relation to the different diameters and lengths of the pipes as well as the speed of flow. Despite numerous measurements of hydraulic engineers, the data could not be reproduced by a commonly accepted formula, not to mention a theoretical derivation. The resistance of air flow in long pipes for the supply of blast furnaces or mine air appeared even more inaccessible to rational elaboration. In the nineteenth century, it became gradually clear that there were two modes of pipe flow, laminar and turbulent. While the former could be accommodated under the roof of hydrodynamic theory, the latter proved elusive. When the wealth of turbulent pipe flow data in smooth tubes was displayed as a function of the Reynolds number, the empirically observed friction factor served as a guide for the search of a fundamental law about turbulent skin friction. By 1930, a logarithmic “wall law” seemed to resolve this quest. Yet pipe flow has not been exhausted as a research subject. It still ranks high on the agenda of turbulence research—both the transition from laminar to turbulent flow and fully developed turbulence at very large Reynolds numbers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50982,"journal":{"name":"Archive for History of Exact Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00407-020-00263-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42320230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888 海因里希·赫兹在1887年至1888年发现了电磁波
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00260-1
J. Buchwald, C. Yeang, Noah Stemeroff, Jenifer Barton, Quinn Harrington
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引用次数: 0
What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888 海因里希·赫兹在1887年至1888年对电波的发现
IF 0.5 2区 哲学
Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00260-1
Jed Buchwald, Chen-Pang Yeang, Noah Stemeroff, Jenifer Barton, Quinn Harrington
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