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Before the end of an error: Giovanni Bianchini’s original flawed treatise on the conversion of stellar coordinates 在错误结束之前：Giovanni Bianchini关于恒星坐标转换的原始有缺陷的论文

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00261-0

Glen Van Brummelen

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Impact of Gibbs’ and Duhem’s approaches to thermodynamics on the development of chemical thermodynamics 吉布斯和迪昂的热力学方法对化学热力学发展的影响

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00259-8

Photis Dais

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An unpublished manuscript of John von Neumann on shock waves in boostered detonations: historical context and mathematical analysis 一份未发表的约翰·冯·诺伊曼关于助推爆炸冲击波的手稿:历史背景和数学分析

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-18 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00258-9

Molly Riley Knoedler, Julianna C. Kostas, Caroline Mary Hogan, Harper Kerkhoff, Chad M. Topaz

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Maurice Janet’s algorithms on systems of linear partial differential equations 线性偏微分方程组的Maurice Janet算法

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00255-y

Kenji Iohara, Philippe Malbos

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Babylonian astronomy: a new understanding of column Φ 巴比伦天文学：对Φ柱的新认识

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00254-z

Lis Brack-Bernsen

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On the making of Ptolemy’s star catalog 关于托勒密星表的制作

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00257-w

Christian Marx

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Tycho Brahe’s Calculi ad Corrigenda Elementa Orbitae Saturni and the technical aspects of his planetary model of Saturn 第谷·布拉赫的《土星轨道元素计算》及其土星行星模型的技术方面

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00253-0

Christián C. Carman

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Babylonian observations of a unique planetary configuration 巴比伦人对独特行星结构的观察

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00252-1

Teije de Jong, Hermann Hunger

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On Peirce’s 1878 article ‘The probability of induction’: a conceptualistic appraisal 论皮尔斯1878年的文章《归纳的可能性》：一种概念性的评价

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00256-x

G. A. Kyriazis

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On Peirce’s 1878 article ‘The probability of induction’: a conceptualistic appraisal 论皮尔斯1878年的文章《归纳法的概率》:一个概念主义的评价

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-020-00256-x

G. Kyriazis

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