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After contemplating the relationship between different ways of handling past mathematics, I consider five features of the history of mathematics on which I would encourage more research or consideration : a classification of types of influence, the histories of applied mathematics and of the history of school-level mathematics, possible roles for anthropology, and the origins of names and attributions of mathematical notions.

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In about two and half centuries from the invasion of the Mongols in the 1230s to the beginning of the 16th century, a large part of the Islamic world extending from Baghdad to central Asia witnessed a successive rise and fall of local rulers. Although a few of them ruled on some larger areas for a relatively longer time, it was in the late 15th and early 16th centuries that almost the entire land controlled by those minor governments was divided between two dominant but religiously opponent sovereignties : the Ottomans whose Empire lasted around five centuries and the Safavids that despite falling after 230 years, their influence continued even up to modern Iran. As a consequence, from the 1500s two powerful and competing courts appeared that, as the main patrons of the scholarly activities, shaped the cultural life in the Islamic World in a period coincided with the establishment of the modern era in Europe. This period is one of the most important periods in the cultural history of Islamic societies, which unfortunately has not been studied adequately. The present paper focuses on one of the many social consequences of the formation of those two adversary states and studies the history of cultural exchanges between the Transoxania, Persia and the Ottoman Empire before and after the establishment of the Shiite state of Safavids.

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Robert P. Multhauf (1920-2004) (Paul Forman) 491

David Pingree (1933-2005) (Anne Tihon) 494

Ferenc Szabadváry (1923-2006) (Éva Vamos) 497

Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (1921-2005) (Sergey S. Demidov, Alexei N. Parshin, Igor R. Shafarevich, Svetlana S. Petrova, Galina S. Smirnova, Vladimir M. Tikhomirov, Ioannis M. Vandoulakis) 499

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German Society for History of Geophysics and Cosmical Physics 505

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Généralités.

MICHEL SOUTIF : L’Asie, source de sciences et de techniques. Histoire comparée des idées scientifiques et techniques de l’Asie (Isaia Iannaccone) 507

JOHANNES FRIED : Les fruits de l’apocalypse. Origines de la pensée scientifique moderne au Moyen Âge (Jean Celeyrette) 508

Etudes Biographiques.

ROGER HAHN : Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827. A Determined Scientist (Helge Kragh) 510

CATHERINE BOUSQUET-BRESSOLIER : François de Dainville S.J. (1909- 1971) pionnier de l’histoire de la cartographie et de l’éducation (Uta Lindgren) 512

Editions, traductions.

JACQUES JOUANNA (Éd.) : Hippocrate. Tome IV, 3e partie. Épidémies V et VII (Marie-Hélène Marganne) 514

FRANÇOIS PATTE (editor and translator) : L’oeuvre mathématique et astronomique de Bhäskaräcärya : Le Siddhäntaçiromaëi I-II. Volumes I (text) and II (translation) (Toke Lindegaard Knudsen) 515

OLIVER GUTMAN : Pseudo-Avicenna Liber celi et mundi. A Critical Edition with Introduction (Carmela Baffioni) 517

SIMON DE VALLAMBERT : De la manière de nourrir et gouverner les enfants dès leur naissance (Danielle Gourevitch) 521

LEONHARD EULER : Commentationes physicae ad theoriam caloris, electricitatis et magnetismi pertinentes (J.L. Heilbron) 522

Mathématiques.

DAVID GLIMP, MICHELLE R. WARREN (eds.) : Arts of calculation, Quantifying thought in early modern Europe (Eberhard Knobloch) 524

Astronomie, cosmologie.

PAUL KUNITZSCH : Stars and numbers : astronomy and mathematics in the medieval Arab and Western worlds (Emmanuel Poulle) 525

RAYMOND MERCIER : Studies on the transmission of medievalmathematical astronomy (Emmanuel Poulle) 525

ALDO BULLO (dir.) : Tactatus astrarii di Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (Emmanuel Poulle) 527

Physique.

NICOLE CHEZEAU : De la forge au laboratoire. Naissance de la métallurgie physique (1860-1914) (Robert Fox) 532

Géologie, paléontologie, géophysique

JEAN GAUDANT (coord.) : Dolomieu et la géologie de son temps (Goulven Laurent) 534

Sciences biomédicales.

PIERRE VIGNAIS : La biologie des origines à nos jours. Une histoire des idées et des hommes (N. Robin) 535

FRITZ KRAFFT : Christus ruft in die Himmelsapotheke. Die Verbildlichung des Heilandsrufs durch Christus als Apotheker (M. Gabriele) 537

RALF VOLLMUTH : Das anatomische Zeitalter. Die anatomie der Renaissance von Leonardo da Vinci bis Andreas Vesal (Wouter Bracke) 539

S. SCHMITT : Histoire d’une question anatomique : la répétition des parties (N. Robin, M. Di Bartolo) 540

Géographie, exploration.

W.G.L. RANDLES : Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance. The Impact of the Great Discoveries (Uta Lindgren) 543

TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.) : Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific (Roy MacLeod) 545

SIMÓN DE ROJAS CLEMENTE RUBIO : Viaje a Andalucía : “ Historia Natural del Reino de Granada ” (1804-1809) (Santiago Aragón) 547

Techniques.

CESARE MORETTI, CARLO STEFANO SALERNO, SABINA TOMMASI FERRONI (a cura di) : Ricette vetrarie muranesi. Gasparo Brunoro e il manoscritto di Danzica (Michel Philippe) 549

NEIL COSSONS (edited by) : Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology (Philippe Tomsin) 551

M.J. BASTABLE : Arms and the State. Sir William Armstrong and the remaking of British naval power, 1854-1914 (Pascal Deloge) 553

Institutions et société.

CAROLINE BARRERA : Les sociétés savantes de Toulouse au xixe siècle (1797-1865) (James McClellan) 555

IRINA GOUZÉVITCH, ANDRÉ GRELON, ANOUSHEH KARVAR (textes réunis par) : La formation des ingénieurs en perspective. Modèles de référence et réseaux de médiation - XVIIIe-XXe siècles (Philippe Tomsin) 557

Philosophie, épistémologie.

IMMANUEL KANT : Enciclopedia filosofica (Vincenzo Bochicchio) 563

Savoirs parallèles.

WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF : Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism (Benedek Láng) 566