Centaurus Volume 63, Issue 3 (with HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SECTION: History of Science in Central and Eastern Europe)

 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SECTION: History of Science in Central and Eastern Europe (Mitchell Ash, Vedran Duančić, Jan Surman, Gábor Zemplén)

SPOTLIGHT SECTION: Silvanus P. Thompson: Quaker polymath and public scientist‐engineer: 

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000498/2021/63/3

CONTENTS

Spotlight Section: Silvanus P. Thompson: Quaker polymath and public scientist-engineerThis spotlight section focuses on the work and life of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, covering his scientific, engineering, biographical and religious contributions to Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and showing the relevance of his Quaker beliefs for his cultural authority as a public servant of science. Gooday G.: Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851--1916): An introduction to the spotlight section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  453

Gooday G.: “A many-sided crystal’’: Understanding the manifold legacy of Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851--1916) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  459

Cantor G.: Thompson, Biographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  475

Stanley M.: No slaves to words: S. P. Thompson’s theory of history . . . . . . . . . .  489

Arapostathis S. and Guagnini A.: Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson’s engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  499

Articles:Morris A. M. A.: “The joint labours of ingenious men”: John Smeaton’s Royal Society network and the Eddystone Lighthouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  513

Vermij R.: Simon Stevin through the lens of his dedications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  532

Historiographical Section: History of Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Ash M. G.: History of science in Central and Eastern Europe: Studies from Poland, Hungary, and Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  546

Duančić V.: Recent trends in the history of science in Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  553

Surman J.: Productive marginalities: The history of science in/about Poland since 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  569

Zemplén G. Á.: History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change . . . . . . . . . . . . .  585

Book Reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  603