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A. C. Crombie Science and the arts in the Renaissance:
the search for truth and certainty, old
and new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
Kiyosi Yabuuti Astronomy in the East and the West: The
Development and Characteristics . . . . 1--9
Joseph Needham The Guns of Khaifeng-fu . . . . . . . . 11--30
Ahmad Y. Hassan Some Obstacles Hindering the Advance of
Science and Technology in the Arab
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--46
Shigeru Nakayama Two Academic Traditions in Comparison:
Western and Chinese . . . . . . . . . . 47--75
Tamotsu Murata Wallis' \booktitleArithmetica
Infinitorum and Takebe's
\booktitleTetsujutsu Sankei: What
underlies their similarities and
dissimilarities? . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100
Michio Yano Aryabhata's Possible Rebuttal to
Objections to his Theory of the Rotation
of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105
Tsuyoshi Ogawa Historical Phenomenology --- A Review
Essay on ``\booktitleThe Essential
Tension'' --- Thomas S. Kuhn,
\booktitleThe Essential Tension, Univ.
of Chicago Press, 1977, xxiii + 366 pp. 107--111
Chikara Sasaki Book Review: Shokichi Iyanaga, Shuntaro
Ito and Tohru Sato, \booktitleGirisha no
Sugaku (Greek Mathematics),
Kyoritsu-shuppan, Tokyo, 1979, 280 pp.,
\yen 3,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Ryosuke Nagaoka Book Review: Akira Kobori,
\booktitleJuhasseiki no Sugaku
(Mathematics in the 18th Century),
Kyoritsu-shuppan, Tokyo, 1979, 200 pp.,
\yen 3,300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
E. J. Aiton Celestial spheres and circles . . . . . 75--114
Tohru Sato Archimedes' Lost Works on the Centers of
Gravity of Solids, Plane Figures and
Magnitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--41
Masanobu Tsuzuki Art and Science at the Dawn of Modern
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
Chikara Sasaki Scientific Studies at Oxford and
Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century: A
Research Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
Eri Yagi Analytical Approach to Clausius's First
Memoir on Mechanical Theory of Heat
(1850) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--94
Hiroyuki Konno Some Remarks on the Interference
Experiments with Faint Light . . . . . . 95--105
Yuko Abe Pauling's Revolutionary Role in the
Development of Quantum Chemistry . . . . 107--124
Hitoshi Yoshioka Book Review: C. Werskey, \booktitleThe
Visible College, Allen Lane, London,
1978, 376 pp., \pounds 10 . . . . . . . 125--127
Chikara Sasaki Book Review: Koshiro Nakamura,
\booktitleKinsei Sugaku no
Rekishi-Bisekibungaku no Keisei o
megutte (The History of Mathematics in
the Early Modern Period --- Around the
Formation of the Differential and
Integral Calculus), Nippon Hyoron-sha,
Tokyo, 1980, \yen 3,700 . . . . . . . . 128--129
Takanori Kusuba Book Review: \booktitleIndo Tenmongaku
Sugaku Shu (A Collection of Hindu
Astronomical and Mathematical Works),
Japanese Translation with Introductions
and Notes by Michio Yano, Takao Hayashi
and Yasuke Ikari, Asahi-shuppan, Tokyo,
1980, 517 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Arpad Szabo Astronomische Messungen bei den Griechen
im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. und ihr
Instrument. (German) [Astronomical
measurements of the Greeks in the 5th
Century BCE and its instrument] . . . . 1--26
Jean Claude Martzloff La géometrie euclidienne selon Mei
Wending. (French) [Euclidean geometry
according to Mei Wending] . . . . . . . 27--42
Takanori Kusuba Brahmagupta's Sutras on Tri- and
Quadrilaterals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
Nobuo Miura The Algebra in the \booktitleLiber Abaci
of Leonardo Pisano . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
Nobuo Kawajiri The Acceptance of the Christian View of
Science by a Japanese in the Tokugawa
Era: The Establishment of Sho-sho-gaku
by Gokan Uchida . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
Kazuo Shimodaira On Idai of Jingoki . . . . . . . . . . . 87--101
Akira Yoshida Davy et Dulong sur la théorie des acides
au debut du XIX$^{\rm e}$ si\`ecle.
(French) [Davy and Dulong on the theory
of acids at the beginning of the
Nineteenth Century] . . . . . . . . . . 103--114
Shigeaki Suzuki An Experimental Study for the
Reproduction of `So' (a Dairy Product)
Prescribed in the En-gi Shiki in the 9th
and 10th Centuries of Japan . . . . . . 115--118
Tadashi Yoshida Book Review: \booktitleChugoku
Tenmongaku Sugaku Shu (A Collection of
Chinese Astronomical and Mathematical
Works), Japanese Translation with
Introduction and Notes by Kiyosi
Yabuuti, Keizo Hashimoto and Hideki
Kawahara, Asahi-Shuppan, Tokyo, 1980,
429 pp. + xl., \yen 4,800 . . . . . . . 119--122
Chikara Sasaki Book Review: Toshisada Endo,
\booktitleZoshu Nippon Suguakushi (A
History of Japanese Mathematics,
Enlarged and Revised), Second Definitive
Edition, edited by Yoshio Mikami and
revised by Akira Hirayama,
Koseisha-Koseikaku, Tokyo, 1981, 900
pp., \yen 15,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Tetsuo Tomita The Japanese Translation of Johann
Beckmann's \booktitleBeyträge zur
Geschichte der Erfindungen, 2 vols.,
Daiyamondo-sha, Vol. I, 1980, 429 pp.,
\yen 3,800 / The Japanese Translation of
Johann Beckmann's \booktitleBeyträge zur
Geschichte der Erfindungen, 2 vols.,
Daiyamondo-sha, Vol. II, 1981, 483 pp.,
\yen 4,200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Yasu Furukawa Hermann Staudinger and the Emergence of
the Macromolecular Concept . . . . . . . 1--18
Chiyoko Fujisaki P. Drude's Theory of Dispersion of Light
and Atomic Model (1900--1913) . . . . . 19--67
Masakatsu Yamazaki An Early Development of Nuclear Physics
in Japan: In the Case at Osaka Imperial
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
Ryoichi Itagaki Why Did Mach Reject Einstein's Theory of
Relativity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
Chikako Amano La `Division du Canon' et la théorie
mathématique des intervalles musicaux.
(French) [The 'Division of the Canon'
and the mathematical theory of musical
intervals] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
Yoshimasa Michiwaki and
Osamu Takinami On the Comparison of Mathematicians'
Ways of Thinking in Japan: Old and New 117--121
Kokiti Hara Book Review: \booktitleStudies on
Christiaan Huygens, Invited papers from
the symposium on the life and work of
Christiaan Huygens, Amsterdam, 22--25
August 1979, Edited by H. J. M. Bos, M.
J. S. Rudwick, H. A. M. Snelders, R. P.
W. Visser. Swets & Zeitlinger B.V. Lisse,
1980, v + 321 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
Takanori Suzuki Book Review: Ibn Sina,
\booktitleal-Qanun fi 'l-tibb, Japanese
Translation by Hitoshi Igarashi, Tatsuo
Sato & Shuntaro Ito, Asahi-shuppan,
Tokyo, 1981, 374 pp., \yen 4800 . . . . 131--132
Melvin Kranzberg The History of Technology in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Eberhard Wachtler Freiberg --- ein traditionsreiches
montanwissenschaftliches Zentrum.
(German) [Freiberg --- a traditional
mining science center] . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Tadaaki Kimoto Die Begriffswandlung der allgemeinen
Technologie und die historische
Bedeutung der Technologie Johann
Beckmanns. (German) [The Conversion of
General Technology and the Historical
Importance of Johann Beckmann's
Technology] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--44
Tatsuo Horiuchi La formation des ing\`enieurs civils en
France 1795--1848. (French) [The
training of civil engineers in France
1795--1848] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61
Jueming Hua and
Yunfu Jia A Research on the Chinese Ancient Chime
Bells: Its History, Casting Process,
Design and Calculation . . . . . . . . . 63--79
Kunio Aoki and
Tohru Nakagawa and
Seibun Sakakibara and
Akira Sasabe and
Toshiyoshi Kikuchi A Survey of Water Mills in Japan . . . . 81--97
Akira Oita Technikgeschichte, Industriearchaologie
und technische Müssen: Ein kleiner
Überblick unter zeitgeschichtlicher
Fragestellung. (German) [History of
Technology, Industrial Research and
Technical Means: A Brief Overview of
Contemporary History] . . . . . . . . . 99--109
Kazuji Toyoda Early Development of Stone-Working in
Greece and Its Contribution to
Achaemenid Persia . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127
Akira Yoshida Book Review: Pietro Redondi,
\booktitleL'accueil des idées de Sadi
Carnot et la technologie française de
1820 \`a 1860 --- De la légende \`a
l'histoire, Librairie philosophique J.
Vrin, Paris, 1980, 234 p., 99,00FF . . . 129--130
Hideo Kawamoto Book Review: Kenzo Sakamoto,
\booktitleKikai no Genshogaku (The
Phenomenology of Machinery),
Iwanami-shoten, Tokyo, 1975, viii + 331
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Ken-ichi Iida Hiroto Saigusa and His Philosophy of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--138
Akira Nagazumi The Diffusion of the Idea of Social
Darwinism in East and Southeast Asia . . 1--18
Hiroyuki Iyama A Case of Fabricated Discovery: The Law
of Multiple Proportions . . . . . . . . 19--28
Takehiko Hashimoto Amp\`ere vs. Biot: Two Mathematizing
Routes to Electromagnetic Theory . . . . 29--51
Chiyoko Fujisaki From Deslandres to Kratzer (I):
Development of the Understanding of the
Origin of Infrared Band Spectra
(1880--1913) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--75
Fumikazu Yoshida The Industry of Nations and Marx's
\booktitleDas Capital . . . . . . . . . 77--85
Yutaka Tanaka Aristotelian Ontology and Modal
Syllogistic Reconstructed . . . . . . . 87--109
Hiroyuki Konno Book Review: Tetu Hirosige,
\booktitleHirosige Tetu Kagakushi
Ronbunsh\=u (Collected Papers of the
History of Science of Tetu Hirosige),
edited and commented by S. Nisio, 2
vols., Misuzu-shobo, Tokyo, vol. 1,
1980, iii + 365 pp., \yen 4500, vol. 2,
1981, iv + 378 pp., \yen 5800 . . . . . 111--114
Kazuyuki Ito Book Review: Y\=oichir\=o Murakami,
\booktitleKagakushi no Gyakuenkinh\=o
(The Reverse-perspectivism in the
History of Science) --- A Revaluation of
the Renaissance Thought, Ch\=u\=ok\=oron
Sha, Tokyo, 1982, 306 pp. \yen 1500 . . 115--117
Hideto Nakajima Book Review: Masakazu Yoshinaka,
\booktitleNy\=uton Rikigaku no Tanja
(The Birth of Newton's Mechanics),
Saiensu Sha, Tokyo, 1982, 243 pp., \yen
1700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Masakatsu Yamazaki Book Review: T. J. Fraser, \booktitleThe
Genesis and Evolution of Time, The
University of Massachusetts Press,
Cambridge,1982, 205 pp. . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum (No. 23) 121--121
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of the History of
Science, Japan), Series II, Vol. 21
(1982) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 124--125
Yukitoshi Matsuo ``A Digression of the animal spirits'':
the changes of the concept of `spirit'
in the seventeenth-century science (I) 1--15
Hideo Kawamoto The Theory of Life in the Early 20th
Century: In Japan and in Europe . . . . 17--27
Chuhei Yamaguchi On the Formation of Helmholtz' View of
Life Processes in His Studies of
Fermentation and Muscle Action: In
Relation to His Discovery of the Law of
Conservation of Energy . . . . . . . . . 29--37
Hiroyuki Konno Slater's Evidence for the Genesis of the
Bohr--Kramers--Slater Theory . . . . . . 39--52
Kozo Hirota and
Tatsuaki Yamaguchi Did S. Arrhenius Really Propose the
Arrhenius Equation? . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Chiyoko Fujisaki From Deslandres to Kratzer (II):
Development of the Understanding of the
Origin of Infrared Band Spectra
(1913--1920) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--86
Fumikazu Yoshida Robert Willis' Theory of Mechanism and
Karl Marx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
F. Henry Brookman The History of Science in the
Non-Western World: An Inventarisation of
Some Important Works during the 20th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100
Toshifumi Yatsumimi Book Reviews: Y\=ojir\=o Kimura,
\booktitleNihon Shizenshi no Seiritsu:
Rangaku to Honz\=ogaku (Formation of
Natural History in Japan: Dutch Learning
and Chinese Herbal Material Medica),
Ch\=u\=ok\=oron Sha, Tokyo, 1974, 386
pp., \yen 1,800; Y\=ojir\=o Kimura,
\booktitleShiboruto to Nihon no
Shokubutsu: T\=ozai Bunka K\=ory\=u no
Gensen (Siebold and the Flora of Japan:
Origin of the Cultural Exchange between
the East and the West), K\=owa Shuppan,
Tokyo, 1981, 235 pp., \yen 1,400 . . . . 101--102
Anonymous In Memoriam: Bun-ichi Tamamushi
(1898--1982) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum (No. 24) 108--108
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 109--110
Kokiti Hara Nouvelles Observations sur les Écrits
mathématiques de Pascal. (French) [New
Observations on the Mathematical
Writings of Pascal] . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Ken'ichi Takahashi The Mathematical Foundations of
Bradwardine's Rule . . . . . . . . . . . 19--38
Lewis Pyenson Astronomy and Imperialism: J. A. C.
