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Paul Naish@PaulNaish78Sep 21
New Special Issue in Annals of Science: 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 (NB - 5 out of 8 articles are Open Access!) @AnnalsOfScience @tandfonline tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Immanuel Kant: philosopher-scientist

Published in Annals of Science (Vol. 83, No. 4, 2026)

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De Tellescopiis Stellarum (1666). Was Galileo experimenting with four-lens terrestrial telescopes by 1630? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries @AnnalsOfScience @tandfSTEM @RoutledgeHist tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries

Contemporaries who only knew Newton's natural philosophy from his published works would have seen him as a thinker who was thoroughly opposed to the concept of an all-pervasive universal aether. Th...

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Kant on the metaphysical foundation of inertia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Kant on the metaphysical foundation of inertia

This paper deals with Kant's elaboration of a metaphysical foundation of the principle of inertia in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Many of Kant's contemporaries treat inertia not...

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From orbits to orbitals. Early pictorializations of electron probability densities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Paul Naish@PaulNaish7810 Nov 2025
50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations @AnnalsOfScience tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations

In the context of the 150th anniversary of Hermann Graßmann's death, the results of 50 years of recent Graßmann research, starting with Lewis's dissertation and his contribution to the Annals of Sc...

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Paul Naish@PaulNaish7822 Oct 2025
Book Review: A Little History of Mathematics Author: @snezanalawrence Published in @AnnalsOfScience and #FREE to read! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize 2024: Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy Author: Julia Tomasson #FREEAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst...

This article reframes the Analyst Controversy, incited by George Berkeley’s incendiary tract The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), as not merely a debate about Newt...

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A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory

In the 1820s, Stockholm Observatory undertook a significant upgrade of its instruments. The new acquisitions included a meridian circle, crafted by Traugott Ertel in Munich, which – after extensive...

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A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory

In the 1820s, Stockholm Observatory undertook a significant upgrade of its instruments. The new acquisitions included a meridian circle, crafted by Traugott Ertel in Munich, which – after extensive...

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Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan’s translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War Hong Kong tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan’s translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War...

The Cold War’s bipolarity between the Free World and the Communist World was evident across diplomacy, literature, military competition. Science, where research and publications often reflected opp...

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Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835

We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell’s first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...

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Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (Hypoderma tarandi L.) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783)...

In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723–1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala pr...

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Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature @tandfSTEM @RoutledgeHist tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature*

Published in Annals of Science (Vol. 82, No. 3, 2025)

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New Special Issue: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 ‘𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧’ 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments

Published in Annals of Science (Vol. 81, No. 1-2, 2024)

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Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (Hypoderma tarandi L.) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783)...

In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723–1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala pr...

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‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistol...

A manuscript now in Bamberg preserves the only surviving fragment of a thirteenth-century treatise on comets or ‘new stars’, which was written as a letter addressed by an unknown Dominican author t...

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Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history

So-called antimatter in the form of elementary particles such as positive electrons (antielectrons alias positrons) and negative protons (antiprotons) has for long been investigated by physicists. ...

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Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history

So-called antimatter in the form of elementary particles such as positive electrons (antielectrons alias positrons) and negative protons (antiprotons) has for long been investigated by physicists. ...

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