Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

1425. HAMMOND, Nicholas. (Ed.) The Cambridge
Companion to Pascal. (xvi + 287 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0521006112.
Contents (from WorldCat): Ben ROGERS, “Pascal’s Life
and Times”; Henry PHILLIPS, “Pascal’s Reading and the
Inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes”; A.W.F. EDWARDS,
“Pascal’s Work on Probability”; Jon ELSTER, “Pascal and
Decision Theory”; Daniel C. FOUKE, “Pascal’s Physics”;
Desmond M. CLARKE, “Pascal’s Philosophy of Science”;
Jean KHALFA, “Pascal’s Theory of Knowledge”; Michael
MORIARTY, “Grace and Religious Belief in Pascal”; David
WETSEL, “Pascal and Holy Writ”; Richard PARISH, “Pascal’s
Lettres provinciales: From Flippancy to Fundamentals”;
Hélène BOUCHILLOUX, “Pascal and the Social World”;
Pierre FORCE, “Pascal and Philosophical Method”; Nicholas
HAMMOND, “Pascal’s Pensées and the Art of Persuasion”;
Antony MCKENNA, “The Reception of Pascal’s Pensées in
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”.
1426. ILIFFE, Rob, Milo KEYNES, and Rebekah
HIGGITT. (Eds.) Early Biographies of Isaac Newton,
1660–1885. (2 vol.; bibl.; index.) London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2006. ISBN: 1851967788.
1427. KVASZ, Ladislav. “The Mathematisation of
Nature and Newtonian Physics.” Phil. Natur. 42
(2005): 183–211.
1428. O’MALLEY, John W., Gauvin Alexander BAI-
LEY, Steven J. HARRIS, and T. Frank KENNEDY.
(Eds.) The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the
Arts, 1540–1773. (xxxvi + 905 pp.; DVD; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006. ISBN:
0802038611.
Partial contents: REMMERT [ref. 1573]; William A. WAL-
LACE, “Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science,” 314-335;
STOLZENBERG [ref. 1432]; ROMANO [ref. 1493]; LEITÃO
[ref. 1498]; BROTÓNS [ref. 1707]; Ugo BALDINI, “The Reception
of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich
Literature, 1746–1800,” 405-450.
1429. POOLE, William. “Francis Lodwick’s Creation:
Theology and Natural Philosophy in the Early
Royal Society.” J. Hist. Ideas 66 (2005): 245–263.
1430. PRESTON, Claire. Thomas Browne and the
Writing of Early Modern Science. (xiv + 250 pp.)
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN:
0521837944.
1431. SARGENT, Rose-Mary. “Boyle in
Seventeenth-Century Context.” Early Sci. Med. 8
(2003): 52–57.
Essay review of Peter R. ANSTEY, The Philosophy of Robert
Boyle (2000); Michael HUNTER, Robert Boyle, 1627-91
(2000).
1432. STOLZENBERG, Daniel. “Utility, Edification,
and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius
Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus.” In O’MALLEY et
al. [ref. 1428], 336–354.
1433. WILLIAMS, Gerhild Scholz. Ways of Knowing
in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a
Witness to His Time. Literary and Scientific Cultures
of Early Modernity. (251 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. ISBN: 0754655512.
Discusses Paracelsianism, demonology, and witchcraft; the
origins of ethnology, anthropology, and physical geography;
and explanations of natural anomalies.
340. Seventeenth century 73
340-3. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
1434. HUNTER, Michael Cyril William. The Boyle
Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert
Boyle. (450 pp.; ill.; index.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2006. ISBN: 0754655687.
1435. MÜLLER, U., C. MICHAEL, M. BUCHER, and
U. GRAD. (Eds.) Die Bausch-Bibliothek in Schweinfurt:
Katalog. Acta Historica Leopoldina, Nr. 32.
(764 pp.; ill.) Halle (Saale): Deutsche Akademie
der Naturforscher Leopoldina; Stuttgart: In Kommission
bei Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004.
ISBN: 3804720900.
Reviews: [ref. R649]
340-12. STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC AND VISUAL
ASPECTS OF SCIENCE
1436. ARIEW, Roger. “Descartes’s Fable and Scientific
Methodology.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005):
127–138.
1437. BAFFETTI, Giovanni. “Around Galileo: Describing
Science in the Seventeenth Century.” Arch.
Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 71–82.
1438. KEYNES, Milo. The Iconography of Sir Isaac
Newton to 1800. (viii + 120 pp.; plates; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, in association
with Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005. ISBN:
1843831333.
Catalogue and iconography of images of Sir Isaac Newton
before and after his death. Reviews: [ref. R487]
1439. LÜTHY, Christoph. “Where Logical Necessity
Becomes Visual Persuasion: Descartes’s Clear
and Distinct Illustrations.” In KUSUKAWA and
MACLEAN [ref. 1239], 97–134.
340-20. GENERAL WORKS ON SCIENCE AND ITS
INTERACTION WITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE
1440. DAMME, Stéphane Van. “Culture rhétorique et
culture scientifique : Crise ou mutation de la poétique
des savoirs dans la Compagnie de Jésus en France,
1630-1730 ?” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 55–69.
1441. DANNESKIOLD-SAMSOE, Jakob Frederik
Christian. “Muses and Patrons: Cultures of Natural
Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavia.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04 (2004): 900.
Dissertation at Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2004. UMI pub.
no. C818187. 510 pp.
1442. GARBER, Daniel. “Making Conversation.”
Early Sci. Med. 10 (2005): 428–434.
Essay review of Kathleen Anne WELLMAN, Making Science
Social (2003).
340-22. SCIENCE AND POLITICS, LAW, AND
ECONOMICS
1443. BIAGIOLI, Mario. “From Prints to Patents:
Living on Instruments in Early Modern Europe.”
Special Issue: Artisans and Instruments, 1300–1800
[ref. 292]. Hist. Sci. 44 (2006): 139–186.
1444. MANZO, Silvia. “Francis Bacon: Freedom,
Authority and Science.” Brit. J. Hist. Phil. 14 (2006):
245–273.
1445. SARGENT, Rose-Mary. “Virtues and the Scientific
Revolution.” In KOERTGE [ref. 230], 71–80.