Oudemans, the Topography of the East
Indies, and the Rise of the Utrecht
Observatory, 1850--1900 . . . . . . . . 39--81
Akira Yoshida Une nouvelle interprétation de la
gen\`ese des expériences de Lavoisier sur
la combustion en 1772. (French) [A new
interpretation of the genesis of
Lavoisier's experiments on combustion in
1772] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Ken-ichi Tsuneishi C. Koizumi as a Promoter of the Ministry
of Health and Welfare and an Originator
of the BCW Research Program . . . . . . 95--113
Eri Yagi Derek J. De Solla Price (1922--1983),
Personal Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Nobuo Kawajiri Book Review: Nobuhiro Miyoshi,
\booktitleMeiji no Engineer Kyoiku
(Technical Education in the Meiji Era),
Ch\=u\=o K\=oron Sha, Tokyo, 1983, 219
pp., \yen 460 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum Nos.
18--25 (1981--1983) . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of the History of
Science, Japan), Series II, Vol. 22
(1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 130--131
Kurt-R. Biermann Japan: vom legendaren Zipangu bis zum
zeitgenössischen Nippon bei Alexander von
Humboldt. (German) [Japan: from the
legendary Zipangu to the contemporary
Nippon according to Alexander von
Humboldt] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Kokiti Hara Nouvelles Observations sur les Écrits
mathématiques de Pascal (II). (French)
[New Observations on the Mathematical
Writings of Pascal (II)] . . . . . . . . 11--25
Yoichi Hirano Note sur les diffusions de la théorie de
Galois: Premi\`ere clarification des
idées de Galois par Liouville. (French)
[Note on the diffusion of the theory of
Galois: First clarification of the ideas
of Galois by Liouville] . . . . . . . . 27--41
Paul U. Unschuld Frühe christliche Missionshospitäler in
China im 19. Jahrhundert. (German)
[Early Christian Mission Hospitals in
China in the 19th Century] . . . . . . . 43--50
Tsutomu Kaneko Einstein's View of Japan's Culture . . . 51--76
Yasuo Nakagawa The Development of Early Practical
Electromagnetic Telegraphs and the
Mechanization of Skilled Operation . . . 77--89
Minoru \=Omori Some Matters in the Study of von Siebold
from the Past to the Present and New
Materials Found in Relation to Siebold
and His Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--110
Takehiko Takabayasi Book Review: \booktitleThe Collected
Works of Sin-itiro Tomonaga, Vol. 1--12,
Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo, 1981--83 . . . . . 111--116
Akira Yoshida Book Review: Michel Blay, \booktitleLa
conceptualisation newtonienne des
phénom\`enes de la couleur, Librairie
philosophique J. Vrin, Paris, 1983, 293
p., 99F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Tamotsu Murata Book Review: \booktitleNippon no Sugaku
100 nen Shi (History of mathematics in
Japan during the last 100 years), Vol.
1, 1983, xxi + 337 p., Vol. 2, 1984, ix
+ 394 p., Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo,
1983--84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--126
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum (No. 26) 127--127
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 128--128
Jean Claude Martzloff Aperçu sur l'histoire des mathématiques
chinoises telle qu'elle est pratiquée en
République Populaire de Chine. (French)
[Overview of the history of Chinese
mathematics as practiced in the People's
Republic of China] . . . . . . . . . . . 1--30
Ken Saito Book II of Euclid's \booktitleElements
in the Light of the Theory of Conic
Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--60
Tohru Sato Quadrature of the Surface Area of a
Sphere in the Early Middle Ages ---
Johannes de Tinemue and Ban\=u M\=us\=a 61--90
J. Dhombres French Mathematical Textbooks from Bézout
to Cauchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--137
Masahito Takase Origine de la notion de pseudoconvexité
dans la théorie des fonctions analytiques
de plusieurs variables complexes:
Signification du probl\`eme inverse de
Hartogs. (French) [Origin of the notion
of pseudoconvexity in the theory of
analytic functions of several complex
variables: Meaning of the inverse
problem of Hartogs] . . . . . . . . . . 139--151
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum No. 27
(1984) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of the History of
Science, 154 Japan), Series II, Vol. 23 154--155
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 156--156
The Editor Preface for the Special Number . . . . . 1--1
Árpád Szabó Strabon und Pytheas --- die
geographische Breite von Marseille ---
Zur Frühgeschichte der mathematischen
Geographie. (German) [Straban and
Pytheas --- the latitude of Marseille
--- The early history of mathematical
geography] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15
Wilbur R. Knorr Euclid's Tenth Book: An Analytic Survey 17--35
Pierre Costabel Descartes et la Mathématique de l'Infini.
(French) [Descartes and the Mathematics
of Infinity] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
Kokiti Hara Comment Descartes a-t-il découvert ses
Ovales?. (French) [How did Descartes
discover his ovals?] . . . . . . . . . . 51--82
Chikara Sasaki The Acceptance of the Theory of
Proportion in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries: Barrow's Reaction
to the Analytic Mathematics . . . . . . 83--116
Kurt-R. Biermann Kontroversen um den Steiner-Preis und
ihre Folgen: Ein Kapitel aus den
Beziehungen zwischen Weierstraß und
Kronecker. (German) [Controversy over
the Steiner Prize and its consequences:
a chapter in the relationship between
Weierstraß and Kronecker] . . . . . . . . 117--124
Erkka Maula Proof, History and Heuristics . . . . . 125--155
Shokichi Iyanaga Book Review: Tamotsu Murata,
\booktitleNihon no S\=ugaku, Seiy\=o no
S\=ugaku, Hikaku S\=ugakushi no Kokoromi
(Japanese Mathematics and Western
Mathematics: An Attempt of Comparative
History of Mathematics), Ch\=u\=o
K\=oronsha, 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Shigeru Nakayama Book Review: Masakazu Yoshinaka,
\booktitleKagakusha no Hasso (The Way of
Thinking of Scientists), Tamagawa U. P.,
1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum (No. 28) 164--164
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 165--165
Thierry Guitard La querelle des infiniment petits a
l'École Polytechnique au XIX$^{\rm e}$
si\`ecle. (French) [The quarrel over the
infinitely small at the Polytechnical
School in the 19th Century] . . . . . . 1--61
Nobuo Miura The Applications of Trigonometry in
Pitiscus: a Preliminary Essay . . . . . 63--78
Kei-ichi Tsuneishi The Research Guarded by Military
Secrecy: The isolation of the E.H.F.
virus in Japanese biological warfare
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92
Toshio Sugimoto Berichtigungen der Zahlenrechnungen, die
in den Gauss'schen Werken enthalten
sind. (German) [Corrections of numerical
calculations included in Gauss's works] 93--98
Nobuo Kawajiri Book Review: Masao Watanabe, ed.,
\booktitleNewton no Hikari to Kage
(Newton: Lights and Shadows), 1982, 286
pp., \yen 2200; Kyoritsu Shuppan Sha,
T\=oky\=o/Masao Watanabe, ed.,
\booktitleDarwin to Shinkaron (Darwin
and Darwinism: the Historical Context),
1984, 288 pp., \yen 2200; Ky\=oritsu
Shuppan Sha, T\=oky\=o . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum No. 29
(1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of the History of
Science, Japan), Series II, Vol. 24
(1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 104--104
Tamotsu Murata La naissance de la théorie des ensembles
et son retentissement en France.
(French) [The birth of set theory and
its repercussion in France] . . . . . . 1--24
Ken Saito Compounded Ratio in Euclid and
Apollonius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--59
Tohru Sato A Reconstruction of The Method
Proposition 17, and the Development of
Archimedes' Thought on Quadrature: Why
did Archimedes not notice the internal
connection in the problems dealt with in
many of his works? Part One . . . . . . 61--86
Martina Lorenz Der Beitrag Christian Wolffs zur
Rezeption von Grundprinzipien der
Mechanik Newtons in Deutschland zu
Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. (German)
[Christian Wolff's contribution to the
reception of fundamental principles of
Newton's mechanics in the early 18th
century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
Shigeru Nakayama The Three Stage Development of Knowledge
and the Media [in Japanese] . . . . . . 101--113
K. Gavroglu Recent Evidence and Further Comments on
Parity Violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleHistoria Scientiarum No. 30
(1986) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 130--130
Seiya Aramaki Formation of the Renormalization Theory
in Quantum Electrodynamics . . . . . . . 1--42
Yutaka Tanaka Einstein and Whitehead: The Principle of
Relativity Reconsidered . . . . . . . . 43--61
Seiji Takata A Textual Comparison of All the 4
Editions of Mach's \booktitleWarmelehre 63--73
Tohru Sato A Reconstruction of The Method
Proposition 17, and the Development of
Archimedes' Thought on Quadrature: Why
did Archimedes not notice the internal
connection in the problems dealt with in
many of his works? Part Two . . . . . . 75--142
Nobuo Miura Book Review: Donald R. HILL
(Translator), \booktitleThe Book of
Ingenious Devices (Kitab al-Hiyal) by
the Banu Musa bin Shakir, Translated and
annotated by D. R. Hill, Dordrecht,
1979, x + 267 pages . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
K. Hara Necrologie: Koshiro Nakamura
(1901--1986). (French) [Obituary:
Koshiro Nakamura (1901--1986)] . . . . . 147--150
Tamotsu Murata A Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . 1--2
Annick Horiuchi La science calendérique de Takebe
Katahiro (1664--1739). (French) [The
calendrical science of Takebe Katahiro
(1664--1739)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24
Seiji Takata Ganot's Textbooks of Physics introduced
into Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--41
Tamotsu Murata Certain Aspects of Japanese Studies on
the History of Mathematics . . . . . . . 43--59
Fumihiko Satofuka and
Abdur Rahman Post War Science and Technology Policy
of Japan: A view from a developing
country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76
Jean Dhombres Sur un texte d'Euler relatif \`a une
équation fonctionnelle: Archaismes,
pédagogie, et style d'écriture. (French)
[On a text of Euler relating to a
functional equation: Archaisms,
pedagogy, and writing style] . . . . . . 77--99
L. Euler Un remarquable perfectionnement de la
méthode inverse des tangentes. (French)
[A remarkable improvement of the inverse
method of tangents] . . . . . . . . . . 100--123
Kokiti Hara Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondance du
P. Marin Mersenne, religieux minime,
commencée par Paul Tannery, publiée et
annotée par Cornelis de Waard et Armand
Beaulieu, Éditions du Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique, Tome XV,
1983, pi\`eces limin. et 670p., et t.
XVI, 1986, pi\`eces limin. et 592 p.,
23.5cm $ \times $ 18.5cm . . . . . . . . 125--128
Nobuo Miura Charles de Bovelles and Perfect Numbers 1--10
Kazuo Muroi Inheritance Problems of Babylonian
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
J. Dhombres and
M. Pensivy Esprit de rigueur et présentation
mathématique au XVIII$^{\hbox {{\`
e}me}}$ si\`ecle: le cas d'une
démonstration d'Aepinus. (French) [Spirit
of rigor and mathematical presentation
in the Eighteenth Century: the case of a
demonstration of Aepinus] . . . . . . . 21--42
Yan Kangnian On Isaac Newton's Ideas of Gravitation
and God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
R. N. Nugaev Special Relativity as a Stage in the
Development of Quantum Theory: a New
Outlook of Scientific Revolution . . . . 57--79
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Erik Baark and Andrew
Jamison, eds., \booktitleTechnological
Development in China, India and Japan:
Cross-cultural Perspective, The
Macmillan Press Ltd., London, 1986, 255
pp., 10 indices . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Nobuo Kawajiri Book Review: Shuntaro Ito, ed.,
\booktitleChusei no Sugaku (Mathematics
in the Middle Ages), 1987, 671 pp., \yen
12,000, Kyoritsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo . . 85--86
Olivier Darrigol Elements of a Scientific Biography of
Tomonaga Sin-itiro . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
Arpad Szabo Der Gnomon als Kalender: In Memoriam
Prof. Ryoji Shizuma. (German) [The
Gnomon as a Calendar: In Memoriam: Prof.
