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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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Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South
That violence has invariably informed the organisation of society is indisputable. What seems to be contested, in some societies, however, is how...
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‘People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned’: Remembering the First German Genocide in Namibia
This chapter investigates the history and memory of the first German genocide on the African continent. From 1904 to 1908 Imperial Germany increased...
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“Carving Their Place in History”: Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women’s Writing
Many female African scholars have observed that in most national narratives about the liberation struggle against colonialism, the contributions made...
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Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Making
The representation of the Gukurahundi genocide in the official or state archives focuses on narratives propagated mainly by state-run newspapers....
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Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America
What we generally refer to as Latin America is made up of a diversity of nation-states whose histories and cultural environments exhibit their...
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Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda’s ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse in the Present Tense
Many claims have been made about what should account for the actual or real genocide in Rwanda. Many, if not all, of these claims focus on a tale of...
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Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History: Toward a Rapprochement Between Disciplines That Never Ruptured
It has been observed that the history of science and the philosophy of science have largely gone in very different directions in recent decades. I...
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When the Scythe of Time Ran Red and Honor Sat in Hell: The Yŏsu and Sunch’ŏn Rebellion, the Demise of the Southern Left, and the Completion of the Northern-Led Eclipse
Although the SKWP had succeeded in arousing much controversy and violence to draw the attention of the South Korean military and police, the obvious...
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Introduction: The South Korean Workers’ Party, the April Third Massacre, and Understanding the Korean War as a Korean Civil War
The April Third Massacre was a matter of life or death for many innocent residents on Jeju Island, but unfortunately, few could expect to cling onto...
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The April Third Massacre: A Tragic and Misguided Quest to Punish the “Despicable Conduct” of the South Korean Police
On a relatively mundane and what was supposed to be a peaceful afternoon of April 3, 1948, bullets cracked across Sŏngsan Beach. The south Korean...
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Chapter Two: Archimedes Mechanicus
Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287–212 B.C.) was, by reputation at least, the most accomplished mechanic of antiquity. He was also perhaps the first to...
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Chapter Five: The Recovery of Ancient Mechanics
Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, Italian humanists recovered and printed the Greek texts of the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems and Pappus of...
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Chapter Six: Niccolò Tartaglia and the Science of Weights
Niccolò Tartaglia (b. 1499/1500) adopted the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems as his model and attempted to found its treatment of the balance on the...
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Chapter One: Devices and Desires
In Greek antiquity a machine was any marvellous device or stratagem that worked against nature to accomplish some human purpose or to satisfy some...
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Progress of the Human Spirit
In the Renaissance context, a cyclical conception of the history of knowledge prevailed, according to which knowledge in the past had undergone...
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Nordic Solutions: Relevance for Japan and Northeast Asia
This chapter explores the intricate geopolitical dynamics and historical disputes in Northeast Asia, focusing on Japan and its interactions with...
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The Nordic Peace: Current State and a Belligerent Background
This chapter provides an analysis of the Nordic region’s transition from a history of conflict to a state of sustainable peace, known as the Nordic...