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

76 340. Seventeenth century
in Early Modern Europe.” Hist. Univ. 19 (2004):
129–187.
Addresses issues on science education and the history of
educational institutions.
1493. ROMANO, Antonella. “Teaching Mathematics
in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content,
and Classroom Practices.” In O’MALLEY et al.
[ref. 1428], 355–370.
340-43. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF
SCIENTISTS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
AND PUBLICATION
1494. DESCARTES, René. The Correspondence of
René Descartes: 1643. Edited by Theo VERBEEK,
Erik-Jan BOS, and Jeroen van de VEN. Quæstiones
Infinitæ 45. (xl + 326 pp.; ill.) Utrecht: Zeno Institute
for Philosophy, 2003. ISBN: 9039335850.
With contributions from Henk BOS, Carla Rita PALMERINO,
and Corrina VERMEULEN Reviews: [ref. R225]
1495. FARA, Patricia. “Leibniz’s Women.” Endeavour
28 (2004): 146–148.
On Leibniz’s correspondence and intellectual relationship
with three aristocratic women.
1496. GERBINO, Anthony. “The Library of François
Blondel, 1618–1686.” Architect. Hist. 45 (2002):
289–324.
Blondel was an early member of the Parisian royal academy
of sciences.
340-101. OCCULT SCIENCES AND MAGIC
1497. KENT, E. J. “Masculinity and Male Witches in
Old and New England, 1593–1680.” Hist. Workshop
J. 60 (2005): 69–92.
1498. LEITÃO, Henrique. “Entering Dangerous
Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy
in Lisbon.” In O’MALLEY et al. [ref. 1428], 371–
389.
1499. VERMEIR, Koen. “The ‘Physical Prophet’
and the Powers of the Imagination. Part I: A Case-
Study on Prophecy, Vapours and the Imagination
(1685–1710).” Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 35
(2004): 561–591.
Explores a debate on prophecy in early 17th century and
argues that the explanatory categories of God, demons,
nature, and fraud all evoked the role of the imagination. See
also VERMEIR [ref. 1500].
1500. VERMEIR, Koen. “The ‘Physical Prophet’ and
the Powers of the Imagination. Part II: A Case-study
on Dowsing and the Naturalisation of the Moral,
1685–1710.” Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 36
(2005): 1–24.
1501. WEHTJE, Thomas Jefferson. “Out of Darkness,
Light: The Theological Implications of
(Dis)Belief in Witchcraft in Early Modern English
Literature and Thought.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/01
(2005): 190.
Dissertation at State University of New York at Stony Brook,
2004. Adviser: Huffman, Clifford. UMI pub. no. 3161049.
458 pp.
340-102. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND
HISTORY OF IDEAS
1502. ALANEN, Lilli. Descartes’s Concept of Mind.
(xv + 355 pp.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Univ. Press, 2003. ISBN: 0674010434.
1503. BOENKE, Michaela. “Der Quellmeister eines
Wasserspiels. Descartes’ Theorie der Selbstkonditionierung
von Körper und Geist.” In MAHLMANN-
BAUER [ref. 1247], 843–860.
1504. BROCKLISS, Laurence. “The Moment of No
Return: The University of Paris and the Death of
Aristotelianism.” Special Issue: Science Teaching in
Early Modern Europe [ref. 1266]. Sci. and Educ. 15
(2006): 259–278.
1505. CARLIN, Laurence. “Leibniz on Final
Causes.” J. Hist. Phil. 44 (2006): 217–233.
1506. CUMBERLAND, Richard. A Treatise of the
Laws of Nature. Edited by Jon PARKIN. Trans.,
intro., & app. by John MAXWELL. Natural Law
and Enlightenment Classics. (xx + 1009 pp.; bibli.;
index.) Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005. ISBN:
0865974721.
Reprint of a 1727 translation by Maxwell. Reviews:
[ref. R195]
1507. CUNNING, David. “Cavendish on the Intelligibility
of the Prospect of Thinking Matter.” Hist. Phil.
Quart. 23 (2006): 117–136.
1508. DARMON, Jean-Charles. “Epicurisme et
rhétorique au temps de la ‘Révolution scientifique’ :
remarques sur le cas Gassendi.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci.
55 (2005): 211–234.
1509. DEVILLAIRS, Laurence. “La lecture des Principia
philosophiae de Descartes. Présentation.” Introduction
to Special Issue: La lecture des Principia
philosophiae de Descartes. Rev. Hist. Sci. 58 (2005):
5–7.
Contents: CHEVALLEY [ref. 1588]; CARRAUD [ref. 1586];
MOREAU [ref. 1522]; Emanuela SCRIBANO, “Invention et interprétation
dans la réécriture spinozienne de la métaphysique
des Principia philosophiae,” 67–85; Laurence DEVILLAIRS,
“Immutabilité de Dieu et mérites des hommes : À propos du
scolie de la proposition XIII de la deuxième partie des Principia
philosophiae de Descartes,” 87–103; BUZON [ref. 1585];
BELGIOIOSO [ref. 1733].
1510. DOUGHERTY, M.V. “Descartes’s Demonstration
of the Impossibility of Error in the Apprehension
of Simples.” Hist. Phil. Quart. 22 (2005): 129–142.
1511. FLETCHER, Angus. “Francis Bacon’s Forms
and the Logic of Ramist Conversion.” J. Hist. Phil.
43 (2005): 157–169.
1512. GOYET, Francis. “La Dispositio de
l’épichérème : un exemple chez Descartes (Discours
de la méthode, II, § 1-4).” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55
(2005): 139–161.
1513. HILL, Benjamin. “Newton’s De Gravitatione
et Aequipondio Fluidorum and Lockean Fourdimensionalism.”
Brit. J. Hist. Phil. 11 (2003):
309–321.
On Locke’s understanding of Newton’s ideas about the creation
of matter.
1514. HYNES, Darren. “Descartes as Faust: Dissimulation
and Descartes as an Early-Modern Scientist.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/11 (2005): 4228.
Dissertation at the University of Western Ontario (Canada),
2003. Adviser: Lennon, Thomas M. UMI pub. no. NQ96688.
337 pp.
1515. JESSEPH, Douglas. “Mechanism, Skepticism,
and Witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the Failures of