Annals of SciencePub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2306141
Joachim L. Dagg, J. F. Derry
{"title":"The book of Matthew ‘On naval timber and arboriculture’. Its structure and development","authors":"Joachim L. Dagg, J. F. Derry","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2306141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2306141","url":null,"abstract":"The book of Patrick Matthew (1790–1874) ‘On Naval Timber and Arboriculture’ has regularly thwarted readers’ attempts of interpretation. The problems seem to extend beyond analysing and interpreting...","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562794","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 : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2024.2337140
Stephen Bocking
{"title":"A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the rise of physiological plant ecology","authors":"Stephen Bocking","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2024.2337140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2024.2337140","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562795","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 : 2024-04-03DOI: 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 : 2024-03-07DOI: 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}