Annals of Science

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    A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the rise of physiological plant ecology. [REVIEW]Stephen Bocking - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):338-340.
    After so many decades dominated by molecular biology, it is important to remember that scientists have also devoted much attention to entire living organisms and ecosystems. In this spirit, Sharon...
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    Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus’s Astronomia Magna(1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata(1617): Paracelsian anthropology in the light of Lutheran biblical hermeneutics. [REVIEW]Dane T. Daniel & Charles D. Gunnoe Jr - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):222-254.
    The study evaluates Paracelsus’s and Paracelsian-Weigelian microcosmogonies, i.e. theories concerning the nature and creation of human beings, especially their biblical underpinnings, and particularly in the light of Luther’s and Lutheran anthropological and biblical-exegetical stances. The Lutheran approach to the origin and components of human beings—as seen in Luther’s early Magnificat Commentary and the Genesis Commentary of his late career—relied on such magisterial principles as adherence to sola scriptura, literal biblical exegesis, and the hermeneutical standard to ‘let scripture interpret scripture,’ whereas (...)
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    The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology.Urs Leo Gantenbein - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):198-221.
    The Swiss natural philosopher, physician, and radical reformer Theophrastus of Hohenheim (1493–1541), known as Paracelsus, endeavoured to reconcile his various perspectives in his extensive biblical exegeses. Symbolizing this effort were the two lights of nature and the Holy Spirit, which, on one hand, explored worldly and mortal aspects of nature and, on the other hand, led to eternal life. In response to the prevailing dispute between Luther and Zwingli over the interpretation of the Eucharist, Paracelsus developed his own viewpoint, introducing (...)
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    (1 other version)Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis of Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen.Charles D. Gunnoe - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):275-296.
    The study offers an analysis of the treatise Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen (first edition 1576, ed. Michael Toxites) in the context of Paracelsus’s likely sojourn in Tyrol in 1533/1534. The article discusses Paracelsus's approach to treating plague, emphasizing practical remedies over theoretical considerations. Paracelsus offers various therapeutic interventions, including bloodletting and herbal remedies. The treatise also delves into astrological considerations, offering recommendations based on sex, age, and other factors. Despite its departure from Paracelsus’s more theoretical plague works, (...)
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    The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus.Didier Kahn - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):297-311.
    Meteorology is not one of the most discussed topics in Paracelsus studies, although it is closely linked to both Paracelsus’ medicine and cosmology. Furthermore, it appears to be at the very core of Paracelsus’ famous matter theory of three chymical principles, mercury, sulphur and salt, known as the tria prima. By discussing prominent examples of Paracelsus’ explanations on how the tria prima operate within the stars, this article shows how the Swiss physician conceived meteorology within his own body of knowledge, (...)
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    Introduction.Didier Kahn & William R. Newman - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):193-197.
    Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493–1541), colloquially known as Paracelsus, emerges as a pivotal figure in the transition from medieval to early modern scientific paradigms. Within the realm...
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    A Chymist Among Beasts: Reading Paracelsus Literally(with a translation of De lunaticis, chapter two).William R. Newman - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):255-274.
    Paracelsus is an extraordinarily difficult author to interpret, in part because of the seemingly elusive boundary between literal and metaphorical levels of meaning in his work. The present paper argues for a literal reading of Paracelsus, based on comments that he makes in his late Philosophia de divinis operibus & factis & de secretis naturae. The article also includes a translated chapter from one of the treatises in that work, De lunaticis.
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    Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics. [REVIEW]Karen Hunger Parshall - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):335-338.
    The International Mathematical Union (IMU) ‘is an international governmental and non-profit scientific organization’ that aims to promote international cooperation in mathematics, to support and as...
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    First entities in the De renovatione et restauratione of Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and for people.Andrew W. Sparling - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):312-332.
