Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Kvasz, Ladislav, Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion: On the Role of Cartesian Physics in the Scientific Revolution. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy) 76 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <726-56>
ISBN 978-3-031-57060-5 paper ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book argues that Descartes' physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. After Newton introduced a completely different approach to mathematical description of motion, Descartes' physics became obsolete and even difficult to comprehend. This text follows the language of Descartes and the means of which motion can be described. It argues that Descartes achieved almost everything that later Newton was able to do-to describe the motion of interacting bodies- by different (i.e. algebraic) means. This volume completely refutes the received view according to which Descartes' physics was merely a kind of discursive natural philosophy. To make this interpretation more plausible the book follows Descartes' ideas from his early work in mathematics, through his invention of the analytic method towards his mature physics. It shows that Descartes followed a similar heuristic pattern.The volume appeals to students and researchers; it invites the reader equippedwith minimal understanding of college mathematics to follow Descartes on his intellectual journey through the Scientific Revolution. The reader will gain a deeper understanding of the role of mathematical language in the creation of modern physics and a glimpse into the fascinating world of Descartes' scientific thought. Several of Descartes' philosophical ideas can be traced back to his scientific interests and thus the book elucidates the motivation behind some of Descartes' key positions in the area of epistemology and method. In the penultimate chapter the book presents four arguments in favor of seeing Descartes as a physicist on par with Galileo and Newton.

Bartos, Hynek / Linka, Vojtech (eds.), Aristotle reads Hippocrates. (Studies in Ancient Medicine 59) 420 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-29>
ISBN 978-90-04-70353-7 hard ¥25,531.- (税込) EUR 110.00

Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume encourages further exploration of this interdisciplinary area and offers new insights by presenting a series of case studies that examine in detail specific debates within the Aristotelian corpus in relation to the medical literature.

Panzica, Aurora, Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de prima lectura: Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition. (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science 41) 500 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-40>
ISBN 978-90-04-68922-0 hard ¥33,654.- (税込) EUR 145.00

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. This volume presents the critical edition of Oresme's earliest work, his first cycle of lectures on Aristotle's Meteorology (1346). Transcribed directly by one of his students at Paris Arts Faculty, this text explores problems of physics, cosmology, geology, and optics, providing invaluable insights into late medieval philosophy of nature. ?

Forshaw, Peter, The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory. Volume 1: Prologue: Bio-Bibliography and Introduction to Khunrath's Images. (Aries Book Series 37) 551 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-110>
ISBN 978-90-04-68168-2 hard ¥85,644.- (税込) EUR 369.00

This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as 'one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences'. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of 'scripture and picture' in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath's insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in 'Oratory and Laboratory'.

Forshaw, Peter, The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory. Volume 3: Mage & Alchemist. (Aries Book Series 39) 635 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-111>
ISBN 978-90-04-70208-0 hard ¥92,607.- (税込) EUR 399.00

This is the 3rd volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as 'one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences'. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of 'scripture and picture' in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath's insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in 'Oratory and Laboratory'.

Forshaw, Peter, The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 2: Theosopher & Christian Cabalist. (Aries Book Series 38) 457 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-112>
ISBN 978-90-04-70206-6 hard ¥78,681.- (税込) EUR 339.00

This is the 2nd volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as 'one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences'. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of 'scripture and picture' in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath's insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in 'Oratory and Laboratory'.

Forshaw, Peter, The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory. Volume 4: Epilogue: Reception (from Rosicrucians to Modern Occulture) & Bibliography. (Aries Book Series 40) 366 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-113>
ISBN 978-90-04-70210-3 hard ¥69,397.- (税込) EUR 299.00

This is the 4th volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as 'one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences'. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of 'scripture and picture' in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath's insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in 'Oratory and Laboratory'.

