Centaurus

Papers
(The median citation count of Centaurus 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Book review: Giovanni Ciccotti, Marcello Cini, Michelangelo De Maria, & Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, The Bee and the Architect, Venice, Italy: Verum Factum, 2024, 466 pp. ISBN: 9791221036633.13
From Seed to Seed: Material Activities and Vegetable Life in Grew's Philosophy of Botany7
On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog7
The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy7
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Book review: Francesca Antonelli, Scrivere e Sperimentare: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier, Segretaria della “Nuova Chimica” (1771–1836), Roma, Italy: Viella, 2022, 281 pp., ISBN: 979125466
Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease5
Nehemiah Grew and the Anatomy of Plants: The Essential Tension5
Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology4
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies4
Science Policy, “Strategic” Research, and Journal Papers: Exploring Their Influence on the History of the Rowett Research Institute4
The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale4
Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 17004
From Private to Public (and Vice Versa): Scientific Collections in Barcelona, 1830–18804
Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities3
Book review: Elisabeth Roehrlich, Inspectors for Peace: A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, 344 pp., ISBN: 9781421443331.3
Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences3
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Book review: Csaba Pléh, Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology (Vol. 1), London, UK: Routledge, 2024, 563 pp. ISBN: 9781032502762. Diversification and Professionalization in Psyc3
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Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville3
Physics' Envy3
Affecting the Cosmos: Astronomical Volvelles Within Apian's Cosmographia2
Book review: Jan Wim Buisman (& Lee Preedy, Trans.) Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin: Facts and Fiction in Science, Religion, and Art, Leiden, The Netherlands: Leiden University2
Book review: Julia Schubert, Engineering the Climate: Science, Politics, and Visions of Control, Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2021, 280 pp., ISBN: 9781912729265.2
Book review: Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, & Lino Camprubí (Eds.), 
Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology,
New York, NY: Springer, 2022, pp. XIX + 378, ISBN: 9782
Invisible Problem-Solvers in the Record of the 1919 Total Eclipse in Sobral by the British Team2
Of Copying, Mixing, and Recycling: The Glass Distillation Apparatus of a 16th-Century Alchemical Laboratory and Its Material History2
Book review: Patricia Fara, Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021, 288 pp., ISBN: 9780198841029.2
From Existential Knowledge to Experimental Practice: The Mexican Axolotl, the Paris Ménagerie, and the Epistemic Benefits of Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850–18762
Book review: Ştefan Dorondel & Stelu Şerban (Eds.), A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press,2
Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York2
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021.2
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Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid2
Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory2
Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.2
Historiographical reflections on sciences in Europe : Perspectives from Centaurus *2
Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or Embedding Bromides?2
Apricots, Plums, and Garden Beans: Reassembling Nehemiah Grew's Collection of Plants2
Disputing the Animation of the Heavens in Rome Around 1616: Between Animism and Natural Exegesis2
Book review: Javier Bandrés (Ed.), Luis Simarro y sus contemporáneos, Madrid, Spain: Academia de Psicología de España, 2022, 159 pp., ISBN: 97884183168072
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Seeing Plants as Animals: Analogical Reasoning in Nehemiah Grew's Anatomy of Plants (1682)2
The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests1
Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-18501
A Student Notebook from 16th-Century Padua: On How Method Mediated Between Medical Theory and Practice1
Book review: Efram Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
Book review: Katherine Brading & Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023, 448 pp., ISBN: 9780197678954.1
Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid inEast Africa1
From Mausoleum to Living Room. Practicing Metabolic Carpentry in the Museum1
Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past1
Paula S. De Vos. Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain1
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?1
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Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine1
The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings1
Collections, Knowledge, and Time1
Book review: Alexander S. Blum, Roberto Lalli, & Jürgen Renn (Eds.), The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, Cham, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2020, x + 406 pp., ISBN: 978303050751
Book review: Gilles Barroux, L'Éclectisme dans la pensée philosophique et médicales des xviiieet xixe siècles, Paris, France: Classiques 1
“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics1
Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande1
Enlightened Icons: Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov and Glass Mosaics in 18th-Century Russia1
Book review: Sonja Brentjes (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries, London, UK: Routledge, 2023, 876 pp., ISBN1
Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–19441
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures1
Editorial1
Mind the Gap! Global Inequality and the History of Science1
Editorial: The Present and Future of Centaurus1
History of Science and Its Interlocutors in the Humanities1
“Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries1
Book review: Cyrus C. M. Mody, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022, 422 pp., ISBN: 9780262543613.1
Entangled Timelines. Crafting Types of Time Through Making Museum Specimens1
The Abnormal Vegetation of the Torrid Zone: Juan de Cárdenas and the Defence of Aristotle's Meteorology1
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The United Kingdom–United Arab Republic Scientific Agreement (1961): The Role of the British Council and Science Diplomacy in Post-Suez Anglo-Egyptian Reconciliation1
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford1
Centaurus: Continuing as an Open Access Journal1
Nation in Pieces: The Gathering of Francisco Plancarte's Archaeological Collection in Late 19th-Century Mexico1
The End of Plague in Europe1
From Livestock Farming to Amateur Botany in the Rio de la Plata: The Case of the Uruguayan Mariano B. Berro (1838–1919)1
The Lab in the Museum. Or, Using New Scientific Instruments to Look at Old Scientific Instruments1
Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science1
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Book review: Roger Smith, Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023, 56 pp., ISBN: 97810008883551
Book review: Chris Manias, The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023, 476 pp., ISBN: 97808221
Promoting Meteorology in Rural Areas: Efforts to Develop Meteorology for Salt-Related Industries in the Republic of China1
Book review: Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 300 pp., ISBN: 9780226823287.1
Deciphering economic futures: Electricity, calculation, and the power economy, 1880–19300
Book review: Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, 392 pp.,ISBN: 9781421444017.0
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The Version of Euclid's Elements in the Hebrew Translation in MS Paris, BnF, héb. 10110
“The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World”: Thinking, Dwelling In, and Shaping Pathogenic Environments0
Centaurus : Past and Future0
Filling China’s Gaps. Viral Banks and Bird Collections as Museums for Pandemics0
Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between theUS, Kuwait, and Switzerland0
Aetiologies of Blame: Fevers, Environment, and Accountability in a War Context (France and Italy, ca. 1800)0
What is Seen in a Garden Bean: Revisions and Copies in Nehemiah Grew's Plant Anatomy0
Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory, 1930–1979: Cross-National Mobility and Exchange in a Global Context0
Carving an Origin for Mexico's Ancient Cultures: Jade Artifacts and the Question of their Provenance in 19th-Century Science0
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Book review: Davide Orsini, The Atomic Archipelago: US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, 456 pp., ISBN: 9780
Barcelona ESHS 2024 Conference Report0
Lost Green Chemistries: History of Forgotten Environmental Trajectories0
Book review: Pamela Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 346 pp., ISBN: 97802268172310
Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe0
Book review: Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Ed.), Époque Émilienne: Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706–1749), Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022, xviii + 547 pp., ISBN: 97830
Information, Expertise, and Authority: The Many Ends of Epidemics0
Book review: Henry Lowood, edited by Raiford Guins, Replayed: Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, 376 pp., ISB0
Book review: Marinette Dambuyant & Anthony Cerulli, Manuel du prince indien: L'Arthashastra de Kautilya, Paris, France: Les Belles Lettres, 2022, 272 pp., ISBN: 9782251455026.0
Book review: Andrew Griebeler, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 344 pp., ISBN: 9780226826790.0
Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical Technology, and Epidemiology0
Cold Warriors in the Soil Sciences: The Soviet-US Conflict on Soil Classification, 1950s–1970s0
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End of a Pandemic? Contemporary Explanations for the End of Plague in 18th‑Century England0
Geppert, Alexander C. T. (ed.), Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, London Geppert, Alexander C. T., Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture after Apollo, London Geppert,0
Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–19450
Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy0
Marco Storni, Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l'académicien, le polémiste, Paris0
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Objects and Contradictions on the Move: From Private Collections to Provincial Brazilian Museums0
Edited by Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli, Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918-1928: Trajectories and Institutions0
Building an Early Modern Science of Vegetation: Nehemiah Grew's Inquiries into the "Anatomy of Plants"0
Redeeming the Past, Present, and Future0
Introduction: Paper, Metal, Glass: Materials and Their Meaning in Pre-Modern Science0
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This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times0
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Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–19900
40 years of history of physics in Italy0
What was 'Newtonianism' in Enlightenment Europe?0
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Book review: Gunnar Broberg (& Anna Paterson, Trans.), The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023, 484 pp., ISBN: 9780691213422.0
The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo0
Reading Between the Lines: Ornament Prints as Technical Literature0
Book review: Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, & Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015, London, UK: UCL Press, 2022, 660
Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629)0
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David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Pittsburgh0
Book review: Mark Solovey & Christian Dayé (Eds.), Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 400 pp. ISBN 9783030702489.0
Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending0
Book review: Kevin Lambert, Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, x + 318 pp., ISBN: 9780820
Book review: Marta Garcia Quiñones, La música más allá del cerebro, Barcelona, Spain: MRA Ediciones, 2023, 200 pp., ISBN: 9788496504549.0
Erica Fretwell, Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics of Feeling0
Richard J. Oosterhoff, José Ramón Marcaida, & Alexander Marr (Eds.), Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 20
The Earth's eccentricity in Kepler's refutation of the Tychonic approach to the problem of Mars0
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Scientific Knowledge and Educational Board Games: From Domestic Experiments to Popular Science (1790–1850)0
A Matter of Dust, Powdery Fragments, and Insects. Object Temporalities Grounded in Social and Material Museum Life0
Locating the Health Hazard, Surveilling the Gecekondu: The Tuberculosis-Control Pilot Area of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul (1961–1963)0
Book review: C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023, xii + 357 pp., ISBN: 9789004526914.0
Book review: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero & Emanuela Scribano (Eds.), Galen and the Early Moderns, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022, xi + 215 pp., ISBN: 9783030863074.0
Jochen Büttner, Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's Unorthodox Path from a Challenging Problem to a New Science, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2019.0
How to Get into the Pouch: Solving the Riddle of the Kangaroo Birth (1826–1926)0
Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic0
Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020.0
A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799)0
“In aria sana”: Conceptualising Pathogenic Environments in the Popular Press: Northern Italy, 1820s–1840s0
Epidemics that End with a Bang0
Provenance and Meanings of Early Modern Emerald Matter0
The Moon and the Scorpion: An Overlooked Astral Configuration in Old Babylonian Incantations and Its Astronomical Significance0
How Do Objects Enter and Exit Collections?: Exchanging Material Culture Over the Atlantic, 1920–19400
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Edited by Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations0
Book review: Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e Natura. Scienza Tecnica e Società dall'Antichità all'Età Moderna, Roma, Italy: Carocci, 2022, 487 pp., ISBN: 9788829011568.0
A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 18530
Book review: Elena Serrano, Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, 244 pp., ISBN: 97808220
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles0
“The Salvation of the Seamen”: Ventilation, Naval Hygiene, and French Overseas Expansion During the Early Modern Period (ca. 1670–1790)0
Science at the Zoo: An Introduction0
“Some Typically African Risks”: Safeguarding the Health of Italian Settlers During the Fascist Empire (1935–1941)0
Book review: Alain Giami & Sharman Levinson (Eds.), Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, xxx + 344 pp., ISBN: 9783030658120.0
Book review: Robert Kugelmann, The Soul in Soulless Psychology, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 332 pp., ISBN: 9781009301213.0
Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and Practices in Barcelona Zoo's Aquarama (1962–1970)0
Of Names, Labels, and Books in 19th-Century Tuscan Palaeontological Collections0
A Utopian Model of Order: Imperial Skepticism and Local Ecologies in Nehemiah Grew's Political Economy of Nature0
Book review: Andrea Strazzoni, The Quarrel over Swammerdam's Posthumous Works, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023, lx + 64 pp., ISBN: 9789004114241.0
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Lively Stasis. Care and Routine in Living Collections of Flies and Seeds0
Introduction: The Making of The Anatomy of Plants0
Behind the Scenes: The 1919 Total Solar Eclipse and the Invisible Labor of the Portuguese and Brazilian Observatories0
From Confusion to Clarity: The Dissemination of the European Theory of the Equation of Time in Late Ming and Early Qing China0
The Age of Molecular Biology0
Orientations and Disorientations in the History of Science How Measures Made a Difference at the Imperial Meridian0
Regulatory Science and Late Modern Governance in the Soviet Union: From the Islands of Intellectual Autonomy to Networked Infrastructures0
“The Finest in Any Museum in the World”: Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in the Southern Andes, ca. 1850–19110
How “Mexican Pathologies” Were Transformed into Objects of Exhibition: Museums of Pathological Anatomy in 19th-Century Mexico0
The Sisyphean Fate of History of Science Unmoved Scientists, Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed Politicians0
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Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy0
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Visible winds: The production of new visibilities of wind energy inWest Germany, 1973–19910
Beyond the Metropolis: Collectors, Itineraries, and Provincial Museums in the Long 19th Century0
An Appraisal of the Current Status of Research on Byzantine Sciences0
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