OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of Science is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pasteur’s lifelong engagement with the fine arts: uncovering a scientist’s passion and personality	6
The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800	5
Aurora borealis systems in the German-Russian world in the first half of the eighteenth century: the cases of Friedrich Christoph Mayer and Leonhard Euler	5
Isaac Newton’s ‘De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum’: its purpose in historical context	4
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	3
Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius’s resistance to Dechales’s Mathesis Regia	3
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	3
A new history of greek mathematics	2
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	2
Guillaume des Moustiers’ treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe	2
The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction	2
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	2
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	1
Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico	1
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	1
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	1
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	1
Medicine in ancient Assur, a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Assur. Ancient magic and divination 18	1
Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille’s lunar-distance method	1
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	1
Counting human chromosomes before 1960: preconceptions, perceptions and predilections	1
The sense of movement. An intellectual history.	1
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	1
Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers	1
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	1

Inventing the language of Things : the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England	1
The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)	1
The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy	1
A ‘heavy hammer to crack a small nut'? The creation of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), 1963–1970	1
Purkyně’s Opistophone: the hearing ‘Deaf’, auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s	1
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing’s construction of machine intelligence	1
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577	1
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics	1
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	1
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks	1
From the state of nature to the state of ruins: ‘American race’ and ‘savage knowledge’ according to Carl von Martius	1
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)	1
Correction	0
Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial	0
Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement	0
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment	0
Forbidden knowledge: medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy	0
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results	0
Cutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen’s anatomical experiments. Studies in Ancient Medicine 55	0
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	0
Correction	0
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	0
Obstetrics during the French Revolution: political and medical controversies around the new obstetrical surgery	0
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	0
A Chymist Among Beasts: Reading Paracelsus Literally (with a translation of De lunaticis , chapter two)	0
Healers, innovators, entrepreneurs: women in early modern healthcare	0
Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus’s Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropol	0
Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body	0
The interlopers: early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge The interlopers: early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge , by Vera Keller, B	0
First entities in the De renovatione et restauratione of Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and for people	0
Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach	0
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	0
Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy , by Catherine Wilson, Oxford, Oxford University	0
The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained	0
The social agency of instruments of surveying and exploration c.1830–1930	0
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles	0
The elements: a visual history of their discovery	0
Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments	0
The book of Matthew ‘On naval timber and arboriculture’. Its structure and development	0
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century	0
Cold War social science: transnational entanglements	0
Traces on a Muddy Shore. Science and religion in Colonial and Early Independent Río de la Plata	0
Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement	0
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome	0
Ole Rømer’s Triduum vol. I–III Ole Rømer’s Triduum vol. I–III , edited by Claus Fabricius, Niels Therkel Jørgensen and Chr Gorm Tortzen, Copenhagen, Society for Danish L	0
Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea	0
Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel	0
The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland	0

Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy , edited by Delphine Bellis	0
Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method Descartes’s method: the formation of the subject of science , by Tarek R. Dika, Oxford, Oxford University Pr	0
Einstein in Bohemia	0
The transmutations of chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences	0
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	0
Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle’s sister	0
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the conservation of energy	0
Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	0
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	0
Offering themselves by chance: Newcomen’s starting materials	0
After the flood. Imagining the global environment in early modern Europe	0
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus	0
On Simon Mayr’s alleged discovery of Jupiter’s satellites	0
Media and the mind: art, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700–1830 Media and the mind: art, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700–1830 , by Matthew Da	0
Stahl in France: an unknown Latin translation of the Zufällige Gedancken und nützliche Bedencken über den Streit, von dem so genannten Sulfure (1718) owned by Étienne-Fr	0
The problem of Lysenkoism: why we cannot explain it away?	0
Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis of Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen	0
The first six propositions of Archimedes' on equilibrium of planes 1	0
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750	0
The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science	0
Making physicians. Tradition, teaching, and trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639, vol. 1.	0
A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V The optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV-V: on reflection and images seen by reflection , by A. I. Sabra, prepared for pu	0
Developing to scale: technology and the making of global health Developing to scale: technology and the making of global health , by Heidi Morefield, Chicago, University	0
The social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700	0
Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France	0
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918–1931	0
How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users	0
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation	0
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s blood: alchemy and end times in reformation Germany	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700	0
Science on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don’t know about the ocean	0
Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and poli	0
Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts	0
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World	0
The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800–1910	0
Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe , by Kenneth I. Kellermann and Ellen N. Bouton, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge U	0
The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology	0
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	0
A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the rise of physiological plant ecology A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the r	0
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome	0
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading fro	0
Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie	0
A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility	0
Analysing Hermann Graßmann’s works – retrospecting and re-assessing	0
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler	0
Introduction	0
Mechanism. A visual, lexical and conceptual history	0
Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era	0
David Brewster’s and William Herschel’s experiments on inflection that delivered the coup de grâce to Thomas Young’s ether distribution hypothesis	0
Francisco de Melo’s theory of vision	0
Malleable Anatomies. Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy	0
A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society’s mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein	0
The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939)	0
Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul	0
Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582	0
Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum	0
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany	0
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth , by Jeremy	0
Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation , by Robyn Arianrho	0
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742	0
Confessionalization and comets. John Bainbridge on the comet of 1618	0
Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpreta	0
Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks	0
Sound authorities: scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain	0
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	0
‘Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy’: glass beehives and English society, 1650–1680	0
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain	0
Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception	0