History of Science in Open Access September 2025

This September is History of Science month at Brepols! 

To celebrate, we're highlighting several Science History books and journals
available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline.

Discover all of our available and forthcoming Open Access titles in our catalogue.

Learn more about our Open Access Policy here.

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Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles?
By Erin Connelly & Christina Lee
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World
Vernacular Texts and Traditions
Edited by Deborah Hayden & Sarah Baccianti

 

 

The Geographical Table in the Shāmil Zīj: Tackling a Thirteenth-Century Arabic Source with the Aid of a Computer Database
By Benno van Dalen
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables
Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences
Edited by Matthieu Husson, Clemency Montelle & Benno van Dalen

 

 

Complex Associations: On the Emotional Impact of Educational Film in the German Democratic Republic (1950–1990)
By Kerrin von Engelhardt
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Learning with Light and Shadows
Educational Lantern and Film Projection, 1860-1990
Edited by Nelleke Teughels & Kaat Wils

 

 

From Confusion to Clarity: The Dissemination of the European Theory of the Equation of Time in Late Ming and Early Qing China
By Chen Ji & Longfei Chu
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 66 (2024), Issue 3

 

 

The Syriac Tradition of the Physiologus
By Sami Aydin
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
The Multilingual Physiologus
Studies in the Oldest Greek Recension and its Translations
Edited by Caroline Macé & Jost Gippert

 

 

All In: Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts Devoted to Giovanni Bianchini’s Astronomy
By Glen Van Brummelen
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record
Edited by Richard Kremer, Mathieu Husson & José Chabás

 

 

Globalising Animals
Histories for the Anthropocene
By Raf De Bont
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Journal for the History of Environment and Society Vol. 7 – 2022

 

 

What Makes a Genius? Albert the Great on the Roots of Scientific Aptitude
By Henryk Anzulewicz
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Albert the Great and his Arabic Sources
Medieval Science between Inheritance and Emergence
Edited by Katja Krause & Richard C. Taylor

 

 

New Sciences and Old Diseases. Seventeenth-Century Readings of the Causes of the Plague
By Mariangela Priarolo, Michele Nicoletti & Alessandro Palazzo
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Epidemics and Pandemics
Philosophical Perspectives
Edited by Alessandro Palazzo & Michele Nicoletti

 

 

Le rapport entre les dimensions de la Terre et des astres
Par Aurora Panzica
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Publié dans
De la Lune à la Terre
Les débats sur le premier livre des Météorologiques d’Aristote au Moyen Âge latin (la tradition parisienne, XIIIe-XVe siècles)
Par Aurora Panzica