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Bibliography of the works of Henk J.M. Bos

The following bibliography was prepared by Jan Hogendijk.

Most of the publications are available online and can be downloaded through the links.

The list of publications has appeared as an appendix to: Viktor Blåsjö, Henk Bos in Memoriam: with notes from his Nachlass, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5th series, 26 no. 1, March 2025, see for the appendix pp. 21-25.


Publications in Dutch (Nederlands)

Unpublished texts in Dutch (Nederlands)

Publications in English

Unpublished texts in English

Publications in French

Publications in German

Publications in Italian

Publications in Danish

Publication in Spanish

Publication in Japanese

Book reviews

Audio

The items in all these subsections have been indicated by notations such as (N1968), (NU1996), (E1999), (EU2000), etc. where N means Nederlands (i.e., Dutch), NU Nederlands Unpublished, E English, EU English Unpublished, etc.

Note: MR means that the publication was reviewed in Mathematical Reviews (only real reviews have been added here)

* means: seen by JPH in the course of preparing this bibliography

[UB MI xxx] means: book found in the library of the Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, under the signature xxx.

Publicaties in het Nederlands

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1968) Enige onderwerpen uit de geschiedenis van de wiskunde in de 16e en 17e eeuw waaraan de naam van Simon Stevin verbonden is, pp. 1-17 in Vacantiecursus 1968, de geschiedenis van de wiskunde tot omstreeks 1900. Amsterdam, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. Stellingen bij het proefschrift (E1973).
  3. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1974) Algebraïsche vergelijkingen en Galois theory, een historisch overzicht, pp. 1-22 in vol. 1 van Vacantiecursus 1974, algebraïsche vergelijkingen, Amsterdam, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Scan
  4. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1976-77a) Carl Friedrich Gauss, een biographische notitie, Nieuw Tijdschrift voor Wiskunde 64 no. 4, pp. 234-240. [MR0476348] Scan
  5. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1976-77b) Mathematisering en maatschappij, of, hoe loopt een succes-story af? Euclides 52 no. 3, pp. 82-91 [MR0504580] Download de aflevering van Euclides.
  6. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1977) Gauss 1777-1855, Wiskunde en Onderwijs 3, no. 12, pp. 6-16.
  7. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1979a) Christiaan Huygens, De Gids jaargang 142, pp. 306-319. Herdrukt in (N1990b). Online versie(dnbl.nl). Engelse vertaling in (E1993, pp. 59-81).
  8. Bos, Henk J.M., (N1797b) De toepasbaasheid van de wiskunde - historische etappes, pp. 1-4 in Vakantiecursus 1979, Nieuwe Toepassingsgebieden in de wiskunde, Amsterdam, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum
  9. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1980abc) Wiskunde en maatschappij I, Wiskunde en maatschappij II, voorbeelden van interactie, en Wiskunde en maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid, Wiskunde en Onderwijs 6, pp. 57-67, 231-238, 367-374. Scan.
  10. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1980-1) De constructie van vergelijkingen, een vergeten voorouder van de algebraïsche meetkunde. Nieuw Tijdschrift voor Wiskunde 68 no. 4, pp. 154-165. [MR0615885] Scan
  11. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1981-2) Algebraïsche vergelijkingen en Galois-theorie, een historisch overzicht. Nieuw Tijdschrift voor Wiskunde 69 no. 4, pp. 143-165. [MR0650211] Scan
  12. Bos, Henk J.M., (N1983). Elementen van de wiskunde - ze zijn niet meer wat ze vroeger waren. Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 4th series, vol. 1 no.2, pp. 101-132 [MR0712426]. Scan. English translation in (E1993a), pp. 141-163.
  13. Bos, Henk J.M., (N1984a) Johan Frederik Hennert, wiskundige en filosoof te Utrecht aan het eind van de achttiende eeuw, Gewina: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde Natuurwetenschappen en Techniek 7, pp. 19-31. Download de hele jaargang 7 van het Gewina tijdschrift.
