New issue: CENTAURUS, vol. 61, issues 1 & 2 + virtual issue

CENTAURUS The journal of the European Society for the History of Science The two latest issues of Centaurus are now available online: Volume 61, Issue 1 & 2, including special issue: Fun and fear: The banalisation of nuclear technologies through display Virtual issue: /History of early astronomy/ VOLUME 61, ISSUE 1 & 2 CONTENTS: 1. Editorial <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12236>, Koen Vermeir Special issue: Fun and fear: The banalisation of nuclear technologies through display GUEST EDITORS: Jaume Sastre-Juan & Jaume Valentines-Álvarez How do nuclear technologies become commonplace? How have the borders between the exceptional and the banal been drawn and redrawn in order to make nuclear energy part of everyday life? The case-studies of this special issue, covering the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Ukraine from the 1950s to the 2000s, analyze the role of fun and display in shaping the cultural representation and the material circulation (or non-circulation) of nuclear technologies. 2. Jaume Sastre-Juan & Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, 'Fun and fear: The banalization of nuclear technologies through display<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12223>’ 3. Alison Boyle, ‘"Banishing the atom pile bogy": Exhibiting Britain’s first nuclear reactor <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12220>’ 4. Jaume Sastre-Juan, '“If You Tilt This Game, Will It Explode?”: The politics of nuclear display at the New York Hall of Science (1966–1973 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12216>’ 5. Tatiana Kasperski, 'Children, nation and reactors: Imagining and promoting nuclear power in contemporary Ukraine <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12226>' 6. Jaume Valentines-Álvarez & Ana Macaya-Andrés, ‘Making fun of the atom: Humor and pleasant forms of anti-nuclear resistance in the Iberian Peninsula, 1974–1984 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12224>

Articles 7. C. Philipp E. Nothaft, 'An Alfonsine universe: Nicolò Conti and Georg Peurbach on the threefold motion of the fixed stars <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12200>’

ESHS Contributions* 8. Antoni Malet, 'Science and power: Francoist Spain (1939–1975) as a case study <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12210>’ Book reviews 9. Models of innovation: The history of an idea, by Benoît Godin (MIT Press <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12180>)<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498>, review by Christophe Lécuyer 10. Detrás de la cortina. El sexo en España (1790–1950), by Jean-Louis Guereña (Cátedra)<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12214>, review by José Carlos Loredo 11. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, by Yulia Frumer (University of Chicago Press) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12202>, review by Annick Horiuchi ——— VIRTUAL ISSUE: /HISTORY OF EARLY ASTRONOMY/* Centaurus Virtual Issues are curated online collections of articles from the archives of the journal, complemented by current and even future issues. They put the focus on Centaurus' rich tradition of publishing in the history of science since the 1950s. CONTENTS: Our first virtual issue offers a voyage through the history of early astronomy, a discipline for which Centaurus has served for decades as a journal of reference. This issue highlights some remarkable articles that show the diversity of Centaurus’ older and more recent publications in the history of early astronomy, covering ancient Late Babylonian and Greek astronomy, Islamicate, Jewish and Latin Medieval astronomy, with a few texts venturing into the Renaissance and Early Modern period. 1. Introduction <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12256>, Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir 2. Lis Brack‐Bernsen and John M. Steele, 'Eclipse prediction and the length of the saros in Babylonian astronomy <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2005.470301.x>' (2005) 3. Asger Aaboe, 'On the Babylonian origin of some Hipparchian parameters <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1955.tb00619.x>' (1955) 4. G. J. Toomer, 'Hipparchus’ emprical basis for his lunar mean motions <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1980.tb00367.x>' (1980) 5. Alexander Jones, 'Studies in the astronomy of the Roman period: I. The standard lunar scheme <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1997.tb00023.x>' (1997) 6. George Saliba, 'The determination of new planetary parameters at the Maragha observatory <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1986.tb00859.x>' (1986) 7. Ruth Glasner, ‘Gersonides' unusual position on "position" <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2003.450119.x>' (2003) 8. Bernard R. Goldstein, 'The status of models in ancient and medieval astronomy <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1980.tb00370.x>' (1980) 9. Michael H. Shank, 'Rings in a fluid heaven: The equatorium-driven physical astronomy of Guido de Marchia (fl. 1292–1310) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2003.450116.x>' (2003) 10. Darin Hayton, 'Martin Bylica at the court of Matthias Corvinus: Astrology and politics in Renaissance Hungary <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2007.00080.x>' (2007) 11. J. D. North, 'Astrology and the fortunes of churches <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1980.tb00375.x>' (1980)