Ryoji Shizuma] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Il-Seong Nha Calibration of the Stellar Magnitude
Scale Prior to Pogson . . . . . . . . . 39--44
John Blackmore Mach Competes with Planck for Einstein's
Favor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--89
Kiyoshi Toda Book Review: Shigeru Nakayama and
Hiroshi Ishiyama, \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu Nyumon (A Guide to Research in
the History of Science), 1987, 352 pp.,
\yen 2,400, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan Kai,
Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Kiyoshi Toda Book Review: Hajime Kashiwagi and Mie
Kashiwagi, eds., David M. Knight
(original author), \booktitleKagakushi
Nyumon, Shiryo e no Approach (A Guide to
the History of Science: Approach to
Sources), 1984, 527, 190 pp., \yen
12,000, Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo . . . . . 92--93
Kiyohisa Fujii Book Review: Kozo Hirota,
\booktitleMeiji no Kagakusha (Japanese
Chemists in the Meiji Era), 1988, 230
pp., \yen 1,400, Tokyo Kagaku Dojin,
Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Laurie M. Brown Yukawa in the 1930s: A Gentle
Revolutionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Michiji Konuma and
Chieko Masuzawa and
Yoshio Takada Resumption of International Relationship
of Japanese Particle Physicists after
World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
Morris Fraser Low Accounting for Science: The Impact of
Social and Political Factors on Japanese
Elementary Particle Physics . . . . . . 43--65
Shunkichi Hirokawa and
Shuzo Ogawa Shoichi Sakata: His Physics and
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--81
Ziro Maki The Development of Elementary Particle
Theory in Japan: Methodological Aspects
of the Formation of the Sakata and
Nagoya Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
Seiya Aramaki Development of the Renormalization
Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics (I) 97--116
Morris Fraser Low The History of Japanese Physics and the
Rise of the Scientist--Historian:
Proceedings of the Japan--USA
Collaborative Workshops on the History
of Particle Theory in Japan, 1935--1960,
Japan--USA Collaboration, Second Phase 117--120
Takao Hayashi and
Takanori Kusuba and
Michio Yano Indian Values for $ \pi $ Derived from
Aryabhata's Value . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Nobuo Miura The Applications of Logarithms to
Trigonometry in Richard Norwood . . . . 17--30
Yutaka Ogawa Galileo's Work on Free Fall at Padua:
Some Remarks on Drake's Interpretation 31--49
Takehiko Hashimoto Huygens, Dioptrics, and the Improvement
of the Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--90
Seiya Aramaki Development of the Renormalization
Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics (II) 91--113
Masakatsu Yamazaki Origin of the Idea of the Atomic Bomb:
Part 1: Physical Research on the Atomic
Bomb and the Decision to Make the Bomb
during World War II . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Shizue Hinokawa Origin of the Idea of the Atomic Bomb:
Part 2. Changing Status of the Plutonium
Bomb Plan in the Early Stages of
American Atomic Bomb Development . . . . 15--28
Morris F. Low and
Hitoshi Yoshioka Buying the 'Peaceful Atom': The
Development of Nuclear Power in Japan 29--44
Antonio Jose J. Botelho Struggling to Survive: The Brazilian
Society for the Progress of Science
(SBPC) and the Authoritarian Regime
(1964--1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
Fumihiko Satofuka Some Aspects to Science Studies in Japan 65--72
Satofuka Fumihiko Book Review: \booktitleSociology of the
Sciences Yearbook 1987 `The Social
Direction of the Public Sciences',
Edited by Stuart Blume, Joske Bunders,
Loet Leydesdorff and Richard Whitley, D.
Reidel Publishing Company . . . . . . . 73--74
Miwao Matsumoto Book Review: Chikatoshi Kamatani,
\booktitleGijutsu Taikoku Hyakunen no
Kei: Nippon no Kindaika to Kokuritsu
Kenkyu Kikan (The Road to
Techno-Nationalism: Japanese
Modernization and National Research
Institutes from the Meiji Era),
Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1988, 259 pp. . . . . 75--80
Toshio Hakata The Diplomatic Policy of Accademia dei
Lincei and Its Cultural Background . . . 1--14
Tsutomu Tanimoto The Japanese Reception of Alfred
Wegener's Theory of the Continental
Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--27
Kazuo Muroi Interest Calculation in Babylonian
Mathematics: New Interpretations of VAT
8521 and VAT 8528: To the memory of O.
Neugebauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--34
Masao Watanabe Makyo: An Object of Art and Science . . 1--7
Keiko Kawashima La Participation de Madame du Châtelet
\`a la Querelle sur les Forces Vives . . 9--28
Kangnian Yan A Re-examination into Newton's
Definition of Mass and Mach's Criticism 29--40
Masao Uchida The Recognition of Chemical Composition
in the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . 41--57
Masao Watanabe Teaching History of Science in Japanese
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69
Michio Yano and
Merce Viladrich Taysir Computation of Kushyar ibn Labban 1--16
Michael Shortland `On the Connexion of the Physical
Sciences' Classification and
Organization in Early Nineteenth-Century
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--36
Bruno Carazza and
Helge Kragh An Oriental in Europe: Nagaoka, Righi,
and the State of Physics 1910 . . . . . 37--44
Fumihiko Satofuka Some Aspects to the Debate on Scientific
Tradition in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52
Motohiro Miura The Firth of Forth Railway Bridge and a
Japanese Engineer, Kaichi Watanabe . . . 53--57
Catherine Jami Book Review: Jean-Claude Martzloff,
\booktitleHistoire des Mathématiques
Chinoises, Paris, Masson, 1988, xx + 375
p., Prefaces by Jacques Gernet and Jean
Dhombres (Table of contents in English
p. xviii), FF 295.00 . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Yoshito Hijioka Book Review: I. Hronszky, M. Feher & B.
Dajka (eds)., \booktitleScientific
Knowledge Socialized, Dordrecht, Boston,
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1988. Pp. ix + 440, ISBN 90-288-2284-6,
\$124.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Michio Yano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Jan P. Hogendijk Al-Khw\=arizm\=\i's Table of the ``Sine
of the Hours'' and Underlying Sine Table 1--12
Jacques Sesiano An Arabic Treatise on the Construction
of Bordered Magic Squares . . . . . . . 13--32
Radha Charan Gupta On the Volume of a Sphere in Ancient
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Takao Hayashi A Note on Bh\=askara I's Rational
Approximation to Sine . . . . . . . . . 45--48
David Gold and
David Pingree A Hitherto Unknown Sanskrit Work
concerning M\=adhava's Derivation of the
Power Series for Sine and Cosine . . . . 49--64
Hideki Kawahara World-View of the \booktitleSantong-Li 65--70
Karine Chemla Theoretical Aspects of the Chinese
Algorithmic Tradition (First to Third
Century) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--94
Catherine Jami Scholars and Mathematical Knowledge
during the Late Ming and Early Qing . . 95--110
Keizo Hashimoto A Mathematical Outcome of the Strong
Tradition of French Sinology; Catherine
Jami, \booktitleLes méthodes rapides pour
la trigonométrie et le rapport précis du
cercle (1774): tradition chinois et
apport occidental en mathématiques,
Mémoires de l'Institut des Hautes Études
Chinoises, vol. XXXII, Coll\`ege de
France, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum No. 41 (1991) . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 29 (No. 176),
1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Information for Contributors . . . . . . 117
Haruyo Yoshida and
Seiji Takata The growth of Fourier's theory of heat
conduction and his experimental study 1--26
Michiyo Nakane The role of the three-body problem in W.
R. Hamilton's construction of the
characteristic function for mechanics 27--38
Luis Navarro On Einstein's statistical-mechanical
approach to the early quantum theory
(1904--1916) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58
Kazuo Muroi The expressions of zero and of squaring
in the Babylonian mathematical text VAT
7537 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Joerg F. Maas The dissolution of contradictory
patterns of explication: method and the
interdependencies between logic and
mathematics in the 16th and early 17th
centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Yuji Jido Book Review: Shoichi Oyodo,
\booktitleMiyamoto Takenosuke to
Kagaku-Gijutu-Seisaku (Miyamoto
Takenosuke and the Policy of Science and
Technology), (Tokyo: Tokai University
Press, 1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Takeshi Hayashi,
\booktitleThe Japanese Experience in
Technology: From Transfer to
Self-Reliance (Tokyo: United Nations
University Press, 1990) . . . . . . . . 75--76
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum No. 42 (1991) . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 30 (No. 178),
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Marco Panza The analytical foundation of mechanics
of discrete systems in Lagrange's
\booktitleThéorie des fonctions
analytiques, compared with Lagrange's
earlier treatments of this topic. I . . 87--132
Chiyoko Fujisaki The Role of T. Heurlinger in the
Development of Modern Visible Molecular
Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--162
Anonymous Errata of \booktitleHistoria Scientiarum
No. 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Anonymous Errata to ``\booktitleThe Growth of
Fourier's Theory of Heat Conduction and
His Experimental Study (in No. 43) . . . 170--170
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, No. 43 (1991) . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 30 (No. 179),
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Keizo Hashimoto Book Review: Scientific Revolution in
the Context of Astronomical
Transformation: René Taton & Curtis Wilson
(eds.), \booktitlePlanetary Astronomy
from the Renaissance to the Rise of
Astrophysics: Tycho Brahe to Newton (The
General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2,
Part A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
Kazuo Muroi Small canal problems of Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180
Marco Panza The analytical foundation of mechanics
of discrete systems in Lagrange's
\booktitleThéorie des fonctions
analytiques, compared with Lagrange's
earlier treatments of this topic. II . . 181--212
Fumihiko Satofuka Forum: Some Aspects to the Debate on
Scientific Tradition in Japan (II) . . . 213--220
Sigeko Nisio Satio Hayakawa's Letter to Hideki Yukawa
(19 Sept. 1955) --- A Trigger for
Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research in
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Seiji Takata Book Review: Claudio Egidi, ed.,
\booktitleGiovanni Giorgi and his
Contribution to Electrical Metrology
(1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Anonymous Obituary: [Dr. Mitsukuni Yoshida,
Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University] 225--228
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Kei-ichi Tsuneishi Letter to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, Vol. 1, No. 1--3 . . . . . 234--235
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 30 (No. 180)
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Seiji Takata Amano Kiyoshi the ``scientific''
historian of science . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Kokiti Hara Quelques ouvrages de géométrie more
veterum de Roberval. I. (French) [Some
\em more veterum geometry works from
Roberval. I] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--44
Kazuo Muroi Reexamination of Susa mathematical text
no. 3: alleged value $ \pi \approx 3 (1
/ 8) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--49
Tamotsu Murata Quelques remarques sur le Livre X des
\booktitleEléments d'Euclide. (French)
[Some remarks on Book X of Euclid's
\booktitleElements] . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Fumihiko Satofuka Forum: Some Aspects to the Debate on
Scientific Tradition in Japan (III) . . 61--69
Eberhard Wächtler Book Review: Tadaaki Kimoto,
\booktitleDie Entwicklung der
Technologie und ihre Stellung in der
Wissenschaft während der
gesellschaftlichen Umwälzung an der Wende
vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert (1991) . . . 70--72
Kazuo Shimodaira Obituary: Dr. Ohya Shinichi's works . . 73--75
Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Anonymous Errata to ``\booktitleForum: Satio
Hayakawa's Letter to Hideki Yukawa (19
Sept. 1955)'' by Sigeko Nisio (in No.
44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum Vol. 1, No. 3 (No. 45) . . . 80--80
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakusi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 31 (No. 181),
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Chikara Sasaki Announcement of a Change of Editor . . . 83--83
Setsuko Tanaka Kuwaki turns to history of science . . . 85--108
Kokiti Hara Quelques ouvrages de géométrie more
veterum de Roberval. II. (French)
[Some \em more veterum geometry works
from Roberval. II] . . . . . . . . . . . 109--117
Shigeo Sugiyama The Significance of the Particulate
Conception of Matter in John Tyndall's
Physical Researches . . . . . . . . . . 119--138
Masayuki Obayashi Stent's Myth in the Origins of Molecular
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--150
Hiroyuki Konno Notes: Spontaneous Emission, Radiation
Force, and the Correspondence Principle 151--158
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Kimiyo Koyanagi,
\booktitlePasukaru: Chokkan kara Dantei
made: Butsuri Ronbun Kansei madeno Dotei
(Pascal: From Intuition to Affirmation
--- The Process of Completing Physics
Treatises) (Nagoya: Nagoya University
Press, 1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous Announcement: The Seventh International
Conference on the History of Science in
East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleKagakushi Kenkyu (Journal of
History of Science, Japan), Series II,
Vol. 31 (No. 182), 1992 . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Table of Contents of the
\booktitleKagakushi Kenkyu (Journal of
History of Science, Japan), Series II,
Vol. 31 (No. 183), 1992 . . . . . . . . 168--168
Ken'ichi Takahashi Galileo's labyrinth: his struggle for
finding a way out of his erroneous law
of natural fall. I . . . . . . . . . . . 169--202
Anonymous Call for Papers (Vol. 3, No 3: History
of Japanese science) . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Seiji Takata J. B. Fourier in the history of thermal
radiation research . . . . . . . . . . . 203--221
Mariko Ogawa Weismann and the origin of death in
evolution theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Shigeru Nakayama,
\booktitleScience, Technology and
Society in Postwar Japan (London: Kegan
Paul International, 1991) . . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous Table of Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, Vol. 2, No. 1 (No. 46) . . 239--239
Anonymous Table of Contents of \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, Vol. 2, No. 2 (No. 47) . . 240--240
Ken'ichi Takahashi Galileo's labyrinth: his struggle for
finding a way out of his erroneous law
of natural fall. II . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
Takuji Okamato Uncertainty of Operation: P. W. Bridgman
and Quantum Mechanics . . . . . . . . . 35--62
Keiko Kawashima Les idées scientifiques de Madame du
Châtelet dans ses Institutions de
physique: un rêve de femme de la haute
société dans le culture scientifique au
Si\`ecle des Lumi\`eres. 1\`ere partie.
