New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (17.2, December 2023) now online
18 December 2023
HoST is a peer-reviewed open access journal, published online in English by Sciendo, and results of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC).
The full issue is available here: HoST—Journal of History of Science and Technology
We invite all interested to submit your work following the guidelines available on HoST's website. A call for Thematic Dossiers is open until 20 January 2024.
Thematic Dossier "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?"
This thematic dossier includes an introduction by guest editors Maria Renilda Barreto and Olival Freire Júnior, followed by three articles.
Introduction: Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?, Maria Renilda Barreto and Olival Freire Júnior
The History of New World Leishmaniases From a Brazilian Perspective, Jaime Larry Benchimol
Landulfo Alves’ Trajectory as an Agronomist and Federal Intervener in Bahia: State Investments in Agriculture and Education (1938-1942), Fernanda Simões Braga Araújo
André Rebouças Beyond the Atlantic: The Racism and Sociability Network of a Black Nineteenth-Century Engineer, Wladimir Barbosa da Silva and Maria Renilda Barreto
It also includes two articles in the section Varia
The Transformation of a Science by a “Technology”: The Case of Astrophysics and the Introduction of Machine Learning, Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn
Circulating Silence. The Reaction to Rachel Carson’s Book Silent Spring (1962) in Scandinavian Gardening Magazines, May-Brith Ohman Nielsen
In this issue you can also find three Book Reviews
Book Review: Karine Chemla and Glenn W. Most, eds. Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World, Serafina Cuomo
Book Review: Thomas Morel. Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe, Stephen Johnston
Book Review: Martino Lorenzo Fagnani. The Development of Agricultural Science in Northern Italy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century, Pedro Mota Tavares