大都市の科学－ロンドンでの知識と実践の場所と文化　1600～1800年
Higgitt, Rebekah / Kilburn-Toppin, Jasmine / Moxham, Noah, Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. 272 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-114>
ISBN 978-1-350-41703-8 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1600-1800. Beginning with the demographics of London in the 17th and 18th centuries, including its attraction of migrants, importance as a centre of empire, and the role of its institutions in government, the authors analyse how and why London was a unique site of scientific activity. Through the use of case studies, such as the Tower of London's Royal Mint, and the Livery Company Halls, this book examines the city's sites of exchange for knowledge and practice, and highlights the importance of both public and private spaces. With exploration of London's military and colonial history, the authors acknowledge how its port and maritime trade were not only central to growth and protection, but also facilitated the organisation, assessment, valuation, and pursuit of knowledge in the city. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that London corporations produced unique knowledge communities that drew on networks across the city and beyond, and uses a variety of spatial and material approaches to reveal the use, representation, and exchange of practice in these collective settings.

Kolozova, Katerina / Cockshott, William Paul et al., Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy. 304 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-115>
ISBN 978-1-350-44732-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted. Defending Materialism follows the political and theoretical background of this intense philosophical controversy, defending atomistic and mechanical materialism against idealist paradigms. These accounts range from the explicit idealism criticised by Lenin and Einstein to the implicit Hegelian idealism that influenced Soviet dialectical materialism.Following several key threads, the authors trace how the idea of atoms has changed over the centuries, how ideology has influenced both sides of the idealism/materialism divide, and how the nature of time in physics, biology and human society can give a fresh view of historical materialism. Starting from the origins of materialism in ancient Greek thought and moving through its revival in Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin gives a full picture of the links between the Marxist tradition and the 'coarse materiality' to which the worlds of science and philosophy have found themselves both subscribed and averse.

Robertson, Katie / Wilson, Alastair (eds.), Levels of Explanation. 432 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <726-118>
ISBN 978-0-19-286294-5 hard ¥29,004.- (税込) GB￡ 103.00 *

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels relate to one another, and what is an explanatory level in the first place? Over the last 50 years, more and more philosophers--both reductionists and anti-reductionists--no longer subscribe to the idea that the best explanation resides at the fundamental physical level. New challenges arise from the success of scientific explanations employing multi-level models which mix levels of explanation, from distinctive differences between levels structures in biology, cognitive science, and social science, from the apparently radical reimagining of the explanatory role of spacetime in our current best theories of fundamental physics, and from the enduring mystery of how higher-level explanations are possible in the first place. These questions naturally connect to classic philosophical ways of thinking about the relationships between levels: reduction, emergence, and fundamentality. This volume presents a snapshot of cutting-edge research on explanatory levels, from their conceptual foundations to the details of how they are used in scientific practice.

Vancik, Hrvoj, From Complexity to Systems. 91 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-119>
ISBN 978-3-031-56135-1 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book sheds new light on the interactions between the science of complexity and the science of systems. Though both of these fields have been independently studied extensively, their interrelations have not been satisfactorily analyzed. By a superficial view, both the sciences are based on the same principles of the holistic behavior of the ensembles consisting of components. The author providing an expert analysis on the theory of complexity and bridges the gap to generalize it, by elaborating on all the observable manifestations of complex forms and behaviors and explaining how it is related to general theory of systems.Particular attention is given to the use of chemical concepts throughout the text to demonstrate the theories as well as the interactions between the two. The central point of this book is the new rational representation of systems that origins from some chemical concepts about the structure of molecules and graph theoretical chemical theory. Thisnovel text appeals to experienced researchers, students, and all those curious about theories of systems, complexities, and theoretical chemistry.

Allamel-Raffin, Catherine / Gangloff, J.-L. et al. (eds.), Experimentation in the Sciences: Comparative and Long-Term Historical Research on Experimental Practice. (Archimedes 72) 148 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <726-104>
ISBN 978-3-031-58504-3 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book takes a novel approach by highlighting comparative and long-term historical perspectives on experimental practice. The juxtaposition of accounts of natural, social, and medical experimentation is very enlightening, especially because the authors put the emphasis on the different kinds of objects of experimentation (physical matter, chemical reagents, social groups, organizations, sick individuals, archeological remains) and demonstrate how much the kinds of objects matter for the practice of experimentation, its methods, tools, and methodologies. Taken together, the chapters raise several fascinating questions for further study: What do these different approaches have in common? Why do we call them "experimentation"? What are the intersections among the fields and their developments? The volume engages philosophical approaches that are not well known to Anglophone readers (Bachelard, Bergson, Bernard, Canguilhem, among others) and brings to attention a wealth of Francophone secondary literature on past and present scientific experimentation. The collection fills a yawning gap in science, science studies, and philosophy of science teaching, making it particularly valuable philosophers and historians of science in all subfields.

