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REVISTAS CIENTÍFICAS


AMBIX
Vol. XLVIII (2001)

 

............No. 1 - March 2001

 

Articles Page
Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosophers' Stone by Paulo Alves Porto 1
Amedeo Avogadro's Concept of the Atom: Some New Remarks by Marco Ciardi 17
The Constant Battery and the Daniell-Becquerel-Grove Controversy by Dawn Owen 25
Reviews of Books  
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975. By Dwight Atkinson. Lawrence Erlbaum Asssociates: Mahwah, N.J. 1999. Rev. by Jack Meadows 41
La Découverte Scientifique. By Pierre Laszlo. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Eric Francoeur 42
Geheimnisse der Alchemie. By Manuel Bachmann and Thomas Hofmeier. Schwabe & Co.: Basel. 1999. Rev. by Marianne Winder 43
Alchemie: Lexicon einer hermetische Wissenschaft. Ed. by Calus Priesner and Karin Figala. C.H. Beck: München. 1998. Rev. by Mike Walton 44
De tribus impostoribus. [By Johann Joachim Müller]. Ed. by Winfried Schröder. Fromann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad. 1999. Rev. by Mike Walton 44
Medicine for the Soul. The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital. By Carole Rawcliffe. Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Gloucestershire. 1999. Rev. by Margaret Harvey 45
Science and Engineering in Ireland in 1798: A Time of Revolution. Edited by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson. Royal Irish Academy: Dublin. 2000. Rev. by David Knight 45
The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Vol. 4: January 1849 - October 1855. Letters 2146-3032. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. The Institution of Electrical Engineers: London. 1999. Rev. by Joost Mertens 46
Ludwig Boltzmann. The Man who Trusted Atoms. By Carlo Cercignani. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock 48
Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life. By Graeme K. Hunter. Academic Press: San Diego, New York. 2000. Rev. by Noel Coley 48
Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw. Vol. II: Delfstoffen, Energie, Chemie. Edited by J.W. Schot et. al. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by Jasper Faber 49
Research tussen Vetkool en Zoetstof. Zestig Jaar DSM Research 1940-2000. Edited by H. Lintsen, with contributions by T. van Helvoort, E. Homburg, E. van Royen, J. Schueler, F. Veraart and P. Vincken. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by H. Deelstra 51
Announcement 52

 

............No. 2 - July 2001

 

Articles  
William Arthur Smeaton An Appreciation 53
Articles  
Alchemical Reproduction and the Career of Anna Maria Zieglerin by Tara E. Nummedal 56
Marie Meurdrac: Paracelsian Chemist and Feminist by Lucia Tosi 69
Jesuits and Alchemy in the Early Seventeenth Century: Father Johannes Roberti and the Weapon-Salve Controversy by Carlos Ziller Camenietzki 83
The Making of a Calvinist Chemist: Herman Boerhaave, God, Fire and Truth by Rina Knoeff 102
Reviews of Books  
The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements. By Helen S. Lang. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by Gregor Schiemann 112
A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by David Knight 113
Cavendish: The Experimental Life. By Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCorm-mach. Bucknell University Press: Cranbury NJ. 1999. Rev. by Ursula Klein 114
Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. By June Z. Fullmer. American Philosophical Society: Philadelphia. 2000. Rev. by Julianne Tuttle 115
Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939. Edited by Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Science History Publications: Canton, MA. 2000. Rev. by W. H. Brock 116
La fine dei privilegi. Scienze fisiche, tecnologia e istituzioni scientifiche sabaude nel Risorgimento. (Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi XXXIV). By Marco Ciardi. Leo S. Olschki: Firenze. 1999. Rev. by Luisa Dolza 118
De Natuur Voorbij: het begin van de productie van synthetische geneesmiddelen. By Thijs Jan Rinsema. The Author: Meppel. 2000. Rev. by Henk van den Belt 119
Wissenschaft in turbulenter Zeit: Erinnerungen eines Chemikers an die Technische Hochschule München 1933-1953. (Alorgismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, 25). By Helmut Behrens. Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften: Munich. 1998. Rev. by Peter Morris 120
Short Notices 122
Announcements 124

