Lançamento do volume 19.1 (Junho de 2025) da revista HoST

Temos o prazer de anunciar a publicação do número de Julho de 2025 da HoST—Journal of History of Science and Technology.

HoST é uma revista de acesso aberto, publicada online em inglês pela Sciendo, e resulta de uma parceria entre quatro unidades de investigação portuguesas CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC.

A edição completa está disponível aqui: HoST 19.1

 

CONTEÚDOS DO NÚMERO 19.1, JUNHO DE 2025

 

Thematic Dossier "Towards a Global History of Eclipses. Entanglements of Disciplines, Actors, and Practices"

An Introduction from the Guest Editors, Deborah Kent, Clemency Montelle and Ana Simões 

Towards a Global History of the 1860 Total Solar Eclipse, Deborah Kent, Jesse Garrison, Megan Briers, Ileana Chinnici, Frédéric Soulu, Daniel Belteki

A Global History of the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse, Ana Simões, Cristina Luís, Hugo Soares, Samuel Gessner, Luís Miguel Carolino

Visualising Eclipses: Graphical Constructions of Eclipse Phenomena in the Sanskrit Astral Sciences, Jambugahapitiye Dhammaloka, Aditya Kolachana and Clemency Montelle

 

Varia

Public Electricity Supply in Portuguese Guinea, 1930-1974, Manfred Stoppok

Closing Doors and Opening Gates: Professor Ruggles Gates, “Race Crossing” Research, and the Strange Survival of Scientific Racism in Post-war Australia, Robert Brown

 

Work in Progress

Thomas Kuhn’s “pre-Structure” Affinities with Arthur Lovejoy’s Critical Realism, Mark Nader Basafa

 

Distinguished Lecture

Humans and the Great Lakes—Anthropogenic Impact and the Search for the “Anthropocene Golden Spike”, Francine M.G. McCarthy

 

Book Reviews

Book Review: Roland Allen. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, Jorge Nuno Silva

Book Review: Robert Halleux, with the collaboration of Blanche El Gammal, Les Alchimistes Grecs, Tome IX, 1ère partie, Traités des Arts et Métiers, Marjolijn Bol