The incomparable historian : essays in memory of John L. Heilbron / Stefano Gattei, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heilbron, J. L., honouree.

Gattei, Stefano, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; 2215-0064 v. 75.

Archimedes, 2215-0064 ; volume 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxxix, 400 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2026.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

A Bibliography of the Writings of John L. Heilbron, 1964-2025 (Stefano Gattei)

My Autobiography for John: An Open Letter to a Dear Friend (Finn Aaserud)

Encomium (A. J. Lustig)

Part I: Early Modern Studies

Chapter 1. Vincenzo Galilei on Zarlino's Mathematical Demonstrations: Towards an Account of Science vs. Music in the Scientific Revolution (Maurice Finocchiaro)

Chapter 2. Reading Copernicus in Padua: The Case of Paolo Sarpi (Stefano Gattei)

Chapter 3. Wise Guy (Eileen Reeves)

Chapter 4. "In fibris corporis planetae": Johannes Kepler and the Fabric of the Earth (Luca Ciancio)

Chapter 5. A Jesuit Journey from Heaven to Earth (Ivana Gambaro)

Chapter 6. How Huygens Avoided Figleaf Physics (Jed Buchwald)

Chapter 7. A Black Sheep in Isaac Newton's Family? The Haunts of Benjamin Smith, Jr. (Mordechai Feingold)

Chapter 8. The Astronomy of Thomas Hornsby, 1763-1772: History, Geography and Computation (Jim Bennett†)

Chapter 9. Telescopic Hindsight: Forging Galileo in the 1920s (Nick Wilding)

Part II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 10. Professor of Insects and Worms (Jessica Riskin)

Chapter 11. Darwin, Merchants, and Famines (Giuliano Pancaldi)

Chapter 12. Measures by Americans: The United States and the Establishment of International Electrical Standards, 1881-1897 (Daniel Kevles)

Chapter 13. D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and the Rise of Mathematical Biology (Brian Ross)

Chapter 14. Hiroshi Sugimoto and the History of Science (Matthias Dörries)

Part III: Styles in the Historiography of Science

Chapter 15. Science and the Jewish Question (Tal Golan)

Chapter 16. Applied History of Science and the National Academy of Sciences (Peter Westwick)

Chapter 17. Citation Styles in History of Science: A Critical Discussion and a Proposal (Olivier Darrigol)

Chapter 18. From Hypatia to "Cosmos" and "Agora" : The Formation of a Fractal Narrative of Scientific Decline (Michael H. Shank).

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 24, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Gattei, Stefano The Incomparable Historian

ISBN:

9783032256782

303225678X

Publisher Number:

90104979053

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