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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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
Isaac Newton’s ‘De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum’: its purpose in historical context	4
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)	4
Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius’s resistance to Dechales’s Mathesis Regia	3
History of ‘temperature’: maturation of a measurement concept	3
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	3
Guillaume des Moustiers’ treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe	2
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	2
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	2
Chemistry and slavery in the Scottish Enlightenment	2
Failed utopias and practical chemistry: the Priestleys, the Du Ponts, and the transmission of transatlantic science, 1770–1820	2
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	2
‘Revolutions, philosophical as well as civil’: French chemistry and American science in Samuel Latham Mitchill’s Medical Repository	2
Science, industry, and the German Bildungsbürgertum	2
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	2
Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind	2
New insight into the origins of the calculus war	2
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	1
Francis Bacon, José de Acosta, and Traditions of Natural Histories of Winds	1
The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy	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
Linear Programming from Fibonacci to Farkas	1
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	1
‘Ghosts from other planets’: plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758)	1

John Hill (1714?–1775) on ‘Plant Sleep’: experimental physiology and the limits of comparative analysis	1
Alchemical and Paracelsian ideas in the Arte de los Metales	1
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	1
Charles Darwin did not mislead Joseph Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst von Baer	1
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	1
Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature’s ‘secret fire’	1
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	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
‘Enquiries on Plaister of Paris’: a material history of early agrochemical knowledge in the United States of America, 1785–1812	1
The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution	1
Counting human chromosomes before 1960: preconceptions, perceptions and predilections	1
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577	1
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	1
Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
From influence to inhabitation: the transformation of astrobiology in the early modern period	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
A new history of greek mathematics	1
The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction	1
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)	1
The sense of movement. An intellectual history.	1
Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico	1
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	1
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	1
Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	0
Healers, innovators, entrepreneurs: women in early modern healthcare	0
A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society’s mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein	0
Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel	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
Making physicians. Tradition, teaching, and trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639, vol. 1.	0
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation	0
Winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize for 2019	0
Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy	0
Confessionalization and comets. John Bainbridge on the comet of 1618	0
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	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
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome	0
Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement	0
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742	0
Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial	0
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s blood: alchemy and end times in reformation Germany	0
The social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700	0
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing’s construction of machine intelligence	0
Einstein in Bohemia	0
Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts	0
A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility	0
Forbidden knowledge: medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy	0
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	0

Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment	0
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	0
Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle’s sister	0
Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era	0
Offering themselves by chance: Newcomen’s starting materials	0
The problem of Lysenkoism: why we cannot explain it away?	0
Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments	0
Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach	0
The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science	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
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics	0
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany	0
Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul	0
Malleable Anatomies. Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy	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
Cold War social science: transnational entanglements	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
Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement	0
Science on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don’t know about the ocean	0
Traces on a Muddy Shore. Science and religion in Colonial and Early Independent Río de la Plata	0
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century	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
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700	0
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome	0
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	0
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results	0
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750	0
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918–1931	0
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	0
Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy	0
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	0
Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie	0
Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body	0
Purkyně’s Opistophone: the hearing ‘Deaf’, auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s	0
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	0
The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained	0
Mineral and mineralogy in late Qing China: translations and conceptualizations, 1860s–1910s	0
Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum	0
Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks	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
Mechanism. A visual, lexical and conceptual history	0
On Simon Mayr’s alleged discovery of Jupiter’s satellites	0
Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France	0
After the flood. Imagining the global environment in early modern Europe	0
The elements: a visual history of their discovery	0
Sound authorities: scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain	0
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	0
Constructing quantum mechanics, volume 1: the Scaffold 1900-1923	0
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World	0
Inventing the language of Things: the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England	0
How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users	0
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth	0
The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland	0
Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea	0
Cutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen’s anatomical experiments. Studies in Ancient Medicine 55	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
Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts	0
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler	0
The transmutations of chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences	0
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	0
Atlantic chemistries, 1600–1820	0