[Athena] New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science andTechnology (14.1, June 2020) online

[M. Luísa Sousa <luisacoelhosousa AT fct.unl.pt>]

New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (14.1, June 2020) online

 

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal, available online, published in English by De Gruyter/Sciendo, as a result of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Institute for Social Sciences, and Institute of Contemporary History).

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14.1

·  Special issue “Standards: Taming Knowledge?”, with an introduction by the guest editors Javier Ordóñez and Antonio Sánchez to the four articles that it contains. They are case studies dealing with the setting of standards’ epistemological and institutional issues in the modern period, with approaches ranging from the history and philosophy of mathematics, the history and visual culture of biology to the history and philosophy of science and technology.

• “Introduction: Standards in the History of Contemporary Science”, Javier Ordóñez and Antonio Sánchez
• “Domesticating Light: Standards and Artisanal Knowledge in Early Astrophysics”, Javier Ordóñez
• “Gauss and the Mathematical Background to Standardisation”, José Ferreirós
• “Standard Making in Cytogenetics: the Manufacture, Circulation and Reproduction of Chromosome Images”, María Jesús Santesmases
• “Preserved Worlds: Vulnerability, Ontology, and the Logics of Standards”, Nuria Valverde-Pérez

An additional article to the special issue published in HoST 13.1 “Before the Silent Spring: Pesticides in Twentieth-Century Europe”

• “Syntheticising Scandinavia: The Introduction of Synthetic Pesticides to Scandinavian Gardens, 1945-1952”, May-Brith Ohman Nielsen

The article of the Distinguished Lecture (CIUHCT) by David Pantalony, discussing the importance of the collections of scientific artefacts through examples from his work as Curator at the Ingenium - Canada Science and Technology Museum and from his recent research in other collections (namely German)

•  “What Remains: The Enduring Value of Museum Collections in the Digital Age”, David Pantalony

A “work in progress” by the PhD candidate Breno Albuquerque B. Borges about his ongoing work, “A New Approach to the Concepts of Conservation to Identify and Evaluate Railway Heritage through Indicators” Three book reviews

• “Book review: Agustí Nieto-Galan. The Politics of Chemistry: Science and Power in Twentieth-century Spain”, Ignacio Suay-Matallana
• “Book review: Tiago Saraiva and Marta Macedo (eds.). Capital Científica. Práticas da Ciência em Lisboa e a História Contemporânea de Portugal”, Frédéric Vidal
• “Book review: Charles W. J. Withers. Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian”, Pedro M. P. Raposo