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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800	6
The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)	5
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles	5
Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum	4
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	3
The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science	3
A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society’s mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein	3
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	3
Medicine in ancient Assur, a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Assur. Ancient magic and divination 18	2
Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body	2
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	2
Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era	2
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus	2
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler	1
Forbidden knowledge: medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy	1
The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland	1
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	1
Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation , by Robyn Arianrho	1
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	1
Analysing Hermann Graßmann’s works – retrospecting and re-assessing	1
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	1
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	1
Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception	1

Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582	1
Pasteur’s lifelong engagement with the fine arts: uncovering a scientist’s passion and personality	1
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	1
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	1
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	1
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	1
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	1
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	1
Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and poli	1
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	1
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	1
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	1
Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	1
Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts	0
Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus’s Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropol	0
Science on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don’t know about the ocean	0
A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility	0
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome	0
Thomas Garnett: science, medicine, mobility in eighteenth century Britain	0
Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe	0
Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul	0
Healers, innovators, entrepreneurs: women in early modern healthcare	0
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700	0
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	0
Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie	0
The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained	0
The elements: a visual history of their discovery	0
The first six propositions of Archimedes' on equilibrium of planes 1	0
Introduction	0
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	0
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation	0
Obstetrics during the French Revolution: political and medical controversies around the new obstetrical surgery	0
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks	0
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918–1931	0
A new history of greek mathematics	0
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century	0
Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement	0
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	0
Cutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen’s anatomical experiments. Studies in Ancient Medicine 55	0
A Chymist Among Beasts: Reading Paracelsus Literally (with a translation of De lunaticis , chapter two)	0
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	0
Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy , by Catherine Wilson, Oxford, Oxford University	0
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750	0
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain	0
‘Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy’: glass beehives and English society, 1650–1680	0
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	0
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577	0
Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea	0
Mechanism. A visual, lexical and conceptual history	0

First entities in the De renovatione et restauratione of Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and for people	0
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the conservation of energy	0
Confessionalization and comets. John Bainbridge on the comet of 1618	0
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)	0
Correction	0
The sense of movement. An intellectual history.	0
Offering themselves by chance: Newcomen’s starting materials	0
A ‘Temple of Liberty’? Alexander von Humboldt and the French Revolution	0
Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history	0
The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology	0
Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle’s sister	0
Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico	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
From the state of nature to the state of ruins: ‘American race’ and ‘savage knowledge’ according to Carl von Martius	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
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	0
Isaac Newton’s ‘De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum’: its purpose in historical context	0
Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks	0
The book of Matthew ‘On naval timber and arboriculture’. Its structure and development	0
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results	0
Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method	0
The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800–1910	0
A ‘heavy hammer to crack a small nut'? The creation of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), 1963–1970	0
Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis of Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen	0
Inventing the language of Things : the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England	0
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome	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
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	0
Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial	0
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742	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
Guillaume des Moustiers’ treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe	0
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics	0
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing’s construction of machine intelligence	0
Francisco de Melo’s theory of vision	0
‘Made in the Galleries of His Most Serene Highness, Florence’ . Conflicts in instrument invention at the Medici court: the pendulum clock, and the Accademia del Cimento	0
A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V	0
Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France	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
A natural history of the satyr: a dialectical history of myth and scientific observation since 1550*	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
Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius’s resistance to Dechales’s Mathesis Regia	0
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	0
Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement	0
Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel	0
The transmutations of chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences	0
Making physicians. Tradition, teaching, and trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639, vol. 1.	0
Cold War social science: transnational entanglements	0
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment	0
Purkyně’s Opistophone: the hearing ‘Deaf’, auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s	0
Correction	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
How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users	0
The social agency of instruments of surveying and exploration c.1830–1930	0
The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction	0
The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy	0
The social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700	0
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	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
Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers	0
Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments	0
On Simon Mayr’s alleged discovery of Jupiter’s satellites	0
Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach	0
Sound authorities: scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain	0