OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archive for History of Exact Sciences is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work	15
David Hilbert and the foundations of the theory of plane area	6
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker	5
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element	5
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?	4
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages	4
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture	3
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France	3
On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret	3
Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond	2
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation	2
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange	2
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)	2
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist	2
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus	2
Galois’s theory of ambiguity and its impacts	1
A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī’s Mu‘tabar zīj	1
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–1300	1
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon	1
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations	1
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics	1
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)	1
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems	1
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?	1
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli	1

The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory	1
The six books of Diophantus’ Arithmetic increased and reduced to specious: the lost manuscript of Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)	1
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus	1
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics	1
An alternative interpretation of BM 76829: astrological schemes for length of life and parts of the body	1
Galois and the simple group of order 60	1
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–1977	1
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited	1
Mathématiques en perspective: Desargues, la Hire, le Poîvre	1
Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions	0
Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof	0
Nombrils, bruslans, autrement foyerz: la géométrie projective en action dans le Brouillon Project de Girard Desargues	0
Desargues’s concepts of involution and transversal, their origin, and possible sources of inspiration	0
The formation of a paper tool: intensity schemes in the old quantum theory	0
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry	0
The new moon interval NA and the beginning of the Babylonian month	0
Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon	0
Levi-Civita simplifies Einstein. The Ricci rotation coefficients and unified field theories	0
The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School	0
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment	0
The eclectic content and sources of Clavius’s Geometria Practica	0
Some remarks on the history of Ricci’s absolute differential calculus	0
Galileo Galilei and the centers of gravity of solids: a reconstruction based on a newly discovered version of the conical frustum contained in manuscript UCLA 170/624	0
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings	0
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon	0
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Pappus’ Collection	0
Research on the expansion–contraction difference for the inner planets in ancient China	0
A clockmaker’s mathematics: a technology-based approach to the mathematical works of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632)	0
Lewis Caerleon and the equation of time: tabular astronomical practices in late fifteenth-century England	0
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes	0
“The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist	0
Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries	0
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered	0
A quantitative analysis of David Fabricius’ astronomical observations	0
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox	0
The practice of principles: Planck’s vision of a relativistic general dynamics	0
A common-sense approach to the problem of the itinerary stadion	0
Free-energy calculations in condensed matter: from early challenges to the advent of umbrella sampling	0
Vitali’s generalized absolute differential calculus	0
Euler first theory of resonance	0
Felix Klein’s early contributions to anschauliche Geometrie	0
The Archimedean ‘sambukē’ of Damis in Biton	0
Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries	0
Antonio Signorini and the proto-history of the non-linear theory of elasticity	0
A metrological and historical perspective on the stadion and its use in ancient geography	0
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen	0
Felix Klein’s projective representations of the groups $$S_6$$ and $$A_7$$	0