  14. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1984b) Rekenkunde bij de Romeinen. De Gids jaargang 147, pp. 639-640. Online versie (dnbl.nl)
  15. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1987) Vanuit herkenning en verbazing. Inaugurele rede, 20 maart 1987, Utrecht. [UB MI Bo 32.3 2] Scan
  16. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1989a) Vanuit herkenning en verbazing, Euclides 63, pp. 65-76. Engelse vertaling in (E1989a). Download de aflevering van Euclides.
  17. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1989b) Descartes en het begin van de analytische meetkunde, pp. 79-97 in A.W. Grootendorst, ed., Vacantiecursus 1989: Wiskunde in de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam: CWI Syllabus 25. ISBN 90 6196 378 8 Scan.
  18. Alberts G., Bos, Henk J.M., Nuis, J. (N1989c), Om de wiskunde: stimulansen voor toepassingsgerichte wiskunde rond 1946, Amsterdam, CWI.
  19. Bos, Henk J.M. (N1990a) Wiskunde en maatschappij - een discussie in de leraarskamer, met historische episodes, Euclides 65. pp. 255-267. [Eerdere Engelse versie in (E1984c), Deense versie in (D1984)] Download de hele aflevering van Euclides.
  20. Bos, Henk J.M., (N1990b) Christiaan Huygens (Herdruk van (N1979a), pp. 270-296 in Christiaan Huygens, Verhandeling over het Licht, vertaling en origineel van de Traité de la lumière van 1690 (vertaling Dieuwke Eringa), Utrecht, Epsilon Uitgaven.
  21. Bos, Henk J. M. (N1996) Descartes en het begin van de analytische meetkunde. Wiskunde en Onderwijs, 22, pp. 276-293.
  22. Bos, Henk J. M. (N2000) De cirkel gedeeld, de omtrek becijferd en pi gebeiteld: Ludolph van Ceulen en de uitdaging van de wiskunde. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 5, 1(3), pp. 259-262. Download hier of hier. Ongepublicerde Engelse vertaling in (EU2000).
    Preprint no. 1151, Mathematisch Instituut Utrecht, Juli 2000.
  23. Bos, Henk J. M. (N2001) Uit de ivoren toren. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 5, deel 2 no. 3, pp. 244-247. [Bij het overlijden van Dirk Struik, 1894-2000] Download hier of hier.
  24. van Ommen, K., en Bos, Henk J. M. (N2003a) "Een onvermoeide arbeid komt alles te boven": De Bibliotheca mathematica, paedagogica en biographica van David Bierens de Haan, Catalogus van een tentoonstelling in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, 3 juli - 3 augustus 2003. (Kleine publicaties van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek).
  25. van Ommen, K., en Bos, Henk J. M. (N2003b) De Bibliotheca mathematica van Bierens de Haan. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 5, 4(3), pp. 242-251. Download hier of hier
  26. Bos, Henk J. M. (N2003c) Ludolph van Ceulen en de uitdaging van de wiskunde, pp. 129-137 in Bart de Smit, Jaap Top, eds., Speeltuin van de Wiskunde: Opties, kansspelen, Escher, pi, Fermat, en meer. Diemen, Veen Magazines.
  27. Bos, Henk J. M. (N2004) Simon Stevin, wiskundige, pp. 49-61 in Simon Stevin 1548-1620: De geboorte van de nieuwe wetenschap. Uitgave ter gelegenheid van een tentoonstelling over Simon Stevin in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België. Turnhout: Brepols. *
  28. Bos, Henk J.M. (N2005a) Descartes en de wiskunde, pp. 51-69 in Willem Koops, ed., Née Cartésienne - Cartesiaansch Gebooren: Descartes en de Utrechtse Academie, 1635-2005, Assen, Van Gorcum. *
  29. Bos, Henk J. M. (N2006) De zeventiende eeuw - wiskunde aan het begin van de Moderne Tijd, pp. 101-126 in M. Keestra (Ed.), Een cultuurgeschiedenis van de wiskunde. Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds. Download het hele boek gratis op de website van Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds.
  30. Bos, Henk J.M. (N2011) Nawoord bij de Geometrie, pp. 535-570 in René Descartes, Bibliotheek Descartes in acht banden,Band 3: Over de methode, Dioptriek, Meteoren, Geometrie redactie Erik-Jan Bos, Han van Ruler, vertaling Jeanne Holierhoek, Amsterdam, Boom, ISBN 978 90 8506 659 0. Zie https://www.boomfilosofie.nl/product/100-1001_Over-de-methode. *

