Julio Samsó
by On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Studies in the history of medieval astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib (Handbook of Oriental …
Month: May 2024
Myles W. Jackson
Broadcasting Fidelity: German Radio and the Rise of Early Electronic Music, Princeton, NJ, PUP, 2024 When we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we …
Junior Historian Prize 2023 for Claire Bubb
Claire Bubb received in 2023 the Young Historian Prize of AIHS-IAHS as one of the two awardees for her excellent book on dissection in classical …
Myles Jackson, Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell (eds)
Music, Sound, and the Laboratory, Osiris 28 (2013) Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music—from the mathematics of tuning …
Junior Historian Prize 2023 for Maciej Jasinski
by The Polish scholar Maciej Jasinski, Warsaw is one of the two awardees of this AIHS-IAHS prize in 2023. He received the prize for his excellent …
Monday Colloquium at Deutsches Museum, Munich
Our monthly colloquium is a hybrid event. We invite all interested members to join us online. The next colloquium takes place 10 June. It starts …
Renate Tobies
Felix Klein. Visions for Mathematics, Applications, and Education. Spring, 2021 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-75785-4 About Felix Klein, the famous Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory once said: “It is only …
Klaus Hentschel
Photons. The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta. Springer, 2018. Lichtquanten. Die Geschichte des komplexen Konzepts und mentalen Modells von Photonen. 2nd, enlarged edition, …
Klaus Hentschel
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History. Oxford_ OUP, 2014, Paperback 2019, e-book. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/visual-cultures-in-science-and-technology-9780198717874?cc=us&lang=en& This book attempts a synthesis. It delves into the …