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

Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’
Opera mathematica (1612).” In O’MALLEY et al.
[ref. 1428], 291–313.
1574. RICHARDS, Sean E., and Peter BARKER.
(Eds.) A Companion to the Sidereus Nuncius Facsimile.
Oklahoma City: Byzantium Press, 2004.
Boxed with GALILEI [ref. 1560]. Contains: Sean E.
RICHARDS, “Creating a Letterpress Facsimile of the Sidereus
Nuncius,” 1-7; Peter BARKER, “Galileo and the Sidereus
Nuncius,” 11-34; Galileo GALILEI, “Sidereus Nuncius: A
Page by Page Translation,” [37-98].
1575. SCHWARZ, Ingo. “Alexander von Humboldts
Korrespondenz mit Ludwig Michael: Johannes Keplers
Übersiedlung nach Sagan.” Sudhoffs Arch. 88
(2004): 1–9.
A study of the roles of Humboldt, Michael, and Dorothea von
Sagan in the 1859 publication of some of Johannes Kepler’s
MSS.
1576. SPRANZI-ZUBER, Marta. “Galileo’s ‘Dialogue
on the Two Chief World Systems’: Rhetoric
and Dialogue.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 97–
114.
1577. TINGUELY, Frédéric. “L’Oeil de verre : la
rhétorique de l’autopsie dans le Sidereus Nuncius.”
Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 83–95.
1578. WANG Guoqiang. “Exploring the Genesis of
New Astronomy.” Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 26
(2005): 349–357.
Essay review of Rhonda MARTENS, Kepler’s Philosophy and
the New Astronomy (2000).
1579. YAO Licheng. “On the Date of Tianwenlue’s
Author Coming to China and Other Backgrounds.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu
24 (2005): 156–164.
On the Jesuit Emmanuel Diaz and his work in China in the
17th century.
1580. YOUNG, Gregg De. “John Greaves’ Astronomica
quaedam: Orientalism and Ptolemaic Cosmography
in Seventeenth Century England.” Indian J. Hist.
Sci. 39 (2004): 467–510.
340-111. ASTROLOGY
1581. ROOS, Anna Marie. “Israel Hiebner’s Astrological
Amulets and the English Sigil War.” Cult.
Cosmos 6, 2 (2002): 17–43.
1582. TERIO, Simonetta. “Keplers Horoskop des
Kaisers Augustus.” Translated title: [Kepler’s Horoscope
of the Emperor Augustus.] In German. MHNH
5 (2005): 241–260.
340-112. PHYSICS AND GENERAL WORKS ON
THE EXACT SCIENCES
1583. BARTHÉLEMY, Georges. “Newton découvreur
du poids de toutes choses.” Rev. Hist. Sci. 57 (2004):
135–159.
1584. BIENER, Zvi. “Galileo’s First New Science:
The Science of Matter.” Perspect. Sci. 12 (2004):
262–287.
1585. BUZON, Frédéric de. “Repos ou mouvement
conspirant : Leibniz et les articles 54 et 55 de la
partie II des Principia philosophiae.” Special Issue:
La lecture des Principia philosophiae de Descartes
[ref. 1509]. Rev. Hist. Sci. 58 (2005): 105–122.
340. Seventeenth century 79
1586. CARRAUD, Vincent. “Approfondir trop et
parler de tout : Les Principia philosophiae dans les
Pensées (note complémentaire sur ‘Disproportion de
l’homme’).” Special Issue: La lecture des Principia
philosophiae de Descartes [ref. 1509]. Rev. Hist. Sci.
58 (2005): 29–52.
1587. CHEN-MORRIS, Raz. “Shadows of Instruction:
Optics and Classical Authorities in Kepler’s
Somnium.” J. Hist. Ideas 66 (2005): 223–243.
1588. CHEVALLEY, Catherine. “Ce que Pascal doit à
la physique des Principia.” Special Issue: La lecture
des Principia philosophiae de Descartes [ref. 1509].
Rev. Hist. Sci. 58 (2005): 9–27.
1589. DUCHEYNE, Steffen. “Newton’s Notion and
Practice of Unification.” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36
(2005): 61–78.
1590. ERLICHSON, H. “Huygens and Newton on
Motion in a Cycloid.” Physis 39 (2002): 407–440.
1591. FELDHAY, Rivka. “On Wonderful Machines:
The Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge by Jesuits.”
Special Issue: Science Teaching in Early Modern
Europe [ref. 1266]. Sci. and Educ. 15 (2006):
151–172.
Study of a fictional dialogue between Galileo, Mersenne, and
Paulus Guldin published in 1655 by Jesuit mathematician
Paolo Casati.
1592. FRASER, Doreen L. “The Third Law in Newton’s
Waste book (or, the Road Less Taken to the
Second Law).” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005):
43–60.
1593. GARBER, Margaret D. “Chymical Wonders
of Light: J. Marcus Marci’s Seventeenth-Century
Bohemian Optics.” Early Sci. Med. 10 (2005): 478–
509.
The article argues how Marci anticipated two chief features
of Newton’s theory of light by understanding light through a
chemical theory.
1594. GORHAM, Geoffrey. “The Metaphysical Roots
of Cartesian Physics: The Law of Rectilinear Motion.”
Perspect. Sci. 13 (2005): 431–451.
1595. HOLDEN, Thomas Anand. The Architecture of
Matter: Galileo to Kant. (x + 305 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Oxford: Clarendon, 2004. ISBN: 0199263264.
Reviews: [ref. R428]
1596. HONMA Eio. “Beeckman between Stevin and
Descartes: The Origin of ‘Paradox of Hydrostatics.’ ”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist.
Sci.) 43 (2004): 31–34.
1597. LÜTHY, Christoph. “The Confessionalization
of Physics: Heresies, Facts, and the Travails of the
Republic of Letters.” In BROOKE and MACLEAN
[ref. 1463], 81–114.
1598. MELI, Domenico Bertoloni. “Inherent and
Centrifugal Forces in Newton.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci.
60 (2006): 319–335.
1599. “Open Forum: Newton vs. Hooke on Gravitation.”
Early Sci. Med. 10 (2005): 510.
Open Forum: Newton vs. Hooke on Gravitation. Contents:
Niccolò GUICCIARDINI, “Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton
Debate on Gravitation: Recent Results,” 511–517; Michael
NAUENBERG, “Hooke’s and Newton’s Contributions to the
Early Development of Orbital Dynamics and the Theory of
Universal Gravitation,” 518–528; Ofer GAL, “The Invention