[Athena] Parution : Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie

[Patrice Bret <patrice.bret AT yahoo.fr>]

Vient de paraître :

Buchwald, Jed Z. (Ed.), A Master of Science History

, Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dordrecht, Springer (Archimedes, Vol. 30), 2012, XIX, 439 p. 78 illus.

Relié, ISBN 978-94-007-2626-0, 106,95 €

Table des matières

Part I Charles Gillispie
1 Publications by Charles Coulston Gillispie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 A Professional Life in the History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Charles Coulston Gillispie
3 A Career in the History of Science as a Student
of Charles Gillispie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Seymour H. Mauskopf
4 Charles Gillispie in the Digital Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jane Maienschein and Manfred D. Laubichler

Part II Archaeology
5 Peking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Tore Frängsmyr
6 The Puzzle Picture of Lucretius: A Thriller from Herculaneum . . . . . 63
Knut Kleve

Part III Astronomy
7 Urania Propitia, Tabulae Rudophinae faciles redditae a Maria Cunitia
Beneficent Urania, the Adaptation of the Rudolphine Tables by Maria
Cunitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
N.M. Swerdlow
8 Simplicity in the Copernican Revolution: Galileo, Descartes, Newton 123
David B. Wilson

Part IV Chemistry
9 The Weekday Chemist: The Training of Aleksandr Borodin . . . . . . . 137
Michael D. Gordin

Part V Geology and Natural Theology
10 The Genesis of Historical Research on the History of Geology, with
Thoughts About Kirwan, de Luc, and Whiggery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
David Oldroyd
11 Five Discourses of Bible and Science 1750–2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Nicolaas A. Rupke
12 ‘‘Natural Theology of Industry’’ in Seventeenth-Century China?: Ideas
About the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing’s
Heaven’s Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu) . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Yung Sik Kim

Part VI Mathematics
13 On the Role of the Ecole Polytechnique, 1794–1914, with Especial
Reference to Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
14 The Notion of Variation in Leibniz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Eberhard Knobloch
15 Founding Acts and Major Turning-Points in Arab Mathematics . . . . 253
Roshdi Rashed

Part VII Medicine and Health
16 Chemotherapy by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
John E. Lesch
17 American Health Reformers and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Evan M. Melhado
18 Quantity and Polity: Asylum Statistics and the Drive for Medical
Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Theodore M. Porter
19 The Question of Efficacy in the History of Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Nathan Sivin

Part VIII Science and Industry in France
20 Secrecy, Industry and Science. French Glassmaking in the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Marco Beretta
21 Balloons, Hydraulic Machines and Steam Engines at War and Peace:
Jean-Pierre Campmas, a Visionary or an Inefficient Inventor? . . . . . 367
Patrice Bret
22 Cauchy’s Theory of Dispersion Anticipated by Fresnel. . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Jed Z. Buchwald
23 Sadi Carnot on Political Economy. Science, Morals, and Public Policy
in Restoration France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Robert Fox
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429