 

............No. 3 - November 2001

 

Articles  
Thomas Philipot and Chemical Theories of the Tides in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne Marie Roos 125
The 'Doctrine of Salts' and Rev. John Walker's Analysis of a Scottish Spa (1749-1761) by M. D. Eddy 137
Woodward, Robinson, and Strychnine: Chemical Structure and Chemists' Challenge by Leo B. Slater 161
Announcement 190
Reviews of Books  
Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball. By Trevor H. Levere. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, London. 2001. Rev. by Christoph Meinel 191
Sciences of the Earth: Studies in the History of Mineralogy and Geology. By David Oldroyd. Ashgate Variorum: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Gordon L. Herries Davies 192 George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591). Edited by Stanton J. Linden. Ashgate: Aldershot, Hants. 2001. Rev. by Peter J. Forshaw 193
Alchemomedizinsche Briefe 1585 bis 1597. By Oswaldus Crollius; edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann and Joachim Telle. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 1998. Rev. by Tara E. Nummedal 194
Das Problem der Autonomie der Naturwissenschaft bei Galilei. By Matthias Dorn. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 2000. Rev. by Gerhard Wiesenfeldt 195
The Alchemy of Light. Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration. By Urszula Szulakowska. Brill: Leiden, Boston, Köln. 2000. Rev. by John Henry 195
Représentations scientifiques et images poétiques en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle. By Margaret Llasera. CNRS Editions: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Alison Shell 197
The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts. Edited and introduced by Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2001. Rev. by R. I. McCallum 197
Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2000. Rev. by Rina Knoeff 198
Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. By J. R. Harris. Ashgate: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Serge Chassagne 199
Stoffwechsel im tierischen Organismus: Historische Studien zu Liebigs 'Thier-Chemie'. Edited by Johannes Büttner and Wilhelm Lewicki. HisChymia Buchverlag: Seesen. 2001. Rev. by W. H. Brock 200
Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), London. 2001. Rev. by Maurice Crosland. 201
Bier, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in Deutschland, 1800-1914. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte. By Mikulás Teich. Böhlau Verlag: Wien, Köln, Weimar. 2000. Rev. by Ray Anderson 202
Chimie Nouvelle 17 (December 1999). Special Issue on the History of Chemistry in Belgium in the 20th Century. Edited by Hendrik Deelstra and Brigitte van Tiggelen. Société Royale de Chimie: Bruxelles. 1999. Rev. by Ulrike Fell 203
The Coming of Materials Science. By Robert W. Cahn. Pergamon: Amsterdam, London, New York. 2001. Rev. by Susan Mossman 204
Chemicals and Long Term Economic Growth. Edited by Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg. Wiley-Interscience, in conjunction with the Chemical Heritage Foundation: New York. 2001. Rev. by Arjan van Rooij 205
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. Edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and Alexander Scriabine. Chemical Heritage Press: Philadelphia. 1999. Rev. by Florence Charue Duboc 206
Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Brian J. Ford. Institute of Biology: London. 2000. Rev. by Patricia E. Faasse 207
Chemie achter de dijken. Uitvindingen en uitvinders in de eeuw na Van't Hoff. Edited by Herman van Bekkum and Jan Reedijk. Edita KNAW: Amsterdam. 2001. Rev. by Ernst Homburg 208
Short Notices 209

Aries. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
New series. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2001):

– VV.AA. [The Editors]:
« Preface », pp. 3-4.

– Wouter J. Hanegraaff :
« Beyond the Yates Paradigm: The Study of Western Esotericism between Counterculture and New Complexity », pp. 5-37.

– John F. Moffitt :
« Cryptography and Alchemy in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg », pp. 38-61.