Ongepubliceerde teksten in het Nederlands

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU1976) College: Wiskunde en Maatschappij, 22 januari 1976, in de bundel H. Bos en F. Verhulst, Kaleidoscoop van de Wiskunde 1975-76 [UB MI DXBO 00.3 2] Scan (inclusief de inleiding tot de bundel)
  2. Bos, Henk J.M., C. van Ewijk, B. Holsappel, (NU1981) De maatschappelijke functie van de wiskunde: materiaal en projekten, Mathematisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Maart 1981, bundel bij het college Maatschappelijke Functie van de Wiskunde. [UB MI DXBO 00.3 5A] Scan.
  3. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU1982) Diktaat: " De stellingen van Pappus, Desargues en Pascal, aanvulling bij het diktaat geschiedenis van de wiskunde, " Utrecht, Mathematisch Instituut, 35 pp. Scan.
  4. Bos, Henk J.M., (NU1983a) De maatschappelijke functie van de wiskunde, Mathematisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 1983. Scan van pp 1-15 en p. 30-42 (pp. 16-29 van de bundel is een overdruk van (N1980abc), voorbij p. 44 artikelen van andere auteurs, voor een lijst zie p. 2 van de bundel) [UB MI DXBO 00.3 5]
  5. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU1983b) Lezing " Episodes uit de Nederlandse wetenschapsgeschiedenis uit de 17e eeuw, of, de behoedzame relatie van de Lage Landen met de Wetenschappelijke Revolutie, " gehouden op 26 mei 1983 in het Provinciaal Genootschap Utrecht, 8 pp. Scan.
  6. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU 1984) Scriptie schrijven. Aanwijzingen bij het verzamelen en verwerken van gegevens en het presenteren daarvan in de vorm van een scriptie. Derde editie, sept. 1984, bij het college Geschiedenis van de Wiskunde [UB MI DXBO 00.3 6A]. Scan
  7. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU1985) Diktaat: " De Maatschappelijke Functie van de wiskunde: Historische ontwikkeling vanaf ca. 1800." Utrecht, Mathematisch Instituut, 17 pp. Scan.
  8. Bos. Henk J.M. (NU1995) Materiaal voor de cursus geschiedenis van de wiskunde voor derdejaars wiskundestudenten.
    Diktaat. N.B. er zijn ook TeX-files van de diverse hoofdstukken beschikbaar.
    Literatuurlijst bij het college (11 blz.)
    Opdracht 1: Bronnenopdracht. De student kon uit verschillende mogelijkheden kiezen. Hier zijn er een paar (er waren meer mogelijkheden dan deze):
    Egyptische wiskunde.   Apollonius over de parabool.   Archimedes, kwadratuur van de parabool.   De Elementen van Euclides boek 12 stelling 12.   Chinese wiskunde.
    Opdracht 2: orientatieopdracht op een scriptieonderwerp. Scan
    Opdracht 3: oude boeken opdracht. Scan
    Opdracht 4 was de scriptie. Henk's handleiding scriptie schrijven diende hierbij gebruikt te worden.
    Enquete die Henk aan het begin van de cursus afnam om erachter te komen waarin de studenten geïnteresseerd waren.
  9. Bos, Henk J.M. (NU1996) Vijf columns over de geschiedenis van het getal voor het Teleac (radio)programma Faros, 1996, download.

