History of Science

Biographies of Albert Einstein -- Mastermind of Theoretical Physics

by Galina Weinstein

Early Modern Hebrew Cosmography from Northern Italy

by Tzvi Langermann

Matteucci and du Bois-Reymond: A Bitter Rivalry

by Gabriel Finkelstein

This essay considers a long-standing controversy between two nineteenth century pioneers in electrophysiology: the... more This essay considers a long-standing controversy between two nineteenth century pioneers in electrophysiology: the German scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896), and his Italian rival Carlo Matteucci (1811-1868). Historians have generally described their disagreement in du Bois-Reymond’s terms: the product of a contrast in scientific outlook. While not discounting this interpretation, I want to suggest that the controversy was driven as much by the rivals’ similarity as it was by their difference.

Vides modernes d'Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

Faventia, 28/1-2 (2006), pp. 137-145.

Approach to some biographies of Arnau de Vilanova written in early Modern Age as a way to know his survival and the... more Approach to some biographies of Arnau de Vilanova written in early Modern Age as a way to know his survival and the reception of the medical and alchemical corpus attributed to him.

Paracelsus and the development of medical chemistry out of alchemy

by Martin Huncovsky

Written as a part of course assignment.

The influence of the Society of Jesus on the spread of european mechanical knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries

by Michela Cigola

Cigola M., The influence of the Society of Jesus on the spread of european mechanical knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, in Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms Proceedings of HMM2012, T. Koetsier & M. Ceccarelli editors, Part 1, “History of Mechanisms and machine science” vol. 15; Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York 2012; pp 69-79. ISSN 1875-3442 ISBN 978-94-007-4131-7 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4132-4

This article aims to investigate the role played by various missionaries of the Society of Jesus in the development... more This article aims to investigate the role played by various missionaries of the Society of Jesus in the development and spread of European scientific and mechanical knowledge in China between the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Arnaldus Astrologus? La astrología en la medicina de Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

Medicina e historia, 2003-2, pp. 1-15.

Hacia una historia praxiológica de la arqueología prehistórica española. La arqueología mallorquina como caso de estudio; Towards a praxeological history of …

by David Javaloyas Molina

Published in: Complutum 2010, 21(1): 27-44

ABSTRACT
This paper examines the different ways of writing the history of Spanish archaeology in order to... more ABSTRACT
This paper examines the different ways of writing the history of Spanish archaeology in order to explore the different philosophies of science underlying them. We argue that the epistemic premises of these histories are not useful to study the last twenty years of Spanish archaeology because they cannot overcome the so-called chasm existing in the present-day situation between research archaeology, contract archaeology and Cultural Resource Management archaeology. In order to illustrate how a different point of view, based on the praxeological
philosophy of science developed by Javier Echeverría, can enable the reconciliation between the different factions, an analysis is made of the history of Majorcan archaeology in the last fifty years.

KEY WORDS: Research archaeology. Cultural Resource Management archaeology. Contract archaeology. Philosophy
of science. History of archaeology. Majorca

RESUMEN
.El presente artículo examina las diferentes maneras en que se ha historiado la arqueología prehistórica española.
El objetivo es poner de manifiesto las diversas ideas que han manejado los arqueólogos y arqueólogas acerca de lo qué es, o debería ser, la arqueología; es decir las premisas epistemológicas subyacentes. Se defiende que esas premisas son insuficientes para analizar el desarrollo de los últimos veinte años de la arqueología española, ya que no permiten superar el supuesto cisma existente en la arqueología española contemporánea, dividida entre la denominada arqueología de investigación, la arqueología de gestión y la arqueología comercial. Se propone que una perspectiva alternativa, basada en la filosofía praxiológica y axiológica desarrollada por Javier
Echeverría, puede permitir la reconciliación de las distintas facciones. Para demostrar este punto se toma como
caso práctico el desarrollo de la arqueología mallorquina desde 1955 hasta la actualidad.

