CONTENTS

In memoriam: Vladimir Mikhailovich Orel (1931–2014). … pp. 3–4

General Problems in the History of Science

A. N. Rodny, E. B. Muzrukova. A periodization of the evolution of experimental science. … pp. 5–18
S. D. Khaitun. Personalized historico-scientific reconstruction: the case of Paul and Tatyana Ehrenfest’s article of 1911. … pp. 19–44

From the History of Science

R. A. Simonov. A possible depiction of a Greek measuring device in a twelfth-century Novgorod cathedral fresco. … pp. 45–60

Lessons from History

O. S. Romanova, V. A. Shirokova, N. A. Ozerova, V. M. Chesnov, A. G. Khropov. The Augustow Canal – a monument of nineteenth-century hydro-technology. … pp. 61–74
A. G. Vaganov. The birth of the concept of «popular science literature» in late nineteenth – early twentieth century Russia. … pp. 75–89
I. G. Pechenkin. N. M. Fedorovsky and the introduction of the complex method of solving R&D problems in geology 90 Materials for the Biographies of Scientists and Engineers. … pp. 90–100
A. V. Firsov. The Russian engineer Boris Loutzky: a short biographical chronicle. … pp. 101–128

Brief Communications

O. P. Belozerov. Eugene Gley and the harmozone concept: a problem of developmental mechanics in the context of endocrinology. … pp. 129–137
A. V. Kuzmin. Astronomic pars optica by Johannes Kepler and other records of experimentation in early optical astronomy. … pp. 138–144
V. I. Vasil`ev. Revisited history of science and technology: development of technical basis for academic book publishing (for the 290^th anniversary of the Academy of sciences). … pp. 145–152

Book Reviews

Russo-German Scientific Contacts and Cooperation in nineteenth-century Chemistry, Pharmacology and Medicine, reviewed by G. I. Smagina. … pp. 156–162
E. A. Zaytseva (Baum), G. I. Liubina, Vladimir Fedorovich Luginin (1834–1911) (Moscow, 2012), reviewed by N. P. Knekht. … pp. 163–168
A. P Gorkin (ed.). Socio-Economic Geography: A Thesaurus of Concepts and Terminology (Smolensk, 2013), reviewed by V. A. Snytko. … pp. 168–169
S. N. Khadzhiev, O. N. Emanuel (eds.). Academician Nikolai Alfredovich Plate in Recollections by his Contemporaries (Moscow, 2014), reviewed by T. A. Kursanova. … pp. 169–175
L. I. Lebedeva (ed.). Moscow University Biologists Settle down on the Lenin Hills (Moscow, 2011), reviewed by O. P. Belozerov. … pp. 175–177

Academic Life

F. L. Chernousko, E. Ya. Sysoeva. Conference on «The Great Russian Engineer V. G. Shukhov and his Scientific Legacy». … pp. 181–184
E. A. Liubchenko. The double jubilee of Russian physics. … pp. 184–193
N. M. Semenov. Новое экспозиционное пространство отечественного автопрома. … pp. 193–195