Publications in English

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1968) Descriptive catalogue, mechanical instruments in the Utrecht University Museum, Utrecht: University Museum.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1972) Article "Christiaan Huygens", in vol. 6, pp. 597-612 in C.G. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. Online version (encyclopedia.com)
  3. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1973) Differentials, higher order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus, PhD dissertation, Utrecht University, promoters H. Freudenthal, J. R. Ravetz, public defense on September 26, 1973. 153 pp. Published in (E1974a) [UU MI Bo 32.3 1] Scan   Stellingen (in Dutch).
  4. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1974a) Differentials, Higher-order Differentials and the Derivative in the Leibnizian Calculus. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 14(1), pp. 1-90, [MR0469624], https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327456, available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/41133417
  5. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1974b) The lemniscate of Bernoulli (translation of a paper read to the congress of Dutch mathematicians in Delft on April 6th, 1970) pp. 3-14 in R.S. Cohen et. al, ed. For Dirk Struik: Scientific, historical and political essays in honour of Dirk J. Struik, Dordrecht, Reidel, Boston Stud. Philos. Sci. XV, Synthese Library 61. Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 101-111.
  6. Baron, M. A. and Bos, Henk J.M. (E1974c) Newton and Leibniz, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press. Unit C3 in the Open University course AM 289 "History of Mathematics - origins and development of the calculus." Information on the course in Historia Mathematica 2, pp. 322-333, available online (Elsevier open archive) or download here (core.ac.uk)
  7. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1975a) The calculus in the eighteenth century, I: Foundations, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press. Unit C4 in the Open University course AM 289 "History of Mathematics - origins and development of the calculus."
  8. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1975b) The calculus in the eighteenth century, II: Tecnniques and Applications, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press. Unit C5 in the Open University course AM 289 "History of Mathematics - origins and development of the calculus."
  9. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1976) History of mathematics in the mathematics curriculum at Utrecht University, Historia Mathematica 3, pp. 473-476. Available online (Elsevier Open Archive)
  10. Bos, Henk J.M. and Mehrtens, H. (E1977a) The interactions of mathematics and society in history, some exploratory remarks, Historia Mathematica 4, pp. 7-30 [MR0469609] Available online (Elsevier Open Archive)
  11. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1977b) Calculus in the eighteenth century, the role of applications, Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (UK), 13, no. 9-10, pp. 221-227, and erratum in Bulletin Inst.Math. Appl. 13 (1977) no. 11-12, p. 262. [MR0504853] Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 113-127.
    Preprint no. 54, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, March 1977.
  12. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1978a) David Bierens de Haan 1822-1895. Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 3d series, 26 no. 1, pp. 65-73. [MR0484095] Scan
  13. Bos. Henk J.M. (E1978b) The influence of Huygens on the formation of Leibniz's ideas, pp. 59-68 in Albert Heinekamp, Dieter Mettler, eds., Leibniz à Paris (1672-1676) vol. 1. Les sciences. Symposium of the G.W. Leibniz Society (Hannover) and the CNRS, Paris, held in Chantilly, Nov. 14-18, 1976. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag,Studia Leibnitiana Suppl. XVII. ISBN 3-515-02838-2. [MR0594601]
    Preprint no. 39, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, November 1976.
  14. Bertin, E., Bos, Henk J.M., Grootendorst, A., eds., (E1978c) Two decades of mathematics in the Netherlands, 1920-1940, a retrospection on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Wiskundig Genootschap, Amsterdam, Mathematisch Centrum, 2 vols. * [UU MI BE 25.5]
  15. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1978d) E.J. Dijksterhuis and Eudoxos' theory of ratio (Translation of Chapter 8, Sections 1 and 2 of E.J. Dijksterhuis, De Elementen van Euclides, Groningen 19xx, with commentary), pp. 177-193 in vol. 1 of (E1978b). Scan
  16. Bos. Henk J.M. (E1978e) Gauss 1777-1855, pp. 1-14 in A.F. Monna, ed., Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855, four lectures on his life and work, Utrecht, Mathematical Institute, Communications of the Mathematical Institute, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, no. 7. Scan
  17. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1980a) Newton, Leibniz, and the Leibnizian tradition, Chapter 2 pp. 49-93 in: I. Grattan-Guinness, ed., From the calculus to set theory 1630-1910. An introductory history. London: Duckworth. Reprinted in 2000, Princeton: Princeton University Press. *
  18. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1980b) Christiaan Huygens - a biographical sketch, pp. 7-16 in (E1980d). This is an English translation of the first part of (N1979a). The English translation of the whole of (N1979a) was reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 59-81.
  19. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1980c) Huygens and mathematics p. 126-146 in (E1980d). Scan
  20. Bos, Henk J.M., M. Rudwick, H. Snelders, R. Visser, eds., (E1980d) Studies on Christiaan Huygens, invited papers from the symposium on the life and work of Christaan Huygens, Amsterdam, 23-25 August 1979, Lisse, Swets and Zeitlinger. *
