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The Theory of Tawhidi Interactive, Integrative, and Evolutionary Intellection (IIE) in Islamic Philosophy of Science
Islamic philosophy of science has a distinctively different approach to the intellection and its application to various fields of socio-scientific...
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Introduction and Objective of the Handbook of Islamic Philosophy of Science
The field of Islamic Philosophy of Science (IPS) in the light of the Qur’an is introduced here to be used throughout this Handbook. A few important...
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Women Geologists 1780–1840: Re-reading Charlotte Murchison
It has long been established that many women were interested participants in the earth sciences in the first half of the nineteenth century. Until...
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Abbacus Goes into Print and Abroad
We shall now turn our attention to the afterlife of abbacus culture: on one hand, to what happened as abbacus books went into print; on the other, to...
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An Example: Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi, the Short Version
In 1307, one otherwise unidentified Jacopo da Firenze (“from Florence”), at the time living in Montpellier in Provence, wrote a Tractatus algorismi....
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Opera Geometrica (1644) Transcription: Image–Text Side by Side
This section provides the first full edited transcription—from Latin and Italian vernacular language—of the Opera geometrica. Further, as above said,...
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Opera Geometrica (1644) Transcription: General Considerations
This section provides information and background on the selection of Opera geometrica (Fig. 1). We have worked on transcription from Latin and...
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Historical and Methodological Details on the De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644)
In this paper, we deal with Torricelli’s principle in mechanics according to which two heavy bodies linked together cannot move by themselves unless...
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Huygens’ Principle
Christiaan Huygens is best known for devising the principle that bears his name, namely Huygens’ principle (or Huygens’ construction). Huygens’...
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Huygens and Curvature
Three of the most important works on the science of physics in the seventeenth century are Galileo’s Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations...
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Logical Methodology and the Structure of Logic Syllabi
This paper starts from a dissatisfaction with the way logic is currently taught in philosophy departments. In such a context, we would want logic to...
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Huygens and the Speed of Light
The seventeenth century saw the rise of modern science, notably with the work of René Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Newton...
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Huygens and Geophysics
At a number of places in the preceding chapters we have already alluded to Huygens and his importance for remote sensing.
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Cambridge Women’s Research Club
Before 1900 most women students in Great Britain were trained to be governesses or teachers. At the turn of the century efforts were afoot to...
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The Legacy of Al-Khwārazmı̄ in History of Algebra
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārazmı̄ is today arguably the most well-known medieval Arabic mathematician. His significant work on arithmetic, algebra, and...
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Why Mathematical Physics?
The 2022 Prizes from the International Mathematical Union featured two focusing on mathematical physics: a Fields Medal to Hugo Duminil-Copin, and...
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History of the Research on Vehicle Automation in the United States
The first part of the book provides an historical overview of the research on vehicle automation in the United States. It starts with the early...
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Legerdemain in Mathematical Physics: Structure, “Tricks,” and Lacunae in Derivations of the Partition Function of the Two-Dimensional Ising Model and in Proofs of The Stability of Matter
Many mathematical or physical paper would seem to magically go from one line to the next, the reader unable to figure out the logic of the...
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Timeline with Firsts, Milestones and Shifts
This timeline presents the most important events in the history of automated and autonomous driving from 1939 to 2003, covering the United States,...
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A Framework for Map** Mechanistic Perspectives
This edited book is the outcome of a conference that was planned to take place in Lisbon at the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências (CFCUL) of the...