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

86 350. Eighteenth century
1743. KROUSTALLIS, Basileios. “Berkeley and the
Moon Illusion.” Hist. Phil. Quart. 21 (2004): 151–
166.
1744. LE RU, Véronique. Voltaire newtonien : Le
combat d’un philosophe pour la science. Inflexions.
(120 pp.; ill.) Paris: Vuibert, 2005. ISBN:
2711753743.
1745. MILES BOARD, Steffan. “The Concept of Historical
Individuality in G. W. F. Hegel’s ‘Science of
Logic’ and ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History.’ ”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/12 (2005): 4590.
Dissertation at McMaster University (Canada), 2003. Adviser:
Lampert, Jay. UMI pub. no. NQ97785. 186 pp.
1746. MUDROCH, Vilem. “Joseph Priestley’s Eclectic
Epistemology.” Hist. Phil. Quart. 22 (2005):
49–71.
1747. ROVEDA, Lyndia. “Lamarck et l’art des distinctions.”
Rev. Hist. Sci. 58 (2005): 145–168.
On Lamarck’s use of the rhetorical figure of antithesis in
scientific thought.
350-103. MATHEMATICS
1748. BERNOULLI, Jakob. The Art of Conjecturing,
Together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court
Tennis. Translated with an introduction and notes
by Edith Dudley SYLLA. (xx + 430 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0801882354.
English translation of Ars conjectandi (1713).
1749. GONZÁLEZ REDONDO, Francisco A. “La
contribución de Leonard Euler a la matematización
de las magnitudes y las leyes de la mecánica, 1736–
1765.” Llull 26 (2003): 837–857.
1750. GRANDI, Giovanni B. “Thomas Reid’s Geometry
of Visibles and the Parallel Postulate.” Stud. Hist.
Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 79–103.
1751. HOTTINGER, Sara Noelle. “Social Processes
of Proof: A Feminist Approach to Mathematical
Knowledge Production.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/04
(2005): 1522.
Dissertation at University of Minnesota, 2005. Advisers:
Longino, Helen E., and Jacquelyn N. Zita. UMI pub. no.
3172811. 167 pp. Focus on the 18th-century British mathematician
Reuben Burrow.
1752. JACOB, Marie. “Interdire la quadrature du
cercle à l’académie : une décision autoritaire des
lumières ?” Rev. Hist. Math. 11 (2005): 89–139.
1753. LIU Jianjun and LIU Qinying. “Euler’s
Achievements in Combinatorics.” [Translated title.]
In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 22 (2003):
361–367.
1754. LÜTZEN, Jesper. (Ed.) Around Caspar Wessel
and The Geometric Representation of Complex
Numbers. Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium at
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters,
Copenhagen, August 11–15, 1998. Invited papers.
Mathematisk-fysiske meddelelser, 46:2. (293 pp.;
ill.; bibl.) Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 2001.
ISBN: 8778762367.
Partial contents: PEDERSEN [ref. 1766]; CHRISTENSEN
[ref. 1721]; AMELIN [ref. 1717]; KRISTENSEN [ref. 1822];
Otto B. BEKKEN, “Viète’s Generation of Triangles,” 121-
124; Gert SCHUBRING, “Argand and the Early Work on
Graphical Representation: New Sources and Interpretations,”
125-146; Adrian RICE, “Inexplicable? The Status
of Complex Numbers in Britain, 1750–1850,” 147-180;
Paolo FREGUGLIA, “Bellavitis’s Equipollences Calculus and
his Theory of Complex Numbers,” 181-203; Karl-Heinz
SCHLOTE, “Hypercomplex Numbers in the Work of Caspar
Wessel and Hermann Günther Grassmann: Are there
any Similarities?” 205-222; Jesper LÜTZEN, “Julius Petersen,
Karl Weierstrass, Hermann Amandus Schwarz and
Richard Dedekind on Hypercomplex Numbers,” 223-254;
Tom ARCHIBALD, “Priority Claims and Mathematical Values:
Disputes over Quaternions at the End of the Nineteenth
Century,” 255-269.
1755. MASCHERONI, Lorenzo. Memorie analitiche.
Edited by Luigi PEPE. Includes introduction by the
editor. Lorenzo Mascheroni opere, 4. (xxvi + 203
pp.; ill.) Bergamo: Moretti i Vitali, 2000. ISBN:
8871861760.
1756. PASSERON, Irène. “L’invention d’une nouvelle
compétence : géomètre au XVIII e siècle.” In
HILAIRE-PÉREZ and GARCON [ref. 627], 139–152.
1757. SUTHERLAND, Daniel. “Kant on Fundamental
Geometrical Relations.” Arch. Gesch. Phil. 87
(2005): 117–158.
350-104. MUSIC
1758. KAMATANI, Pamela M. “Science, Metaphysics,
and the Late Works of J. S. Bach.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 812.
Dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, 2004.
Adviser: Crocker, Richard L. UMI pub. no. 3167202. 305
pp.
350-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
1759. BELENKIY, Ari, and Eduardo Vila ECHAGÜE.
“History of One Defeat: Reform of the Julian Calendar
as Envisaged by Isaac Newton.” Notes Rec. Roy.
Soc. Lond. 59 (2005): 223–254.
1760. HEIDARZADEH, Tofigh. “The Reception
of Newton’s Theory of Cometary Tail Formation.”
Special Issue: New Work in Early Modern Science
[ref. 1418]. Centaurus 48 (2006): 50–65.
1761. HOSKIN, Michael. “Caroline Herschel’s
‘Small’ Sweeper.” J. Hist. Astron. 36 (2005): 28–
30.
About her telescope.
1762. HOSKIN, Michael. “Caroline Herschel’s Catalogue
of Nebulae.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006):
251–255.
1763. HOSKIN, Michael. “Caroline Herschel: ‘The
Unquiet Heart.’ ” Endeavour 29 (2005): 22–27.
1764. LAMY, Jérôme. “L’observatoire de Toulouse,
le pouvoir politique et la demande sociale aux XVIII e
et XIX e siécles.” Ann. Midi 117 (2005): 187–201.
1765. LIGHT, John D. “Research Note on William
Wales’ Stone Sundial from Fort Prince of Wales.”
Rittenhouse 13 (1999): 107–114.
1766. PEDERSEN, Kurt Møller. “Thomas Bugge’s
Journal of a Voyage through Germany, Holland and
England, 1777.” In LÜTZEN [ref. 1754], 29–46.
Focuses on his study of astronomical instruments.
1767. PRETE, Ivano Dal. “Francesco Bianchini e Il
Pianeta Venere: Astronomia, cronologia e storia della