(French) [The scientific ideas of Madame
du Châtelet in her Physics Institutions:
a dream of a woman of high society in
the scientific culture of the Century of
Enlightenment. Part 1] . . . . . . . . . 63--82
Masanobu Sakanoue Yamaoka Nozomu, A `Humanistic' Historian
of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Charles Burnett Book Review: Ken'ichi Takahashi,
\booktitleThe Medieval Latin Traditions
of Euclid's \booktitleCatoptrica: A
Critical Edition of \booktitleDe
speculis with an Introduction, English
Translation and Commentary, (Fukuoka:
Kyusyu University Press, 1992, viii +
373 pp., \yen 10,300) . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Masao Watanabe Obituary: Masakazu Yoshinaka
(1944--1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Anonymous New: Annual Meeting of History of
Science Society . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--106
Anonymous New: Report of the Activities of the
National Committee of Japan and the
History of Science Society of Japan . . 107--114
Ken Saito Duplicate ratio in Book VI of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135
Keiko Kawashima Les idées scientifiques de Madame du
Châtelet dans ses Institutions de
physique: un rêve de femme de la haute
société dans le culture scientifique au
Si\`ecle des Lumi\`eres. 2\`eme partie.
(French) [The scientific ideas of Madame
du Châtelet in her Physics Institutions:
a dream of a woman of high society in
the scientific culture of the Century of
Enlightenment. Part 2] . . . . . . . . . 137--156
Charles Burnett Book Review: \dS\=a'id al-Andalus\=\i,
\booktitleScience in the Medieval World
``Book of the Categories of Nations'',
translated and edited by Sema'am I.
Salem and Alok Kumar, (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1991, xxi +
118 pp., \$29.00)} . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Takehiko Hashimoto Graphical calculation and early
aeronautical engineers . . . . . . . . . 159--183
Kunimitsu Nakamura On the sprout and setback of the concept
of mathematical ``proof'' in the Edo
period in Japan: regarding the method of
calculating number $ \pi $ . . . . . . . 185--199
Ryoichi Nakata Joseph Privat de Moli\`eres: reconciler
between Cartesianism and Newtonianism in
collision theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
Eiji Hayashi A reconstruction of the proof of
Proposition 11 in Archimedes's method:
proofs about the volume and the center
of the gravity of any segment of an
obtuse-angled conoid . . . . . . . . . . 215--230
Kazuo Muroi Reexamination of the first problem of
the Susa mathematical text no. $9$ . . . 231--233
Kenji Ito Book Review: Mitsuo Taketani and
Masayuki Nagasaki, Ryoshi Rikigaku no
Keisei to Ronri (The Formation and the
Logic of Quantum Mechanics). Vol. 1:
Genshi Mokei no Keisei (The Formation of
Atomic Model). Tokyo: Ginza Shuppansha,
1948, 282 pp.; repr. ed. Tokyo: Keiso
Shobo, 1972, 300 pp. \yen 1,800. Vol. 2:
Ryoshi Rikigaku eno Michi (Path to
Quantum Mechanics). Tokyo: Keiso Shobo,
1991, xii + 267 pp. \yen 3,800. Vol. 3:
Ryoshi Rikigaku no Seiritsu to sono
Ronri (The Completion of Quantum
Mechanics and Its Logic), Tokyo: Keiso
Shobo, 1993, xiv + 302 pp. \yen 4,400 235--245
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 31 (No. 184)
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 31 (No. 185)
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 31 (No. 186)
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleKagakushi
Kenkyu (Journal of History of Science,
Japan), Series II, Vol. 31 (No. 187)
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, Vol. 3, No. 1 (No. 49) . . 249--249
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum, Vol. 3, No. 2 (No. 50) . . 250--250
Togo Tsukahara Elimination of Qi by Chemical
Specification: Shift of Understanding of
Western Theory of Matter in Japan . . . 1--24
Toshio Yamazaki Kunio Oka, His Life and Work . . . . . . 25--38
Roshdi Rashed Notes sur la version arabe des trois
premiers livres des
\booktitleArithmétiques de Diophante, et
sur le probl\`eme 1.39. (French) [Notes
on the Arabic version of the first three
books of \booktitleArithmetic of
Diophantus, and on the problem 1.39] . . 39--46
James R. Bartholomew Perspectives on Science and Technology
in Japan: The Career of Fukui Ken'ichi 47--54
Ken-ichi Sato Obituary: Dr. Kazuo Shimodaira
(1928--1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Yukiko Fukasaku,
\booktitleTechnology and Industrial
Development in Pre-war Japan: Mitsubishi
Nagasaki Shipyard 1884--1934 (London:
Routledge, 1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Anonymous News: The 42nd Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan on
May 28--29, 1994 at Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
Anonymous Books Received: M. Folkerts and J. P.
Hogendijk, eds., \booktitleVestigia
Mathematica: Studies in Medieval and
Early Modern Mathematics in Honour of H.
L. L. Busard, Rodopi, Amsterdam &
Atlanta, 1993. The book was edited on
the occasion of H. L. L. Busard's 70th
year of birth, containing papers by P.
Bockstaele, H. J. M. Bos, M. Folkerts,
B. Hughes, G. Molland, B. A. Rosenfeld,
C. J. Scriba, J. Sesiano and 11 others
and the list of publications by Busard.
Eric Brian, \booktitleLa mesure de
l'État: Administrateurs et geom\`etres au
XVIII$^{\rm ieme}$ si\`ecle, Albin
Michel, Paris, 1994, one volume of
\booktitleL'Évolution de l'Humanité, sheds
light on a political aspect of the
mathematical thought of 18th century
France. John S. Major, \booktitleHeaven
and Earth in Han Thought: Chapters
Three, and Four, and Five of the
Huainanzi, State University of New York
Press, Albany, 1993, discusses a
cosmological theory in Han China,
containing Christopher Gullen's essay
\booktitleA Chinese Eratosthenes of the
Flat Earth as Appendix A. Annibale
Fantoli, \booktitleGalileo, For
Copernicantsm and for the Church,
Translation by George V. Coyne, Vatican
Observatory Publications, Vatican City
State, 1994, is a volume for Galileo's
rehabilitation in the Catholic Church.
The author has once taught at Sophia
University, Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Sasaki Chikara Asian mathematics from traditional to
modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
Roshdi Rashed al-Y\=azd\=\i et l'équation $ \sum_{i =
1}^n x^2_i = x^2 $. (French)
[al-Y\=azd\=\i and the equation $
\sum_{i = 1}^n x^2_i = x^2 $] . . . . . 79--101
Dun Liu 400 years of the history of mathematics
in China --- an introduction to the
major historians of mathematics since
1592 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
Karine Chemla Different concepts of equations in
\booktitleThe nine chapters on
mathematical procedures [four Chinese
characters] and in the commentary on it
by Liu Hui (3rd century) . . . . . . . . 113--137
Alexe\"\i Volkov Calculation of $ \pi $ in ancient China:
from Liu Hui to Zu Chongzhi . . . . . . 139--157
Catherine Jami History of mathematics in Mei Wending's
(1633--1721) work . . . . . . . . . . . 159--174
Kunio Got\=o Book Review: Y\=oitsu Kond\=o (edited by
Chikara Sasaki), \booktitleS\=ugakushi
Chosakush\=u (Collected Works on History
of Mathematics), 5 vols. (Tokyo: Nihon
Hyoronsha, 1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Anonymous Books Received: Jean Gayon, ed.,
\booktitleBuffon 88: Actes du Colloque
international pour le bicentenaire de la
mort de Buffon, Paris, J. Vrin, 1992. A
Collection of essays compiled in memory
of Jacques Roger. Forty six essays
discuss a variety of aspects of Buffon's
scientific activities. Liba Chaia Taub,
\booktitlePtolemy's Universe: The
Natural Philosophical and Ethical
Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy,
Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois, Open
Court, 1993. An inquiry which sheds
light on not only the natural
philosophical but also ethical aspects
of Ptolemy's \booktitleAlmagest.
Claudine Cohen, \booktitleLe destin du
Mammouth, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1994.
A story as to how Western thinkers such
as Leibniz and Buffon understood
mammoth. H. Floris Cohen, \booktitleThe
Scientific Revolution: A
Historiographical Inquiry, Chicago and
London, The University of Chicago Press,
1994. A broad research on how to define
the Scientific Revolution and why it
occurred in seventeenth century Europe
in comparison with Islam countries and
China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Shokichi Iyanaga Évolution des études mathématiques au Japon
depuis l'\`ere Meiji. (French)
[Evolution of mathematical studies in
Japan since the Meiji era] . . . . . . . 181--206
Wann-Sheng Horng How did Liu Hui perceive the concept of
infinity: a revisit . . . . . . . . . . 207--222
Man-Keung Siu Mathematics education in ancient China:
what lesson do we learn from it? . . . . 223--232
Takao Hayashi \'Sr\=\idhara's authorship of the
mathematical treatise
\booktitleGa\dnitapañcavi\dm\'s\=\i . . . 233--250
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Saneh Chamarik and Susantha
Goonatilake, eds.,
\booktitleTechnological Independence:
The Asian Experience (Tokyo: United
Nations University, 1994) . . . . . . . 251--254
Yoichi Hirano Book Review: Sasaki Chikara, Sugiura
Mitsuo and Joseph W. Dauben, eds.,
\booktitleThe Intersection of History
and Mathematics (Basel: Birkhäuser, 1994) 255--256
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu
(Journal of History of Science, Japan)
Series II, Vol. 32 (No. 188), 1993 . . . 257--257
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu
(Journal of History of Science, Japan)
Series II, Vol. 33 (No. 189), 1994 . . . 258--258
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu
(Journal of History of Science, Japan)
Series II, Vol. 33 (No. 190), 1994 . . . 259--259
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu
(Journal of History of Science, Japan)
Series II, Vol. 33 (No. 191), 1994 . . . 260--260
Anonymous Contents of \booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu
(Journal of History of Science, Japan)
Series II, Vol. 32 (No. 192), 1994 . . . 261--261
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum Vol. 4, No. 1 (No. 52) . . . 263--263
Anonymous Contents of the \booktitleHistoria
Scientiarum Vol. 4, No. 2 (No. 53) . . . 264--264
Norio Adachi The dawn of mathematical philosophy . . 1--23
Isao Ohami On the Theory of Movement in the
Vaisesika System in Ancient India . . . 25--34
Nicolas Far\`es Aspects analytiques dans la mathématique
de Sharaf al-D\=\in al-\udotT\=us\=\i.
(French) [Analytical aspects in the
mathematics of Sharaf al-D\=\in
al-\udotT\=us\=\i] . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55
Ken-ichi Sato Reevaluation of \booktitleTengenjutsu or
\booktitleTianyuanshu: in the context of
comparison between China and Japan . . . 57--67
I. Sh. Slavut$\cdot$ski\u\i Staudt and arithmetical properties of
Bernoulli numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
Yo\=\ichi Hirano Quelques remarques sur les travaux de
Lagrange --- qui concernent la théorie
des équations algébriques et la notion
préliminaire de groupes . . . . . . . . . 75--84
Ken-ichi Sato Book Review: Annick Horiuchi,
\booktitleLes mathématiques japonaises
\`a l'époque d'Edo (Paris: Librairie
Philosophique, J. Vrin, 1994) . . . . . 85--87
Tadaaki Kimoto Technological Development in Japan and
Its Historical Research Since World War
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--102
Tessa Morris-Suzuki The Great Translation: Traditional and
Modern Science in Japan's
Industrialisation . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116
Chikayoshi Kamatani \em Sake Brewing and Its Records in Edo
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126
Satoshi Ihara Development of Electric Power Technology
and Social Framework in Japan . . . . . 127--166
Masakatsu Yamazaki The Mobilization of Science and
Technology during the Second World War
in Japan --- A Historical Study of the
Activities of the Technology Board Based
upon the Files of Tadashiro Inoue . . . 167--182
Hiroshi Ichikawa Technological Transformation of Occupied
Japan: The Implications of the Policies
and Activities of the Scientific and
Technical Division of the Economic and
Scientific Section of GHQ/SCAP . . . . . 183--198
Kiyoshi Arakawa Basic Features of the Technical
Development in Japan during the Post-War
Half Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--214
Keizo Hashimoto Obituary: Joseph Needham (1900--1995) 215--219
Anonymous News: The 42nd Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan,
June 3--4, 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Anonymous Errata: Shokichi Iyanaga,
\booktitleÉvolution des études
mathématiques au Japon depuis l'\`ere
Meiji, \bf 4(3) p. 205 March (1995) . . 223--223
Eio Honma Beeckman's natural philosophy . . . . . 225--247
Kazuo Muroi Two harvest problems of Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
Tsukane Ogawa A process of establishment of pre-modern
Japanese mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
Fumihiko Satofuka Forum: Some Aspects to the Debate on
Scientific Tradition in Japan (IV) . . . 263--268
Roshdi Rashed Archimedean learning in the Middle Ages:
the Ban\=u M\=us\=a . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Anjing Qu Bian Gang: a mathematician of the 9th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi and
Kenji Ito and
Yasu Furukawa Rudolf Clausius' copy of Sadi Carnot's
\booktitleRéflexions: a new look at
Clausius' access to Carnot's work . . . 31--36
Jean Christianidis Maxime Planude sur le sens du terme
diophantien \em plasmatikón. (French)
[Maxime Planude on the meaning of the
term diophantine \em plasmatikón] . . . . 37--41
Takao Hayashi A bibliography (1958--1995) of Radha
Charan Gupta, historian of Indian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
Toshiyoshi Kikuchi Obituary: To the Memory of Professor
Suketoshi Yajima . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Anonymous News: The 43rd Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan, May
25--26, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Chikara Sasaki Historians of Mathematics in Modern
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78
Eisui Uematsu Historians of Physics in Japan: From the
Methodological Perspective of the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
Yasu Furukawa From Chemistry to History: Historians of
Chemistry and Their Community in Japan 87--108
Hikaru Saitoh Studies on the History of Biology in
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122
Hideki Kawahara and
Michio Yano Japanese Contributions to the History of
Chinese Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--158
Tomoko Y. Steen A Tribute to Motoo Kimura . . . . . . . 159--169
Keizo Hashimoto and
Catherine Jami Kepler's laws in China: a missing link?