– Natale Spineto :
« Mircea Eliade and Traditionalism », pp. 62-87.

– Carole Frosio :
« L'esotérisme entre histoire et tradition (Jean Servier [ed.], Dictionnaire critique de l'esoéerisme) », pp. 88-105.

BookReviews, pp. 106-125.
Books Received, p. 126.
Recent and Upcoming Congresses, pp. 127-131.

 

 

Aries. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
New series. Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 2001):

–Joseph Dan :
« Jewish Medieval Influences on Renaissance Concepts of Harmonia Mundi », pp. 135-152.

–Stephane Toussaint :
« La ‘science des spectres’ de Pierre Le Loyer, lecteur de Ficin et JeanPic », pp. 153-167.

–Brendan French :
« The Mercurian Master: Hermes' Gift to the Theosophical Society », pp. 168-205.

–Mirko Sladek :
« Faszination Zarathushtra (Michael Stausberg, Faszination Zarathushtra) », pp. 206-212.

Book Reviews, pp. 213-225
Recent and Upcoming Congresses, pp. 229-233.


Accademia. Revue de la Societe Marsile Ficin
Premier Numero 1999. (Sobre sueños y relatos oníricos vinculados a la obra Ficiniana)

- Stephane Toussaint & Sebastiano Gentile, "Avant-propos."    pp.7-8
- Brigitte Tambrun, "Marsile Ficin et le Commentaire de Plethon sur les Oracles chaldaiques."    pp.9-48
- Andrea Rabassini, "Il Bene e le ombre : "Experta" ficiniani dal "Commento alla Repubblica"."     pp.49-66
- Cesare Vasoli, "Ficino e la rivelazione onirica."    pp.67-76
- Stephane Toussaint, "A Philosophical Prototype: Dreams and Wisdom in Ficino."    pp.77-84
- Sergius Kodera, "The Stuff Dreams are Made of: Ficino's Magic Mirrors."    pp.85-100
- Elisabeth von Samsonow, "Ich Sah: Die Bedeutung der Bildtheorie der Renaissance."    pp.101-110
- Moshe Idel, "Astral Dreams in R. Yohanan Alemanno's Writings."    pp.111-128
- August Ruhs, "Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen zu Rhetorik und Aesthetik des Traums."    pp.129-140
- M. Y. Perrin, "Synesios de Cyrene, le sommeil et les reves dans l'antiquite tardive."    pp.141-152
- Andrea Rabassini, "Sheda : Il De somniis di Sinesio tradotto da Ficino."    pp.153-155
- Synesius, "De somniis translatus a Marsilio Ficino."    pp.156-end


Bruniana & Campanelliana
Anno 6, (2000), n.1.


Studi
 
M.-G.Accietto-Gualtieri La conservazione come concetto metafisico-teologico nel pensiero di Tommaso Campanella
A. Bönker-Vallon L’unità del metodo e lo sviluppo di una nuova fisica. Considerazioni sul significato del De l’infinito, universo e mondi di Giordano Bruno per la scienza moderna
L. Catana Bruno’s Spaccio and Hyginus’ Poetica astronomica
D. Giovannozzi "Porphyrius, Plotinus et alii Platonici". Echi neoplatonici nella demonologia bruniana
M.-P. Lerner la page de titre du De sensu rerum et magia (Francfort 1620)
A. Maggi The language of the visible: the Eroici furori and the Renaissance philosophy of imprese
 

Testi

U. Baldini - L. Spruit Cardano e Aldovrandi nelle lettere del Sant’Uffizio romano all’Inquisitore di Bologna (1571-73)
L. Spruit I processi campanelliani tra Padova e Calabria: documenti inediti dall’archivio dell’Inquisizione romana
 

