Centaurus

NEW Essay Review The STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) initiative: Attempting to Historicize the Notion of European Science
Kostas Gavroglu

NEW Article: On Lavoisier’s Achievement in Chemistry
Geoffrey Blumenthal

Spotlight: Using the Past to Enhance the Future
Introduction by Margaret W. Rossiter

Issue: Cosmos and Cogweels – The Work of Ole Rømer (1644-1710)
Guest edited by Karin Tybjerg

Article with response: Galileo’s Refutation of the Speed-Distance Law of Fall
John D. Norton and Bryan W. Roberts
Response by Carla Rita Palmerino: Aggregating Speeds and Scaling Motions: A Response to Norton and Roberts
Response by W. R. Laird: Stillman Drake on Salviati's Proof

Articles:
Sword, Shield and Buoys. A History of the NATO Sub-Committee on Oceanographic Research, 1959-1973
Simone Turchetti

The ‘Annie Hypothesis’: Did the Death of his Daughter cause Darwin to ‘Give up Christianity’?
John van Wyhe and Mark J. Pallen

The Establishment of the New Field of Radio Astronomy in the Post-War Netherlands: A Search for Allies and Funding
Astrid Elbers

Color theory in Medieval Islamic lapidaries: Nīshābūrī, Tūsī and KāshānīEric
Kirchner and Mohammad Bagheri

Forthcoming

Issues:
Finding Science in Surprising Places: Gender and the Geography of Scientific Knowledge
Guest edited by Christine von Oertzen, Maria Rentetzi and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

New perspectives on Cold War science
Guest edited by Janet Martin Nielsen and Matthias Heymann

Accepted by ISI - Awaiting 2012 Impact Factor

We are pleased to announce that Centaurus has now been accepted into ISI, and we are currently awaiting the announcement of its first Impact Factor next year.

Content of the journal will be available on Web of Science in due course.