Jean-François Foucquet's \booktitleLifa
wenda [4 Chinese Characters] . . . . . . 171--185
Kunimitsu Nakamura Process through disaffirmance of
``material theory of heat'' to
introduction and diffusion of ``kinetic
theory of heat'' in Japan . . . . . . . 187--208
Miwao Matsumoto The Imperial Japanese Navy's Connection
with a Marine Steam Turbine Transfer
from the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
Kazuo Muroi An enigmatic sentence in the old
Babylonian table of exponents and
logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Lewis Pyenson Review Essay: Western Wind: The Atomic
Bomb in American Memory . . . . . . . . 231--242
Anonymous Announcement: École CIMPA, Histoire dés
mathematiques en Méditerranée de
l'Antiquité au XVIIIe si\`ecle, 12--26
septembre 1997 \`a La Mansourah (Égypte) 243--243
Roshdi Rashed L'Histoire des Sciences entre
Épistémologie et Histoire. (French) [The
History of Sciences between Epistemology
and History] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Kiyosi Yabuuti Islamic astronomy in China during the
Yuan and Ming dynasties . . . . . . . . 11--43
Chiye Izumi Timaean science --- the role of
stereometry in Greek cosmology . . . . . 45--57
Hiroyuki Konno J. C. Slater's optical theory in 1925:
another dispersion theory . . . . . . . 59--64
Yasu Furukawa Book Review: Mary Jo Nye,
\booktitleBefore Big Science: The
Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics,
1800--1940 (London: Prentice Hall, 1996) 65--66
Anonymous News: The 44th Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan, May
31--June 1, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Anonymous News: Report on the National Committee
of Japan and on the History of Science
Society of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Seiji Takata Activity of Japanese Physicists in the
Learned Societies from 1877 to 1926 . . 81--92
Haruyo Yoshida and
Shigeo Sugiyama Aikitu Tanakadate and the Beginning of
the Physical Researches in Japan . . . . 93--106
Katsuki Atsushi A Rough Sketch of History of Solid State
Physics in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--124
Dong-Won Kim Two Different Influences on the Japanese
Physics Community in the Early Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136
Olival Freire, Jr. Quantum Controversy and Marxism . . . . 137--152
Eri Yagi and
Hisako Matsuda and
Kyomi Narita Toshiko Yuasa (1909--1980), and the
Nature of her Archives at Ochanomizu
Univ. in Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164
Shozo Motoyama Diffusion of Science in Brazil --- The
Beginning of FAPESP . . . . . . . . . . 165--172
Marilda Nagamini L'Histoire de la FAPESP: Un chap\^\itre
dans le développement de la Science et de
la Technologie au Brésil. (French) [The
Story of the FAPESP: A Chapter in the
Development of Science and Technology in
Brazil] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180
José Antonio Cervera Jiménez Spanish Friars in the Far East: Fray
Juan Cobo and His Book \booktitleShi Lu 181--198
Kazuo Muroi Early Old Babylonian mathematical
problems written in Sumerian . . . . . . 199--203
Ryoichi Nakata Non-Newtonian Elements in French
Newtonian Physics: A Perspective on a
History of Science of 18th Century
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--212
Hiroyuki Konno Slater's Theory of Line Breadth and the
Virtual Oscillator Model: A Premature
Attempt in the Old Quantum Theory . . . 213--226
Tadaaki Kimoto Obituary: Toshio Yamazaki and History of
Technology in Japan . . . . . . . . . . 227--234
T. V. Sathyamurthy Review Essay: SVAYAMBHU: the life and
work of Srinivasa Ramanujan . . . . . . 235--241
Takuji Okamoto Book Review: Yoshitaka Yamamoto,
\booktitleKaten Rikigaku no Keisei:
Newton kara Lagrange e (The Formation of
Classical Mechanics: From Newton to
Lagrange) (Tokyo: Nihon Hyoron-sha,
1997). ix + 373 pp. \yen 6,000. ISBN
4-535-78243-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--246
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Masao Watanabe,
\booktitleScience and Cultural Exchange
in Modern History: Japan and the West
(Tokyo: Hokusen-sha, 1997). xi + 406 pp.
\yen 14,000. ISBN 4-938424-73-8 . . . . 247--250
Makoto Katsumori Bohr's early complementarity argument 1--19
Okamoto Takuji Demystifying dimensional analysis: the
beginning of Bridgman's scrutiny of
theoretical physics . . . . . . . . . . 21--52
Tomohiro Hayashi Introducing movement into geometry:
Roberval's influence on Leibniz's
\booktitleAnalysis situs . . . . . . . . 53--69
Ken'ichi Sato On the theory of regular polygons in
traditional Japanese mathematics:
reconstruction of the process for the
calculation of the degree of
\booktitleKaihoshiki appearing in the
\booktitleTaisei Sankei by Seki and
Takebe brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Takehiko Hashimoto Science after 1940: Recent Historical
Researches and Issues on Postwar
American Science and Technology . . . . 87--96
Akira Yoshida Book Review: Michel-Pierre Lerner,
\booktitleLe monde des sph\`eres.
(Paris: Les belles lettres) T. I, 1996,
403 pp. 215F. ISBN 2-251-42005-3; T. II,
1997, 418 pp. 190F. ISBN 2-251-42006-1 97--98
Hazime Mizoguchi Japanese Biologists at the Naples
Zoological Station, 1887--1956 . . . . . 99--114
Makoto Hayashi Cell Theory in its Development and
Inheritance in Meiji Japan . . . . . . . 115--132
Michiko Yajima Hilgendorf Predated Morse in Bringing
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution to
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
Mariko Shinoda Scientists as Preservationists: Natural
Monuments in Japan, 1906--1931 . . . . . 141--156
Noriaki Matsumura and
Yoshiyuki Hirono and
Y\=oko Matsubara Fujikawa Y\=u, Pioneer of the History of
Medicine in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
T\=oru Sakano Population, Sex and Labor: Medicine and
Public Hygiene in Micronesia under
Japanese Rule, 1914--1945 . . . . . . . 173--186
Y\=oko Matsubara The Enactment of Japan's Sterilization
Laws in the 1940s: A Prelude to Postwar
Eugenic Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
Yasu Furukawa Book Review: Masanori Kaji,
\booktitleMendeleev no Sh\=ukiritsu
Hakken (Mendeleev's Discovery of the
Periodic Law) (Sapporo: Hokkaido
University Press, 1997) . . . . . . . . 203--205
Anonymous News: The 45th Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan, May
30--31, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Vincent Jullien Les fronti\`eres dans les mathématiques
cartésiennes. (French) [The boundaries in
Cartesian mathematics] . . . . . . . . . 211--238
Sun Xiaoli A wrong statement about Leibniz and his
interpretation of Chinese \booktitleI
Ching figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
Oscar Sheynin The discovery of the principle of least
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--264
Takeo Suzuki Obituary: Dr. Hirayama Akira
(1904--1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--272
Anonymous Errata: News: The 45th Annual Meeting of
the History of Science Society of Japan,
May 30--31, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Chikara Sasaki Pierre de Fermat mathématicien français.
(French) [Pierre de Fermat French
mathematician] . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii, 1--71
S. Iyanaga Greeting Words at the Opening of the
Colloquium ``Pierre de Fermat
mathematicien français'' . . . . . . . . 1--2
Roshdi Rashed Pierre Fermat et les débuts modernes de
l'analyse diophantienne. (French)
[Pierre Fermat and the modern beginnings
of diophantine analysis] . . . . . . . . 3--16
Chikara Sasaki The French and Japanese schools of
algebra in the seventeenth century: a
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
Norio Adachi Elliptic curves: from Fermat to Weil . . 27--35
Katsuya Miyake Did Fermat see these structures? . . . . 37--47
Kazuya Kato How Fermat's Last Theorem was proved . . 49--56
Michel Blay Méthodes mathématiques et calcul de
l'infini au temps de Fermat. (French)
[Mathematical Methods and Calculation of
Infinity in Fermat's Time] . . . . . . . 57--71
Wenlin Li and
Zelin Xu and
Lisheng Feng Mathematical exchanges between China and
Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
Man-Keung Siu and
Alexe\"\i Volkov Official curriculum in traditional
Chinese mathematics: how did candidates
pass the examinations? . . . . . . . . . 85--99
Miao Tian \booktitleJiegenfang, tianyuan, and
daishu: algebra in Qing China . . . . . 101--119
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Yasu Furukawa,
\booktitleInventing Polymer Science:
Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence
of Molecular Chemistry (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) 121
Kazuo Muroi Extraction of square roots in Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
Takao Hayashi A set of rules for the root-extraction
prescribed by the Sixteenth-Century
Indian mathematicians, N\=\ilaka\dn\dtha
Somastuvan and \'Sa\.nkara V\=ariyar . . 135--153
Zelin Xu Takebe Katahiro and Romberg algorithm 155--164
Haruo Hayashi The influence of Fourier on W. Thomson 165--180
Tetsuo Shiba Dutch Chemist Gratama and Chemistry in
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190
Togo Tsukahara The Westernization of Chemistry from
Different Angles: An Examination of
Three Manuscripts by Contemporaries of
Yoan Udagawa and His \booktitleSeimi
Kaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--214
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi Redefining Academic Chemistry: Joji
Sakurai and the Introduction of Physical
Chemistry into Meiji Japan . . . . . . . 215--256
H. Kenji Yoshihara Ogawa's Discovery of Nipponium and Its
Re-evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Lewis Pyenson Imperium in Imperio: The Natural History
of Natural Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Eisui Uematsu and
Tatsuoki Takeda and
Sigeko Nisio History of Nuclear Fusion Research in
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--45
Wann-Sheng Horng Disseminating mathematics in late
19th-century China: the case with Wang
Kangnian and the \booktitleShi Wu Bao 46--57
Ryoichi Nakata D'Alembert's second resolution in
\booktitleRecherches sur la précession
des equinoxes: comparison with Euler . . 58--76
Oscar Sheynin Bessel: some remarks on his work . . . . 77--83
B. S. Yadav André Weil's India in the early thirties 84--91
Shigehisa Kuriyama Book Review: Yamada Keiji,
\booktitleCh\=ugoku Igaku no Kigen
(Origins of Chinese Medicine) (Tokyo:
Iwanami Shoten, 1999, xx + 496 pp. 9500
\yen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Michiyo Nakane Book Review: Carl Gustav J. Jacobi,
\booktitleVorlesungen über Analytische
Mechanik, Berlin 1847/48. Dokumente zur
Geschichte der Mathematik, Band 8.
Edited by Helmut Pulte. Deutsche
Mathematiker-Vereinigung
(Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg &
Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996, lxvii +
353 pp., ISBN 3-528-06692-X) . . . . . . 96--99
Anonymous News: The 47th Annual Meeting of History
of Science Society of Japan on May 20
and 21, 2000, at St. Andrew's University 100--103
Kunio Goto Discovery of energy quanta and
development of early quantum theory . . 105--111
Seiji Takata Kiyoshi Amano's pioneering studies on
the history of quantum theory . . . . . 112--119
Nisio Sigeko Ishiwara Jun's quantum theory,
1911--1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--129
Seiya Abiko Einstein's theories of the fluctuation
and the thermal radiation: the first
quantum theory through statistical
thermodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--147
Kunio Goto Einstein's quantum conditions in early
quantum theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--155
Chieko Kojima Acceptance of quantum theory in France 156--162
Hiroyuki Konno Bohr's search for the quantum theory of
dispersion: the number of dispersion
electrons, absorption and emission of
light and the oscillator model . . . . . 163--176
Atsushi Katsuki An Experimental Contribution from Japan
to Decide Which Is Better: Old- or
New-Quantum Theory --- Measurement of
Magnetic Susceptibility of Hydrogen Gas
by Soné Také . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
Kiyoshi Amano Thermal radiation studies that led to
the genesis of quantum theory. I . . . . 185--210
Georges Lochak Obituary: Quelques souvenirs d'un ami
disparu: Dr. Takehiko Takabayashi
(1919--1999). (French) [Obituary: Some
memories of a missing friend: Dr.
Takehiko Takabayashi (1919--1999)] . . . 211--212
Oscar Sheynin Pirogov as a statistician . . . . . . . 213--225
Kazuo Muroi Inheritance problems in the Susa
mathematical text no. 26 . . . . . . . . 226--234
Shoji Kota Riemann's ``\booktitleCommentatio'' and
his geometrical thought . . . . . . . . 235--247
Olival Freire, Jr. Science, philosophy and politics in the
fifties: on the Max Born's unpublished
paper entitled ``\booktitleDialectical
materialism and modern physics'' . . . . 248--254
Kiyoshi Amano Thermal radiation studies that led to
the genesis of quantum theory. II . . . 256--280
Tadashi Yoshida Book Review: \booktitleKume Kunitake
Monjo 2: Kagakugijutsushi Kankei
(Documents by Kume Kunitake, Vol. 2:
Materials relevant to the History of
Science and Technology) edited by Kume
Bijutsukan, texts 340 pp. + introduction
12 pp. + appendix 24 pp. + vii (index).