    Paracelsus was a transmutational alchemist: For most of his career, he believed that one metal could be turned into another. In an alchemical text, the De renovatione et restauratione, he explored the theoretical foundations of transmutation and hinted at recipes for bringing it about. He proposed that from plants, gems, metals, and minerals might be prepared a class of marvelous medicaments, which he called prima entia (first entities). Each primum ens had particular uses, but the entia were all supposed to (...)
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    The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.James L. Zainaldin - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (2):333-335.
    The name of Hero of Alexandria is associated today with numerous mechanical and mathematical treatises ranging from the construction of pneumatic contrivances, automata, siege weaponry and surveyin...
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    Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna.Noemi Di Tommaso - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):44-73.
    The history of science is increasingly directing its attention to the diachronic examination of women's involvement within spaces dedicated to scientific inquiry. While this field of study boasts rich and meticulous historiography, delving into the sixteenth century leaves the impression of encountering either a noticeable absence of women in the realm of natural history or an underexplored period in this regard. Undoubtedly, within the Italian context of the time, the cultural milieu shaped by the Counter-Reformation further heightened the social challenges (...)
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    Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes.George Hook - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):133-173.
    This article investigates Haast’s claim that in March 1862 he independently reached the same controversial conclusion as Ramsay, that lake basins in previously glaciated regions were formed by ancient glaciers. Both men's views fuelled a passionate debate in British scientific societies. However, science historians largely ignore Haast’s contribution or imply he knew about Ramsay’s ‘theory’ before coming to a conclusion about Southern Alps lakes.To assess whether Haast independently reached that conclusion in March 1862, field records, correspondence, reports, newspaper articles, and (...)
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    Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation.Liz Kambas - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):102-132.
    On November 14th, 1770, the young chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) read his ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’ to the Académie des Sciences. Eventually published in the Académie’s journal in 1773, the two-part memoire challenged a widely held view of earlier experimenters: the transmutability of matter. Specifically, experimenters such as Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont (1580–1644), Robert Boyle (1627–1691), and Ole Borsch (1626–1690) had noted that when distilled water was heated in a glass vessel, a small amount of earthy residue remained, seemingly demonstrating (...)
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    The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained.Christoph Lüthy - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):1-43.
    We are all used to drawing straight lines to represent time, and above them, we plot historical events or physical or economic data. What to us is a self-evident convention, is however of an astonishingly recent date: it emerged only in the second half of the eighteenth century. To us, this late date seems paradoxical and cries out for an explanation. How else did earlier periods measure change, if not as a function of time? it will be argued that since (...)
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    A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V. The optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV-V: on reflection and images seen by reflection, by A. I. Sabra, prepared for publication by J.P. Hogendijk. [REVIEW]Dominique Raynaud - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):174-179.
    Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, London, University of London Press, 2023, xiv + 343 pp., 49 halftones, $120.00 (hardback); £90.00, ISBN 978-1-908590-58-9 (Warburg Institute Studies and Texts 8). The late Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924–2013) devoted a significant part of his work to the critical edition and English translation of the optics of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham….
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    Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method. [REVIEW]John A. Schuster - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):179-189.
    Descartes’ method is perhaps the most fraught topic in Cartesian research. Scholars have long clashed over such matters as: What exactly did Descartes teach about method; how, if at all, is it mani...
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    Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe. [REVIEW]Robert W. Smith - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):189-191.
    In order to appreciate the contributions of Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe, a little history will help. At the end of the nineteenth century, astronomy consisted of two branches, `posit...
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    Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710.Leendert van der Miesen - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):74-101.
    Sounds are heard, sometimes even felt, but in most cases they remain unseen. This ephemeral and invisible nature of sound was already considered a problem when the science of acoustics took form in the seventeenth century. The fact that sound could not be seen was described as a significant hindrance to its understanding. But it was precisely during this time that a wide variety of sounds attracted broad scientific attention across Europe. Scholars, natural philosophers, and mathematicians investigated and experimented with (...)
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