Allen, Paul / Marcacci, Flavia (eds.), Divined Explanations. The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600-2000). (Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion 11) 316 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-105>
ISBN 978-90-04-70188-5 hard ¥39,224.- (税込) EUR 169.00

Critical junctures in the historical development of science owe their origins to ideas, concepts, and theories that became definitive in the minds of leading scientists who lived in a more or less religious culture. Scientists are never solitary, but always internal to a network of scientific relationships and friendships. They have a well-attested genius, nurtured not only by their scientific training but also by ideas and stimuli received from the cultural and social contexts in which they lived. In particular, metaphysical and theological aspirations guided the genesis of many scientific ideas. This book offers twelve examples of the development of scientific ideas that were shaped by religious factors and which changed the course of science itself. The interwoven nature of science, philosophy, theology, and culture is pervasive in these cases, thus demonstrating that throughout the modern era, natural philosophy enjoyed a deep coherence with theology. That entanglement lingers in the minds of scientists into the contemporary period, and it continues to nourish scientific creativity in subtle and profound ways. New explanations of the world have emerged through illuminative, revolutionary and, one might say, divined ways.

近世の火－科学、技術、都市空間
Bernasconi, Gianenrico / Storni, Marco (eds.), Early Modern Fire: Science, Technology, and the Urban Space. (Intersections 95) 376 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <726-107>
ISBN 978-90-04-52175-9 hard ¥30,869.- (税込) EUR 133.00

Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Mu?ller, Be?renge?re Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie The?baud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

Collodel, Matteo / Oberheim, Eric (eds.), Feyerabend's Formative Years. Volume 2: Feyerabend on Logical Empiricism, Bohm & Kuhn: Correspondence and Unpublished Papers. (Vienna Circle Institute Library 10) 349 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <726-108>
ISBN 978-3-031-57518-1 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The authors Matteo Collodel and Eric Oberheim take the reader on a journey through the early life of the famous Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend, whose groundbreaking work Against the Method forged new paths in the philosophical understanding of science. Collodel and Oberheim's book contains the translated correspondence of Feyerabend (1924-1994) with equally influential philosophers and scientists of the time, including Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, Carl G. Hempel, J.J.C. Smart, David Bohm, and Thomas Kuhn. This book offers an entirely unique approach to the philosopher Paul Feyerabend. Informative, challenging and profound, it immerses the reader deeply in the mind of a truly revolutionary philosopher of science.The main focus lies on the explanation of Paul Feyerabend's ideas on logical empiricism and quantum mechanics, which he developed especially in the 1960s. In order to appreciate the celebrated work of the philosopher, it is important to create an understanding of these formative years in Feyerabend's life and work.Anyone who knows similar discussions, like the paradigm shift of Thomas Kuhn, or has a passion for history, philosophy and science will be fascinated by the works of Paul Feyerabend. As scientists and followers of Feyerabend, Collodel and Oberheim strive to pay respect to the philosopher and to make his work accessible to a whole new generation.

Damboeck, Christian / Friedl, Johannes / Hoefer, Ulf (eds.), Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath. (Studien zur Oesterreichischen Philosophie 50) 374 pp. 2024:7 (Brill, NE) <726-109>
ISBN 978-90-04-68019-7 hard ¥35,743.- (税込) EUR 154.00

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close collaboration, and personal friendship, but also by controversies that were as heated as they were rarely fought out in public. Carnap and Neurath were, in the words of Olga Hahn-Neurath, "like-minded opponents". The essays in this volume deal with these key thinkers of logical empiricism from different perspectives, shedding light on the complex development of one of the most influential philosophical currents of the twentieth century in the midst of dark times.