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  1. Knorr's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_books/

    7 Mar 2023: 3.5. Review by: Derek Thomas Whiteside. The British Journal for the History of Science 23 (3) (1990), 373-375. ... In this substantial and beautifully produced volume Wilbur R. Knorr, who is Associate Professor in the Programme in History of Science at

  2. Jacques Le Tenneur (1610 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Le_Tenneur/

    7 Mar 2023: the fat Marquise d'Effait, who gladly dances with anyone, but would not consider spending a penny for the advancement of science. ... S Drake, Uniform Acceleration, Space, and Time (Galileo Gleanings XIX), The British Journal for the History of Science 5

  3. Van der Waerden reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Van_der_Waerden_reviews/

    12 Jul 2023: At the beginning of his work, the author clarifies in a brief overview the importance of mathematics to our entire cultural development and demonstrates why the history of science is also ... The last few years have seen the opening of a new and fruitful

  4. David Gregory (1659 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gregory_David/

    25 Sep 2023: C M Eagles, David Gregory and Newtonian Science, British Journal for the History of Science 10 (1977), 216-225. ... Sci. 41 2(132) (2003), 163-191. A Guerrini, The Tory Newtonians : Gregory, Pitcairne, and their Circle, Journal of British Studies 25 (1986

  5. Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Somerville/

    25 Jan 2024: E C Patterson, Mary Somerville and the cultivation of science, 1815-1840 (Boston, 1983). ... E C Patterson, Mary Somerville, British Journal for the History of Science 4 (1969), 311-339.

  6. Kilmister books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Kilmister_books/

    12 Jul 2023: 6.1. Review by: G J Whitrow. The British Journal for the History of Science 4 (1) (1968), 81-82. ... This will provide fascinating reading for scholars in the philosophy of science, theoretical physics, applied mathematics and the history of science.

  7. Carl Boyer (1906 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boyer/

    7 Mar 2023: While an undergraduate at Columbia, Boyer took a course on the history of science given by Frederick Barry (1876-1943). ... A Prag, Review: A History of Mathematics, by Carl B Boyer, The British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1) (1970), 89.

  8. Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boole_Mary/

    27 Aug 2023: The Preparation of the Child for Science (Clarendon Press, 1904);. Mistletoe and Olive. ... K A Valente, Giving wings to logic: Mary Everest Boole's propagation and fulfilment of a legacy, The British Journal for the History of Science 43 (1) (2010),

  9. Jakob Hermann (1678 - 1733) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hermann/

    7 Mar 2023: N Guicciardini, An episode in the history of dynamics : Jakob Hermann's proof (1716-1717) of Proposition 1, Book 1, of Newton's Principia, Historia Mathematica 23 (2) (1996), 167-181. ... W E Knowles Middleton, Jacob Hermann and the Kinetic Theory,

  10. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dingle_books/

    12 Jul 2023: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3 (9 (1952), 89-91. ... 9.2. Review by: Harold Jeffreys. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 7 (26) (1956),174-175.