Isis Current Bibliography 2010 - History of Science Society

E. Disciplinary Classification
101. OCCULTISM AND NATURAL MAGIC
254. PRIESNER, Claus. Grenzwelten: Schamanen,
Magier und Geisterseher. (228 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Hamburg:
Merus-Verlag, 2008. ISBN: 9783939519461.
Reviews: [ref. R722]
102. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
255. BLAIR, Ann. “Disciplinary Distinctions before
the ‘Two Cultures.’ ” Part of a symosium on disciplinary
distinctions in science and the humanities.
[ref. 3685]. Eur. Legacy 13 (2008): 577–588.
Explores the separation between philosophy and
theology in medieval Europe and the distinction
between mathematical disciplines and Aristotelian
physics in the early modern period.
256. BRUUN, Otto, and Lorenzo CORTI. (Eds.) Les
catégories et leur histoire. Bibliothèque d’histoire de
la philosophie. (384 pp.) Paris: Vrin, 2005. ISBN:
9782711617081.
Essays on Aristotle’s concept of categories in
the ancient, medieval, Byzantine, and Arabic
worlds. Contributors: Jonathan BARNES, Curzio
CHIESA, Stéphane DIEBLER, Sten EBBESEN,
Michael FREDE, Katerina IERODIAKONOU, Anthony
KENNY, Alain de LIBERA, John MAREN-
BON, and Benjamin MORISON.
257. BÜTTGEN, Ph., R. IMBACH, U. J. SCHNEI-
DER, and H. J. SELDERHUIS. (Eds.) Vera doctrina.
Zur Begriffsgeschichte der Lehre von Augustinus bis
Descartes. (386 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2009. ISBN: 9783447061018.
Includes: Ian MACLEAN, “La doctrine médicale à
la Renaissance,” 141-150 [ref. 1511].
258. EPSTEIN, Mikhail. “Between Humanity and
Human Beings: Information Trauma and the Evolution
of the Species.” Common Knowl. 13 (2007):
18–32.
On the notion that human beings are unable to keep
up with the knowledge of humanity as a whole.
259. FALK, Dan. In Search of Time: The Science
of a Curious Dimension. (xiii + 329 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. ISBN:
9780312374785.
260. GONZÁLEZ, Ana Marta. “Aristotle and Kant on
Practical Reason: An Annotation to Korsgaard.” Acta
Phil. 18 (2009): 99–112.
261. MÜLLER, Jörn. “Aristoteles und der naturalistische
Fehlschluß.” Boch. Phil. Jahr. 11 (2006):
25–58.
Examines George Edward Moore’s criticism of
Aristotle in his 1903 work.
103. MATHEMATICS
262. ABDOUNUR, Oscar João. “A Preliminary Survey
on the Emergence of an Arithmetical Theory of
Ratios.” Circumscribere 7 (2009): 1–8.
263. ALEXANDER, Amir. Duel at Dawn: Heroes,
Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. New
Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
(307 pp.; ill.; index.) Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2010. ISBN: 978067404661.
264. BRUMMELEN, Glen van. “Filling in the Short
Blanks: Musings on Bringing the Historiography of
Mathematics to the Classroom.” Brit. Soc. Hist. Math.
Bull. 25 (2010): 2–9.
265. CORRY, Leo. “Hunting Prime Numbers—From
Human to Electronic Computers.” http://www.
rutherfordjournal.org/article030105.html
(Accessed on June 8, 2010). Part of a special issue.
[ref. 534]. Rutherford J. 3 (2010): 21,000 words.
266. FRASER, Craig G. “Sufficient Conditions,
Fields and the Calculus of Variations.” Hist. Math. 36
(2009): 420–427.
Essay review of Rüdiger THIELE, Von der
Bernoullischen Brachistochrone zum Kalibrator-
Konzept. Ein historischer Abriß zur Entstehung
der Feldtheorie in der Variationsrechnung (hinreichende
Bedingungen in der Variationsrechnung)
(2007) [ref. 277].
267. GRATTAN-GUINNESS, Ivor. Routes of Learning:
Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History
of Mathematics. (xii + 372 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
ISBN: 9780801892486.
268. GROSHOLZ, Emily R. Representation and Productive
Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences.
(xviii + 313 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199299737.
Reviews: [ref. R375]
269. MALPANGOTTO, Michela. “Graphical Choices
and Geometrical Thought in the Transmission of
Theodosius’ Spherics from Antiquity to the Renaissance.”
Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 64 (2010): 75–112.
270. MANCOSU, Paolo. (Ed.) The Philosophy of
Mathematical Practice. (xi + 447 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
ISBN: 9780199296453.
271. MARCUSSEN, Marianne. “To Kirsti: ‘From Art
History with Love. . . ’; Perspective: Then and Now,
and Artistic Practice.” Centaurus 52 (2010): 73–88.