  21. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1980e) Algebraization in Descartes' Géométrie, pp. 42-57 in E. Bertin e.a., ed., Symposium dedicated to A.F. Monna (French), held in Utrecht, December 18, 1979, Utrecht 1980, Communications of the Mathematical Institute, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 12. [MR06001954] Scan
  22. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1980f) Mathematics and rational mechanics, Chapter 8, pp. 327-355 in C.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-22599-1. Reprinted 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572982.009
  23. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1981a) On the representation of curves in Descartes' Géométrie. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 24 no. 4, pp. 295-338 [MR0635811]. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00357312, available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/41133624
    Preprint no. 142, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, February 1980.
  24. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1981b) "Queen and servant" the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences. Lecture during the one-day conference on "De evolutie van het wetenschappelijk denken" Antwerpen, 18 April 1981. Published in (E1993a), pp. 165-180.
  25. Mehrtens, H., Bos, Henk J.M., Schneider, I., (E1981c) Chapter: Mathematics and Revolution from Cauchy to Lacroix, pp. 50-71 in (E1981d). Chapter available online via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-9491-4_4
  26. Bos, Henk J.M., H. Mehrtens, I. Schneider, eds., (E1981d) Book: Social history of nineteenth-century mathematics, Boston, Birkhäser. Available online via https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-9491-4 *
  27. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1984a) Arguments on motivation in the rise and decline of a mathematical theory: the "construction of equations," 1637-1750. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 30 no. 3-4, pp. 331-380 [MR0760315], https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328124, available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/41133725
    Preprint no. 246, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, August 1982.
  28. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1984b) The closure theorem of Poncelet, Rend. Sem. Mat. Fis. Milano 54, pp. 145-158 [MR0909049] Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 129-140. scan
  29. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1984c) Mathematics and its social context: a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes, For the learning of mathematics 4 (no. 3), Nov. 1984, pp. 2-9. Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 181-197.
  30. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1985) The significance of Sluse's Mesolabum within seventeenth-century geometry and algebra, pp. 145-163 in Actes du Colloque International "René-François de Sluse" Amay-Liè-Visé, 20-22 Mars 1985, Bull. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liège 55 no. 1 (1986), pp. 145-163. [MR0849823] Scan
    Preprint no. 384, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, June 1985.
  31. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1986) Fundamental concepts of the Leibnizian calculus, pp. 103-118 in: Albert Heinekamp, ed., 300 Jahre Nova Methodus von G.W. Leibniz (1684-1984). Proceedings from the symposium held in Noordwijkerhout, August 28-30, 1984. Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 14. Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-515-04470-1. [MR0979803] Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 83-99.
  32. Bos, Henk J.M., Kers, C., Oort, F., Raven, D.W. (E1987a) Poncelet's closure theorem, Expositiones Mathematicae 5, pp. 289-364. [MR0917349] Scan
  33. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1987b) The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics, pp. 1629-1641 in: Andrew M. Gleason, ed., Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Held at the University of California, Berkeley, August 3-11, 1986, vol. 2. Providence, American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8128-0110-4. [UB MI PROC 1986 43/2] Reprinted in (E1993a), pp. 23-36.
    Preprint no. 431, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, September 1986.
  34. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1988) Tractional Motion and the Legitimation of Transcendental Curves. Centaurus, 31, pp. 9-62, available online https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1988.tb00714.x (Wiley Online Library) [MR0954279]
    Preprint no. 485, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, November 1987.
  35. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1989a) Recognition and wonder: Huygens, tractional motion and some thoughts on the history of mathematics. Translated from the Dutch (N1987). Tractrix, yearbook for the history of science, medicine, technology and mathematics, 1, pp. 3-20. Reprinted in (E1993a) pp. 1-21. Download
    Preprint no 584, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, September 1989.
  36. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1989b) Tractional motion 1692-1767: the journey of a mathematical theme from Holland to Italy, pp. 207-229 in C.S. Maffioli, L. C. Palm, Italian Scientists in the Low Countries in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, Amsterdam. Scan.
  37. Visser, R.P.W., Bos, Henk J.M., Palm, L.C., and Snelders H.A.M, eds., (E1989c) New Trends in the History of Science: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Utrecht, Amsterdam/Atlanta, Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, no. 30, 293 pp.
  38. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1990) The structure of Descartes' Géométrie, pp. 349-369 in Giulia Belgoioiso et. al, eds., Descartes: il metodo e i saggi: Atti del convegno per il 350o anniversario della publicazione del Discour de la Méthode e degli Essias, Florence, Armando Paoletti, 2 vols. Reprinted in (E1993a) pp. 37-57.
    Preprint no. 506, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, March 1988.
