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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?	24
The 數 Shu (Mathematics): a Qin-dynasty work on bamboo and wooden slips from ancient China—transcription and English translation with commentary	13
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element	13
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics	7
Peacock’s principle as a conservative strategy	6
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory	5
Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries	4
Antonio Signorini and the proto-history of the non-linear theory of elasticity	4
Some remarks on Husserl’s Doppelvortrag	3
How did Zu Chongzhi calculate $$\pi =355/113$$?: a reconstruction of an ancient Chinese algorithm for fractional approximation	3
Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison	3
Hipparchus’ Star Catalogues	3
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited	2
Galois’s lost insight: the overlooked brilliance of his last publication	2
Excavated nine-nines rhymes from ancient China: a critical edition of the texts with commentary	2
A clockmaker’s mathematics: a technology-based approach to the mathematical works of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632)	2
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics	2
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–1977	2
Correction: Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison	2
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli	2
On Ptolemy’s improvement of the parameters of the latitude models for the superior planets	2
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations	2
Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries	2
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages	1
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry	1

Kepler’s early applications of the distance law: manuscript evidence and the emergence of a universal physical principle	1
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered	1
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?	1
Joseph Pérès (1890–1962) mathematician, mecanicist at one with his century	1
A neglected text: the new method of Hu Shi and Zhu Zaiyu’s interpolation	1
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen	1
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon	1
Desargues’s concepts of involution and transversal, their origin, and possible sources of inspiration	1
Research on the expansion–contraction difference for the inner planets in ancient China	1
Lewis Caerleon and the equation of time: tabular astronomical practices in late fifteenth-century England	1
Hilbert’s problems, Kant, and decidability	1
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment	1
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange	1
A metrological and historical perspective on the stadion and its use in ancient geography	0
“The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist	0
Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon	0
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems	0
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist	0
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings	0
Mars’s models behind Kepler’s ephemerides of 1604 and 1605	0
Correction: The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School	0
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus	0
Galois and the simple group of order 60	0
Free-energy calculations in condensed matter: from early challenges to the advent of umbrella sampling	0
On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret	0
Galois’s theory of ambiguity and its impacts	0
Method and Style in Archimedes’ Quadrature of the Parabola	0
A link between Guidobaldo dal Monte and Galileo Galilei in the study of conic sections? Some evidence from the manuscript UCLA 170/624	0
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon	0
The formation of a paper tool: intensity schemes in the old quantum theory	0
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes	0
Some remarks on the history of Ricci’s absolute differential calculus	0
An interpretation of Yi Xing’s (Tang dynasty) star chart: ecliptic geometry and cosmological thinking	0
Felix Klein’s early contributions to anschauliche Geometrie	0
A quantitative analysis of David Fabricius’ astronomical observations	0
The rapid arrival of Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in European university libraries	0
A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī’s Mu‘tabar zīj	0
The practice of principles: Planck’s vision of a relativistic general dynamics	0
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker	0
Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions	0
Mayer’s theory of gas condensation (1937–1970): phase transitions and mathematical reasoning	0
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–1300	0
Levi-Civita simplifies Einstein. The Ricci rotation coefficients and unified field theories	0
Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof	0
The new moon interval NA and the beginning of the Babylonian month	0
Investigating illusion: Panofsky and others on perspective	0
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)	0
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus	0
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox	0
From the foundations of quantum mechanics to quantum optics: how John Clauser and Alain Aspect came to study the quantum properties of light	0

The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School