J B Shank
Biographic Data
| ID | 1117412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J B Shank |
| GIVEN NAMES | J B |
| FAMILY NAME | Shank |
| SIGNATURE | SHANK J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Incomparable Monsignor
Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644)
The Colin Jones way, or historical scholarship with a wink and a smile
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe. Elizabethanne Boran and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 19. Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 358 pp. $140. - Volume 72 Issue 2
How Calculus-Based Mathematical Physics Arose in France after 1700
This essay argues that a historically specific actor-network narrative of how calculus-based mathematical physics came to be assembled and institutionalized in France around 1700 stands as an explanation of how and why this particular scientific development occurred in this particular time and place. In sum, its core argument is that deeply contextualized actor-network accounts of the contingent historical details productive of any precise scient…
Danilo Capecchi. The Problem of the Motion of Bodies
Special Issue
History of science today needs to fully escape from the categories and narrative frameworks created during the Cold War formation of the discipline. Most problematic is the portentous notion of science conceived as a uniquely European world-historical singular that founded modernity. The idea of a singular historical birth of science in the portentous singular, this article argues, is not a natural fact of world history, but a very recent concept…
Stephen Gaukroger. The Natural and the Human
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739–1841, is the third volume in Stephen Gaukroger’s emerging magnum opus, which narrates the story of how science has shaped modernity from its beginnings (as he discerns them) in the thirteenth century until the present. All three extant volumes carry the same subtitle stating their unified conception, and each advances a single overarching argument in chapters that are marked by…
A French Jesuit in the Royal Society of London
Is It Really Over? The French Revolution Twenty Years after the Bicentennial
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
A study of public culture, this book digs beneath the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with the Enlightenment to examine the actual historical changes that brought them togather in 18th century time and space. Shank re-examines Newton's status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement
Crisis
IN 1971, AS THE ORIGINATING DEBATES about the of the seventeenth century were reaching their twilight, Randolph Starn stepped into the role of Minerva's owl to offer a set of reflections on the category at the center of these fecund historical exchanges. In Historians and 'Crisis,' published in Past and Present, the journal that originated and sustained the discussion of the during its classic phase, Starn did not so much intervene in the debates…
A Note from the New Editors
Research Article| February 01 2008 A Note from the New Editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin; Patricia M. E. Lorcin Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google J. B. Shank J. B. Shank Associate Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2008) 31 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The Sciences in Old Regime France
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship J. B. Shank J. B. Shank Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (4): 661–695. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-4-661 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. B. Shank; The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship. French Historical Studies 1…
Cultures@Silicon Valley
Crisis
IN 1971, AS THE ORIGINATING DEBATES about the of the seventeenth century were reaching their twilight, Randolph Starn stepped into the role of Minerva's owl to offer a set of reflections on the category at the center of these fecund historical exchanges. In Historians and 'Crisis,' published in Past and Present, the journal that originated and sustained the discussion of the during its classic phase, Starn did not so much intervene in the debates…
How Calculus-Based Mathematical Physics Arose in France after 1700
This essay argues that a historically specific actor-network narrative of how calculus-based mathematical physics came to be assembled and institutionalized in France around 1700 stands as an explanation of how and why this particular scientific development occurred in this particular time and place. In sum, its core argument is that deeply contextualized actor-network accounts of the contingent historical details productive of any precise scient…
Special Issue
History of science today needs to fully escape from the categories and narrative frameworks created during the Cold War formation of the discipline. Most problematic is the portentous notion of science conceived as a uniquely European world-historical singular that founded modernity. The idea of a singular historical birth of science in the portentous singular, this article argues, is not a natural fact of world history, but a very recent concept…
Cultures@Silicon Valley
The Sciences in Old Regime France
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship J. B. Shank J. B. Shank Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (4): 661–695. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-4-661 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. B. Shank; The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship. French Historical Studies 1…
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
A study of public culture, this book digs beneath the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with the Enlightenment to examine the actual historical changes that brought them togather in 18th century time and space. Shank re-examines Newton's status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement
Crisis
IN 1971, AS THE ORIGINATING DEBATES about the of the seventeenth century were reaching their twilight, Randolph Starn stepped into the role of Minerva's owl to offer a set of reflections on the category at the center of these fecund historical exchanges. In Historians and 'Crisis,' published in Past and Present, the journal that originated and sustained the discussion of the during its classic phase, Starn did not so much intervene in the debates…
A Note from the New Editors
Research Article| February 01 2008 A Note from the New Editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin; Patricia M. E. Lorcin Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google J. B. Shank J. B. Shank Associate Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2008) 31 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
Is It Really Over? The French Revolution Twenty Years after the Bicentennial
A French Jesuit in the Royal Society of London
Special Issue
History of science today needs to fully escape from the categories and narrative frameworks created during the Cold War formation of the discipline. Most problematic is the portentous notion of science conceived as a uniquely European world-historical singular that founded modernity. The idea of a singular historical birth of science in the portentous singular, this article argues, is not a natural fact of world history, but a very recent concept…
Stephen Gaukroger. The Natural and the Human
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739–1841, is the third volume in Stephen Gaukroger’s emerging magnum opus, which narrates the story of how science has shaped modernity from its beginnings (as he discerns them) in the thirteenth century until the present. All three extant volumes carry the same subtitle stating their unified conception, and each advances a single overarching argument in chapters that are marked by…
Danilo Capecchi. The Problem of the Motion of Bodies
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe. Elizabethanne Boran and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 19. Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 358 pp. $140. - Volume 72 Issue 2
How Calculus-Based Mathematical Physics Arose in France after 1700
This essay argues that a historically specific actor-network narrative of how calculus-based mathematical physics came to be assembled and institutionalized in France around 1700 stands as an explanation of how and why this particular scientific development occurred in this particular time and place. In sum, its core argument is that deeply contextualized actor-network accounts of the contingent historical details productive of any precise scient…
Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644)
The Colin Jones way, or historical scholarship with a wink and a smile
The Incomparable Monsignor
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