Note · Cronache · Recensioni  · Notizie  · Schede

L. Albanese, Bruno, Virgilio e lo Spirito Santo
G. Formichetti, L’ottava lettera del fondo Colonna: un inedito campanelliano
P. Goretti, "Inhonesta consuetudo": pianelle per piedi di legno
L. Guerrini, Astrologicorum libri vii. Considerazioni linguistiche e ricognizioni intorno alla tradizione del testo
Il convegno di Stilo: Tommaso Campanella e la congiura di Calabria nel IV centenario (T. Katinis)
Un convegno a Wolfenbüttel su Artes et scientiae all’inizio dell’età moderna (L. Balbiani)
Su Bruno e la scienza. A proposito di: H. Gatti, Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1999 (A. Rossi)
Io dirò la verità. Giordano Bruno 1548-1600. Mostra storico-documentaria
 
Sphaera
O. Pompeo Faracovi, Per la storia dell’astrologia
G. Giglioni, Hermeneutics of ‘divinatio’ in Cardano’s medicine and astrology
G. Cardano, Aforismi astrologici, Xenia, Milano 1998 (O. Pompeo Faracovi)
P. Travaglia, Magic, Causality and Intentionality, Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze 1999 (D. Giovannozzi)
M. Bertozzi, La tirannia degli astri, Livorno 1999 (O. Pompeo Faracovi)

Cronos (Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia. Serie D) ISSN: 1139-711X
Sumario del volumen 2, número 2 de 1999
 

Artículos  
- Thomas F. Glick, "From the Sarton papers: Paul Kraus and arabic alchemy (p. 221).
- Hervé Baudry, "Alchimie, destillation et paracelsisme au Portugal d'après les imprimés du XVIIe. siècle". (p. 245).
- Domènec Campillo; Santiago Safont; Assumpció Malagosa; Francisco-José Puchalt, "Four trepanned skull from 5th and 16th century in Spain. Surgery or ritual?", (p. 261).
- María José Báguena Cervellera, "Algunos aspectos de la asimilación de la teoría del contagio animado en la España del siglo XIX", (p. 285).
- Jesús Ignacio Catalá Gorgues, "La botánica valenciana en el primer tercio del siglo XX: algunos aspectos de la organización de la práctica naturalista", (p. 309).
 

Notas de investigación
- Francisco J. Sanchís Moreno: Hallazgo de un plano del Hospital General de Valencia datado en 1749 (p. 373)
 

Revisiones
- Montserrat Cabré i Pairet: Un siglo de universitarias en España (1872-1996) (p. 377).
 

Reseñas
- María Soledad Campos Díez, El Real Tribunal del Protomedicato castellano (siglos XIV-XIX), Cuenca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, 1999, 424 p.; por María Luz López Terrada (p. 385).
- Andrée Despy-Meyer; Didier Devriese (eds), Ernest Solvay et son temps, Bruxelles, Archives de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1997, 349 p.; por Angel Toca Otero, (p. 386).
- Antonio González Bueno y Raul Rodríguez Nozal, Plantas americanas para la España Ilustrada. Génesis, desarrollo y ocaso del proyecto español de expediciones botánicas, Madrid, Editorial Complutense (Colección Línea 300), 2000, 103 p. ISBN: 8-8978-95-7; por Cristina Sendra Mocholí, (p. 394).
- José María Riaza Morales, La iglesia en la historia de la ciencia, Madrid, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1999, 319 p. ISBN: 84-7914-444-0; por Jesús Ignacio Catalá Gorgues, (p. 394).
- Raffaela Seligardi, Lavoisier in Italia. La Rivoluzione Chimie negli stati italiani, Università degli Studi di Bari, Tesi di dottorato di Recerca in Storia della Scienza, 1999, 365 p.; por José R. Bertomeu Sánchez, (p. 395).


CHRYSOPOEIA. Revue publiée par la Société d'Étude de l'Histoire de l'Alchimie
TOMO VI (1997-99). Cinq traités alchimiques médiévaux, (1999), 350 pp.  

