Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Kepler on Aristotle’s observation of an occultation of Mars

Published on 5 Nov 2026

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Kepler’s ephemerides of Mars for 1609–1611

Published on 6 Oct 2026

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Roberval optician: a critical edition of with commentary

Published on 30 Sep 2026

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Paul Hertz’ contribution to proof theory: normal-form results for deductions

Published on 28 Sep 2026

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Desargues’s last theorem and theory of foci

Published on 22 Sep 2026

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The wavelength of light as Thomas Young invented it

Published on 21 Sep 2026

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Numerical tables in early twentieth-century statistics: accuracy, usage, and computational practices

Published on 11 Sep 2026

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Conrad Habicht’s 1914 manuscript on special relativity and Einstein’s 1907 reframing of the 1905 theory

Published on 17 Aug 2026

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Joseph Fourier’s courses of analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique (1795–1798): based on a study of two unpublished manuscripts

Published on 13 Aug 2026

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The area of a segment in cuneiform mathematics

Published on 12 Aug 2026

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Spica and the ancient astronomers: on Hipparchus’s longitude of Spica and the date of Timocharis’s lunar eclipse

Published on 3 Aug 2026

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A comparative study between the approaches of Archimedes and Euclid to the sphere

Published on 29 Jul 2026

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Two old Babylonian multiplication tables

Published on 29 Jul 2026

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Hankel’s principle as an anti-Kantian program

Published on 24 Jul 2026

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Correction: Analysing the number concept in Weierstraß’ lecture notes: conceptions disregarded and remained unknown

Published on 17 Jul 2026

Universal mathematics and the new algebra: Maurolico, van Roomen, Descartes

Published on 25 Jun 2026

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Saturn observations and measurements at the Maragha observatory: error, success, and comparative study in historical context

Published on 24 Jun 2026

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Combining electrodynamics with hydrodynamics: the origins and development of magnetohydrodynamics

Published on 8 Jun 2026

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Analysing the number concept in Weierstraß’ lecture notes: conceptions disregarded and remained unknown

Published on 8 Jun 2026

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Sunrise and sunset times in the revisited

Published on 5 Jun 2026

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Excavated nine-nines rhymes from ancient China: a critical edition of the texts with commentary

Published on 20 May 2026

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Some remarks on Husserl’s

Published on 10 May 2026

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How did Zu Chongzhi calculate $$\pi =355/113$$?: a reconstruction of an ancient Chinese algorithm for fractional approximation

Published on 28 Apr 2026

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Kepler’s early applications of the distance law: manuscript evidence and the emergence of a universal physical principle

Published on 15 Apr 2026

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Correction: Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison

Published on 13 Apr 2026

Peacock’s principle as a conservative strategy

Published on 4 Apr 2026

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On Ptolemy’s improvement of the parameters of the latitude models for the superior planets

Published on 9 Mar 2026

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Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison

Published on 7 Mar 2026

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Investigating illusion: Panofsky and others on perspective

Published on 4 Mar 2026

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Mayer’s theory of gas condensation (1937–1970): phase transitions and mathematical reasoning

Published on 26 Feb 2026

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