  39. Bos. Henk J.M. (E1992a) On the interpretation of exactness, pp. 23-44 in Johannes Caermak, ed., Philosophy of Mathematics. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium Held in Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 16-23, 1992, Vol. 1. Vienna 1998, Höder-Pichler-Tempsky, Schriftenreihe Wittgenstein-Ges. 20/1. ISBN 3-209-01591-0. [MR1282034] Scan
  40. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1992b) Descartes, the Pappus problem and the Cartesian parabola: a conjecture, pp. 71-96 in P.M. Harman, Alan E. Shapiro, ed., The investigation of difficult things: Essays on Newton and the History of Exact Sciences in Honour of D.T. Whiteside, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37435-9. [MR1200051]
  41. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1992c) In Memoriam Hans Freudenthal. Historia Mathematica 19, pp. 106-108. Available online (Elsevier Open Archive)
  42. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1993a) Book: Lectures in the history of mathematics x + 197 pp. Providence, American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-9001-8. [MR1251059]. Corrected reprint 1997, Providence, American Mathematical Society. * [UB MI Bo 32.3 3] Also available as e-book
  43. Bos. Henk J.M. (E1993b) Johann Molther's Problema Deliacum, pp. 29-46 in M. Folkerts, J.P. Hogendijk, eds., Vestigia Mathematica: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Mathematics in Honour of H.L.L. Busard, Amsterdam, Rodopi, ISBN 90-5183-536-1. [MR1258819] Scan
  44. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1993c) The bond with reality is cut - Freudenthal on the foundations of geometry around 1900. pp. 51-58 in Leen Streefland, ed., The legacy of Hans Freudenthal, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1993, = Educational Studies in Mathematics 25 (1993) vol. 1-2, pp 51-58, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01274101
  45. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1994) The perenniality of programs, based on the presentation of Henk Bos, in Round Table E: Mathematical Europe, Myth or Historical Reality? pp. 165-168 in vol. 3: Round Tables, of A. Joseph et al., ed., First European Conference of Mathematics, Paris, July 6-10, 1992, Proceedings, [UB MI PROC 1992 26/3]. *
  46. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1995) Christiaan Huygens, pp. 18-21 in Elisabeth Pauly, ed., Célébrations Nationales, Paris, Direction des Archives (CHECK)
  47. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1996a) Johann Bernoulli on exponential curves, ca. 1695: innovation and habituation in the transition from explicit constructions to implicit functions. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde. Serie 4, 14, pp. 1-19. [MR1400038] Scan.
  48. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1996b) Tradition and modenity in early modern mathematics: Viète, Descartes and Fermat, pp. 183-204 in: C. Goldstein (Ed.), L'Europe mathématique, histoires, mythes, identités: Mathematical Europe, history, myth, identity. Paris, Maison des sciences de l'homme, ISBN 2-7351-0685-3.
  49. Bos, Henk J.M. (E1996c) Introduction, pp. xi-xxix in Christiaan Huygens, The pendulum clock or geometrical demonstrations concerning the motion of pendula as applied to Clocks, translated and annotated by Richard J. Blackwell. Ames, Iowa State University Press, xxxii+182 pp. ISBN 0813809339.
  50. Bos, Henk J.M., (E2000a) Newton, Leibniz and the Leibnizian tradition. pp. 49-93 in I.Grattan-Guinness, ed., From the calculus to set theory, 1630-1910, Princeton University Press. [Reprint of the 1980 original.]
  51. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2001) Book: Redefining geometrical exactness: Descartes' transformation of the early modern concept of construction. Springer. xx+470 pp. ISBN 0-387-95090-7. [MR1800805] * Available as e-book via https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4613-0087-8
  52. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2002) Out of the Ivory Tower: The Significance of Dirk Struik as Historian of Mathematics. Historia Mathematica, 29, pp. 363-368.Available online (Elsevier Open Archive)
  53. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2004a) Appendix 3, Descartes, Elizabeth and Apollonius' Problem, pp. 202-213 in T. Verbeek et. al. eds., The correspondence of Rene Descartes 1643.
  54. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2004b) Philosophical Challenges from History of Mathematics, pp. 51-66 in T. Hoff Kjeldsen, e.a. (Eds.), New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Odense, University Press of Southern Denmark. ISBN 87-7838-606-3. [MR2061013]
  55. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2004c) Huygens and mathematics, pp. 67-80 in Proceedings of the International Conference TITAN - From discovery to encounter, 13-17 April 2004, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, ESA SP-1278. ESA Space Agency. Reprinted in (E2005).
  56. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2005) Huygens and Mathematics, pp. 6-18 in Vacantiecursus De Schijf van Vijf, 2005, Amsterdam, CWI Syllabus 54. Scan. Reprint of (E2004c)
  57. Andersen, K., and Bos, Henk J.M. (E2006) Pure Mathematics, Chapter 28, pp. 697-725 in K. Park, L. Daston (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Science Vol. 3 Early Modern Science. Cambridge University Press.
  58. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2008) Descartes, pp. 739-740 in Timothy Gowers, ed., The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton: Princeton University Press. * Available as e-book (Princeton University Press)
  59. Jed Z. Buchwald,, Bos, Henk J.M. (E2007) From the Editors, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 61 p. 1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-006-0120-x
  60. Bos, Henk J.M. (E2009a) Descartes' attempt, in the Regulae, to base the certainty of geometry on mental vision, pp. 345-373 in Clark Glymour et al., ed., Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress, London, College Publications. Scan.