- Sylvain Matton: Avant-propos: Éditer des textes alchimiques médiévaux

- Françoise Hudry: Le De secretis nature du Ps. Apollonius de Tyane, traduction latine par Hugues de Santalla du Kitæb sirr al-Ïalîqa. Édition et présentation par Françoise Hudry.

- Antoine Calvet: Le De secretis nature du Ps. Arnaud de Villeneuve. Édition, traduction et présentation par Antoine Calvet.

- Antoine Calvet et Sylvain Matton: Quelques versions de la Flos Florum ps-arnaldienne.

- Renan Crouvizier et Sylvain Matton: Deux traités de Valerand du Bois-Robert, La composition de la pierre des philosophes et l’Épître à maistre Abraham. Édition et présentation par Renan Crouvizier.


History and Technology 16(3), 2000

Special Issue: Institutions and Technical Change in Early Modern
Europe (Guest editors: Carlo Marco Belfanti and Fabio Guisberti)

Carlo Marco Belfanti and Fabio Guisberti    pp21-222
'Introduction: institutions and technical change in early modern
Europe'

Pamela O. Long          pp223-242
'Invention, secrecy and theft: meaning and context in the study of
late medieval technical transmission'

Henry Heller            pp243-262
'Primitive accumulation and technical innovation in the French wars
of religion'

Karel Davids            pp263-284
'Patents and patentees in the Dutch republic between c1580 and 1720'

Liliane Hilaire-Perez       pp285-306
'Technical invention and institutional credit in France and Britain
in the 18th century'


AMBIX
Vol. XLVII (2000)

No. 1 - March 2000

Articles

Page

Mateu Orfila's Elémens de Chimie Médicale and the Debate about Medical Applications of Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century France by José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Antonio García Belmar

  1

Rychard Bostok of Tandridge, Surrey (c.1530-1605), M.P., Paracelsian Propagandist and Friend of John Dee by David Harley

 29

Devitalising the Elements: Johann Friedrich John (1782-1847) and the Liberation of Phosphorus and Potassium from a Vital Force by Theodore L. Sourkes

 37

Note on the Date of Publication of the English Translation of Lavoisier's Traité Elémentaire de Chymie by John D. Baird

 47

Announcement

 48

Reviews of Books

 

Journals and History of Science. Ed. by Marco Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro Redondi. Biblioteca di Nucius Studi e Testi XXXII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki. Rev. by W. H. Brock

 49

The Science of Energy. A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. By Crosbie Smith. London and Chicago: The Athlone Press and the University of Chicago Press, 1998. Rev. by Hasok Chang

 50

Emblems and Alchemy. Ed. by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden. Glasgow Emblem Series, Department of French, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Rev by Lawrence M. Principe

 51

Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. By John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998. Rev. by David Knight

 52

A History of the Society of Apothecaries. By Penelope Hunting. London: Society of Apothecaries, 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock

 53

Trimethius and Magical Theology: a Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe. By Noel L. Brann. State University of New York Press, 1998. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick

 54

A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa

 55

The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society. By Richard Rudgley. London: British Museum Press, 1998. Rev. by Andreas-Holger Maehle

 56

Chemischer Atomismus. Anwendung, Veränderung, Alternativen im deutsch-sprachigen Raum in der zweiten Hälfte des 19.Jahrhunderts. By Britta Görs. Berlin: ERS-Verlag, 1999. Rev. by W.H. Brock

 57

The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Volume XII. Science, Tools and Magic. General Editor Julian Raby. Part One: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe. By Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith. Part Two: Mundane Worlds. By Emilie Savage-Smith with contributions from Francis Maddison, Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Tim Stanley. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997. Rev. by R.G.W. Anderson

 58

A History of Science in the Netherlands: Surveys, Themes and Reference. Ed. by Klaas van Berkel, Albert van Helden and Lodewijk Palm. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999. Rev. by Trevor Levere

 59

Natural Dyestuffs and Industrial Culture in Europe, 1750-1880. Ed. by Robert Fox and Agustí Nieto-Galan. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1999. Rev. by David Knight

