A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and
technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American …

This paper accounts for the intercontinental elaboration of French mathematician Laurent
Schwartz's theory of distributions in the years immediately following World War II by tracing …

This entry examines two similar but non-identical areas: early modern women (writers) and
science, and early modern women (writers) and natural philosophy. Using the term “science” …

José Julián López de Castro es, junto a Diego de Torres Villarroel, uno de los
componedores de almanaques cuyo perfil autorial se ha dibujado con una mayor nitidez …

Recent years have seen a number of new scholarly and popular works highlighting the
contributions, often unlikely and under-appreciated, of women to mathematics and …

While 18th-century almanacs transmitted usable information that was meant to be relevant to
daily life, at the beginning of the century they also began to function as an educational …