PALABRAS CLAVE: Arqueología de investigación. Arqueología de gestión. Arqueología comercial. Filosofía de la
ciencia. Historias de la arqueología. Mallorca.

Michael Behe. The edge of evolution: the search for the limits of darwinism

by Gabriel da Costa Ávila

Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics

by Carol Tilley

Forthcoming in Information & Culture: A Journal of History.

Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones... more Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones of the anti-comics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there have been persistent concerns about the clinical evidence Wertham used as the basis for Seduction, his sources were made widely available only in 2010. This paper documents specific examples of how Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence—especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people—for rhetorical gain.

Review of A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher,“Germanus incredibilis”, by John Edward Fletcher

by Philipp Nothaft

published in "Francia-Recensio" 2012/1

‘Knowing the body: Renaissance medicine and the classics’ in Paula Olmos (ed.), Greek Science in the Long Run: Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE – 16th c. CE), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 281-300

by Helen King

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Greek-Science-in-the-Long-Run--Essays-on-Greek-Scientific-Tradition--4th-c--BCE-16th-c--CE-1-4438-3775-X.htm

Maimonides and the Sciences

by Tzvi Langermann

Maimonides' Repudiation of Astrology

by Tzvi Langermann

From Blood Vessels to Global Networks of Exchange: The Physiology of Benjamin Rush’s Early Republic

by Sari Altschuler

Journal of the Early Republic 32.2 (Summer 2012): 207-232

This essay explores Benjamin Rush's ideas about physiology in an effort to revise current understandings of Rush's... more This essay explores Benjamin Rush's ideas about physiology in an effort to revise current understandings of Rush's medico-political model and shed new light on conversations about circulation and sympathy in the early republic. Rush's non-hierarchical model of circulation broke with European medicine. For Rush, circulation was the key to corporeal and national health. Circulation needed to remain unfettered for individuals to realize republican promise and for the body to be properly invigorated-but free flow was problematic when it allowed information, goods, and bodies to flow unchecked. Sympathy was the secondary, essential mechanism that controlled this movement. Whereas circulation importantly opened both body and country to external stimuli, sympathy-physiological, social, political-managed responses to those stimuli, directing them along salubrious routes that were both natural and teachable. Rush himself worked tirelessly to mold these sympathies through rhetoric. This physiology and Rush's rhetorical medicine challenge the common understanding of Rush's "republican machines"; American bodies were, rather, dynamic living systems that could, through the cultivation of proper sympathies, become virtuous citizens. This essay extends current work on circulation by reconnecting it to physiology and suggesting that physiology's dynamism-rather than static "anatomy"-ought to inform discussions of the young nation. Rush knew bodies and nations were "tremendous oscillatory mass[es] of matter." America would maintain national health not by restricting circulation but by influencing citizens' reactions to free-flow systems that were only somewhat predictable and always dynamic. This physiology provides a new model for thinking about early American circulation and sympathy.

Darwin in Literature and Science

by Martin Willis

This is the bibliography for my work on Darwin in Literature and Science for my forthcoming Readers Guide to... more This is the bibliography for my work on Darwin in Literature and Science for my forthcoming Readers Guide to Literature and Science. Any suggestions appreciated!

The Development of Contemporary Dairy Culture: Appropriation of American Bodies for Industry and the National Defense

by Victor Galli

Senior thesis for the Science, Technology & Society program in the Department of the History & Sociology of Science.

Recensione a Marin Cureau de La Chambre, "Quale sia la conoscenza degli animali e fin dove possa estendersi", a cura di Emanuela Scribano, Felici Editore 2010

by Simone Guidi

Published in LoSguardo.net, n. 6, 2011 (II)

Recensione a Ettore Lojacono, "Cartesio. Dalla magia alla scienza", Il Prato 2010

by Simone Guidi

Published in LoSguardo.net, n. 6, 2011 (II)