 60

Lessico Filosofico dei secoli XVII e XVIII Sezione Latina a cura di Marta Fattori. Vol 1, 4 artificiosus - bulla. Coordinamento Eugenio Canone - Giacinta Spinosa. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1999. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick

 61

Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939: New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies. Ed. by A.S. Travis, H.G. Schrötter, E. Homburg and P.J.T. Morris. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Rev. by Viviane Quirke

 63

Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800. By John Gascoigne. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1998. Rev. by Jack Morrell

 64

The Life and Times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Gentleman, Scientist and Inventor, 1793-1895. By Dale H. Porter. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, Associated University Presses. Rev. by Ben Marsden

 65

Le cas Spencer: religion, science et politique. By Daniel Becquemont and Laurent Mucchielli. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Rev. by Hannah Gay

 66

Short Notices

 67

Announcement

 70

 

No. 2 - July 2000

Articles

 

A.W. Hauch's Role in the Introduction of Antiphlogistic Chemistry into Denmark by Anja Skaar Jacobsen

 71

Justus von Liebig and his Influence on Clinical Chemistry by Johannes Büttner

 96

Announcement

117

Reviews of Books

 

I wish I'd made you angry earlier: essays on science, scientists and humanity. By Max Perutz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Rev. by David Knight

118

 

No. 3 - November 2000

Announcements

119

Articles

 

Ernst Dieffenbach's Comments on the State of Chemistry in Britain in 1846 by W.H. Brock

121

Pillars of the College': Assistants at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1846-1871 by Hannah Gay

135

The Death of Vitalism and the Birth of Organic Chemistry: Wöhler's Urea Synthesis and the Disciplinary Identity of Organic Chemistry by Peter Ramberg

170

Reviews of Books

 

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, part XIII, Mining. By Peter J. Golas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Hugh S. Torrens

196

Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johan Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle. By J.T. Young. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa

197

The Great Exhibition. By John R. Davis. Stroud, Glos: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Rev. by Elsbeth Heaman

198

A Chemical History Tour. Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science. By Arthur Greenberg. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2000. Rev. by Pierre Laszlo

199

John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature. By Deborah E. Harkness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by John Henry

200

Luigi Galvani International Workshop: Proceedings. Ed. by Marco Bresadola and Giuliano Pancaldi. Bologna Studies in History of Science, Vol. 7: Dipartimento di Filosophia, Universita di Bologna, 1999. Rev. by David Knight

201

Disziplin, Profession und Nation: Die Ideologie der Chemie in Frankreich vom Zweiten Kaiserreich bis in die Zwischenkriegzeit. By Ulrike Fell. Deutsch-Französische Kulturbibliothek, Vol. 14. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2000. Rev. by A.J. Rocke

202

China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Ed. by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Keith Pratt

203

Short Notice

204


EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Vol. 5 (2000) Fascicle 2:
Special issue on Alchemy and Hermeticism, ed. Michela PEREIRA (May, 2000)

— Michela PEREIRA: Introduction.

— Paola CARUSI: Harmis al-Harmisa dans l'alchimimie islamique. Une recherche par auteur et par sujet.

— Michela PEREIRA: Heavens on Earth. From the Tabula Smaragdina to the Alchemical Fifth Essence.

— Chiara CRISCIANI: Hermeticism and Alchemy: The Case of Ludovico Lazzarelli.

— Vittoria PERRONE COMPAGNI: "Dispersa Intentio." Alchemy, Magic, and Scepticism in Agrippa.

— Zweder VON MARTELS: Augurello's Chrysopoeia (1515) a Turning Point in the Literary Tradition of Alchemical Texts.

— William EAMON: Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone.

