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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy13
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On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog7
From Seed to Seed: Material Activities and Vegetable Life in Grew's Philosophy of Botany6
Book review: Francesca Antonelli, Scrivere e Sperimentare: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier, Segretaria della “Nuova Chimica” (1771–1836), Roma, Italy: Viella, 2022, 281 pp., ISBN: 979125465
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: 9791221036633.5
History of science inCentral and Eastern Europe: Studies fromPoland, Hungary, and Croatia5
Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease4
The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale4
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Science Policy, “Strategic” Research, and Journal Papers: Exploring Their Influence on the History of the Rowett Research Institute4
DominiqueRaynaudEye representation and ocular terminology from antiquity to Helmholtz. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Wayenborgh. Hirschberg History of Ophthalmology—The Monographs. Volume 16, 2020, xvi 4
From Private to Public (and Vice Versa): Scientific Collections in Barcelona, 1830–18804
Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology4
Nehemiah Grew and the Anatomy of Plants: The Essential Tension4
Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 17004
Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences3
Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities3
Apricots, Plums, and Garden Beans: Reassembling Nehemiah Grew's Collection of Plants3
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies3
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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 University3
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
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Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville3
Book review: Julia Schubert, Engineering the Climate: Science, Politics, and Visions of Control, Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2021, 280 pp., ISBN: 9781912729265.3
Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory2
Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson 's engineering2
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Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.2
Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or Embedding Bromides?2
Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York2
Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid2
Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past2
Book review: Patricia Fara, Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021, 288 pp., ISBN: 9780198841029.2
The End of Plague in Europe2
Disputing the Animation of the Heavens in Rome Around 1616: Between Animism and Natural Exegesis2
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021.2
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
From Livestock Farming to Amateur Botany in the Rio de la Plata: The Case of the Uruguayan Mariano B. Berro (1838–1919)2
Nation in Pieces: The Gathering of Francisco Plancarte's Archaeological Collection in Late 19th-Century Mexico2
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
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
Historiographical reflections on sciences in Europe : Perspectives from Centaurus *2
Invisible Problem-Solvers in the Record of the 1919 Total Eclipse in Sobral by the British Team2
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: Gunnar Broberg (& Anna Paterson, Trans.), The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023, 484 pp., ISBN: 9780691213422.1
Editorial: The Present and Future of Centaurus1
Science at the Zoo: An Introduction1
Book review: Gilles Barroux, L'Éclectisme dans la pensée philosophique et médicales des xviiieet xixe siècles, Paris, France: Classiques 1
Mind the Gap! Global Inequality and the History of Science1
Entangled Timelines. Crafting Types of Time Through Making Museum Specimens1
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Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-18501
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?1
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
From Mausoleum to Living Room. Practicing Metabolic Carpentry in the Museum1
The American Society for the Control of Cancer in the Portuguese Institute of Oncology'sBulletin: Rethinking nationalism1
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
The United Kingdom–United Arab Republic Scientific Agreement (1961): The Role of the British Council and Science Diplomacy in Post-Suez Anglo-Egyptian Reconciliation1
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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
A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 18531
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History of Science and Its Interlocutors in the Humanities1
Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande1
The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests1
Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid inEast Africa1
“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics1
Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine1
Paula S. De Vos. Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain1
History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change1
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures1
The Lab in the Museum. Or, Using New Scientific Instruments to Look at Old Scientific Instruments1
Centaurus: Continuing as an Open Access Journal1
Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and Practices in Barcelona Zoo's Aquarama (1962–1970)1
Editorial1
Aetiologies of Blame: Fevers, Environment, and Accountability in a War Context (France and Italy, ca. 1800)1
Promoting Meteorology in Rural Areas: Efforts to Develop Meteorology for Salt-Related Industries in the Republic of China1
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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
“Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries1
Collections, Knowledge, and Time1
Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science1
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A Student Notebook from 16th-Century Padua: On How Method Mediated Between Medical Theory and Practice1
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford1
Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–19441
The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings1
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
Book review: Roger Smith, Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023, 56 pp., ISBN: 97810008883551
Book review: Pamela Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 346 pp., ISBN: 97802268172311
Book review: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero & Emanuela Scribano (Eds.), Galen and the Early Moderns, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022, xi + 215 pp., ISBN: 9783030863074.0
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Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy0
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
How “Mexican Pathologies” Were Transformed into Objects of Exhibition: Museums of Pathological Anatomy in 19th-Century Mexico0
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
Jochen Büttner, Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's Unorthodox Path from a Challenging Problem to a New Science, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2019.0
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“Some Typically African Risks”: Safeguarding the Health of Italian Settlers During the Fascist Empire (1935–1941)0
Visible winds: The production of new visibilities of wind energy inWest Germany, 1973–19910
How to Get into the Pouch: Solving the Riddle of the Kangaroo Birth (1826–1926)0
What was 'Newtonianism' in Enlightenment Europe?0
Beyond the Metropolis: Collectors, Itineraries, and Provincial Museums in the Long 19th Century0
Epidemics that End with a Bang0
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
The Moon and the Scorpion: An Overlooked Astral Configuration in Old Babylonian Incantations and Its Astronomical Significance0
Edited by Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations0
Thompson, Biographer0
Carving an Origin for Mexico's Ancient Cultures: Jade Artifacts and the Question of their Provenance in 19th-Century Science0
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
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
Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629)0
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
Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic0
Of Names, Labels, and Books in 19th-Century Tuscan Palaeontological Collections0
David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Pittsburgh0
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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
Productive marginalities: The history of science in/aboutPolandsince 19890
Lost Green Chemistries: History of Forgotten Environmental Trajectories0
Orientations and Disorientations in the History of Science How Measures Made a Difference at the Imperial Meridian0
Cold Warriors in the Soil Sciences: The Soviet-US Conflict on Soil Classification, 1950s–1970s0
Introduction: The Making of The Anatomy of Plants0
“The Salvation of the Seamen”: Ventilation, Naval Hygiene, and French Overseas Expansion During the Early Modern Period (ca. 1670–1790)0
Ana Simões, Ana Matilde SousaThe global adventure of science: Einstein, Eddington and the eclipse. Lisbon, Portugal: Chili com Carne, 2019, 245 pp. ISBN: 97898983634110
The Age of Molecular Biology0
Marco Storni, Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l'académicien, le polémiste, Paris0
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
Trepidation spheres: Variant representations of the eighth sphere and the debate about the movement of the apogees and the fixed stars in Alfonsine astronomy0
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“The Finest in Any Museum in the World”: Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in the Southern Andes, ca. 1850–19110
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“In aria sana”: Conceptualising Pathogenic Environments in the Popular Press: Northern Italy, 1820s–1840s0
A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799)0
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The Sisyphean Fate of History of Science Unmoved Scientists, Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed Politicians0
The Version of Euclid's Elements in the Hebrew Translation in MS Paris, BnF, héb. 10110
Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory, 1930–1979: Cross-National Mobility and Exchange in a Global Context0
Locating the Health Hazard, Surveilling the Gecekondu: The Tuberculosis-Control Pilot Area of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul (1961–1963)0
Centaurus : Past and Future0
The Earth's eccentricity in Kepler's refutation of the Tychonic approach to the problem of Mars0
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The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo0
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
Edited by Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli, Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918-1928: Trajectories and Institutions0
Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe0
A Utopian Model of Order: Imperial Skepticism and Local Ecologies in Nehemiah Grew's Political Economy of Nature0
Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between theUS, Kuwait, and Switzerland0
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 Matter of Dust, Powdery Fragments, and Insects. Object Temporalities Grounded in Social and Material Museum Life0
Erica Fretwell, Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics of Feeling0
Scientific Knowledge and Educational Board Games: From Domestic Experiments to Popular Science (1790–1850)0
End of a Pandemic? Contemporary Explanations for the End of Plague in 18th‑Century England0
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Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–19450
Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy0
Redeeming the Past, Present, and Future0
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
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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
Simon Stevin through the lens of his dedications0
Silvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916): An introduction to the spotlight section0
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
“The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World”: Thinking, Dwelling In, and Shaping Pathogenic Environments0
Objects and Contradictions on the Move: From Private Collections to Provincial Brazilian Museums0
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Filling China’s Gaps. Viral Banks and Bird Collections as Museums for Pandemics0
Deciphering economic futures: Electricity, calculation, and the power economy, 1880–19300
This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times0
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
An Appraisal of the Current Status of Research on Byzantine Sciences0
40 years of history of physics in Italy0
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles0
Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending0
What is Seen in a Garden Bean: Revisions and Copies in Nehemiah Grew's Plant Anatomy0
Building an Early Modern Science of Vegetation: Nehemiah Grew's Inquiries into the "Anatomy of Plants"0
How Do Objects Enter and Exit Collections?: Exchanging Material Culture Over the Atlantic, 1920–19400
“Amany‐sidedcrystal”: Understanding the manifold legacy ofSilvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916)0
Behind the Scenes: The 1919 Total Solar Eclipse and the Invisible Labor of the Portuguese and Brazilian Observatories0
Regulatory Science and Late Modern Governance in the Soviet Union: From the Islands of Intellectual Autonomy to Networked Infrastructures0
Lively Stasis. Care and Routine in Living Collections of Flies and Seeds0
Book review: Robert Kugelmann, The Soul in Soulless Psychology, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 332 pp., ISBN: 9781009301213.0
Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical Technology, and Epidemiology0
From Confusion to Clarity: The Dissemination of the European Theory of the Equation of Time in Late Ming and Early Qing China0
Information, Expertise, and Authority: The Many Ends of Epidemics0
Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–19900
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