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This volume is devoted to scientific institutions from the 17th to the 20th century. It consists of three parts: the first deals with teaching and research institutions (universities, technical schools, foundations); the second is about scholarly societies (academies, amateur societies, industrial societies); the last deals with scientific popularisation initiatives, notably those of newspapers. Several papers concern the role of women in scientific communities.

This collection of papers formed part of the symposium, “Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China’s Silk Road”, held at the Asia Society in New York on November 9-10, 2001. Although the Silk Road has inspired several important museum exhibitions, none had focused on the Hexi Corridor nor attempted to analyze the complexity of the cross-cultural relationships within China’s borders. Nor had any exhibition focused on the nearly four hundred years of political disunity, nomadic incursions and social upheaval, brought about by the collapse of the great Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), that then, after a series of short-lived dynasties, culminated in the reunification of China under the Tang empire (618-906).

This volume illustrates the old and fruitful dialogue between historians of science and philosophers, as well as new collaborations with artists. It includes two symposia. The first one is on the history of scientific models, the seond is on science and music. It also contains papers on the philosophy of mathematics, physics, technology and politics, but also on Aristotle, Lucretius, Bacon, Le Bon, Spengler, Reichenbach, and Kuhn.

In the framework of the 20th International Congress of History of Science (Liège 1997), a symposium was devoted to the historical work of Adolph P. Youschkevitch (1906-1993). The present volume includes the papers read during the symposium as well as contributions on current issues in the history of mathematics : mathematics as a cultural strength, mathematics from antiquity to the classical period, probability theory and its applications, mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Until the 19th century very large areas of Western Europe were subject to some degree to common rights, where individual users collectively managed resources such as pasture and wood which were central to the agrarian economy. Much scholarship has focused on the dissolution of these rights and the effects of the enclosure of common land on society and agricultural productivity. In contrast, this volume seeks to assess in a comparative framework the long-term management of the common lands and the relative success of strategies in providing the resources sought by the rural population. Chapters covering northern and southern England, France, the Netherlands, Flanders, Sweden and northern and southern Germany examine the institutional and legal framework of commoning, the resources available and their value, the sustainability of practices, and policies of inclusion and exclusion among the group of commoners. Building on the theoretical insights of recent works on commonly managed resources, this volume, the result of an international collaboration in the CORN network, provides a series of detailed historical studies and is the first major work to address this central aspect of the agrarian economy in a comparative European context.

This collection of essays reflects the various manifestations of the emblem in cultural forms ranging from the first appearance of printed books in the sixteenth century to very recent visual equivalents in modern advertising and tattoos. The essays are revised versions of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference held at Leuven in 1996. The table of contents provides an overview of the variety of topics and approaches represented in the volume.

Ce volume est une contribution à l'histoire de la transition entre la science médiévale et la science moderne, en ce qui concerne les mathématiques et la science du mouvement. Le processus de cette transformation a été relativement peu étudié: les études historiques se sont concentrées de façon dominante sur la description de la phase finale de ce processus; le travail historique a établi une description très documentée et structurée de la situation de la philosophie naturelle à l'aube de la science classique. Au cours des dernières décennies des travaux sur des auteurs et des oeuvres du XVIe siècle peu étudié font cependant apparaître que cette description est altérée structurellement par des interprétations anachroniques de certains concepts qui y occupent manifestement une place centrale. Les études présentées dans ce volume sont un reflet des travaux effectués récemment dans ce sens sur deux aspects singuliers d'un tel programme: l'oeuvre scientifique de MAurolico d'une part, et l'émergence de la science galiléenne du mouvement d'autre part.

The xx th International Congress of History of Science (Liège, July 1997) was the first to be held after Joseph Needham (1900-1995) passed away. During the Congress the symposium entitled “Global history of science” was dedicated to this scholar usually recognised as the founder of the study of East Asian science. The symposium aimed at highlighting the significance of his research, which has influenced historians of science in their study of all civilisations. The papers presented there and included in this volume focus on various historiographical and methodological issues raised by Needham’s work and on questions which he has opened to investigation. These issues and questions are relevant not only to the history of East Asian science and technology, but also to the history of science at large, once one envisions it in a global perspective. This volume is rounded off by four further papers that are representative of current research in the history of East Asian science.

Vom 5. - 5. Juli 1998 fand an der Hochschule für Philosophie in München ein internationales Symposion zum Thema "Jesuitische Emblematik in Bayern: Einfluss und Wirkung" statt, das sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der Entstehungs-, Entwicklungs- und Verbreitungsgeschichte des Symbols auseinandersetzte.

Die vorliegende publikation beschränkt sich bewusst nur auf die "bayerischen" Beiträge des Symposions, erweitert durch ergänzende Studien zum Thema Emblematik und Kunst der Jesuiten in Bayern, wie der Vorstellung der Frontispize der Werke des grossen Naturwissenschaftlers Christoph Scheiner, Aspekte zu Georg Stengels Ova paschalia, Betrachtung der Jesuitenkirche Franz Xaver in Luzern oder der neuen Interpretationen eines Kupferstiches der Heiligen Familie vor der St. Michaelskirche München. Vorangestellt ist dem Band ein Abriss über Gründer, Leitmotiv, Signet und Satzungen der Gesellschaft Jesu und das neue Logo des Ordens in Zentral-europa. Einführung in die Thematik Rita Haub und Richard Müller SJ "Jesuiten" Alois Schmid; Templum aulicum. Das Jesuitenkolleg St.Michael zu München als Herrschaftskirche im frühneuzeitlichen Bayern Emblembücher Peter M. Daly; A Survey of Emblematic Publications of the Jesuits of the Upper German Province to the Year 1800 Rita Haub; Bey was erkennet man einen Catholischen Christen? Illustrationen im Bilderkatechismus des Petrus Canisius James Latham SJ; Text and Image in Jeremias Drexel's Orbis Phaëthon G. Richard Dimler SJ; Octiduum S. Francisco Borgiae (1671) : The Munich Jesuits Celebrate the Canonization of Francis Borgia Franz Daxecker; Frontspize in den Werken P. Christoph Scheiners SJ Helmut Zäh; Die Welt im Ei : Georg Stengels Ova paschalia Elisabeth Klecker; Regiae virtutis et felicitatis XII symbola (Dillingen 1636). Panegyrik und Paränese in einem Emblembuch für Ferdinand III Paul Richard Blum; Die Versuchung der Philosophie durch graphische Schemata : Berthold Hauser und die Arbor Porphyriana Angewandte Emblematik Bernhard Paal SJ; Die Heilige Familie vor der St. Michaelskirche in München. Ein theologisches und ikonographisches Programm-Bild Joseph Imorde; Gebaute Emblematik. Die Jesuitenkirche Franz Xaver in Luzern Sabine Mödersheim; Matthäus Rader und das allegorische Programm im Augsburger Rathaussaal. Einfluss und Wirkung jesuitischer Emblematik Alan Young; Protestant Meditation and Two 1647 English Translations of Jeremias Drexel's Zodiacus christianus Paul Begheyn SJ; The Emblem Books of Jeremias Drexel in the Low Countries