Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture11
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages6
David Hilbert and the foundations of the theory of plane area5
On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret4
Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond3
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker3
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France3
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?3
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element2
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)2
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus2
Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work2
Galois’s theory of ambiguity and its impacts2
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange2
A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī’s Mu‘tabar zīj2
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist1
A study of Babylonian records of planetary stations1
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems1
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus1
Levi-Civita simplifies Einstein. The Ricci rotation coefficients and unified field theories1
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics1
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)1
An alternative interpretation of BM 76829: astrological schemes for length of life and parts of the body1
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics1
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–13001
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–19771
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie on quartic surfaces in line geometry1
Mathématiques en perspective: Desargues, la Hire, le Poîvre1
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation1
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?1
Galois and the simple group of order 601
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli1
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory1
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon1
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