The Incomparable Historian

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- A Bibliography of the Writings of John L. Heilbron, 1964–2025 (Stefano Gattei).- My Autobiography for John: An Open Letter to a Dear Friend (Finn Aaserud).- Encomium (A. J. Lustig).- Part I: Early Modern Studies.- Chapter 1. Vincenzo Galilei on Zarlino’s Mathematical Demonstrations: Towards an Account of Science vs. Music in the Scientific Revolution (Maurice Finocchiaro).- Chapter 2. Reading Copernicus in Padua: The Case of Paolo Sarpi (Stefano Gattei).- Chapter 3. Wise Guy (Eileen Reeves).- Chapter 4. “In fibris corporis planetae”: Johannes Kepler and the Fabric of the Earth (Luca Ciancio).- Chapter 5. A Jesuit Journey from Heaven to Earth (Ivana Gambaro).- Chapter 6. How Huygens Avoided Figleaf Physics (Jed Buchwald).- Chapter 7. A Black Sheep in Isaac Newton’s Family? The Haunts of Benjamin Smith, Jr. (Mordechai Feingold).- Chapter 8. The Astronomy of Thomas Hornsby, 1763–1772: History, Geography and Computation (Jim Bennett†).- Chapter 9. Telescopic Hindsight: Forging Galileo in the 1920s (Nick Wilding).- Part II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- Chapter 10. Professor of Insects and Worms (Jessica Riskin).- Chapter 11. Darwin, Merchants, and Famines (Giuliano Pancaldi).- Chapter 12. Measures by Americans: The United States and the Establishment of International Electrical Standards, 1881–1897 (Daniel Kevles).- Chapter 13. D’Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and the Rise of Mathematical Biology (Brian Ross).- Chapter 14. Hiroshi Sugimoto and the History of Science (Matthias Dörries).- Part III: Styles in the Historiography of Science.- Chapter 15. Science and the Jewish Question (Tal Golan).- Chapter 16. Applied History of Science and the National Academy of Sciences (Peter Westwick).- Chapter 17. Citation Styles in History of Science: A Critical Discussion and a Proposal (Olivier Darrigol).- Chapter 18. From Hypatia to “Cosmos” and “Agora”: The Formation of a Fractal Narrative of Scientific Decline (Michael H. Shank).