A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Publications by Charles Coulston Gillispie....Pages 3-13
A Professional Life in the History of Science*....Pages 15-24
A Career in the History of Science as a Student of Charles Gillispie....Pages 25-35
Charles Gillispie in the Digital Age....Pages 37-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Peking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery....Pages 49-62
The Puzzle Picture of Lucretius: A Thriller from Herculaneum....Pages 63-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
 Urania Propitia, Tabulae Rudophinae faciles redditae a Maria Cunitia Beneficent Urania , the Adaptation of the Rudolphine Tables by Maria Cunitz....Pages 81-121
Simplicity in the Copernican Revolution: Galileo, Descartes, Newton....Pages 123-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
The Weekday Chemist: The Training of Aleksandr Borodin....Pages 137-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Genesis of Historical Research on the History of Geology, with Thoughts About Kirwan, de Luc, and Whiggery....Pages 167-177
Five Discourses of Bible and Science 1750–2000....Pages 179-195
“Natural Theology of Industry” in Seventeenth-Century China?: Ideas About the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing’s Heaven’s Work in Opening Things ( Tiangong kaiwu )....Pages 197-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
On the Role of the Ecole Polytechnique , 1794–1914, with Especial Reference to Mathematics....Pages 217-234
The Notion of Variation in Leibniz....Pages 235-251
Founding Acts and Major Turning-Points in Arab Mathematics....Pages 253-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Chemotherapy by Design....Pages 275-295
American Health Reformers and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century....Pages 297-325
Quantity and Polity: Asylum Statistics and the Drive for Medical Evidence....Pages 327-340
The Question of Efficacy in the History of Medicine....Pages 341-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Secrecy, Industry and Science. French Glassmaking in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 357-366
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Balloons, Hydraulic Machines and Steam Engines at War and Peace: Jean-Pierre Campmas, a Visionary or an Inefficient Inventor?....Pages 367-397
Cauchy’s Theory of Dispersion Anticipated by Fresnel....Pages 399-416
Sadi Carnot on Political Economy. Science, Morals, and Public Policy in Restoration France....Pages 417-427
Back Matter....Pages 429-439