[Histport] New issue | HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 20.1, June 2026

[José D´Encarnação <jde@fl.uc.pt>]

New issue | HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology

20.1, June 2026

 

We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology 

HoST is a peer-reviewed diamond open access journal, published online in English by Paradigm Publishing Services (De Gruyter), and results from a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC).

 

The full issue is available from this link. Articles can be downloaded separately or as one single compressed folder.

 

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 20.1, JUNE 2026

 

Thematic Dossier “Zoology and Commerce: Acclimatising the Useful Animal in the Iberian World and Beyond”

 

Introduction: New Histories of Acclimatization. The Iberian World and Beyond, by Oliver Hochadel 

 

Spaces of Acclimatization: Reales Sitios and the Introduction of Exotic Species in Spain (18th Century–Mid-19th Century), by
Nuria Benítez Prian and  Manuel García-Espantaleón Artal

 

Glamorous Feathers for the Metropolis. Promises and Failures in the Acclimatisation of the Ostrich in colonised Algeria (1854–1914), by
Laura Valls Plana

 

Centre of Acclimatisation: Francesc Darder and the Barcelona Zoo circa 1900, by
Oliver Hochadel

 

The Buenos Aires Zoological Garden, the Sociedad Rural Argentina, and the Multiple Goals of Argentine Acclimatization, by
Ashley Kerr

 

 

Varia

 

Human Morphology and Medical Thought in Fifth-Century Sri Lanka, by
Chandana Jayawardana 

 

Science and Horse Experts: the Lisbon Sociedade Hípica (1910–1974), by
Ignacio García-Pereda   

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Book Review: Carrió Cataldi, Leonardo Ariel. Temps, sciences et empire. Cosmographie et navigation dans les monarchies ibériques au XVIe siècle, by
Antonio Sánchez 

 

Book Review: Elly Dekker & Kristen Lippincott. A Globe Maker’s Model Book from Florence: Nicholaus Germanus and the Production of Globes in Fifteenth-Century Italy, by
Samuel Gessner

 

Book Review: Peter Dear. The World as We Know It. From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science, by
Josep Simon