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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?	26
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element	17
Sunrise and sunset times in the Chongxiu-Daming-li revisited	14
The 數 Shu (Mathematics): a Qin-dynasty work on bamboo and wooden slips from ancient China—transcription and English translation with commentary	7
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics	6
Hankel’s principle as an anti-Kantian program	5
Universal mathematics and the new algebra: Maurolico, van Roomen, Descartes	5
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory	4
Peacock’s principle as a conservative strategy	4
Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries	4
Some remarks on Husserl’s Doppelvortrag	3
Antonio Signorini and the proto-history of the non-linear theory of elasticity	3
How did Zu Chongzhi calculate $$\pi =355/113$$?: a reconstruction of an ancient Chinese algorithm for fractional approximation	3
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli	2
Combining electrodynamics with hydrodynamics: the origins and development of magnetohydrodynamics	2
Excavated nine-nines rhymes from ancient China: a critical edition of the texts with commentary	2
Hipparchus’ Star Catalogues	2
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited	2
Galois’s lost insight: the overlooked brilliance of his last publication	2
On Ptolemy’s improvement of the parameters of the latitude models for the superior planets	2
Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison	2
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics	2
A clockmaker’s mathematics: a technology-based approach to the mathematical works of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632)	2
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–1977	1
Analysing the number concept in Weierstraß’ lecture notes: conceptions disregarded and remained unknown	1

A neglected text: the new method of Hu Shi and Zhu Zaiyu’s interpolation	1
A comparative study between the approaches of Archimedes and Euclid to the sphere	1
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry	1
Saturn observations and measurements at the Maragha observatory: error, success, and comparative study in historical context	1
Correction: Planetary first and last visibility in ancient astronomy: a cross-cultural comparison	1
Joseph Pérès (1890–1962) mathematician, mecanicist at one with his century	1
Kepler’s early applications of the distance law: manuscript evidence and the emergence of a universal physical principle	1
Research on the expansion–contraction difference for the inner planets in ancient China	1
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations	1
Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries	1
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages	1
Lewis Caerleon and the equation of time: tabular astronomical practices in late fifteenth-century England	1
Hilbert’s problems, Kant, and decidability	1
Correction: Analysing the number concept in Weierstraß’ lecture notes: conceptions disregarded and remained unknown	0
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox	0
Mayer’s theory of gas condensation (1937–1970): phase transitions and mathematical reasoning	0
Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof	0
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–1300	0
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus	0
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange	0
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen	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
Method and Style in Archimedes’ Quadrature of the Parabola	0
Felix Klein’s early contributions to anschauliche Geometrie	0
An interpretation of Yi Xing’s (Tang dynasty) star chart: ecliptic geometry and cosmological thinking	0
A quantitative analysis of David Fabricius’ astronomical observations	0
Correction: The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School	0
A metrological and historical perspective on the stadion and its use in ancient geography	0
The rapid arrival of Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in European university libraries	0
The formation of a paper tool: intensity schemes in the old quantum theory	0
The practice of principles: Planck’s vision of a relativistic general dynamics	0
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon	0
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes	0
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems	0
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered	0
Desargues’s concepts of involution and transversal, their origin, and possible sources of inspiration	0
Galois and the simple group of order 60	0
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings	0
Mars’s models behind Kepler’s ephemerides of 1604 and 1605	0
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus	0
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker	0
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)	0
Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions	0
Free-energy calculations in condensed matter: from early challenges to the advent of umbrella sampling	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
The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School	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
Levi-Civita simplifies Einstein. The Ricci rotation coefficients and unified field theories	0
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?	0
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon	0

Two old Babylonian multiplication tables	0
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment	0
Some remarks on the history of Ricci’s absolute differential calculus	0
The new moon interval NA and the beginning of the Babylonian month	0
Investigating illusion: Panofsky and others on perspective	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