The Archive for History of Exact Sciences casts light upon the conceptual groundwork of the sciences by analyzing the historical course of rigorous quantitative thought and the precise theory of nature in the fields of mathematics, physics, technical chemistry, computer science, astronomy, and the biological sciences, embracing as well their connections to experiment. This journal nourishes historical research meeting the standards of the mathematical sciences. Its aim is to give rapid and full publication to writings of exceptional depth, scope, and permanence.
The ARCHIVE prefers articles written in English but will accept submissions in French and German. Articles are published in the Archive ONLY via a member of the editorial board, who, by communicating the articles, vouches for its quality.

Editors-in-Chief:

JED Z. BUCHWALD
Humanities and Social Sciences 101-40, Caltech, 1200 East California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. buchwald@caltech.edu 

JEREMY J. GRAY 
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England UK. j.j.gray@open.ac.uk
Managing Editor:

FEDDE BENEDICTUS, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, F.J.Benedictus@uu.nl
Editorial Board:
UMBERTO BOTTAZZINI 
Dipartimento di matematica 'F. Enriques', via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy. umberto.bottazzini@unimi.it
VERONICA GAVAGNA
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica "Ulisse Dini", Viale Morgagni 67/a, 50134 Firenze, Italy
NICCOLÒ GUICCIARDINI
Dipartimento di Filosofia "Piero Martinetti", Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono 7, 
20122 Milano, Italy. niccolo.guicciardini@unibg.it
QI HAN
Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 55 Zhongguncun donglu, Haidan District, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China. qihan63@hotmail.com
ALEXANDER JONES
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,15 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028, USA. alexander.jones@nyu.edu
MANFRED D. LAUBICHLER
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, MC 4501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA. manfred.laubichler@asu.edu
JESPER LÜTZEN
Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 København Ø, Denmark. lutzen@math.ku.dk

ROBERT G. MORRISON
Bowdoin College, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA 

JOHN D. NORTON 
Department for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. jdnorton@pitt.edu

JÜRGEN RENN
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmann Str. 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany. renn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

TILMAN SAUER
Institute of Mathematics, FB08 Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,Staudinger Weg 9, D-55099 Mainz, Germany. tsauer@uni-mainz.de 

ALAN E. SHAPIRO 
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. ashapiro@physics.umn.edu
NOEL M. SWERDLOW 
Humanities and Social Sciences 101-40, Caltech, 1200 East California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. swerdlow@caltech.edu
BERNARD VITRAC 
AnHiMA, UMR 8210, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France. gernet@ehess.fr