— Ferdinando ABBRI: Alchemy and Chemistry: Chemical Discourses in the Seventeenth Century


British Journal for the History of Science 32(3), Sep 1999

M. HUNTER                       p. 257-260
"Introduction"

M. HUNTER                       p. 261-276
"Robert Boyle (1627-91): a suitable case for treatment?"

B. KAHR                     p. 277-284
"Robert Boyle: a Freudian perspective on an eminent scientist"

J. CLAY                     p.285-298
"Robert Boyle: a Jungian perspective"

K. FIGLIO                       p. 299-314
"Psychoanalysis and the scientific mind: Robert Boyle"

G. CANTOR                       p. 315-324
"Boyling over: a commentary on the preceding papers"

I. HIGGINSON AND C. SMITH               p. 325-342
"'A magnified piece of thermodynamics': the Promethean iconography of
the refrigerator in Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast"

"Obituary: John Anthony Chaldecott (1916-98)        p. 343

ESSAY REVIEWS
A. HESSENBRUCH                  P. 345-358
"Probing historiographical boundaries"

C SUTTON                        p. 359-362
"Preparation for adult life?"


Hyle: an International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry 4, 1998

Stephen J. Weininger            pp3-27
'Contemplating the finger: visuality and semiotics of chemistry'

Pierre Laszlo                   pp29-38
'Chemical analysis as dematerialization'

Luigi Cerruti                   pp39-61
'Chemicals as instruments: a language game'

Vladimir Karpenko               pp63-80
'Alchemy as donum dei'

Guiseppe Del Re             pp81-103
'Ontological status of molecular structure'

Joseph E. Earley                pp105-115
'Modes of chemical becoming'

John R. Vinstainer              pp117-128
'An infinity of different triangle types: on the chemistry of Plato's
Timaeus'

Joachim Schummer                pp129-162
'The chemical core of chemistry I: a conceptual approach'

Short Biography:

Klaus Ruthenberg                pp163-166
'Robert Havemann, 1910-1982'

Hyle, an International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry 5 (1), June 1999

Luigi Cerruti        pp. 3-41
"Historical and Philosophical Remarks on Ziegler-Natta Catalysts. A
Discourse on Industrial Catalysis"

Antonino Drago & Romina Oliva pp. 43-55
"Atomism and the Reasoning by a Non-Classical Logic"

Andrea Tontini       pp. 57-76
"Developmental Aspects of Contemporary Chemistry. Some Philosophical
Reflections"


Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 52(2), 1999

Pierre Cassou-Nogues       pp. 179-206
"Recherches de Husserl pour une philosophie de la geometrie/Husserl's
research on the philosophy of geometry".

Nicolas Weill-Parot        pp. 207-240
"Causalite astrale et <science des images> au Moyen Age:
Elements de reflexion/Astral causality and the <science of images>
during the Middle Ages: Some lines of thought".

Claudette Balpe            pp. 241-283
"Constitution d'un enseignement experimental: La physique et chimie
dans les ecoles centrales/The constitution of the teaching of
experimental science: Physics and chemistry in the Ecoles Centrales.

Serge Fauche               pp. 285-305
"Des exercices du corps a la guerison de l'esprit au XVIII et XIX
siecles/Physical exercises and the curing of the mind during the 18th
and 19th centuries".

Bernard Vitrac             pp. 307-314
"Le type mathematique de l'idealite dans la pensee grecque: Sur un
ouvrage de Maurice Caveing/ The mathematical type of ideality in
Greek thought: On a book by Maurice Caveing".

Jean-Michel Salanskis      pp. 315-320
"Nombres reels et theorie du continu: Sur un ouvrage edite par Philip
Ehrlich/ Real numbers and theory of continua: On a book edited by
Philip Ehrlich".


