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

20 110. Astronomy; cosmology
ematics 1640–1940. (xvii + 1022 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN: 0444508716.
327. HODGKIN, Luke Howard. A History of Mathematics:
From Mesopotamia to Modernity. (xiii + 281
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford / New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198529376.
328. HOPP, Peter M. Slide Rules: Their History,
Models, and Makers. (v + 310 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Mendham, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1999. ISBN:
1879335867.
329. ITO Shuntaro. “Numeral Notations in the
World.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 44 (2005): 225–231.
330. KERKHOVE, Bart Van, Jean Paul van BEN-
DEGEM, and Sal RESTIVO. “Introduction.” Special
Issue: Mathematics: What Does it All Mean? Found.
Sci. 11 (2006): 1–3.
Contents: Bart Van KERKHOVE, “Mathematical Naturalism:
Origins, Guises, and Prospects,” 5–39; Gianluigi OLIVERI,
“Mathematics as a Quasi-Empirical Science,” 41–79; Ard
Van MOER, “The Intentionality of Formal Systems,” 81–119;
Michael OTTE, “Proof-Analysis and Continuity,” 121–155;
CRUZ [ref. 319]; Sal RESTIVO and Wenda K. BAUCHSPIES,
“The Will to Mathematics: Minds, Morals, and Numbers,”
197–215.
331. LA NAVE, Federica. “Belief Without Proof
from Ancient Geometry to Renaissance Algebra.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/05 (2005): 1931.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2005. Adviser: Murdoch,
John E. UMI pub. no. 3173957. 168 pp. Looks at problems
and attempted solutions in mathematics in ancient Greece
and in the work of the Renaissance mathematician Rafael
Bombelli.
332. LIVINGSTON, Eric. “The Context of Proving.”
Soc. Stud. Sci. 36 (2006): 39–68.
On proofs in mathematics.
333. LOLLI, Gabriele. “Definability as a Mathematical
Concept before and after Gödel.” In BOTTAZZINI
and DAHAN DALMEDICO [ref. 315], 207–222.
334. MAGNANI, Lorenzo, and Riccardo DOSSENA.
“Perceiving the Infinite and the Infinitesimal World:
Unveiling and Optical Diagrams in Mathematics.”
Found. Sci. 10 (2005): 7–23.
335. QU Anjing. “Changing the Paradigm: Research
on the History of Mathematics in China.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 26
(2005): 50–58.
Looks at developments in the history of mathematics since
the 1970s.
336. ROLAND, Jeffrey Wells. “Toward an Epistemology
of Mathematics: Naturalism.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 66/01 (2005): 205.
Dissertation at Cornell University, 2005. Adviser: Hodes,
Harold T. UMI pub. no. 3162500. 202 pp.
337. SASAKI, Chikara. “How Was the Terminology
of Modern Western Mathematics Translated into
Japanese?” In MORELON and HASNAWI [ref. 21],
845–857.
338. SCRIBA, Christoph J., and Peter SCHREIBER.
5000 Jahre Geometrie: Geschichte, Kulturen, Menschen.
Vom Zählstein zum Computer. (xiii + 596 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Berlin und New York: Springer,
2000. ISBN: 3540679243.
339. TAIT, William W. The Provenance of Pure
Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and
Its History. Logic and Computation in Philosophy.
(viii + 332 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 019514192X.
A collection of previously published papers.
340. WANG Qingjian. “History of Mathematics:
From a Scholar’s Study to the Classroom.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 23
(2004): 148–154.
Urges historians to focus their efforts on studying mathematics
education.
110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
341. BASALLA, George. Civilized Life in the Universe:
Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials. (xiii
+ 233 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 2006. ISBN: 0195171810.
From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking.
342. BERGIA, Silvio. “Il lungo cammino della cosmologia
verso la codificazione del principio cosmologico.”
Physis 38 (2001): 237–256.
On the history from Bruno’s time to the 20th century of the
cosmological principle.
343. CLEEMPOEL, Koenraad van. (Ed.) Astrolabes
at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the
National Maritime Museum. (ix + 339 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Oxford / New York: Oxford Univ. Press and
London: National Maritime Museum, 2005. ISBN:
0198530692.
344. GLASS, I. S. Revolutionaries of the Cosmos:
The Astro-Physicists. (xiii + 317 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN:
0198570996.
Biographical studies of scientists from Galileo to Hubble.
345. GREENBERG, Joshua M. “Creating the ‘Pillars’:
Multiple Meanings of a Hubble Image.” Public
Underst. Sci. 13 (2004): 83–95.
346. HEILBRON, John L. “Censorship of Astronomy
in Italy after Galileo.” In MCMULLIN [ref. 1475],
279–322.
347. HOSKIN, Michael. (Ed.) The Cambridge Concise
History of Astronomy. (362 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. ISBN:
0521572916.
348. LACHIÈZE-REY, Marc, and Jean-Pierre LU-
MINET. Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the
Spheres to the Conquest of Space. Translated from
the French by Joe LAREDO. (ii + 207 pp.; ill.; bibl.;