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Semimonthly Bulletin for Primary-Source Scholarship and Curriculum Innovation in Classical Scientific Traditions

1. British Review Letters in Classical Science Education is a bimonthly scholarly bulletin devoted to the study, exposition, and pedagogical renewal of the classical scientific tradition. Rooted in the spirit of the Great Books paradigm championed by Mortimer J. Adler, the journal is committed to the principle that scientific understanding is inseparable from close and sustained engagement with the foundational texts of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early-modern world. 

2. Its mission is twofold: to foster rigorous primary-source scholarship in classical science, and to provide a venue for original curriculum resources designed to bring these texts to students in schools, colleges, and classical academies.

3. The journal encompasses the full historical span of classical natural philosophy and proto-scientific inquiry: the cosmologies of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides; the systematic treatises of Plato and Aristotle; the mathematical sciences of Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and Ptolemy; the medical and biological works of Hippocrates and Galen; the mechanical and technological treatises of Hero and Vitruvius; late-antique and medieval scientific synthesis in figures such as Augustine, Boethius, Philoponus, Avicenna, Averroes, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas; and early-modern revolutions in natural philosophy through Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton.

4. Submissions must be grounded in primary texts and historical sensitivity. The journal does not accept articles framed primarily in modern analytic scientific discourse, technical modelling, or contemporary laboratory science. Essays must arise from classical sources and illuminate their conceptual, mathematical, philosophical, or pedagogical dimensions. 

5. However, unlike some of the sister journals, Review Letters in Classical Science Education explicitly welcomes original curriculum materials—lesson plans, textual modules, guided readings, classroom activities, examination sets, and interpretive commentaries—provided these are scholarly, accurate, and rooted firmly in the classical canon. Curriculum submissions should aim to bring classical scientific thought alive in contemporary classrooms while preserving historical fidelity and intellectual integrity.

6. Research articles, critical textual notes, historical analyses, pedagogical essays, classical-text translations with commentary, and reviews of scholarly works and teaching resources all fall within the journal’s remit. Cross-disciplinary studies that integrate mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, mechanics, biology, or early chemistry through classical sources are encouraged. 

7. Articles exploring the reception and transformation of classical scientific principles across epochs—late-antique commentary traditions, medieval scholastic assimilation, Renaissance humanist revival, or early-modern reformulations—are particularly welcome when grounded in precise textual engagement.

8. The journal serves scholars, instructors, curriculum designers, and advanced students seeking to recover the intellectual coherence of classical science and to communicate it with clarity and rigor. Its purpose is to support a renewal of science education that is historically anchored, philosophically literate, mathematically serious, and attentive to the permanent questions of nature, motion, causality, order, and the intelligibility of the cosmos.

1. Curriculum in Classical Pure Mathematics is a semimonthly scholarly bulletin dedicated to the study, exposition, and pedagogical renewal of the classical mathematical tradition. Firmly grounded in Mortimer J. Adler’s Great Books paradigm, the journal affirms that the deepest understanding of mathematics arises from sustained engagement with the original treatises that shaped the discipline. 

2. Its central mission is to support both rigorous primary-source scholarship and the development of high-quality curriculum materials designed to transmit pure mathematics in its classical form to students, teachers, and scholars across a variety of educational contexts.

3. The journal’s scope spans the full historical arc of classical mathematics: the axiomatic and constructive methods of Euclid, the number theory and geometric analysis of Diophantus and Archimedes, the combinatorial and algebraic insights of the Islamic Golden Age, the medieval synthesis of algebra and geometry, the Renaissance revival of classical method through Cardano, Tartaglia, and Viète, and the early-modern formalization of pure mathematics in the works of Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, and the Bernoulli tradition. 

5. Submissions may address geometry, arithmetic, number theory, algebra, classical analysis, and the pre-rigorous foundations of calculus, provided they remain anchored in primary texts and historically coherent reasoning.

6. The journal does not (as a rule) accept papers framed primarily in contemporary analytic or technical mathematics that do not reference classical questions, nor articles that rely on modern formalism without deep reference to classical sources. The focus is the classical canon itself—its proofs, structures, methods, and conceptual foundations—not the modern research program built atop it. Submissions must therefore demonstrate textual engagement, philological care, mathematical fidelity, and historical sensitivity.

7. Unlike many scholarly venues, Curriculum in Classical Pure Mathematics explicitly welcomes original curriculum resources. These may include:
– structured course modules built around primary texts;
– guided Euclidean constructions;
– problem sets modeled on classical techniques;
– translations with commentary;
– demonstrations illuminating historical methods of proof;
– classroom-ready units on classical constructions, conic theory, early algebra, classical mechanics treated geometrically, or the development of calculus from its pre-modern roots.

8. Curricular materials must display scholarly rigor, conceptual precision, and fidelity to the classical sources. While written for use in classrooms, they should retain a standard of mathematical seriousness appropriate to a scholarly publication.

9. Each issue includes research articles, critical textual notes, interpretive essays, curriculum modules, historical analyses of classical proofs, and reviews of works central to the study and teaching of classical mathematics. 

10. The journal encourages contributions that reveal the unity of the classical mathematical tradition—its reliance on demonstration, its pursuit of necessity, its commitment to clarity, proportion, and logical economy—and that illuminate its significance for modern pedagogy.

 1. St. Anselm Review Letters in Theoretical & Mathematical Physics is an international scholarly bulletin devoted to the rapid dissemination of concise, high-impact research in fundamental physics, mathematical physics, and the conceptual foundations of contemporary cosmology. 

2. The journal emphasizes brief communications, rigorous technical notes, and carefully argued theoretical essays that advance understanding of the deep structures governing the physical universe. 

3. While the scope of the journal embraces the full breadth of modern theoretical physics—including gravitation, particle physics, field theory, cosmology, and quantum foundations—particular preference is given to submissions that demonstrate mathematical clarity, conceptual originality, and relevance to ongoing debates in high-energy physics and geometric analysis.

4. Each contribution is expected to present a self-contained advance: the refinement of a known calculation, the proposal of a novel theoretical framework, or the clarification of a foundational issue. 

5. In this spirit, Review Letters welcomes work on modified theories of gravity; classical and quantum field equations; geometric and topological methods in physics; mathematical cosmology; nonlinear dynamics; and the interface between mathematics and theoretical physics broadly construed. 

6. The journal also encourages reflective pieces that articulate the philosophical or methodological implications of recent developments, provided they remain grounded in technical rigor.

7. Authors are invited to submit concise letters typically ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 words, though longer manuscripts of exceptional merit will be considered. Submissions undergo a streamlined peer-review process designed to ensure timely communication while maintaining exacting scholarly standards. 

8. In keeping with the spirit of the “letters” tradition, priority is given to clarity of exposition, precision of argument, and the presentation of results that are immediately relevant to researchers across the mathematical and physical sciences.