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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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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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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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Dutch Colonial Medicine and Empire Building in the Tropics: The Cases of Leprosy and Drug Use in the Dutch East and West Indies Compared
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Dutch started to modernize their empire and attempted to build ‘modern colonial states’ in their...
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Leishmaniases in Brazil: A Historical Approach
This chapter addresses the leishmaniases in Brazil. The first cases of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis were described in 1909 in São...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter revisits the key claims of the overall work. It summarises Reagan’s impact on American politics, policy-making, and popular...
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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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From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh’s Strategies of Experimental Control
Theory and experiment went hand in hand in the work of Lord Rayleigh, in which the quest for rigor was a ubiquitous theme. To Rayleigh’s mind,...
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Christoph Scheiner’s The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics
Accounts of the development of experimental methods (including controls, broadly understood) in the seventeenth century have tended to overlook...