Publisher: Yoshikawa Kobunkan (Tokyo),
published in January 2000. Price: 16,000
\yen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
Hiroshi Ezawa Obituary: Takehiko Takabayashi
(1919--1999) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--304
Keizo Hashimoto Obituary: Professor Dr. Kiyosi Yabuuti
(12/02/1906--02/06/2000) . . . . . . . . 305--309
Roshdi Rashed Fermat and algebraic geometry . . . . . 1--23
Chikara Sasaki Science and Chrysanthemum: The Paradox
of Enlightenment in Imperial Japan . . . 24--47
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Manifestations of mathematics in and
around the Christianities: some examples
and issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--85
Oscar Sheynin Social statistics and probability theory
in the 19th Century . . . . . . . . . . 86--111
Shozo Motoyama Obituary: A Japanese Physicist in
Brazil: Prof. Taketani (1911--2000) and
the Brazilian Culture . . . . . . . . . 112--126
Shinichiro Higashi Book Review: Constance Blackwell,
Sachiko Kusukawa, eds.,
\booktitlePhilosophy in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries: Conversations
with Aristotle. xxi + 415 pp., figs.,
bibl., index. Aldershot, Great
Britain/Brookfield, U.S.A.: Ashgate,
1999. ISBN 0-86078-668-4 . . . . . . . . 127--129
Anonymous News: The Annual Meeting of the History
of Science Society of Japan, May 26--27,
2001, at Waseda University, Tokyo . . . ??
Anonymous Report on the Activities of the National
Committee of Japan and the History of
Science Society of Japan . . . . . . . . ??
Shin'ichiro Higashi Penser les mathématiques au XVIe
si\`ecle. La philosophie des
mathématiques chez Marcantonio Zimara
(1475/76 --- avant 1537). (French)
[Thinking mathematics in the sixteenth
century. The Philosophy of Mathematics
of Marcantonio Zimara (1475/76 ---
before 1537)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--167
Oscar Sheynin Gauss, Bessel and the adjustment of
triangulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--175
Yasushi Sato A Contested Gift of Power: American
Assistance to Japan's Space Launch
Vehicle Technology, 1965--1975 . . . . . 176--204
Georges Métailié Comparative study of the introduction of
modern botany in Japan and China . . . . 205--217
Toshio Matsunaga Evolutionism in Early Twentieth Century
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--225
Takehiko Hashimoto The Contest over the Standard: The
Project of the Transpacific Flight and
Aeronautical Research in Interwar Japan 226--244
Gregory Clancey Foreign Knowledge: Cultures of Western
Science-Making in Meiji Japan . . . . . 245--260
Dipak Jadhav The laws of logarithms in India . . . . 261--267
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Ian Inkster and Fumihiko
Satofuka, eds., \booktitleCulture and
Technology in Modern Japan . . . . . . . 268--270
Tatsuhiko Kobayashi What kind of mathematics and terminology
was transmitted into 18th-century Japan
from China? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Ryoichi Nakata The general principles for resolving
mechanical problems in d'Alembert,
Clairaut and Euler . . . . . . . . . . . 18--42
Daisuke Konagaya The methodology of Planck's radiation
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
Tochinai Fumihiko The Methodological Aspect of the
``Historicity of Controversies'' in the
Japanese Geological Community after
World War II: The Change of Attitude to
Physicochemical Methods before and after
the War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--73
Thomas C. Smith The Kyoto Cyclotron . . . . . . . . . . 74--82
Anonymous News: The 49th Annual Meeting of History
of Science Society of Japan, May 25 and
26, 2002 at Kanazawa University . . . . ??
Wann-Sheng Horng Sino--Korean transmission of
mathematical texts in the 19th century:
a case study of Nam Pyong-gil's
\booktitleKugo Sulyo Tohae . . . . . . . 87--99
Kunimitsu Nakamura and
Tsutomu Matsumoto Characteristics of Farmers in the Upland
Farming Regions (Sericulture Regions) in
Eastern Japan as Seen in the Regions
where Wasan Mathematicians Were Active
in the Late Edo Period . . . . . . . . . 100--114
Kazuo Muroi Expressions of multiplication in
Babylonian mathematics . . . . . . . . . 115--120
Tomohiro Hayashi Leibniz's construction of
\booktitleMathesis universalis: a
consideration of the relationship
between the plan and his mathematical
contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--141
Oscar Sheynin Simon Newcomb as a statistician . . . . 142--167
Takao Hayashi Review of: \booktitleL\=\il\=avat\=\i of
Bh\=askar\=ac\=arya: a treatise of
mathematics of Vedic tradition with
rationale in terms of modern mathematics
largely based on N. H. Phadke's
Mar\=ath\=\i translation of
\booktitleL\=\il\=avat\=\i [Motilal
Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 2001] by
Krishnaji Shankara. Patwardhan,
Somashekhara Amrita. Naimpally and Shyam
Lal Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--174
Tadaaki Kimoto European Imperialism and Technological
Development in Meiji Japan . . . . . . . 175--182
Silvana De Maio The Development of an Educational System
at the Beginning of the Meiji Era:
Reference Models from Western Countries
Transfer of Agricultural Technology from
Imperialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
Sub Park Countries to Colonies: With the Focus on
the Case of Korea and India . . . . . . 200--214
Masanori Kaji Ogawa's Discovery of a New Chemical
Element ``Nipponium'': The Emergence of
Modern Chemistry Research in Japan and
Its Social Background . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Toru Matsuhashi and
Shigeo Sugiyama The Technological Development of the
Japanese Plastic Industry Shortly after
WW II and the Introduction of Western
High Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232
Takuji Okamoto Uncertainty and controllability:
Bridgman, Dingler, and Dewey . . . . . . 233--253
Kazuo Muroi Mathematical term tak\=\iltum and
completing the square in Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--263
K. Morimura The role of special group article in
ancient Chinese medical prescription . . 1--12
Takashi Nishiyama Aeronautical Technology for Pilot
Safety: Reexamining Deck-Landing
Aircraft in Great Britain, Japan, and
the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 13--32
Yunli Shi A note on the Islamic influence on the
astronomical instrumentation of the
Chosôn dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
Oscar Sheynin Geometric probability and the Bertrand
paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
Jens Hòyrup A note on: ``Inheritance problems in the
Susa mathematical text no. 26''
[Historia Sci. (2) \bf 10 (2001), no. 3,
226--234; MR1845726] by Kazuo Muroi . . 54--58
Chikara Sasaki Book Review: Roshdi Rashed,
\booktitleLes Mathématiques
Infinitésimales, Vols. 1--4 . . . . . . . 59--63
Nobuo Miura Book Review: Sasaki Chikara,
\booktitleDekaruto no Sugaku-Shiso
(Descartes's Mathematical Thought).
University of Tokyo Press, 2003, xvi +
600 pp., ISBN: 4-13-061351-0 . . . . . . 64--68
Anonymous News: The 50th Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan,
June 7 and 8, 2003, at Kobe University ??
Toshihiro Yamada Stenian Revolution or Leibnizian
Revival?: Constructing Geo-History in
the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . 75--100
Jianjin Luo On the development of the formulae for
sums of powers of integers . . . . . . . 101--110
Kazuo Muroi Expressions of squaring in Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119
George M. Hollenback Another example of an implied pi value
of $ 3 [ +] 1 / 8 $ in Babylonian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
K. Srinivasa Rao and
G. Vanden Berghe Gauss, Ramanujan and hypergeometric
series revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--133
Oscar Sheynin Mises on mathematics in Nazi Germany . . 134--146
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jian-ping Zhu Research on history of medicine in China
in the last five years . . . . . . . . . 149--163
Dong-Won Shin Western medicine, Korean government, and
imperialism in late nineteenth-century
Korea: The cases of the Choson
government hospital and smallpox
vaccination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--175
Christian Oberländer The rise of scientific medicine in
Japan: Beriberi as the driving force in
the quest for specific causes and the
introduction of bacteriology . . . . . . 176--199
Waichiro Omata A short history of psychiatry in Japan 200--208
Shigeo Sugiyama Traditional Kampo medicine:
Unauthenticated in the Meiji era . . . . 209--223
Noriaki Matsumura The similarity between two medicines:
Oriental medical thought of meridian and
Western medical knowledge of nerve . . . 224--231
Yoko Matsubara The reception of Mendelism in Japan,
1900--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--240
Makoto Hayashi The beginning of the Japanese Zoological
Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--249
Anonymous News: Symposium to Commemorate the
Completion of a Trilogy on
``\booktitleThe Historical Theory of
Modern Science'' by Prof. Chikara Sasaki ??
Takuji Okamoto Percy Williams Bridgman and the
establishment of theoretical physics at
Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--48
Keiko Kawashima Birth of ambition: Madame du Châtelet's
\booktitleInstitutions de physique . . . 49--66
Piedad Yuste Trapezoidal partition in Old Babylonian
geometry: a note about tablet TMS XXIII 67--76
Yukiya Mori Book Review: Y. Hirono, Y. Ichinokawa,
and M. Hayashi (eds.),
\booktitleSeimei-Kagaku no Kingendai-Shi
(The Modern History of Life Sciences).
Keisoshobo, 2002, xx + 376 + xviii pp.,
ISBN: 4-326-15366-0 . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
Anonymous News: The 51st Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan, May
29 and 30, 2004, at Tokyo Institute of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nathan M. Brooks Chemistry Laboratories in Russia:
1700--1917 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
Erwan Pench\`evre L'élimination en alg\`ebre aux XVII$^{\rm
e}$ et XVIII$^{\rm e}$ si\`ecles.
(French) [Elimination in algebra in the
XVII$^{\rm th}$ and XVIII$^{\rm th}$
centuries] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
Kenji Ito Gender and Physics in Early 20th Century
Japan: Yuasa Toshiko's Case . . . . . . 118--136
Shuichi Mori The history of Yunosawa village and the
leprosy policy in Japan: a study of a
free medical-treatment area for leprosy
patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--153
Makoto Katsumori Book Review: Yoshitaka Yamamoto,
\booktitleJiryoku to Jûyoku no Hakken
[The Discovery of Magnetism and
Gravitation], 3 vols . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Masakatsu Yamazaki and
Mark Walker Preface to Special Issue
``\booktitleComparative History of
Nuclear Weapons Projects in Japan,
Germany, and Russia in the 1940s'' . . . 157--159
Lawrence Badash The United States and the Development of
Nuclear Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--163
Mark Walker German Work on Nuclear Weapons . . . . . 164--181
Vladimir Pavlovich Vizgin The History of the Soviet Atomic Project 182--200
Keiko Nagase-Reimer and
Walter Grunden and
Masakatsu Yamazaki Nuclear Weapons Research in Japan during
the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . 201--240
Michael Chayut From the Periphery to Scientific
Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Keiko Kawashima The Issue of Gender and Science: A Case
Study of Madame du Châtelet's
\booktitleDissertation sur le feu . . . 23--43
Takeshi Ozawa Arnold Sommerfelds Aufenthalt in Japan.
(German) [Arnold Sommerfeld's stay in
Japan] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--65
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Maurice Wilkins,
\booktitleThe Third Man of the Double
Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice
Wilkins. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2003. 352 pp. ISBN 0-19-860665-6 66--68
Chiye Izumi Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd,
\booktitleAncient Worlds, Modern
Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives
on Greek and Chinese Science and
Culture. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 222. ISBN:
0-19-927016-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
Anonymous News: The 52nd Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society of Japan,
June 4 and 5, 2005, at the Historical
Museum of Hokkaido and Sapporo Gakuin
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous News: Table of Contents of
\booktitleKagakusi Kenkyu (2004) . . . . ??
Anonymous Report on the Activities of the National
Committee of Japan and the History of
Science Society of Japan . . . . . . . . ??
