期刊名称：NUNCIUS-JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza [IMSS] was founded in 1927 at the initiative of the University of Florence under the name of Istituto di Storia delle Scienze. According to its Statute, its function was that of collecting, cataloguing and restoring ancient instruments and devices of historical and scientific interest. The University of Florence loaned the new institution its own collections of Medici-Lorraine scientific instruments, as well as precious library sources. The IMSS was founded within a particular historical and cultural context in which, starting from the 1920s, several initiatives were launched in Florence for the purpose of conserving and capitalizing on Italy's historical/scientific heritage. In 1923 the Gruppo per la Tutela del Patrimonio Scientifico was established in Florence and, subsequent to the foundation of the IMSS, the First National Exposition of the History of Science was organized in 1929.
The first exhibition halls of the IMSS, limited to a few rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Castellani, at the time shared with other institutions, were solemnly inaugurated in 1930. The first President of the Institute and Museum was Senator Piero Ginori Conti. The original arrangement of the Museum was planned by Andrea Corsini (1875-1961), who was its director until his death. Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli (1917-1981), his successor, imparted a further impetus to the process which, over the course of two decades, was to transform the IMSS into a modern museum and a research center frequented by Italian and foreign scholars. After the disastrous flood of 1966, the exhibition area was extended to the second floor of the palace, where the instruments which had been salvaged and restored, thanks to the collaboration of Italian and foreign specialists, were displayed.
Starting in the 1980s, the IMSS undertook a program of development and transformation which has produced not only an entirely new concept of museum display based on the most recent studies, but also a significant increment in its library and a growing investment in the application of the new information and communication technologies to the cultural heritage. Major effort has been dedicated to profitably utilizing and divulging the sources for studies on the history of science, especially as concerns the figure of Galileo Galilei and the Galilean school. In the last twenty years IMSS has also published a biannual review on the History of Science (Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza) as well as numerous specialized publications, has organized a great number of seminars and conferences, promoted innovative research, held specialized courses for young researchers and set up an outstanding series of exhibitions, many of which have been highly successful internationally as itinerant shows.
In the course of its history, the IMSS has constantly been a paragon, on both the national and the international level, for history of science research and for the issues involved in giving importance to the study of scientific instrumentation of historical interest. In particular, it has been a leader in the intense debate that has led to the full recognition of scientific instruments as a part of our cultural heritage, and has compiled the STS standard cataloguing system adopted by the Central Institute of Cataloguing and Documentation of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as standard for cataloguing historical/scientific property.
Among the many noteworthy recognitions conferred on the IMSS are the Prime Minister's Cultural Award of 1992, and a visit by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on April 9, 2002, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Library premises.
Instructions to Authors
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Nuncius is an international journal devoted to the history of science, published twice a year. Nuncius is the new series of the Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, founded in 1976 by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli.
- Manuscripts (three blind copies, plus a floppy disk or CD), no more than 40 pages in length (page calculated as typewritten text of 300 words) should be submitted to:
Editor of Nuncius
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza dei Giudici, 1
50122 Florence, Italy
Every manuscript, accompanied by an abstract in English (maximum 150 words), and a brief list of keywords (maximum 3), will be subjected anonymously to double-blind refereeing: all information concerning the author (name, last name, institution, address for notifications, e-mail address) should therefore be presented on a detachable cover.
- Manuscripts should be sent in the following format: Word for Windows Document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point, standard page, default margins, double-spaced.
- Bibliographic information should be given exclusively in footnotes (endnotes not accepted), and in the following manner:
a) references to books should include author’s full name in small-caps, complete title of the book in italics, and complete publishing information in the following order: place of publication, publisher, year of publication, page numbers cited.
Examples:
Christine Blondel, Matthias Dörries (eds.), Restaging Coulomb: usages, controversies et réplications autour de la balance de torsion (Firenze: Olschki, 1994).
John L. Heilbron, “On Coulomb’s Electrostatics Balance: Commentary? in Restaging Coulomb: usages, controversies et réplications autour de la balance de torsion, edited by Christine Blondel, Matthias Dörries (Firenze: Olschki, 1994), pp. 151-162.
Charles Darwin, The Correspondence, 13 vols., Vol. 1: 1821-1836 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 37.
b) references to articles in periodicals should include author’s full name in small-caps, title of article in Roman type between double quotation marks, title of periodical in italics, year, volume number (numerals in italics), page numbers of article; colon, page cited.
Example:
Angela Bandinelli, ?783, Lavoisier and Laplace, Another Crucial Year, Antiphlogistic Chemistry and the Investigation on Living Beings between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,?Nuncius, 2003, 18:127-139, p. 138.
c) Bearing in mind that bibliographic information should always be given in full at the first citation (particularly as concerns the author’s full name), succeeding bibliographic citations should be abbreviated, indicate only the author’s last name in small-caps and an abbreviated form of the title, followed by the reference, between round parentheses, to the number of the note in which reference was first made in full.
Example:
Darwin, The Correspondence (cit. note 32), p. 3.
- Languages: Nuncius accepts articles in English, French, and Italian.
- Each article is allowed up to a maximum of six images. All departures from this standard shall be agreed upon directly with the editor. Images submitted to Nuncius should be free of copyright restrictions.
- Once published, the copyright on manuscripts will be transferred to the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Articles already published in Nuncius may be published elsewhere but only with the permission of the editor. Articles that have already been published or are simultaneously presented to other journals will not be considered. Two years after their printed publication, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza reserves the right to publish the article, without alterations, on the Nuncius website. The authors receive 30 complimentary offprints of their articles.
For further information, please contact the Editor:
Marco Beretta
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza dei Giudici 1
50122 Florence, Italy
mberetta@imss.fi.it |
Editorial Board
Editorial Board |
Editor
Marco Beretta
Managing Editor
Marta Stefani
Editorial Board
Ferdinando Abbri, Annarita Angelini, Paola Bertucci (book review editor), Paolo Brenni, Antonio Clericuzio, Maria Conforti, Pietro Corsi, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Niccol?Guicciardini, Mara Miniati, Claudio Pogliano, Alessandro Tosi
International Advisory Board
Jim Bennett, Janet Browne, Vincenzo Cappelletti, Soraya de Chadarevian, Tore Frängsmyr, David Freedberg, Charles C. Gillispie, Anthony Grafton, Tullio Gregory, Robert Halleux, Rob Iliffe, Pamela Long, Michael McVaugh, Renato G. Mazzolini, Christoph Meinel, Dominique Pestre, Kathryn Olesko, Paolo Rossi, Alan Shapiro, Raffaella Simili
Editor of the Nuncius Newsletter
Giorgio Strano
Editorial Assistants
Victor Beard, Elisa Bonaiuti, Veronica Campinoti, Gianna Gheri, Elena Montali
Managing Director
Paolo Galluzzi |
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