Happy Birthday, Nuncius!
2025 marks 40 years since Nuncius published its first article. Over the decades, the journal has established itself as a truly international publication, earning a place on the most prominent indexing and abstracting platforms. Nuncius remains committed to showcasing outstanding scholarship in the field, with a special focus on early career researchers and innovative content.
To celebrate this milestone, we have made 40 key articles freely accessible throughout 2025. This selection revisits foundational works while highlighting recent contributions, offering a glimpse into the journal’s rich history and evolution. Explore the collection curated by our editorial team below.
Free Articles
Vol. 1 (1986)
Silvio Bedini: The Galilean Jovilabe, 25-46
Vol. 3 (1988)
Judith Veronica Field: What is scientific about a scientific instrument?, 3-26
Vol. 6 (1991)
Giuseppe Olmi: Molti amici in varij luoghi. Studio della natura e rapporti epistolari nel secolo XVI, 3-31
Vol. 7 (1992)
Domenico Bertoloni Meli: Guidobaldo Dal Monte and the Archimedean Revival, 3-34
Vol. 9 (1994)
Anthony J. Turner: Natural Philosophers, Mathematical Practitioners and Timber in Later 17th Century England, 619-634
Vol. 10 (1995)
Marta Cavazza: Laura Bassi e il suo gabinetto di fisica sperimentale: realtà e mito, 715-753
Vol. 10 (1995)
Gerard L’E. Turner: The Florentine workshop of Giovan Battista Giusti, 1556-c.1575, 131–172
Vol. 17 (2002)
Paolo Brenni: 19th Century Scientific Instrument Advertising, 497-513
Vol. 19 (2004)
Gabriella Berti Logan: Women and Botany in Risorgimento Italy, 601-628
Vol. 20 (2005)
Paola Bertucci: Sparking Controversy: Jean Antoine Nollet and Medical Electricity South of the Alps, 153-187
Vol. 20 (2005)
Florike Egmond: Clusius, Cluyt, Saint Omer. The Origins of the Sixteenth Century Botanical and Zoological Watercolours in Libri picturati A. 16-30, 11-67
Vol. 21 (2006)
Anna Märker: The Anatomical Models of La Specola: Production, Uses, and Reception, 295-321
Vol. 24 (2009)
Mirjam Brusius: Inscriptions in a Double Sense: The Biography of an Early Scientific Photograph of Script, 367-392
Vol. 24 (2009)
Omar W. Nasim: On Seeing an Image of a Spiral Nebula. From Whewell to Flammarion, 393-414
Vol. 26 (2011)
Elena Canadelli: Scientific Peep Show. The Human Body in Contemporary Science Museums, 159–184
Vol. 27 (2012)
Marco Beretta: Imaging the Experiments on Respiration and Transpiration of Lavoisier and Séguin: Two Unknown Drawings by Madame Lavoisier, 163-191
Vol. 27 (2012)
Maria Pia Donato: Science on the Fringe of the Empire: The Academy of the Linceans in the Early Nineteenth Century, 110–140
Vol. 29 (2014)
Jim Bennett and Giorgio Strano: The So-Called ‘Chaucer Astrolabe’ from the Koelliker Collection, Milan: An Account of the Instrument and Its Place in the Tradition of Chaucer-Type Astrolabes, 179-229
Vol. 29 (2014)
Matteo Valleriani: Ancient Pneumatics Transformed during the Early Modern Period, 127-173
Vol. 30 (2015)
Carolin Behrmann: Metrics of Justice. A Sundial’s Nomological Figuration, 161-194
Vol. 30 (2015)
Charlotte Bigg: Travelling Scientist, Circulating Images and the Making of the Modern Scientific Journal: Norman Lockyer's Visual Communication of Astrophysics in Nature, 675-698
Vol. 30 (2015)
Maria Conforti: Illustrating Pathologies in the First Years of the Miscellanea Curiosa, 1670–1687, 570-609
Vol. 30 (2015)
Anke Timmermann: Alchemy in Cambridge. An Annotated Catalogue of Alchemical Texts and Illustrations in Cambridge Repositories, 345-511
Vol. 31 (2016)
Marieke M.A. Hendriksen: Necessary, Not Sufficient. The Circulation of Knowledge about Stained Glass in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1821, 332–360
Vol. 32 (2017)
Claudio Pogliano: Lucky Triune Brain. Chronicles of Paul D. MacLean’s Neuro-Catchword, 330-375
Vol. 33 (2018)
Klaus Staubermann: Investigating Vision: Scientific Instruments as Historiographic Tools for the Understanding of the Development and Establishment of Colour, Perception and Performance Research at Edinburgh University, 1850–1950, 88-103
Vol. 33 (2018)
Anna Marie Roos and Edwin D. Rose: Lives and Afterlives of the Lithophylacii Britannici ichnographia (1699), the First Illustrated Field Guide to English Fossils, 505-536
Vol. 35 (2020)
Cali Buckley: Pathos, Eros, and Curiosity. The History and Reception of Ivory Anatomical Models from the Seventeenth Century to Today, 64–89
Vol. 35 (2020)
Pedro Raposo: Recounting the Orbs. Planetary Models and the Idea of Discovery in Astronomy, 1780–1850, 274–299
Vol. 35 (2020)
Jaipreet Virdi: Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, 606-631
Vol. 36 (2021)
Raffaele Danna: Figuring Out. The Spread of Hindu-Arabic Numerals in the European Tradition of Practical Mathematics (13th–16th Centuries), 5-48
Vol. 36 (2021)
Sandra Cavallo: Early Vernacular Medical Advice Books and Their Popular Appeal in Early Modern Italy, 264-303
Vol. 36 (2021)
Sabrina Minuzzi: 15th-Century Practical Medicine in Print. Beyond the Profession, towards the miscere utile dulci, 199–263
Vol. 37 (2022)
Stefan Laube and Sergei Zotov: Vial Movies. The Driving Forces of Nature and Their Visualization, 1–41
Vol. 37 (2022)
Christoffer Basse Eriksen: Picturing Seeds of Poppies. Microscopes, Specimens, and Representation in Seventeenth-Century English Botany, 346–373
Vol. 37 (2022)
Pamela Mackenzie: Contested Vision. Comparison and Collaboration in Nehemiah Grew’s Plant Anatomy Illustrations, 374–396
Vol. 37 (2022)
Oliver Hochadel: Facing Our Ancestors. The Craft of the Paleoartist, 643–673
Vol. 38 (2023)
Umberto Veronesi and Stefan Hanß: “The Lute of Wisdom”: Alchemy, the Body, and Medicine in the Material Renaissance, 1-31
Vol. 38 (2023)
Amandine Victoria Didouan: “To Draw a Body, Human or Beast, One Must Study Anatomy”. The Overlooked Influence of a Sixteenth-Century Equine Anatomy Illustration on Early Modern Artists, 225–249
Vol. 39 (2024)
Federica Gigante: A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona. The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo, 163–192
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