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

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of Celestial Mechanics,” 529–534; Domenico Bertoloni
MELI, “Who Is Afraid of Centrifugal Force?” 535–543.
1600. POURCIAU, Bruce. “Newton’s Interpretation
of Newton’s Second Law.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60
(2006): 157–207.
1601. REMMERT, Volker R. “ ‘Docet parva pictura,
quod multae scripturae non dicunt.’ Frontispieces,
Their Functions, and Their Audiences in Seventeenth-
Century Mathematical Sciences.” In KUSUKAWA and
MACLEAN [ref. 1239], 239–270.
1602. SHAPIRO, Alan E. “Skating on the Edge:
Newton’s Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and
Achromatic Prisms and Lenses.” In BUCHWALD and
FRANKLIN [ref. 128], 99–125.
1603. SLOWIK, Edward. Cartesian Spacetime.
Descartes’ Physics and the Relational Theory of
Space and Motion. International Archives of the History
of Ideas, 181. (xii + 242 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002.
ISBN: 1402002653.
Reviews: [ref. R858]
1604. SMITH, George E. “Was Wrong Newton Bad
Newton?” In BUCHWALD and FRANKLIN [ref. 128],
127–160.
340-113. CHEMISTRY
1605. CLERICUZIO, Antonio. “Teaching Chemistry
and Chemical Textbooks in France. From Beguin to
Lemery.” Special Issue: Science Teaching in Early
Modern Europe [ref. 1266]. Sci. and Educ. 15 (2006):
335–355.
Looks at the disciplinary divisions between chemistry and
medicine and natural philosophy.
1606. HIJIOKA Yosito. “J. J. Becher’s Physica Subterranea
(1669) and Its Contribution to the History of
Chemistry.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 42 (2003): 88–100.
1607. HIYOSHI Yoshiro and NAKATSUJI Shin-ichi.
“Japanese Translation of William Cole’s Paper on
Tyrian Purple in the Philosophical Transactions
(1685).” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakushi
Ken. (Chem.) 33 (2006): 28–39.
1608. MARTIN, Craig. “With Aristotelians Like
These, Who Needs Anti-Aristotelians? Chymical
Corpuscular Matter Theory in Niccolò Cabeo’s Meteorology.”
Early Sci. Med. 11 (2006): 135–161.
340-114. ALCHEMY
1609. DAMMANN, Günter. “Modernität durch hermetisches
Denken. Alchemie und Ökonomie bei
Johann Joachim Becher.” In MAHLMANN-BAUER
[ref. 1247], 717–732.
1610. GORDON, Robin L. “The Murder of Spinoza
and Other 17th Century Alchemists: A Contemporary
Look at a Long-Ago Mortificatio Tale.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. B 65/11 (2005): 6031.
Dissertation at Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2004. Adviser:
Romanyshyn, Robert D. UMI pub. no. 3155814. 272 pp.
1611. HIRAI, Hiro, and Hideyuki YOSHIMOTO.
“Anatomizing the Sceptical Chymist: Robert Boyle
and the Secret of His Early Sources on the Growth of
Metals.” Early Sci. Med. 10 (2005): 453–477.
Argues that the source of Boyle’s knowledge on the growth
of metal was Johann Gerhard’s commonplace-book Decas
quaestionum physico-chymicarum de metallis (1643).
1612. YUAN Jiangyang. “Newton’s Alchemy: A
Noble Philosophy?” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 23 (2004): 283–298.
340-120. EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
1613. FULLER, J. G. C. M. “A Date to Remember:
4004 BC.” Earth Sci. Hist. 24 (2005): 5–14.
On the origins of Archbishop Ussher’s dating of the Creation.
1614. MANDEA, Mioara, and Pierre-Noël MAYAUD.
“Guillaume Le Nautonnier, un précurseur dans
l’histoire du géomagnétisme.” Rev. Hist. Sci. 57
(2004): 161–173.
1615. SCHRÖDER, Wilfried. “The Public’s Changing
Interpretation of the Aurora.” EOS 86 (2005): 487.
1616. WADDELL, Mark A. “The World, As It Might
Be: Iconography and Probabilism in the Mundus
subterraneus of Athanasius Kircher.” Special Issue:
New Work in Early Modern Science [ref. 1418].
Centaurus 48 (2006): 3–22.
340-121. GEOGRAPHY, CARTOGRAPHY, AND
EXPLORATION
1617. ANDREWS, John, and Sarah BENDALL. “Draft
Maps of Galway and Coventry for John Speed’s
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.” Imago
Mundi 58 (2006): 77–79.
See also: Sarah BENDALL, “Draft Town Maps for John
Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine” Imago
Mundi 54 (2002): 30–45.
1618. BOUSQUET-BRESSOLIER, Catherine.
“Matthäus Merian’s 1615 Map of Paris: Its Structure,
Decoration, and Message.” Imago Mundi 58
(2006): 48–69.
1619. CORMACK, Lesley B. “The Commerce of
Utility: Teaching Mathematical Geography in Early
Modern England.” Special Issue: Science Teaching
in Early Modern Europe [ref. 1266]. Sci. and Educ.
15 (2006): 305–322.
Argues that this teaching “was a complex interaction among
scholars, practitioners, merchants, and gentry.” (from the
abstract)
1620. DYM, Jordana. “The Familiar and the Strange:
Western Travelers’ Maps of Europe and Asia, ca.
1600–1800.” Phil. Geog. 7 (2004): 155–191.
1621. FLÜGEL, Helmut W. Der Abgrund der Zeit:
Die Entwicklung der Geohistorick 1670–1830. (250
pp.; ill.; bibl.) Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2004. ISBN:
3928186779.
1622. HABERLAND, Detlef. “Zwischen Humanismus
und Humboldt: Landeskundliches und topographisches
Denken bei Engelbert Kaempfer.” In
HABERLAND [ref. 1424], 105–123.
1623. MAHONEY, Michael S. “Charting the Globe
and Tracking the Heavens: Navigations and the Sciences
in the Early Modern Era.” In STEELE and
DORLAND [ref. 1480], 221–230.
1624. MAYHEW, Robert J. “Geography’s English
Revolutions: Oxford Geography and the War of
Ideas, 1600–1660.” In LIVINGSTONE and WITHERS
[ref. 414], 243–272.