Annals of Science

ISSNs: 0003-3790, 1464-505X

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  1. Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists.Giulia Giannini - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (2):112-142.
    Information on the origins of the Accademia del Cimento is extremely limited. Almost all of the surviving correspondence relating to the year before the Academy began its activities variously concerns print culture. Lists of books (read, studied, purchased, and researched), handwritten notes on old or new publications, vernacular translations of edited passages, and inquiries about new works punctuate the archive. The study of these lists and of the relationship between reading practices and ones related to annotation and knowledge production leads (...)
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  2. Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks.Jia Hui Lee - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (2):83-111.
    At the end of the 1920s, Tanganyika Territory experienced several serious rodent outbreaks that threatened cotton and other grain production. At the same time, regular reports of pneumonic and bubonic plague occurred in the northern areas of Tanganyika. These events led the British colonial administration to dispatch several studies into rodent taxonomy and ecology in 1931 to determine the causes of rodent outbreaks and plague disease, and to control future outbreaks. The application of ecological frameworks to the control of rodent (...)
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  3. Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century.Ian Maclean - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (2):195-197.
    In his very distinguished career as a medical historian and chronicler of Galen, Vivian Nutton has often been involved in successful collaborative projects to map the course of European medicine, a...
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  4. A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866.Michael Wiescher - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (2):143-194.
    Today, we take international collaborations as a necessity, but 150 years ago, when travel was not so convenient, it involved an enduring and time-consuming challenge. This paper presents letters and reports written by German physicist Julius Plücker to his wife, Antonie née Altstädten describing his travels to Great Britain and France between 1853 and 1866. These letters provide a view into how international collaboration and communication were developed and maintained as well as how friendships were built within the scientific community (...)
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    The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy.Donatella Germanese - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):10-37.
    The organization of the mobile atomic exhibition, Mostra Atomica, designed by the United States Information Service to travel through Italy in 1954–55, had to meet technical, scientific, artistic, and political challenges. The head of the group in charge of the exhibition was architect Peter G. Harnden whose pedigree in the intelligence and training in architecture were an ideal match for leading the unit dedicated to exhibitions. The political sensitivity of the Mostra Atomica also required the intervention of the Italian Ministry (...)
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    Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue.Donatella Germanese & Maria Rentetzi - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):1-9.
    ABSTRACT Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy – a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill. Atomic mobile exhibitions are seen here not only as cultural sites but as multifaceted strategic processes of transnational nuclear history. We move beyond the bipolar Cold War history that portrays propagandist science exhibitions as instances of a one-way communication employed to promote the virtues of the two (...)
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    Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe.Michael Hunter - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):77-78.
    This book forms part of the series ‘New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine’ and its ambitious remit is apparent from its title. In the first half of the book, a succession of chapter...
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  8. The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965).Gisela Mateos & Edna Suárez-Díaz - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):62-76.
    During the IAEA’s Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition (1960–1965) through the eventful roads of five Latin American countries (Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia), a variety of photographs were taken by an unknown Mexican official photographer, and by Josef Obermayer, a staff driver from Vienna. The exhibition carried not only bits of nuclear sciences and technologies, but also the political symbolism of the ‘friendly atom’ as a token of modernization. The photographs embarked on different trajectories, though all of them ended up at (...)
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  9. Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception.Kathryn M. Olesko - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):78-81.
    Every so often a book comes along that transforms one’s perspective on a major development in the history of science. Kenneth Caneva’s is one of them. Built upon decades of immersion in the primary...
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  10. Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58.Michaela Šmidrkalová - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (1):38-61.
    The Czechoslovak-Soviet exhibition ‘Atoms for Peace’ was held in Prague and Bratislava in 1956. This exhibition became a symbol of Czechoslovak-Soviet ‘friendship’ and Soviet influence on the Czechoslovak nuclear programme. At the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958 (Expo 58), one of the most popular Czechoslovak exhibits was the betatron, which would become a symbol of Czechoslovak nuclear pride. The article analyzes the planning, creation and reception of these two exhibitions, as well as the popular image of the Czechoslovak betatron in (...)
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