Unpublished texts in English

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (EU1972) Lecture on Differentials and Higher-Order Differentials from Leibniz to Euler, held on May 20, 1972 at a Conference of the British Society for the History of Mathematics in Nottingham, UK. Scan.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (EU2000) Pi, Ludolph van Ceulen and the Challenge of Mathematics, English translation of (N2000), address delivered on July 5, 2000, in the presence of His Majesty Willem Alexander, the present King of the Netherlands, in the Pieterskerk, Leiden. scan.

Publications in French

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (F1982a) L'oeuvre et la personnalité de Christiaan Huygens, pp. 1-15 in R. Taton, ed., Huygens et la France, Paris. Scan.
    Preprint no. 115, Department of Mathematics, University Utrecht, May 1979.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (F1982b) L'élaboration du calcul infinitésimal, Huygens entre Pascal et Leibniz, pp. 115-122 in R. Taton, ed., Huygens et la France, Paris, Scan.
  3. Bos, Henk J.M. (F1998) La structure de la Géométrie de Descartes. Revue d'histoire des sciences, 51, pp. 291-317. [MR1668690] French translation of (E1990). Available online via Persee, www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0151-4105_1998_num_51_2_1324 and also via JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/23633589

Publications in Italian

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (I1996) Gli European Honours Courses for History of Mathematics. Lettera matematica Pristem, 22, p. 50.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (I2003) L'esattezza in Cartesio. Lettera matematica Pristem, 49, pp. 45-53.

Publications in German

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. and Herbert Mehrtens, (G1977) Materialien zum Thema Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mathematik und Gesellschaft in der Geschichte, (Explorierende Bemerkungen über die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mathematik und Gesellschaft in der Geschichte) Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, no. 4, pp. 186-195.
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (G1978) Was lehren uns historische Beispiele über Mathematik und Gesellschaft? Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, no. 2, pp. 69-75.
  3. (G1990) Bos, Henk J.M. und Karin Reich, Der doppelte Auftakt zur frúhneuzeitlichen Algebra: Viète und Descartes, ch. 7, pp. 183-234 in Erhard Scholz, ed., Geschichte der Algebra,, eine Einführung, Mannheim, Bibliographisches Institut, vii+506 pp. ISBN 3-411-14411-4. [MR1119309]

Publications in Danish

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (D1984) Matematikken og dens sociale sammenhaenge. En samtale fra et lærerværelse - med historiske episoder [Mathematics in its social context: a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes], Normat, Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift, 32 no. 4, pp. 149-166, 196. [MR0781897] [Danish version of (N1990a) and (E1984c)]
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (D1997) The theorems of Pappus, Pascal and Desargues and their role in the development of projective geometry, pp. 67-73 in Kirsti Andersen, Henk Bos, Jesper Lützen, ed., Traek af den ikke-euklidiske geometris historie, Aarhus, Institute for the History of Science 1997.

Publication in Spanish

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (S1984) Newton, Leibniz y la tradicion Leibiziana, pp. 69-124 in I. Grattan-Guinness, De càlculo a la teoría de conjuntos, 1630-1910, una introducíon historica, Madrid [Spanish version of (E1980a)]

Publication in Japanese

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (J1986) Poncelet's proof of his closure theorem, translated by K. Ueno, Sugaku Seminar 25 no. 7, pp. 81-87.

