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« on: October 29, 2009, 01:03:43 PM » |
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While working in a research library a while ago, I stumbled across something previously unknown that seems significant for the history of science, involving an astronomer who’s household-name famous. Unfortunately, I’m neither a historian nor a scientist. I work on older literature in an MLA discipline. I’ve now written up and revised a 4300-word article, including 1200 words for an edition and translation of the relevant passage. Does anyone with more experience in the field have a suggestion of where to publish this kind of short article?
The essence of my article is, roughly: “Both Schmidt (2003) and Wesson (2006) agree that the first public notice of Kohannes Jeppler’s work is found in Hermann Metolius’s Stars on Ice of 1598, two years after publication of Jeppler’s Mysteriomysticum Cosmographicolicum. But in fact the first public notice came in Johannes Wurmholz’s Tewtonische Meteorologei of 1593, three years prior to publication of Jeppler’s initial work, which everyone in Jeppler Studies has previously overlooked. As Wurmholz is obscure but not unknown, I review the relevant details of his biography and clear up a couple loose ends before contextualizing the document and offering a couple thoughts about its significance for further research. Since this previously unknown document is important for the study of Jeppler, here’s an edition and translation of the good parts. The End.”
I’ve looked at Journal for the History of Astronomy, Journal for the History of Ideas, and Isis, but I don’t know that any of these is a perfect fit for an article as short as mine. (I searched the forum and found a reference to Endeavour, but that doesn’t look like a good fit at all in this case.) Are there other journals I should consider? Or should I just send a short e-mail to the editor of one of these journals and ask if they would be interested in my submitting the manuscript for review?
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