Shigeru Nakayama Colonial Science: An Introduction . . . 93--96
Lewis Pyenson Western Historians of Science and
Oriental Science in the Age of
Imperialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Roderic W. Home William Sutherland and the
`Sutherland--Einstein' diffusion
relation: theoretical physics in a
colonial setting . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138
Zaheer Baber Science, Colonialism and the Production
of Science and Modernity in India . . . 139--158
Mara Patessio and
Mariko Ogawa To Become a Woman Doctor in Early Meiji
Japan, 1868--1890: Women's Struggles and
Ambitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176
H. Kenji Yoshihara and
Teiji Kobayashi and
Masanori Kaji Ogawa Family and Their ``Nipponium''
Research: Successful Separation of the
Element 75 before Its Discovery by
Noddacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--190
Kazuo Muroi A reexamination of the Babylonian
mathematical text Erm 15073: a new
interpretation of the earthwork problems 191--200
Shigeru Nakayama Obituary: Mitsutomo Yuasa (1909--2005) 201--204
Yoichiro Murakami Obituary: Masao Watanabe (1920--2005) 205--208
Fumihiko Satofuka Science, War, and Colonization in East
Asia: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . 209--212
Hiroaki Tanaka The Science and Technology Mobilization
System in Imperial Japan . . . . . . . . 213--221
Michiko Yajima Japanese Wartime Geology: A Case Study
in Northeast China . . . . . . . . . . . 222--232
Bo Liang The Transmission of Science and
Technology from Japan to China before
the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
Sung Kyu Lee Imperialism and Colonial Science: A Case
Study of Keijo Imperial University,
1924--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--267
Sungook Hong Korean Scientists Look at Japanese
Colonization: The Emergence of an Idea
of the Value-Neutrality and Objectivity 268--275
Osamu Kanamori Book Review: Shigehisa Kuriyama and
Kazutoshi Kitazawa eds.,
\booktitleKindai Nihon no Shintai
Kankaku (Bodily Sensation in Modern
Japan) (2004), 426 pp., ISBN
4-7872-3236-3 C0036, 3,000 yen . . . . . 276--278
Annick Horiuchi Book Review: Sato Ken-Ichi,
\booktitleKinsei Nihon sugakushi, Seki
Takakazu no jitsuzo o motomete (History
of Mathematics in Early Modern Japan:
Searching for the True Portrait of Seki
Takakazu), Sugakushi series (History of
Mathematics Series). Tokyo: Tokyo
Daigaku Shuppankai (University of Tokyo
Press), 2005. 423 pp. ISBN:
4-13-061355-3. 6,825 yen . . . . . . . . 279--283
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hiroshi Ichikawa Introduction: A Perspective on the
Historical Study of Science and
Technology during the Second World War
and the Cold War in Japan . . . . . . . 1--4
Helmut Maier The Kaiser Wilhelm Society during the
Second World War . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--14
Eduard I. Kolchinsky Science Mobilization in the Soviet Union 15--28
Jessica Wang American Scientists and Cold War
Politics: Current and Future Research
Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--34
Stuart W. Leslie Engineering the Cold War . . . . . . . . 35--40
Takehiko Ishiguro Research Misconduct in Cutting-Edge
Material Physics and Electronics at the
Beginning of the 21st Century . . . . . 41--61
Megumi Ogura The Great Kanto Earthquake: A Natural
Disaster and Japan's Reactions on Its
Way of Modernization . . . . . . . . . . 62--79
Oscar Sheynin Markov's work on the treatment of
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--95
Jing Yang and
Jean W. Richard The Influence of Norbert Wiener on
Hua-Loo-Keng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Victor D. Boantza Light in the Pneumatic Context: Aspects
of Interplay between Theory and Practice
in Early Photochemical Research . . . . 105--128
Piedad Yuste Geometry for trapezoids in the Old
Babylonian period: an observation about
Tablet IM 52301 . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--143
Albrecht Heeffer The Logic of Disguise: Descartes'
Discovery of the Law of Refraction . . . 144--165
Shoji Kota The contact of differential geometry and
continuous groups of transformations: W.
Killing's ``\booktitleUeber die
Grundlagen der Geometrie' . . . . . . . 166--178
G. V. Kiselev Role of Moscow State University alumni
in the Soviet Atomic Project . . . . . . 179--205
Oscar Sheynin Book Review: Theodore M. Porter,
\booktitleKarl Pearson: The Scientific
Life in a Statistical Age, 2004. viii +
342 pp. ISBN 0-691-11445-5 . . . . . . . 206--209
Fumihiko Satofuka Book Review: Wataru Iijima,
\booktitleMararia to teikoku:
shokuminnchiigaku to Higashi azia no
kouiki chitujyo (Hidden History of
Malaria: Colonial/Imperial Medicine and
an Integrated Regional Order in 20th
Century East Asia). 2005. 387 pp., ISBN
4-13-026210-6. 6,800 yen . . . . . . . . 210--211
Oscar Sheynin Book Review: Jacob Bernoulli,
\booktitleThe Art of Conjecturing
together with Letter to a Friend on Sets
in Court Tennis. Translated with an
introduction and notes by Edith Dudley
Sylla. 2006. xx + 430 pp. ISBN
0-8018-8235-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--214
Anonymous News: The 53rd Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society Program . . . ??
Yasu Furukawa Introduction: Globalization and
Diversity in Chemical Sciences . . . . . 221--223
Gerrylynn K. Roberts and
Anna E. Simmons The Overseas Dimensions of British
Chemical Societies, c.1890--c.1950 . . . 224--243
Harro Maat Agricultural Sciences in Colonial
Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--263
Nathan M. Brooks The Road to ``Big Chemistry'' in the
Soviet Union during the 1920s . . . . . 264--274
Juan He The Establishment of Chinese Terms for
Chemical Elements: 1901--1932 . . . . . 275--293
Li Zhang From the Soviet Union to the U.S.:
International Exchange in China's
Polymer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--309
Steffen Ducheyne Huygens's understanding of trajectory:
via media between Galileo and Newton . . 1--19
Hajime Mizoguchi Japanese Biologists at the Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole . . . 20--37
Oscar Sheynin The True Value of a Measured Constant
and the Theory of Errors . . . . . . . . 38--48
Shigeru Nakayama Thomas Kuhn --- a Historian's Personal
Recollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--53
Michiko Yajima Book Review: Gregory Clancey,
\booktitleEarthquake Nation: The
Cultural Politics of Japanese
Seismicity, 1868--1930. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2006.
331 pp. ISBN: 0-520-24607-1. \$49.95} 54--55
Chikara Sasaki Book Review: Roshdi Rashed,
\booktitleGeometry and Dioptrics in
Classical Islam, 2005, 1176 + xx pp. . . 56--59
Anonymous News: The 54th Annual Meeting of the
History of Science Society Program . . . ??
Yasushi Sato Systems Approach in the Japanese
National Railways: How was the Systems
Integration of Shinkansen Done? . . . . 65--88
Shou Chen Gu Yuxiu's Ideas of Science and
Scientization in Context of Saving China 89--102
Takehiko Hashimoto Leonard Bairstow as a Scientific
Middleman: Early Aerodynamic Research on
Airplane Stability in Britain,
1909--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--120
Keiko Kawashima Two Popular Accounts of Émilie du Châtelet
and the Gender Problem . . . . . . . . . 121--133
Stanislav Ju\vzni\vc Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641--1693),
F.R.S. and His Scientific and
Technological Connections to East Asia 134--152
Shigeru Nakayama Book Review: Tetsuro Nakaoka,
\booktitleNihon Kindai Gijutsu no
Keisei: `Dento' to `Kindai' no
Dainamikusu (The formation of Modern
Japanese Technology: A Dynamics of
`Tradition' and `Modernity'), 2006 . . . 153--154
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Yasushi Sato,
\booktitleNASA o Kizuita Hito to Gijutsu
(NASA and Its Engineering Cultures:
Human Qualities in Grand System
Building), 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Michio Yano Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Tokimasa Takeda The formation of the study of Shushu and
its development in the Middle Ages: a
tentative study of a field of scientific
study peculiar to East Asia . . . . . . 161--174
Jongtae Lim Locating a Center on the Surface of a
Globe: Negotiating China's Position on
the Spherical Earth in Seventeenth and
Eighteenth-Century China and Korea . . . 175--188
Joong-Yang Moon Late Circulation of the Early Qing
Natural Studies in 19th Century Korea 189--210
Kazuhiko Miyajima A New Discovery of Korean Astrolabe . . 211--224
Dongwon Shin How four different political systems
have shaped the modernization of
traditional Korean medicine between 1900
and 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--241
Sergey Lapteff A Comparison of Technological
Characteristics of Ancient Bronze
Mirrors in China, Korea, Japan, and
South Siberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--252
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Francesca Bray, Vera
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, and George Métailié,
eds., \booktitleGraphics and Text in the
Production of Technical Knowledge in
China: The Warp and the Weft, 2007 . . . 253--255
Jong-Chan Lee Hygienic governance and military hygiene
in the making of Imperial Japan,
1868--1912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Piedad Yuste Geometry in Mesopotamia and Genesis of
Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--35
Oscar Sheynin Bortkiewicz' Alleged Discovery: the Law
of Small Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--48
Yung Sik Kim Problem of Early Modern Japan in the
History of Science in East Asia . . . . 49--57
Robert Kargon The U.S.--Japan Nexus: Roots of the
Japanese Scientific Enterprise . . . . . 62--75
Morris Low Introduction: Science, Protestant
Christianity and Darwinism in Meiji
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--87
David G. Wittner Practice Makes Perfect: Foreign
Knowledge and the Kamaishi Experiment 88--99
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi Analysis, Fieldwork and Engineering:
Accumulated Practices and the Formation
of Applied Chemistry Teaching at Tokyo
University, 1874--1900 . . . . . . . . . 100--120
Boumsoung Kim Terrains of Practice: Geophysical
Investigations in Japan in the 1880s . . 121--131
Masanori Kaji Nozoe Tetsuo's Chemical Research at
Taihoku Imperial University in Taiwan
and Its Colonial Context . . . . . . . . 132--139
Takuya Miyagawa The Meteorological Observation System
and Colonial Meteorology in Early
20th-Century Korea . . . . . . . . . . . 140--150
Dong-Won Kim The Longer the Stay, The Better the
Result?: Nishina Yoshio's Overseas Study
in the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--171
Tomoko Y. Steen The Case of Ohta Tomoko: A Woman
Geneticist in the
Neutralist--Selectionist Evolution
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--184
Hiroyuki Nagai and
Yoshio Nukaga and
Koji Saeki and
Akira Akabayashi Self-regulation of recombinant DNA
technology in Japan in the 1970s . . . . 1--18
Piedad Yuste Geometry in the Old Babylonian Period: A
Note on the Problem Text VAT 8393 . . . 19--28
Takeshi Ozawa On the Initial Reception of Quantum
Mechanics in Japan, 1925--1928 . . . . . 29--42
Jérôme Lamy Antoine Darquier et la cosmologie de
Johann Heinrich Lambert: emprunts et
distances. (French) [Antoine Darquier
and the cosmology of Johann Heinrich
Lambert: borrowings and distances] . . . 43--54
Stanislav Ju\vzni\vc Chinese--Slovenian Astronomer
Hallerstein: Provincial and Visitor to
Japanese Jesuit Province . . . . . . . . 55--71
Akihisa Setoguchi Book Review: Paul Callomon and Akira
Tada, \booktitleYoichiro Hirase and His
Role in Japanese Malacology . . . . . . 72--74
Yasushi Sato Book Review: Takehiko Hashimoto,
\booktitleHistorical Essays on Japanese
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Anonymous Announcement: Journals under Threat: A
Joint Response from History of Science,
Technology and Medicine . . . . . . . . ??
Shiho Nakazawa and
Masakatsu Yamazaki Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Sean L. Mallo Contemporary Scholarship and New Light
on the A-Bomb Decision . . . . . . . . . 91--104
Dong-Won Kim Imaginary Savior: the image of the
nuclear bomb in Korea, 1945--1960 . . . 105--118
Maika Nakao The image of the atomic bomb in Japan
before Hiroshima . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
Masakatsu Yamazaki Nuclear energy in postwar Japan and
anti-nuclear movements in the 1950s . . 132--145
Hiroko Takahashi One minute after the detonation of the
atomic bomb: the erased effects of
residual radiation . . . . . . . . . . . 146--159
Ikuo Sasamoto Korean Victims of the Atomic Bomb . . . 160--169
John Dimoia Atoms for Power?: The Atomic Energy
Research Institute (AERI) and South
Korean Electrification, (1948--1965) . . 170--183
Seong-Jun Kim Technology Transfer behind a Diplomatic
Struggle: Reappraisal of South Korea's
Nuclear Fuel Project in the 1970s . . . 184--193
Morris Low Colonial modernity and networks in the
Japanese empire: the role of Got Shinpei 195--208
Robert Kargon Making Manila Modern: Science,
Technology and American Colonialism
1898--1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224
Takeshi Ozawa Hermann Ritter (1827--1874), ein Pionier
der westlichen Naturwissenschaften in
Japan. (German) [Hermann Ritter
(1827--1874), a pioneer of Western
science in Japan] . . . . . . . . . . . 225--234
Chieko Kojima Book Review: Shizue Hinokawa,
\booktitleSaikurotoron kara Genbaku e:
Kaku Jidai no Kigen o Saguru (From
Cyclotron to Atomic Bomb: Searching for
the Origin of the Atomic Age) . . . . . 235--238
Setsuro Ikeyama Book Review: \booktitleSakhya
Ganitasarakaumudi: The Moonlight of the
Essence of Mathematics by Thakkura
Pheru, 2009, ISBN 978-81-70304-809-8,
278 pp., Rs. 995 . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Sungkhun Kim How Physical Laws Were Understood in
Mid-19th Century East Asia: A
Comparative Study of Choe Han-gi and
Nishi Amane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Stanislav Ju\vzni\vc Far Eastern Vacuum and Electricity:
Augustin Hallerstein and Experimental
Correspondence between Beijing and
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--46
Eri Yagi and
Tadokoro Rika Okamoto A History of Entropy through Various
Methods: Specially Focused on Technical
Term Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
Takehiko Hashimoto Book Review: Luís Saraiva, and Catherine
Jami, eds., \booktitleThe Jesuits, the
Padroado and East Asian Science
(1552--1773), (London: World Scientific,
2008), xiii + 229 pp. . . . . . . . . . 57--60
Takehiko Hashimoto Introduction: Special Issue: Historical
Studies on Scientific Experiments and
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Daisuke Konagaya Success from Different Programs: The
Development of Experimental Researches
on Thermal Radiation in Germany at the
End of the 19th Century . . . . . . . . 63--95
Takehiko Hashimoto ``How Far Do Experiments on Models
Represent Experiments on Full Sized
Machines?'': The Examination and Dispute
on the Reliability of the Wind Tunnels
in Britain, 1909--1917 . . . . . . . . . 96--122
Mari Yamaguchi The Strategy for Acceptance of the
Scanning Tunneling Microscope:
Observations of the Si(111) $ 7 \times 7
$ Reconstructed Surface, 1959--1986 . . 123--146
Eri Yagi To the Memory of Lawrence Badash
(1934--2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149
Lawrence Badash Nuclear Winter and the End of the Age of
Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--163
Takehiko Hashimoto Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Satoshi Nakazawa Whirling Arm and Its Role in
Experimental Research on Fluid
Resistance in the Eighteenth Century . . 167--178
Boumsoung Kim Detecting, Recording and Expanding:
Instrumentation of Earthquake and
Tsunami Observations in Meiji Japan . . 179--195
Takuji Okamoto The First Higher School's Instruments
for Science and Engineering Education 196--211
Yukio Nagahira The Physical Apparatus Collection at
Kyoto University: Historical Material as
Thing Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--219
Anonymous News: The Program of the 57th Annual
Meeting of the History of Science
Society of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roslyn Lee Hammers Perspectives in Early Qing-Dynasty
Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and
Pictures of Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19
Saehyang Chung Art, class and gender in Joseon dynasty
Korea: representations of lower-class
women by the scholar--painter Yun Duseo 20--42
Hyung-Min Chung Agricultural illustrations of 19th
century Korea: `Imwon gyeongjeji'
(Treatises on Management of Forest and
Garden) by Seo Yugu . . . . . . . . . . 42--65
Morris Low The impact of Western science and
technology on `ukiyo-e' prints and book
illustrations in Late Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Century Japan . . . . . . . . 66--87
Shigeru Nakayama In memorial of Fumihiko Satofuka . . . . 88--89
Kazuyuki Ito Galileo's Principle of Descending Motion
along Inclined Planes . . . . . . . . . 93--102
Masahiro Imai Herophilus of Chalcedon and the
Hippocratic tradition in early
Alexandrian medicine . . . . . . . . . . 103--122
Keiko Kawashima Women's translations of scientific texts
in the 18th century: a case study of
Marie-Anne Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
Anonymous Statement by The President of The
History of Science Society of Japan . . ??
