Archive for History of Exact Sciences

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond19
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?11
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element9
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics6
The 數 Shu (Mathematics): a Qin-dynasty work on bamboo and wooden slips from ancient China—transcription and English translation with commentary6
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory5
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Pappus’ Collection3
Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries3
Antonio Signorini and the proto-history of the non-linear theory of elasticity3
Hipparchus’ Star Catalogues2
A clockmaker’s mathematics: a technology-based approach to the mathematical works of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632)2
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation2
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited2
The eclectic content and sources of Clavius’s Geometria Practica2
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli2
A common-sense approach to the problem of the itinerary stadion1
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations1
A neglected text: the new method of Hu Shi and Zhu Zaiyu’s interpolation1
Research on the expansion–contraction difference for the inner planets in ancient China1
Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen1
An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon1
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?1
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics1
Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries1
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry1
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems1
Hero and the tradition of the circle segment1
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange1
Hilbert’s problems, Kant, and decidability1
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–19771
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages1
Lewis Caerleon and the equation of time: tabular astronomical practices in late fifteenth-century England1
Desargues’s concepts of involution and transversal, their origin, and possible sources of inspiration1
Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered1
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist1
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