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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
History and nature of the Jeffreys–Lindley paradox	11
Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work	6
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element	5
Einstein on involutions in projective geometry	5
The development of the concept of uniform convergence in Karl Weierstrass’s lectures and publications between 1861 and 1886	4
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France	4
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics	3
BM 76829: A small astronomical fragment with important implications for the Late Babylonian Astronomy and the Astronomical Book of Enoch	3
A study of Babylonian records of planetary stations	3
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Pappus’ Collection	3
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture	3
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen	2
The six books of Diophantus’ Arithmetic increased and reduced to specious: the lost manuscript of Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)	2
A study of Babylonian planetary theory III. The planet Mercury	2
Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions	2
Mathématiques en perspective: Desargues, la Hire, le Poîvre	2
Felix Klein’s projective representations of the groups $$S_6$$ and $$A_7$$	2
Vitali’s generalized absolute differential calculus	2
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)	2
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
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
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered	1

An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon	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
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation	1
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)	1
Correction to: What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888	1
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment	1
Hobbes’s model of refraction and derivation of the sine law	1
Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, contact transformations, and connexes	1
Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon	1
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–1977	1
An alternative interpretation of BM 76829: astrological schemes for length of life and parts of the body	1
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange	1
The eclectic content and sources of Clavius’s Geometria Practica	1
Eudoxus’ simultaneous risings and settings	1
“The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist	1