Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2334418
Urs Leo Gantenbein
{"title":"The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology","authors":"Urs Leo Gantenbein","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2334418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2334418","url":null,"abstract":"The Swiss natural philosopher, physician, and radical reformer Theophrastus of Hohenheim (1493–1541), known as Paracelsus, endeavoured to reconcile his various perspectives in his extensive biblica...","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"311 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2332884
Photis Dais
{"title":"Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles.","authors":"Photis Dais","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2332884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2332884","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this essay, I will compare the character, scientific style, and writing style of the American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and the French physicist Pierre Maurice Duhem. I begin with biographical notes to portray some significant moments of their lives. I will contrast their characters and scientific styles as manifested in their social and scientific activity influenced by the cultural traditions of their countries and the social and scientific milieu of their time. Also, in these sections, I will discuss features of their familial relationships that affected their youth, their psychology, and the shaping of their characters. I will compare their writing styles emphasizing the differences observed between Gibbs's dense and austere style, unlike Duhem's detailed and informative way of writing his essays. I will further examine the way by which each physicist used Mach's doctrine of the economy of thought in shaping their writing style. A final contrast is reserved for their pedagogical styles. In this case, I will let their students and colleagues speak for them, while I comment on why they did not leave behind a school of thought.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140292497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2326414
Karen Hunger Parshall
{"title":"Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics","authors":"Karen Hunger Parshall","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2326414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2326414","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140076216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2304737
Dominique Raynaud
{"title":"A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V","authors":"Dominique Raynaud","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2304737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2304737","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-21DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2304738
Robert W. Smith
{"title":"Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe","authors":"Robert W. Smith","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2304738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2304738","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139552920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2304715
John A. Schuster
{"title":"Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method","authors":"John A. Schuster","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2304715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2304715","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139552937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2304718
Cristiano Zanetti
{"title":"Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel","authors":"Cristiano Zanetti","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2304718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2304718","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139500216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2282777
Sibylle Gluch
{"title":"Promises of precision: questioning precision in 'precision' instruments.","authors":"Sibylle Gluch","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2282777","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2282777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"81 1-2","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139674028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2282782
Luís Tirapicos
{"title":"Directions of precision: George Graham's instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks.","authors":"Luís Tirapicos","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2282782","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2282782","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the 1720s two Jesuit astronomers working at the court of King João V of Portugal, in Lisbon, received several instruments produced by the best makers in London, Paris and Rome. With the crucial help of the Portuguese diplomatic network contacts with academies, savants and instrument makers were established, seeking technical advice and the best astronomical instruments available at the time. It was in this context that in April 1726 a set of Latin instructions accompanying pendulum clocks made by George Graham were dispatched from London to Lisbon. These unpublished instructions are now preserved in the papers of Giovanni Battista Carbone, one of these Jesuit astronomers, offering a significant window into the procedures and technical details involved in the setting, operation and transport of Graham's astronomical clocks. In this paper, I will not only discuss this important document in the framework of Graham's contributions to astronomy and horology, but also in the perspective of the search for accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"124-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138046021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2284335
Miguel Ohnesorge
{"title":"The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800-1910.","authors":"Miguel Ohnesorge","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2284335","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00033790.2023.2284335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the ways in which nineteenth-century geodesists reflected on precision as an epistemic virtue in their measurement practice. Physical geodesy is often understood as a quintessential nineteenth-century precision science, stimulating advances in instrument making and statistics, and generating incredible quantities of data. Throughout most of the nineteenth century, geodesists indeed pursued their most prestigious research problem - the exact determination of the earth's polar flattening - along those lines. Treating measurement errors as random, they assumed that remaining discordances could be overcome by manufacturing better instruments and extending statistical analysis to a larger amount of data. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, several German geodesists developed sophisticated methodological critiques of their discipline, in which they diagnosed a too-narrow focus on precision among their peers. On their account, geodesists urgently needed to identify and anticipate the causes of the remaining measurement errors that arose from the earth's little understood interior constitution. While mostly overlooked in the literature, these critiques paved the way for many empirical successes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century geodesy, including the first convergent measurements of the earth's polar flattening.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"258-284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138298217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}