Isis 90(2), June 1999

Michael F. Conlin               p.181
'The Popular and Scientific Reception of the Foucault Pendulum in the
United States'

Otniel E. Dror                  p.205
'The Affect of Experiment: The Turn to Emotions in Anglo-American
Physiology, 1900-1940'

Ida H. Stamhuis, Onno G. Meuer, Erik J.A. Zevenhutzen p.238
'Hugo de Vries on Heredity, 1889-1903: Statistics, Mendelian Laws,
Pangenes, Mutations'

Mitchell B. Hart                p.268
'Racial Science, Social Science, and the Politics of Jewish
Assimilation'

Cong Cao                    p.298
'The Changing Dynaic between Science and Politics: Evolution of the
Highest Academic Honor in China, 1949-1998'

Essay Reviews:

Robert Kohler                   p.329
'The Constructivists' Took Kit'
on Jan Golinski:
'Making Natural Knowledge; Constructivism and the History of Science'

Mott T. Greene              p.332
Mom Always Liked You Best
on Frank J. Sulloway: Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics,
and Creative Lives'


Isis 90(3), September 1999

Pamela H. Smith             p.421
'Science and Taste: Painting, Passions, and the New Philosophy in
Seventeenth-Century Leiden'

Nick Hopwood                p.462
'"Giving Body" to Embryos: Modeling, Mechanism, and the Microtome in
Late Nineteenth-Century Anatomy'

Charles W.J. Withers                p.497
'Reporting, Mapping, Trusting: Making Geographical Knowledge in the
Late Seventeenth Century'

Evgeny A. Zaitsev               p.522
'The Meaning of Early Medieval Geometry: From Euclid and Surveyors'
Manuals to Christian Philosophy'

Essay Reviews:

Edward J. Larson
'Evangelists for Science'           p.558
'Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science'

Charles Webster             p.560
'The Study of the Unusual'
on Lorraine Daston; Katharine Park: Wonders and the Order of  Nature,
1150-1750'

Ronald E. Doel              p.563
'Theories and Origins of Planetary Physics'
on Stephen G. Brush: 'Nebulous Earth: The Origin of the Solar System
and the Care of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys;  Stephen G.
Brush: Transmuted Past: The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the
Elements from Lyell to Patterson, and Stephen G. Brush: Fruitful
encounters: The Origins of the Solar System and of the Moon from
Chamberlin to Apollo'



Supplement to Isis 90, 1999

Catching up with the vision

Margaret W. Rossiter            p.S1
'Introduction'

People:

Thomas P. Gariepy               p.S7
'John Farquhar Fulton and the History of Science Society'

Bernard Cohen                   p.S28
'The Isis Crisis and the Coming of Age of the History of Science
Society'

Jensine Andresen                p.S43
'Crisis and Kuhn'

Marie Boas Hall             p.S68
'Recollections of a History of Science Guinea Pig'

Charles C. Gillispie            p.S84
'Apologia pro Vita Sua'

Gerald Holton                   p.S95
'Some Lessons from Living in the History of Science'

Will Provine                    p.S117
'No Free Will'

Societies:

Michael M. Sokal                p.S135
'The History of Science Society, 1970-1999: From Subscription Agency
to Professional Society'

Roger Hahn                  p.S182
'Berkeley's History of Science Dinner Club: A Chronicle of Fifty
Years of Activity'

Robert E. Schofield             p.S192
'"Too Far to Go": Early Years of the Midwest Junto'

Mary Louise Gleason             p.S200
'The Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society'

Mary P. Winsor with recollections by Leonard G. Wilson  p.S219
'The Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology'

Clark A. Elliott                p.S226
'Forum for the History of Science in America: Identity and
Organization'

Keith R. Benson             p.S240
'Flail on, Columbia: An Irreverent Look at HSS's Soggiest Subsection,
the Columbia History of Science Group'

Subdivisions

Pamela M. Henson                p.S249
'"Objects of Curious Research": The History of Science and Technology
at the Smithsonian'

Joy Harvey                  p.S270
'History of Science, History and Science, and Natural Sciences:
Undergraduate Teaching of the History of Science at Harvard, 1938-
1970'

Kevin T. Grau                   p.S295
'Force and Nature: The Department of the History and Philosophy of
Science at Indiana University, 1960-1998'



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