Archive for History of Exact Sciences

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond15
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?7
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics6
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element6
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory5
Antonio Signorini and the proto-history of the non-linear theory of elasticity4
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation3
Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries3
The eclectic content and sources of Clavius’s Geometria Practica3
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Pappus’ Collection3
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited2
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli2
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations2
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics2
Desargues’s concepts of involution and transversal, their origin, and possible sources of inspiration1
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France1
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry1
Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries1
A neglected text: the new method of Hu Shi and Zhu Zaiyu’s interpolation1
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered1
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen1
Research on the expansion–contraction difference for the inner planets in ancient China1
A clockmaker’s mathematics: a technology-based approach to the mathematical works of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632)1
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages1
A common-sense approach to the problem of the itinerary stadion1
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment1
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange1
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–19771
Lewis Caerleon and the equation of time: tabular astronomical practices in late fifteenth-century England1
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon1
“The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist0
The Archimedean ‘sambukē’ of Damis in Biton0
Some remarks on the history of Ricci’s absolute differential calculus0
Correction: The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School0
Felix Klein’s early contributions to anschauliche Geometrie0
A quantitative analysis of David Fabricius’ astronomical observations0
The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School0
Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof0
On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret0
Felix Klein’s projective representations of the groups $$S_6$$ and $$A_7$$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 170/6240
Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon0
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?0
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus0
Levi-Civita simplifies Einstein. The Ricci rotation coefficients and unified field theories0
Nombrils, bruslans, autrement foyerz: la géométrie projective en action dans le Brouillon Project de Girard Desargues0
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)0
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture0
A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī’s Mu‘tabar zīj0
Free-energy calculations in condensed matter: from early challenges to the advent of umbrella sampling0
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes0
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker0
Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions0
Euler first theory of resonance0
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–13000
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist0
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon0
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings0
The new moon interval NA and the beginning of the Babylonian month0
Galois’s theory of ambiguity and its impacts0
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox0
The practice of principles: Planck’s vision of a relativistic general dynamics0
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)0
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus0
A metrological and historical perspective on the stadion and its use in ancient geography0
Galois and the simple group of order 600
The formation of a paper tool: intensity schemes in the old quantum theory0
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems0
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