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

78 340. Seventeenth century
H. DONAHUE. Science Classics for Humanities
Studies. (xxii + 97 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Santa Fe: Green
Lion Press, 2004. ISBN: 1888009268.
Includes Newton’s definitions, laws, scholia, Book I propositions
1 and 4, Rules of Philosophizing, Phenomena, Book III
Propositions 1 through 4, and General Scholium. Glossary.
1547. PALMIERI, P. “A New Look at Galileo’s Search
for Mathematical Proofs.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60
(2006): 285–317.
1548. ROVEDA, Lyndia. “Des épines aux fleurs des
mathématiques : l’enseignement des Sciences chez
Bernard Lamy.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 193–
202.
1549. SELLÉS, Manuel A. “Infinitesimals in the
Foundations of Newton’s Mechanics.” Hist. Math. 33
(2006): 210–223.
1550. TIMMERMANS, Benoît. “La similitude des
figures chez Leibniz : entre géométrie et rhétorique.”
Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 235–246.
1551. WALLIS, John. Arithmetic of Infinitesimals.
Translated from the Latin by Jacqueline A. STEDALL.
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics
and Physical Sciences. (xxxiv + 192 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN:
0387207090.
1552. WITT, Johan de. Elementa curvarum linearum:
Liber primus. Text, translation and commentary
by A. W. GROOTENDORST with Miente
BAKKER. Sources and Studies in the History of
Mathematics and Physical Sciences. (viii + 296 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Springer, 2000. ISBN:
0387987487.
340-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
1553. AUGHTON, Peter. The Transit of Venus: The
Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father
of British Astronomy. (xiii + 210 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
ISBN: 029784721X.
1554. BIALAS, Volker, and Friederike BOOCK-
MANN. (Eds.) Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke
Vol. 21.1: Manuscripta Astronomica; De Calendario
Gregoriano (III); Manuscripta Mathematica.
Begründet von Walther DYCK und Max CASPAR.
Fortgesetzt von Franz HAMMER. (699 pp.; ill.) Munich:
C. H. Beck, 2002. ISBN: 3406474284.
1555. BONER, Patrick J. “Kepler’s Living Cosmology:
Bridging the Celestial and Terrestrial Realms.”
Special Issue: New Work in Early Modern Science
[ref. 1418]. Centaurus 48 (2006): 32–39.
1556. BRAHE, Tycho. Astronomiae Instauratae
Mechanica.
(21 Aug. 2006). (107 pp.; maps; ill.) Dibner Library
of the History of Science and Technology and
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Digital Library,
1999.
Electronic facimilie of original imprint: Noribergae, apud L.
Hvlsivm, 1602.
1557. CASTALDI, Francesco. “A Geocentrist without
Vocation, Father Giovan Battista Riccioli.” Physis 41
(2004): 67–95.
1558. FRIEDRICH, Martin. “Der Komet von 1680/81
im Urteil evangelischer Theologen.” In MAHLMANN-
BAUER [ref. 1247], 411–424.
1559. GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo sopra i Due Massimi
Sistemi del Mondo. (458 pp.) Firenze: L.S.
Olschki, 1999. ISBN: 8822247507.
Facsimile representation of the 1632 edition. Bound, issued
in a case.Text of the facsimile in English, French, German,
Italian and Spanish.
1560. GALILEI, Galileo. Sidereus nuncius: magna,
longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque
proponens unicuique, praesertim verò
philosophis, at [que] astronomis. Edited by Sean E.
RICHARDS and Peter BARKER. (28 pp.; ill.) Oklahoma
City: Byzantium Press, 2004.
Original text in Latin. Boxed with RICHARDS and BARKER
[ref. 1574].
1561. GALILEI, Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius. Commentary
by Albert Van HELDEN. Octavo Digital
Editions. (1 CD-ROM.) Oakland, Calif.: Octavo,
2003. ISBN: 1891788124.
CD contains digital images of each page of this book, cover
to cover.
1562. GOLDSTEIN, Bernard R., and Giora HON.
“Kepler’s Move from Orbs to Orbits: Documenting a
Revolutionary Scientific Concept.” Perspect. Sci. 13
(2005): 74–110.
1563. GUTHKE, Karl S. “Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrial
Worlds from Galileo to Goethe.” Early
Sci. Med. 8 (2003): 173–195.
1564. JARDINE, Nicholas. “Kepler as Castigator and
Historian: His Preparatory Notes for Contra Ursum.”
J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 257–297.
1565. KELTER, Irving A. “The Refusal to Accommodate:
Jesuit Exegetes and the Copernican System.”
In MCMULLIN [ref. 1475], 38–53.
1566. KEPLER, Johannes. Selections from Kepler’s
Astronomia Nova. Edited by William H. DONAHUE.
Science Classics for Humanities Studies. (x + 109
pp.; ill.; bibl.) Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2004.
ISBN: 1888009284.
Includes glossary.
1567. MCMULLIN, Ernan. “The Church’s Ban on
Copernicanism, 1616.” In MCMULLIN [ref. 1475],
150–190.
1568. MYRSTAD, Johan Arnt. “The Use of Converse
Abduction in Kepler.” Found. Sci. 9 (2004): 321–338.
1569. NETTEN, Djoeke van. “Herstelde astronomie.
De laatste vroege editie van Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
(Amsterdam 1617) en de rol van Mulerius en
Blaeu.” Gewina 29 (2006): 67–80.
1570. NOUHUYS, Tabitta van. “Copernicanism,
Jansenism, and Remonstrantism in the Seventeenth-
Century Netherlands.” In BROOKE and MACLEAN
[ref. 1463], 145–168.
1571. PANTIN, Isabelle. “Kepler’s Epitome: New
Images for an Innovative Book.” In KUSUKAWA and
MACLEAN [ref. 1239], 217–238.
1572. RABIN, Sheila J. “Was Kepler’s Species Immateriata
Substantial?” J. Hist. Astron. 36 (2005):
49–56.
1573. REMMERT, Volker. “Picturing Jesuit Anti-
Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical