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  Año 2020, Vol. 35, Número 2 (Special Issue). Dedicado a: Section 1: Other Worlds within a Hand’s Reach; Section 2: Early Modern Geometries

  • Other Worlds within a Hand’s Reach: Planetary Models from the Sixteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century

    Pedro M.P. Raposo

    • Texto completo

    págs. 187-190

    

  • The Anomalous Sun: Variant Mechanical Realizations of Solar Theory on Planetary Automata of the Renaissance

    Samuel Gessner, Michael Korey, Karsten Gaulke

    págs. 191-234

    

  • George Graham and the Orrery

    Rory McEvoy

    • Resumen

    págs. 235-250

    

  • Francesco Bianchini (1662–1729) and the Origins of Planetary Globes

    Luís Tirapicos, Thomas Horst

    • Resumen

    págs. 251-273

    

  • Recounting the Orbs: Planetary Models and the Idea of Discovery in Astronomy, 1780–1850

    Pedro M.P. Raposo

    págs. 274-299

    

  • Lunar Crater Models: Tools of Persuasion, Popularization and Shared Knowledge

    Louise E. Devoy

    • Resumen

    págs. 300-332

    

  • Early Modern Geometries: Introduction

    Claudia Swan

    • Texto completo

    págs. 333-340

    

  • Stones, Snowflakes, and Insect Eggs: Conrad Gessner’s Figura and Geometric Nature

    Rebecca Zorach

    • Resumen

    págs. 341-363

    

  • Pfinzing and Friends: Surveying Culture in Renaissance Nuremberg

    Suzanne Karr Schmidt

    • Resumen

    págs. 364-386

    

  • Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

    Raz Chen-Morris

    • Resumen

    págs. 387-412

    

  • Johannes Kepler and Twenty-First-Century Science

    Lawrence Lipking

    • Resumen

    págs. 413-428

    

  • Review Essay

    • Descartes, Stensen and the Quest for Visible Mechanisms

      Antonio Clericuzio

      págs. 429-440

      

  • Book Reviews

    • Gregorio Baldin,HobbesandGalileo:Method,MatterandtheScienceofMotion.Cham: Springer, 2020. XXIII, 216 pp., 31 b/w ill. 79,99€. ISBN: 978-3-030-41413-9

      Federico Pierucci

      Es reseña de:

      • ,Hobbes and Galileo: Method,Matterand the Science of Motion

        Gregorio Baldin

        2020

      págs. 441-443

      

    • Sven Dupré (ed.),Perspectiveas Practice.Renaissance Cultures of Optics.Turnhout,Belgium: Brepols, 2019. 512 p., 143 b/w ill. + 46 colour ill. 90€. ISBN: 978-2-503-58107-1

      Arianna Borrelli

      Es reseña de:

      • Perspectiveas Practice.Renaissance Cultures of Optics

        Sven Dupré

        Turnhout,Belgium : Brepols, 2019

      págs. 444-447

      

    • Philip Rieder, François Zanetti (eds.), Materia medica. Savoirs et usages des médicaments aux époques médiévales et modernes. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2018.312 pp. $45.60. ISBN: 978-2-600-05878-0.

      Stefano Tomassetti

      Es reseña de:

      • Materia medica. Savoirs et usages des médicaments aux époques médiévales et modernes

        Philip Rieder, François Zanetti

        Geneva : Librairie Droz, 2018

      págs. 448-450

      

    • Allen J. Grieco,Food,Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy.Milan: Officina Libraria (for Europe); Cambridge: Harvard University Press (rest ofthe world), 2019. 327 pp., 35 color plates. 28€. ISBN 978-88-3367-039-3.

      Paolo Savoia

      Es reseña de:

      • Allen J. Grieco,Food,Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy.Milan: Officina Libraria (for Europe); Cambridge: Harvard University Press (rest ofthe world), 2019. 327 pp., 35 color plates. 28€. ISBN 978-88-3367-039-3.

      págs. 451-454

      

    • William R. Newman,Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s “Secret Fire”. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 560 pp.$39.95/£34.00. ISBN: 9780691174877.

      Lavinia Maddaluno

      Es reseña de:

      • Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s “Secret Fire”

        William R. Newman

        Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019

      págs. 455-457

      

    • Davina Benkert,Ökonomien botanischen Wissens. Praktikender Gelehrsamkeit in Basel um 1600 [Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft 188], Basel/Berlin:Schwabe Verlag, 2020. 352 pp., 21 illustrations of which 12 in colour, 58 €. ISBN(printed): 978-3-7965-4073-8; ISBN eBook (PDF): 978-3-7965-4155-1; DOI 10.24894/978-3-7965-4155-1

      Florike Egmond

      Es reseña de:

      • Ökonomien botanischen Wissens. Praktikender Gelehrsamkeit in Basel um 1600 [Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft 188]

        Davina Benkert

        Basel/Berlin : Schwabe Verlag, 2020

      págs. 458-460