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

Discussion of technology transfer and the relationship between
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences and Letters.
1718. BEDINI, Silvio A. “David Rittenhouse (1732–
1796).” Rittenhouse 14 (2000): 1–12.
On his construction of scientific instruments.
1719. BEEKS, Dale R. “Trade Labels: A Rich Resource
for Information.” Rittenhouse 13 (1999):
12–15.
On American and British trade labels as sources for historical
information.
1720. BENNETT, Jim. “Catadioptrics and Commerce
in Eighteenth-Century London.” Special Issue: Artisans
and Instruments, 1300–1800 [ref. 292]. Hist.
Sci. 44 (2006): 247–278.
1721. CHRISTENSEN, Dan C. “English Instrument
Makers Observed by Predatory Danes.” In LÜTZEN
[ref. 1754], 47–63.
1722. LOCK, Jeffrey. “18th Century Colonial Methods
of Dividing the Needle Ring of a Surveyor’s
Compass.” Rittenhouse 18, no. 1 (2004): 1–11.
1723. LOCK, Jeffrey D. “Construction Details of
the Rittenhouse Compass.” Rittenhouse 15 (2001):
99–106.
1724. OLIVIER, Marc. “Binding the Book of Nature:
Microscopy as Literature.” Special Issue: Instruments
of Enlightenment. Hist. Europ. Ideas 31 (2005): 173–
191.
1725. ZUIDERVAART, Huib J. “ ‘Meest alle van best
mahoniehout vervaardigd.’ Het natuurfilosofisch instrumentenkabinet
van de doopsgezinde kweekschool
te Amsterdam, 1761–1828.” Gewina 29 (2006): 81–
112.
350-42. SCIENCE EDUCATION; THE HISTORY OF
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
1726. BREIDBACH, Olaf, Gian Franco FRIGO, and
Francesco PIOVAN. “Naturforschung im Lehrangebot
der Universität Padua zwischen 1770 und 1815.”
NTM 11 (2003): 232–254.
1727. ˙IHSANO ˇGLU, Ekmeleddin. “Changes in Ottoman
Educational Life and Efforts Towards Modernization
in the 18th–19th Centuries.” In GÜNERGUN
and KURIYAMA [ref. 656], 119–136.
1728. WALTERS, Alice. “Importing Science in the
Early Republic: Union College’s ‘First Purchase’
of Instruments and Books.” Rittenhouse 16 (2002):
85–107.
350-43. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF
SCIENTISTS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
AND PUBLICATION
1729. STUBER, Martin, Stefan HÄCHLER, and Luc
LIENHARD. (Eds.) Hallers Netz: Ein Europäischer
Gelehrtenbriefwechsel zur Zeit der Aufklärung. Studia
Halleriana IX. (x + 592 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Basel: Schwabe AG Verlag Basel, 2005. ISBN:
3796513271.
On Albrecht von Haller’s correspondence network and its
importance in the development of medical, botanical, and
agricultural knowledge.
1730. VERBRUGGEN, Jan Adrianus. “The Correspondence
of Jan Daniel Huichelbos van Liender
350. Eighteenth century 85
with James Watt.” Diss. Abstr. Int. C 66/02 (2005):
293.
Dissertation at Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands), 2005.
UMI pub. no. C820069. 486 pp.
350-101. OCCULT SCIENCES AND MAGIC
1731. HARVEY, David Allen. Beyond Enlightenment:
Occultism and Politics in Modern France. (viii
+ 267 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Dekalb: Northern Illinois
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 087580344X.
Looks at the Martinist movement from the Enlightenment to
its revival in the late 19th century.
350-102. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND
HISTORY OF IDEAS
1732. BAETSCHI, Bernard. “Diderot, Cabanis and
Lamarck on Psycho-Physical Causality.” Part of
a special issue: Causation in Biomedical Science
[ref. 456]. Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 27 (2005): 451–463.
1733. BELGIOIOSO, Giulia. “Les racines
suaréziennes de la métaphysique cartésienne : La
lecture des Principia de Francesco Maria Spinelli
(1733).” Special Issue: La lecture des Principia
philosophiae de Descartes [ref. 1509]. Rev. Hist. Sci.
58 (2005): 123–144.
On a debate that dealt with the Spinozistic consequences of
Cartesian philosophy.
1734. COHEN, Sarah R. “Chardin’s Fur: Painting,
Materialism, and the Question of Animal Soul.”
Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 38 (2004): 39–61.
On animals in the paintings of Jean-Siméon Chardin and their
relationship to materialism.
1735. DUCHEYNE, Steffen. “Reid’s Adaptation
and Radicalization of Newton’s Natural Philosophy.”
Hist. Europ. Ideas 32 (2006): 173–189.
1736. DUNÉR, David. “The World Machine—
Emanuel Swedenborg’s Natural Philosophy.” New
Phil. 108 (2005): 225–231.
1737. DUNÉR, David Immanuel. “Varldsmaskinen:
Emanuel Swedenborgs naturfilosofi.” Translated title:
[The World Machine: Emanuel Swedenborg’s Natural
Philosophy.] In Swedish. Diss. Abstr. Int. C 66/02
(2005): 292.
Dissertation at Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2004. UMI pub.
no. AAT C82026. 560 pp.
1738. DÜSING, Klaus. Subjektivität und Freiheit:
Untersuchungen zum Idealismus von Kant bis Hegel.
Spekulation und Erfahrung. Abteilung II, Untersuchungen,
47. (321 pp.) Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt:
Frommann-Holzboog, 2002. ISBN: 3772821928.
Reviews: [ref. R252]
1739. HON, Giora. “Kant vs. Legendre on Symmetry:
Mirror Images in Philosophy and Mathematics.”
Centaurus 47 (2005): 283–297.
1740. HYNES, Darren. “Berkeley’s Corpuscular
Philosophy of Time.” Hist. Phil. Quart. 22 (2005):
339–356.
1741. JANIAK, Andrew. “Kant as Philosopher of
Science.” Perspect. Sci. 12 (2004): 339–363.
1742. KAIL, P. J. E. “Hume’s Natural History of
Perception.” Brit. J. Hist. Phil. 13 (2005): 503–519.
“I compare Hume’s account of the causes of our belief in
body ... with his account of the causes of religious belief in
the Natural History of Religion.” (from the abstract)