OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archive for History of Exact Sciences is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Leibniz’s syncategorematic infinitesimals II: their existence, their use and their role in the justification of the differential calculus	12
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox	10
Pascal’s mystic hexagram, and a conjectural restoration of his lost treatise on conic sections	7
Pipe flow: a gateway to turbulence	7
Before the end of an error: Giovanni Bianchini’s original flawed treatise on the conversion of stellar coordinates	5
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France	4
The development of the concept of uniform convergence in Karl Weierstrass’s lectures and publications between 1861 and 1886	4
Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work	4
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element	4
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Pappus’ Collection	3
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture	3
Maurice Janet’s algorithms on systems of linear partial differential equations	3
A study of Babylonian records of planetary stations	3
Impact of Gibbs’ and Duhem’s approaches to thermodynamics on the development of chemical thermodynamics	2
Vitali’s generalized absolute differential calculus	2
Operator calculus: the lost formulation of quantum mechanics	2
A study of Babylonian planetary theory III. The planet Mercury	2
BM 76829: A small astronomical fragment with important implications for the Late Babylonian Astronomy and the Astronomical Book of Enoch	2
What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888	2
On the making of Ptolemy’s star catalog	2
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation	2
Babylonian astronomy: a new understanding of column Φ	2
The six books of Diophantus’ Arithmetic increased and reduced to specious: the lost manuscript of Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)	2
Mathématiques en perspective: Desargues, la Hire, le Poîvre	2
Mathématiques et architecture: le tracé de l’entasis par Nicolas-François Blondel	2

Tycho Brahe’s Calculi ad Corrigenda Elementa Orbitae Saturni and the technical aspects of his planetary model of Saturn	1
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics	1
Babylonian observations of a unique planetary configuration	1
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange	1
Hobbes’s model of refraction and derivation of the sine law	1
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment	1
Euler first theory of resonance	1
Nombrils, bruslans, autrement foyerz: la géométrie projective en action dans le Brouillon Project de Girard Desargues	1
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory	1
Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon	1
On Peirce’s 1878 article ‘The probability of induction’: a conceptualistic appraisal	1
An alternative interpretation of BM 76829: astrological schemes for length of life and parts of the body	1
The gravitational influence of Jupiter on the Ptolemaic value for the eccentricity of Saturn	1
David Hilbert and the foundations of the theory of plane area	1
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen	1
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon	1
Einstein on involutions in projective geometry	1
A common-sense approach to the problem of the itinerary stadion	1
The Archimedean ‘sambukē’ of Damis in Biton	1
Back to the roots of vector and tensor calculus: Heaviside versus Gibbs	1
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)	1
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)	1
Correction to: What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888	1
An unpublished manuscript of John von Neumann on shock waves in boostered detonations: historical context and mathematical analysis	1
The eclectic content and sources of Clavius’s Geometria Practica	1
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings	1
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered	1
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes	1
Polygons of Petrović and Fine, algebraic ODEs, and contemporary mathematics	1
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–1977	1