Buchwald Jed Z. (ed.) A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie

Springer, 2012. — 458 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 30). — ISBN 10 9400726260, ISBN 13 9789400726260.New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.Charles Gillispie
Publications by Charles Coulston Gillispie.
A Professional Life in the History of Science (by Charles Coulston Gillispie).
A Career in the History of Science as a Student of Charles Gillispie (by Seymour H. Mauskopf).
Charles Gillispie in the Digital Age (by Jane Maienschein and Manfred D. Laubichler).
Archaeology
Peking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery (by Tore Frängsmyr).
The Puzzle Picture of Lucretius: A Thriller from Herculaneum (by Knut Kleve).
Astronomy
Urania Propitia, Tabulae Rudophinae faciles redditae a Maria Cunitia Beneficent Urania, the Adaptation of the Rudolphine Tables by Maria Cunitz (by N.M. Swerdlow).
Simplicity in the Copernican Revolution: Galileo, Descartes, Newton (by David B. Wilson).
Chemistry
The Weekday Chemist: The Training of Aleksandr Borodin (by Michael D. Gordin).
Geology and Natural Theology
The Genesis of Historical Research on the History of Geology, with Thoughts About Kirwan, de Luc, and Whiggery (by David Oldroyd).
Five Discourses of Bible and Science 1750–2000 (by Nicolaas A. Rupke).
‘‘Natural Theology of Industry’’ in Seventeenth-Century China?: Ideas About the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing’s Heaven’s Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu) (by Yung Sik Kim).
Mathematics
On the Role of the Ecole Polytechnique, 1794–1914, with Especial Reference to Mathematics (by Ivor Grattan-Guinness).
The Notion of Variation in Leibniz (by Eberhard Knobloch).
Founding Acts and Major Turning-Points in Arab Mathematics (by Roshdi Rashed).
Medicine and Health
Chemotherapy by Design (by John E. Lesch).
American Health Reformers and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century (by Evan M. Melhado).
Quantity and Polity: Asylum Statistics and the Drive for Medical Evidence (by Theodore M. Porter).
The Question of Efficacy in the History of Medicine (by Nathan Sivin).
Science and Industry in France
Secrecy, Industry and Science. French Glassmaking in the Eighteenth Century (by Marco Beretta).
Balloons, Hydraulic Machines and Steam Engines at War and Peace: Jean-Pierre Campmas, a Visionary or an Inefficient Inventor? (by Patrice Bret).
Cauchy’s Theory of Dispersion Anticipated by Fresnel (by Jed Z. Buchwald).
Sadi Carnot on Political Economy. Science, Morals, and Public Policy in Restoration France (by Robert Fox).