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Volume 21 (2006): Issue 1 (Jan 2006)

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IL CORPUS OTTICO MAUROLICIANO ORIGINI E SVILUPPO
By: RICCARDO BELLÈ
Pages: 7–29
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
KEPLER ON THE ORIGINS OF COMETS: APPLYING EARTHLY KNOWLEDGE TO CELESTIAL EVENTS
By: PATRICK J. BONER
Pages: 31–47
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
LA BIBLIOTECA DELL'OSPEDALE DI SANTA MARIA NUOVA DI FIRENZE
By: ESTHER DIANA
Pages: 49–100
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
LA CARTE DU CIEL ET LA CRÉATION DU "BUREAU DES DAMES" À L'OBSERVATOIRE DE TOULOUSE
By: JÉRÔME LAMY
Pages: 101–120
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
HISTORIA MAGISTRA SCIENTIAE
By: MICHELE CAMEROTA
Pages: 121–132
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
READING BODIES FOR EPISTEMOLOGY: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
By: JOLE SHACKELFORD
Pages: 133–150
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
Antiquity and Middle Ages
By: SILKE ACKERMANN
Pages: 151
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ISABELLA ANDORLINI and ARNALDO MARCONE, Medicina, medico e società nel mondoantico. Grassina: Le Monnier Università, 2004. v+268 pp., ill., ISBN 8800860885.
By: VALENTINA GAZZANIGA
Pages: 152–153
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
KARL-HEINZ LEVEN, Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon. Miinchen: C.H. Beck, 2005. xv+967 pp., ISBN 3406528910.
By: CAROLINE PETIT
Pages: 153–154
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ILARIA RAMELLI (ed.), Corpus Hermeticum. Edizione e commento di A.D. Nock e A.-J. Festugière, edizione dei testi ermetici copti e commento di I. Ramelli, testo greco, latino e copto (Il pensiero occidentale). Milano: Bompiani, 2005. 1627 pp., ISBN 8845233707.
By: CRISTINA VIANO
Pages: 154–155
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ANNA RODOLFI, Il concetto di materia nell'opera di Alberto Magno. Firenze: Sismel, 2004. xx+220 pp., ISBN 88-8450-126-1.
By: MICHELA PEREIRA
Pages: 155–156
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
Lucio Russo, The forgotten revolution: how science was born in 300 BC and why it had to be reborn, with the collaboration of the translator, Silvio Levy. Berlin: Springer, 2004. 487 pp., ill., ISBN 3540200681.
By: GIOVANNI DI PASQUALE
Pages: 156–157
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
J. SCHÖNBECK, Euklid, Vita Mathematica (Band 12). Basel/Boston/Berlin: Verlag, 2003. x+264 pp., ISBN 3-7643-6584-6.
By: FABIO ACERBI
Pages: 157–159
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
CRISTINA VIANO (ed.), L'alchimie et ses racinesphilosophiques. La tradition grecque et arabe (Histoire des Doctrines de l'Antiquité classique, Directeurs: Jean Pépin et Luc Brisson). Paris: Vrin, 2005. 240 pp., ISBN 2-7116-1754-8.
By: BERENICE CAVARRA
Pages: 159–160
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
Renaissance and Early Modern Science
By: MICHELE CAMEROTA
Pages: 160–162
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ANNA CASSINI, Gio: Domenico Cassini. Uno Scienziato del Seicento. Pinerolo: Arti Grafiche Alzani, 2003. 420 pp., ill.+plates.
By: GIORGIO STRANO
Pages: 162–163
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ANTONIO CLERICUZIO, La macchina del mondo.Teorie e pratiche scientifiche dal Rinascimento a Newton. Roma: Carocci, 2005. 378 pp., ill., ISBN 88-430-3414-6.
By: GUIDO GIGLIONI
Pages: 163–164
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
STÉPHANE GARCIA, Élie Diodati et Galilée. Naissance d'un réseau scientifique dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Preface d'Isabelle Pantin. Firenze: Olschki, 2004. xx+448 pp., ill., ISBN 88-222-5416-3.
By: LUIGI GUERRINI
Pages: 164–165
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ATLEE NAESS, Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still. Berlin-New York: Springer, 2005. v+221 pp., ill., ISBN 3540219617.
By: GIAN LUIGI BETTI
Pages: 165–166
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
MARCO PANZA, Newton et les origines de l'analyse: 1664-1666. Paris: Blanchard, 2005. xv+548 pp., ill., ISBN 2-85367-230-1.
By: MASSIMO GALUZZI
Pages: 166–167
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
GAIL KERN PASTER, Humoring the Body. Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2004. xvi+274 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-64847-8.
By: WILLIAM DODD
Pages: 167–169
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
GIANNA POMATA and NANCY SIRAISI (eds.), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge (Massachusetts): The MIT press, 2005. vm+490 pp., ill., ISBN 0-262-16229-6.
By: YASMIN HASKELL
Pages: 169–170
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
LONDA SCHIEBINGER and CLAUDIA SWAN (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi+346 pp., ill., ISBN 0812238273.
By: PAULA DE VOS
Pages: 170–171
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
JOLE R. SHACKELFORD, A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medecine. The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum press, 2004. 520 pp., ill., ISBN 8772898178.
By: ANTONIO CLERICUZIO
Pages: 171–173
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
EMANUELE ZINATO, La scienza dissimulata nel Seicento (premessa di Paolo Rossi). Napoli: Liguori, 2005. 140 pp., ISBN 8820737043.
By: SUSANA GÓMEZ LOPEZ
Pages: 173–174
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
JUDITH P. ZINSSER (ed.), Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. v+216 pp., ISBN 978-0-87580-340-1.
