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May 17

De Tellescopiis Stellarum (1666). Was Galileo experimenting with four-lens terrestrial telescopes by 1630? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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May 14

Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries @AnnalsOfScience @tandfSTEM @RoutledgeHist tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries

Contemporaries who only knew Newton's natural philosophy from his published works would have seen him as a thinker who was thoroughly opposed to the concept of an all-pervasive universal aether. Th...

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Jan 15

Kant on the metaphysical foundation of inertia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Kant on the metaphysical foundation of inertia

This paper deals with Kant's elaboration of a metaphysical foundation of the principle of inertia in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Many of Kant's contemporaries treat inertia not...

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10 Dec 2025

From orbits to orbitals. Early pictorializations of electron probability densities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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10 Nov 2025

50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations @AnnalsOfScience tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations

In the context of the 150th anniversary of Hermann Graßmann's death, the results of 50 years of recent Graßmann research, starting with Lewis's dissertation and his contribution to the Annals of Sc...

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22 Oct 2025

Book Review: A Little History of Mathematics Author: @snezanalawrence Published in @AnnalsOfScience and #FREE to read! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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7 Oct 2025

Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize 2024: Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy Author: Julia Tomasson #FREEAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst...

This article reframes the Analyst Controversy, incited by George Berkeley’s incendiary tract The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), as not merely a debate about Newt...

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8 Sep 2025

A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory

In the 1820s, Stockholm Observatory undertook a significant upgrade of its instruments. The new acquisitions included a meridian circle, crafted by Traugott Ertel in Munich, which – after extensive...

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3 Sep 2025

Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan’s translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War Hong Kong tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan’s translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War...

The Cold War’s bipolarity between the Free World and the Communist World was evident across diplomacy, literature, military competition. Science, where research and publications often reflected opp...

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1 Sep 2025

Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835

We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell’s first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...

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22 Jul 2025

Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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10 Jun 2025

Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (Hypoderma tarandi L.) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783)...

In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723–1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala pr...

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26 Jun 2025

Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature @tandfSTEM @RoutledgeHist tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature*

Published in Annals of Science (Vol. 82, No. 3, 2025)

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2 Feb 2024

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Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments

Published in Annals of Science (Vol. 81, No. 1-2, 2024)

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30 Apr 2025

‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistol...

A manuscript now in Bamberg preserves the only surviving fragment of a thirteenth-century treatise on comets or ‘new stars’, which was written as a letter addressed by an unknown Dominican author t...

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