Book Reviews

  1. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1969) review of J.J. Verdonk, Petrus Ramus en de Wiskunde, Assen 1966, Isis 60 no. 3, pp. 409-410. https://doi.org/10.1086/350524
  2. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1970) review of Árpad Szabó, Die Anfänge der griechischen Mathematik, Mededelingen van het Wiskundig Genootschap no. 13, pp. 141-144, scan.
  3. Bos. Henk J.M. (R1971) compte-rendu de Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli herausgegeben von der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, Band I, Bearbeiter J.O. Fleckenstein, Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1969, in Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 24 no.3, pp. 267-269, available online https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0151-4105_1971_num_24_3_3217_t1_0267_0000_1 [French]
  4. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1977) review of Hermann Weissenborn, Die Prinzipien der höheren Analysis in ihrer Entwicklung von Leibniz bis auf Lagrange als ein historisch-kritischer Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik dargestellt, Halle 1856, photomechanischer Reprint Leipzig 1972, Historia Mathematica 4, pp. 236-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(77)90132-X Available online through Elsevier Open Archive.
  5. Bos. Henk J.M. (R1979) review of Fang, Joong, and Takayama, K.P., Sociology of mathematics and mathematicians, a prolegomenon, Paideia, Hauppauge, NY,USA, 1975, 364 pp. in Mathematical Reviews [MR0504555]
  6. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1981) review of I. Newton, The mathematical papers of Isaac Newton, (ed. D. T. Whiteside with the assistance in publication of A. Prag), vol. 7, Cambridge: Canbridge University Press 1976, Centaurus 25 no. 3, pp. 345-348, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1981.tb00651.x
  7. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1982) review of Klaus Mainzer, Grundlagenprobleme in der Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften, Konstanz 1981, in Centaurus 26 no. 1, p. 81, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1982.tb00655.x
  8. Bos. Henk J.M. (R1983) review of Detlev Laugwitz, Infinitesimalkalkül, Kontinuum und Zahlen - eine elementare Einführung in die Nichtstandard-Analysis, Mannheim 1978, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 48 no. 1 pp. 217-219, https://doi.org/10.2307/2273342 available via JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/2273342
  9. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1984) review of D.J. Struik, The land of Stevin and Huygens, Dordrecht 1981, in Centaurus 27 no. 1, pp. 107-108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1984.tb00755.x
  10. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1985a) review of François Viète, The Analytic Art, translated by T. Richard Witmer, Kent, Ohio, 1983, in Centaurus 28 no. 1, pp. 66-67, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1985.tb00802.x
  11. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1985b) review of Georg Mohr, Compendium Euclidis Curiosi, dat is meetkonstigh Passer-Werck, etc. Amsterdam 1673; Compendium Euclidis curiosi, or geometrical operations, translated by Joseph Moxon, London 1677 (intr. Henrik Meyer), Copenhagen 1982, in Centaurus 28 no. 2, pp. 162, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1985.tb00835.x
  12. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1986) review of P.M.J.E. Tummers, Albertus (Magnus)' Commentaar op de Elementen der Geometrie, Isis 77 no. 1, p 286. https://doi.org/10.1086/354115
  13. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1991) "Enjoying genius" essay review van Joella Yoder, Unrolling Time, in Tractrix 3, pp. 183-193. Download pp. 183-192   Download last page 193.
  14. Bos, Henk J.M. (R1992) Review of Giovanna Cleonice Cifoletti, La méthode de Fermat: Son statut et sa diffusion. Cahiers d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences, nouvelle série no. 33, Paris, Société fr. d'hist. de sc. et des tecnniques 1990, Paris: Belin, in Revue d'Histoire des Sciences vol. 45, no. 2-3, pp. 369-371, available online https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0151-4105_1992_num_45_2_4638_t1_0369_0000_1.
  15. Bos, Henk J.M. (R2003) Review of: Y.A. Ignatieff, H. Willig, Clifford Truesdell: eine wissenschaftliche Biographie des Dichters, Mathematikers und Naturphilosophen (Aachen, 1999). Historia Mathematica, 30, pp. 519-521. Available online (Elsevier open archive)
  16. Bos, Henk J.M. Eight reviews of articles in the Zentralblatt der Mathematik betweem 1983 and 1985, see the list at https://zbmath.org/?q=rn%3A1146

Audio

  1. Lecture by Henk Bos on the mathematical work of Descartes (35 minutes, with slides, in English) in the Studium Generale, University of Utrecht, October 2, 2008, during the "Night of Descartes."
  2. Some clips of Henk speaking on the Geometry of Descartes, in the interval 7:00-9:00 in a BBC documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiOIaM_2rvo
  3. Henk speaking on history of calculus in the early days, in the Open University 1974 course (digitized by Dr Viktor Blåsjö from casette tapes in Henk's archive).

The personal archive of Henk Bos is at Utrecht University Library, see the webpage