As a tribute to the Belgian historian of mathematics, Henri Bosmans, we present here an archive with information about his life and works and a complete database of his writings. Most of his publications have been in the Annales de la société scientifique de Bruxelles, Revue des Questions scientifiques and Mathesis, which might be difficult to find. As such, we respond to the unanswered call by George Sarton (1949) to bring Bosmans’ publications under the attention of a wider audience. This project will make available PDF scans of most of his writing.
For additions, corrections and other suggestions, please send an e-mail to albrecht.heeffer (at) ugent.be at the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University.
In preparation
An online database with all publication of
Henri Bosmans. This bibliography started from
the article by A. Rome (1929) which is fairly complete concerning articles, but
leaves out several interesting reviews of books and other publications. Henri Bernard-Maître (1950) compiled a more comprehensive bibliography of
Bosmans’ articles containing 241 entries. With currently
298 entries, our bibliography is the most complete resource on the publications
by Henri Bosmans.
Some
explanation:
[Rxxx] refers to the index in the bibliography of
[Bxxx] is the entry number of the item in Bernard-Maître’s bibliography
Question
and answer numbers from Intermédiares des Mathématiciens
and Bibliotheca Mathematica
are referred to by [Qxxxx] and [Axxxx]
respectively. Comments on Cantor’s Vorlesungen in Bibliotheca
Mathematica are indicated by [Cvppp]
with v: volume and ppp: page number.
A.
“Preface to Volume 40: An Appeal for the Republication in Book Form of Father Bosmans' Studies on Belgian Mathematics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, Isis, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-6.
Henri Bernard-Maître (1950) “Un historien des
mathématiques en Europe et en Chine, le père Henri Bosmans
S.J. (1852-1928) ”, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 619-628.
Henri Bernard-Maître (1950) “Bibliographier des œuvres
du Père H. Bosmans”, Archives
Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 629-656.
Paul Van Praag
(1997) “Simon Stevin”, in La Bibliothèque de l'Université de Mons-Hainaut 1797-1997, éd. de l’UMH,
1997, pp.135-139.
Paul Van Praag
(1997) “Les nombres décimaux illimités”, éditions du CREM ,1997.
Paul Van Praag
(2004) “La retranscription de
l'Appendice Algebraique
par le Père Henri Bosmans”
in H. Elkhadem, W. Bracke (2004) (eds.), Simon Stevin 1548-1620 L'émergence de la nouvelle science, Publications of the Belgian Royal Library, 6, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 63-71.
Commemorative symposium on Henri Bosmans,
ULB,