Takehiko Hashimoto Introduction: Science, technology, and
the state in East Asia: Experts and
politicians in postwar Korea and Japan 159--160
Manyong Moon The dual green revolutions in South
Korea: Reforestation and agricultural
revolution under the authoritarian
regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
Young-Mi Lee and
Sungook Hong Technoscience and politics in Korea in
the 1970s: ``Scientification of all
people movement'' and the ``Saemaul
technical service corps'' . . . . . . . 174--192
Yasushi Sato Managing the interface between politics
and technology: Itokawa Hideo, Shima
Hideo, and the early Japanese space
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210
Danyang Feng and
Takehiko Hashimoto Yokkaichi asthma and building the system
of certification of pollution-related
patients in the 1960s . . . . . . . . . 211--227
Masahiro Imai Aristotle on the debate about the
central organ of the human body in the
5th and 4th centuries BC . . . . . . . . 1--21
Takehiko Hashimoto The Japanese clocks and time in the
past: Non-standard seasonal time
inscribed on scale plates of foot-ruler
clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--39
Takuji Okamoto Book Review: Nisio Sigeko, Kagaku
Janarizumu no Senkusha, Hyoden,
\booktitleA Critical Biography of
Ishiwara Jun: A Pioneer in Science
Journalism, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011 40--42
Akihito Suzuki Introduction: Special issue: Social
History of Medicine in Modern Japan . . 63--67
Ann Jannetta and
Ellen Nakamura Translating medical knowledge: Japan's
first medical journal ---
\booktitleTaisei meii ik . . . . . . . . 68--87
Susan L. Burns Relocating psychiatric knowledge: Meiji
psychiatrists, local culture(s), and the
problem of fox possession . . . . . . . 88--109
Masahiro Sato Popularization of psychiatric knowledge
in modern Japan at the turn of the
twentieth century: Focusing on the
newspaper coverage of mental disorders 110--124
Hogetsu Rie From the laboratory to the kitchen: The
oral history of nutrition and its
application to the history of science 125--141
Alexander R. Bay Nation from the bottom up: Disease,
toilets and waste management in Prewar
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--158
Hiroshi Ichikawa Introduction: Special Issue --- Science
and Soviet Political Authorities:
Conflict, Cooperation, and Incongruence 159--160
Alexei Kojevnikov Science as Co-Producer of Soviet Polity 161--180
Slava Gerovitch Parallel worlds: Formal structures and
informal mechanisms of postwar Soviet
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--200
Koji Kanayama Between ideology and science: Dialectics
of dispute on physics in 1920s--1930s
Soviet Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
Hiroshi Ichikawa Soviet physicists during the war:
Jealousy, discord and the ideological
dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226
Hirofumi Saito The Institute of Genetics from 1939 to
1940: Reconsidering Lysenko's
Intervention in Soviet Genetics . . . . 227--236
Anonymous Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Mai Sugimoto Edmund C. Berkeley as a popularizer and
an educator of computers and symbolic
logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Keiko Kawashima The evolution of the gender question in
the study of Madame Lavoisier . . . . . 24--37
Jia-Ming Ying A survey of geometrical diagrams in
Korean mathematical texts from the 17th
to the 19th Century . . . . . . . . . . 38--58
Sayaka Oki Special issue: Mixed mathematics and its
material culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--81
Sayaka Oki The establishment of `mixed mathematics'
and its decline 1600--1800 . . . . . . . 82--91
Kenichi Sato Surveying in seventeenth-century Japan:
Technology transfer from The Netherlands
to Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--112
Yoshimi Takuwa The historical transformation of
Newton's \em experimentum cruris:
Pursuit of the demonstration of color
immutability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--140
Satoshi Nakazawa Mixed mathematics, physico-mathematics,
and the legitimacy of experience: A case
study from eighteenth-century
fluid-resistance research . . . . . . . 141--163
Takehiko Hashimoto Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Sachiko Kusukawa Aligning observations in Edward Tyson's
`\booktitleLumbricus Latus' (1683) . . . 167--190
Jennifer Tucker Science institutions in modern British
visual culture: The British Association
for the Advancement of Science,
1831--1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213
Takehiko Hashimoto Observing cracks, sparks, and snow
crystals: Torahiko Terada and his
students' pursuit for the ``physics of
form'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--240
Mari Yamaguchi Visualizing the atomic arrangements in
crystals: Bragg's bubble raft model of
dislocations in metals . . . . . . . . . 241--260
Chaekun Oh The cold damage medicine in 17th and
18th century Korea: Comparison through
the medical records of China, Japan, and
Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
Morris Low In Memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama
(1928--2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Tokimasa Takeda Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Jianjin Luo An algorithm analysis on the twelve
tones in the book bamboo slips of
Fangmatan of the Qin Dynasty in City
Tianshui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Bill M. Mak The transmission of Buddhist astral
science from India to East Asia: The
central Asian connection . . . . . . . . 59--75
Qi Han Chinese Literati's attitudes toward
Western science: Transition from the
Late Kangxi period to the Mid-Qianlong
period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--87
Sarina and
Ying Wang A comparison of the spread of the
English translation of Euclidean
geometry in 19th century China and Japan 88--98
James R. Bartholomew Book Review: Yoshiyuki Kikuchi,
\booktitleAnglo-American Connections in
Japanese Chemistry: The Lab as Contact
Zone (London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2013) 99--101
Masahiro Imai Erasistratus of Ceos and the theoretical
sources for his anatomical physiology of
a human being . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--125
Stanislav Ju\vzni\vc Bibliometrics of Jesuit mathematicians
in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--151
Toshihiro Higuchi and
Masakatsu Yamazaki Introduction: Transnational origins of
the Russell--Einstein Manifesto and the
radiological dimensions of the nuclear
arms race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
Maika Nakao and
Takeshi Kurihara and
Masakatsu Yamazaki Yasushi Nishiwaki, radiation biophysics,
and peril and hope in the nuclear age 8--35
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and
Linda M. Richards Beyond the Lucky Dragon. Japanese
scientists and fallout discourse in the
1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--56
Toshihiro Higuchi The strange career of Dr. Fish: Yoshio
Hiyama, radioactive fallout, and nuclear
fear management in Japan, 1954--1958 . . 57--77
Hiroshi Ichikawa Radiation studies and the Soviet
scientists in the second half of the
1950's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--93
Keiko Kawashima Émilie Du Châtelet and the Significance of
Publishing: Dissertation sur la nature
et la propagation du feu (1744) . . . . 95--118
Sayaka Mihara Vitalism and neonatal medicine in Japan,
1901--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--139
Eri Nakamura ``Invisible'' War Trauma in Japan:
Medicine, Society, and Military
Psychiatric Casualties . . . . . . . . . 144
Takehiko Hashimoto Special issue the popularization of
science in Victorian Britain:
introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
Bernard Lightman The royal panopticon: Victorian museums
and the popularization of science . . . 164--189
Jennifer Tucker ``To obtain more general attention for
the objects of science'': The depiction
of popular science in Victorian
illustrated news . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--215
Takashi Ito The state and the popularization of
science in Victorian Britain: Scientific
and Literary Societies act of 1843 . . . 216--251
H. Ichikawa Special issue: Soviet science beyond the
boundaries: introduction . . . . . . . . 1--2
Hirofumi Saito The early movement for normalizing
biology education in Russia after
Lysenko's downfall in 1965 . . . . . . . 3--14
Tsuyoshi Fujioka Japanese Lysenkoists after Lysenko's
downfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Hiroshi Ichikawa Obninsk, 1955: The world's first nuclear
power plant and ``the atomic diplomacy''
by Soviet scientists . . . . . . . . . . 25--41
Heng Wen ``Autonomy'', ``Alienation'', and
Beyond: The relationship between Chinese
physicists and the Kuomintang
government, 1928--1945 . . . . . . . . . 42--64
Kunihisa Morita Einstein's criticism of quantum
mechanics and Humean philosophy . . . . 65--74
Takehiko Hashimoto and
Ruselle Meade Special issue the popularization of
science & technology in Japan:
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
R. Meade Popular science & personal endeavor in
early-Meiji Japan: The case of Hatsumei
Kiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
Shi-Lin Loh Radiation in print: Popularizing X-rays
in the mass media of early
twentieth-century Japan . . . . . . . . 93--111
Takushi Otani Technology transfer as a dialogical
process crossing the Pacific Ocean:
Sony's transistor technology transfer 112--143
Hiroshi Ichikawa Masanori Kaji (1956--2016) . . . . . . . ??
Yoichi Isahaya and
Jyuh Fuh Lin Entangled Representation of Heaven: A
Chinese Divination Text from a
Tenth-Century Dunhuang Fragment (P.
4071) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--171
Harufumi Tamazawa and
Hisashi Hayakawa and
Kiyomi Iwahashi Astronomy and intellectual networks in
the late 18th Century in Japan: A Case
Study of Fushimi in Yamashiro . . . . . 172--191
Takehiko Hashimoto Translating and annotating Edison's
biography in Meiji Japan . . . . . . . . 192--209
Takehiko Hashimoto The Construction of the System of
Aeronautical Standards for Safe Air
Navigation before World War II . . . . . 4--24
Yasushi Sato Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) in
Human Spaceflight: Technical, Cultural,
Political, and Economic Factors Behind
NASA's Stance to Risk . . . . . . . . . 63--81
Keiko Kawashima Nobuo Yamada and Toshiko Yuasa: Two
Japanese Scientists and the Curie Family 108--124
A. R. Bay Special issue new directions in the
history of medicine in East Asia:
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
W. E. Young Domesticating medicine: The Production
of familial knowledge in
Nineteenth-Century Japan . . . . . . . . 127--149
A. R. Bay Disease, environment, and causation:
Roundworm prevention and eradication in
20th-Century Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 150--173
W. Johnston Cholera and popular culture in
Nineteenth Century Japan . . . . . . . . 174--198
K. Daidoji The formation of constitutional
(Taishitsu) medicine in Early
Twentieth-Century Japan: The scrofulous
constitution (Senbyoshitsu) and
tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--217
W. Hirokawa When medicine participates in field
studies: Epidemiological research of
Hansen's disease during pre- and wartime
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--232
H. A. Smith Beyond indulgence: Diet-induced
Illnesses in Chinese medicine . . . . . 233--253
A. Ishihara and
U. Enke About the scientific career of the
bacteriologist Taichi Kitashima and the
influence of Shibasaburô Kitasato and
Emil von Behring [Über die
wissenschaftliche Karriere des
Bakteriologen Taichi Kitashima und den
Einfluss Shibasaburo Kitasatos und Emil
von Behrings] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--277
Anonymous Erratum: The construction of the system
of aeronautical standards for safe air
navigation before World War II (Historia
Scientiarum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
T. Yamada and
M. Yajima Special issue the history of geological
sciences in East Asia: Geosciences in
transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282
J. Zhang How modern geology was published: A case
study of Chinese geological journals,
1919 to 1949 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299
T. Nakagawa Frontier of professionals: The vision of
American advisors that supported
Hokkaido development in the early Meiji
period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--318
F. Tochinai Japanese geological scientists and their
activities with respect to science
communication: With special reference to
Professor Seitaro Tsuboi and Chidanken 319--333
S. Marabini and
G. B. Vai Christian missionaries and natural
things: The Italian-style geological
collection of Cimatti's museum at Chofu,
Tokyo, Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--352
T. Yokoyama On eugenic policy and the movement of
the National Temperance League in prewar
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--376