By: REBECCA MESSBARGER
Pages: 174–175
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
Enlightenment
By: SCOTT MANDELBROTE
Pages: 176–177
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
RENÉE E. KISTEMAKER, NATALYA KOPANEVA, DEBORA J. MEIJERS and GEORGY V. VILIBANKHOV (eds.), The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburgh c. 1725-1760: Introduction and Interpretation (History of Sciences and Scholarship in the Netherlands 6). Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005. xii+348 pp., ill., DVD. ISBN 906844265.
By: MARGÓCSY DANIEL
Pages: 177–178
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
RAPHAEL LAGIER, Les races humaines selon Kant. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. vn+200 pp., ISBN 9-782130-546573.
By: NESTORE PIRILLO
Pages: 178–179
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
JANIS LANGINS, Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. xv+532 pp., ISBN 0262122588.
By: KENNETH BERTRAMS
Pages: 179–180
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
MARIA TOSCANO, Alberto Fortis nel Regno di Napoli: naturalismo e antiquaria 1783-1791, Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2004. 182 pp., ISBN 88-8422-362-8.
By: LUCA CIANCIO
Pages: 180–181
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
Modem and Contemporary Science
By: IWAN RHYS MORUS
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
RAFFAELE COLAPIETRA, Per la biografia di Salvatore Tommasi. Con un intervento di Ferdinando Di Orio (Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia Patria. Studi e testi, 28). L'Aquila: Edizioni Libreria Colacchi, 2004. 129 pp., ISBN 88-88676-19-8.
By: ANTONIO BORRELLI
Pages: 182–184
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
GIORGIO COSMACINI, Il medico materialista: vita e pensiero di Jakob Moleschott. Roma: Laterza, 2005. x+189 pp., ISBN 8842075167.
By: PATRICK ZYLBERMAN
Pages: 184–185
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
JAMES W. CRONIN (ed.), Fermi Remembered.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xn+287 pp., ill., ISBN 0-226-12111-9.
By: GIOVANNI BATTIMELLI
Pages: 185–186
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
MARCO Di GIOVANNI, Scienza e potenza. Miti della guerra moderna, istituzioni scientifiche e politica di massa nell'Italia fascista. 1935-1945. Torino: Zamorani, 2005. 308 pp., ISBN 88-7158-132-6.
By: STEFANIA ELENA CARNEMOLLA
Pages: 186–187
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
ALAN H. GOODMAN, DEBORAH HEATH and M. SUSAN LINDEE (eds.), Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the two-culture divide. Berkeley: University of California press, 2003. xv+311 pp., ill., ISBN 0520237935.
By: MAURO CAPOCCI
Pages: 187–188
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
PAOLA GOVONI, Un pubblico per la scienza. La divulgazione scientifica nell'Italia in formazione. Roma: Carocci, 2002. 351 pp., ill., ISBN 8843023217.
By: ALESSANDRA FERRARESI
Pages: 188–189
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
MICHAEL HAGNER, Geniale Gehirne. Zur Geschichte der Elitegehirnforschung. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2004. 376 pp., ill., ISBN 3-89244-649-0.
By: CLAUDIO POGLIANO
Pages: 189–190
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
GERALD HOLTON, Victory and Vexation in Science. Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Others. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv+230 pp., ill., ISBN 0-674-01519-3.
By: SIMONE TURCHETTI
Pages: 191–192
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
OLOF LJUNGSTRÖM, Oscariansk antropologi. Etnografi, förhistoria och rasforskning under sent 1800-tal, Hedemora, Gidlunds Förlag, 2004, 496 pp., ill., ISBN 91 7844 635 X.
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 192–193
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
IWAN RHYS MORUS, When Physics Became King. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xn+303 pp., ill., ISBN 0226542025.
By: GIULIANO PANCALDI
Pages: 193–194
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
CLAUDIO POGLIANO, L'ossesione della razza: Antropologia e genetica nel XX secolo. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2005. 582 pp., ISBN 88-7642-146-7.
By: STAFFAN MÜLLER-WILLE
Pages: 194–195
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
RICHARD RAPPORT, Nerve endings, the disco- very of the synapse. New York: Norton, 2005. 240 pp., ill., ISBN 0393060195; ELLIOT S. VALENSTEIN, the war of the soups and the sparks, the discovery of neu- rotransmitters and the dispute over how nerves communicate. New York: Colum- bia University Press, 2005. xvin+237 pp., ill., ISBN 0231135882.
By: MARCO PICCOLINO
Pages: 196–198
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
GIORGIO ZANROSSO, Dirigibili 1852-1937. Dal Giffard n. 1 all'Hindenburg. Vicenza: Editrice Veneta, 2004. 254 pp., ill., ISBN 88-8449-225-4.
By: RAIMONDA RICCINI
Pages: 198–199
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General
By: OWEN GINGERICH
Pages: 199–200
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
HASOK CHANG, Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 304 pp., ill., ISBN 0-19-517127-6.
By: PETER HEERING
Pages: 200–202
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
MARIACARLA GADEBUSCH BONDIO, MedizinischeAsthetik. Kosmetik und plastische Chirurgie zwischen Antike und früher Neuzeit. München: Fink Verlag, 2005. 238 pp., ill., ISBN 3770541014.
By: CORNELIUS BORCK
Pages: 202–203
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
BRIAN BRACEGIRDLE, A catalogue of the Microscopy Collections at The Science Museum, London. CD-rom available from Savona Books, 400 Seawall Lane, Haven Sands, North Cotes, Grimsby DN36 5XE, UK.
By: ALBERTO MESCHIARI
Pages: 203–204
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
LORRAINE DASTON (ed.), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone Books, 2004. 448 pp., ISBN 1890951439.
By: ALEXANDER MARR
Pages: 204–205
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006