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Social relations of science; Scandinavian science; physicists in science policy.
Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Quantum theory; history of physical societies and organization of science; Russia.
"Development of Quantum Theory : Mathematical Principles by V.A. Fock," 1994.
History of aerodynamics
History of Aerodynamics, and its Impact on Flying Machines. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Tesla.
Editor, Nikola Tesla: Lecture Before the New York Academy of Sciences - April 6, 1897. Breckenridge, CO: Twenty First Century Books, 1994.
Kepler.
17th century physics & cosmology.
"Theory of Comets at Paris during the Seventeenth Century," Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992): 355-372.
Boltzmann; concept of indistinguishable particles.
Nuclear physics; nuclear arms race.
Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995.
Mechanics; relativity theory.
"L'harmonie universelle: La musique entre les mathématiques, la physique, la métaphysique et la religion," Étud. Phil. (1994).
Gay-Lussac; Humboldt; Charles Renard; Arthur Krebs; ecology; hydrogen; electrochemistry.
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; second industrial revolution; quantum mechanics; nuclear and particle physics; Big Science.
"'Big Science' vs. 'Little Science': Laboratories and Leading Ideas in Conflict. Nuclear Physics in the Thirties and Forties," Physis 30 (1993): 373-390.
History of physics at the University of Colorado.
"Compton Effect: Historical Background," American Journal of Physics 32 (1964): 120 - 127.
Early modern astronomy.
"The Origins of the Provençal School of Astronomy," Physis II, new series, (1991): 291-304.
Modern Physics: quantum theory of solids, neutron stars, Manhattan project.
With L. Hoddeson and M. Eckert. The Quantum Theory of Metals, 1926-1933, Chapter 2 in Out of the Crystal Maze: The History of Solid State Physics, L.H. Hoddeson, E. Braun, J. Teichmann and S.Weart, eds. (Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 88-181.
Renaissance mechanics;mutual influence of science and art.
"The Language of Science or the Language of Art," Science and Mankind (1994): 10-16.
Quantum theory; relativity theory; unified field theories; applications of non-Euclidean geometries and hyperspace theories; physics of paranormal phenomena; 19th and 20th century science (interdisciplinary).
"Ether/or: Hyperspace Models of the Ether in America," in Stanley Goldberg & Roger Stuewer (eds.), The Michelson Era in American Science: 1870-1930. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1988, pp. 206-223.
18th and 19th century Genevan scientists (physics and mathematics).
Trois physiciens genevois et l'Europe savante: Les De la Rive (1800-1920). (1991).
Quantum theory; relativistic theories.
"Attempts at Unified Field Theories (1919-1955): Alleged Failure and Intrinsic Validation/Refutation Criteria," in J. Earman, M. Janssen, & J.D. Norton (eds.), The Attraction of Gravitation. Birkäuser, 1993.
Cultural relations of physics; quantum theory.
"From Positivism to Organicism: Pascual Jordan's Interpretations of Modern Physics in Cultural Context," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1995.
Methodological questions, especially the historical-interpretational aspects of the theory of relativity.
"Historical Essay on the Subject of the Theory of Relativity," Periodica Polytechnica Ser. Phys. 1 no.2 (1993): 169.
Ernst Mach; Austrian science.
Ernst Mach: A Deeper Look. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.
17th and 18th century mechanics and optics.
Les raisons de l'infini: Du monde clos à l'univers mathématique. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
Scientific education; epistemological and methodological questions in historical and educational subjects.
Didaltica Scientifica. Udine, Del Bianco, 1994.
Physics in Australia; scientific instruments.
with B.W. Coller, "Two Letters of William Sutherland to T. Brailsford Robertson: Ideas on the Electrical Conductivity of Proteins," Historical Records of Australian Science 9 no.4 (1993): 357-367.
Astronomy; scientific instruments.
with M. Calisi, E. Proverbio, & P. Ranfagni, "Una Proposta di Classificazione della strumentaria Storica Astronomica," in Atti del Seminario sui problemi del recupero e valorizzazione del patrimonio strumentale, etc. Roma: Societa-Astronomica Italiana, 1993.
19th century.
"Gauss und Listing: Topologie und Freundschaft," Mitt. Gauss-Gesellschaft No. 30 (1993): 2-56.
Geophysics - geomagnetism; ionosphere; aurora.
with A. Egeland, The Northern Lights: Its Heritage and Science. Oslo: Grøndahl Dreyer, 1994.
Atmospheric science/ composition/ pollution.
Physics-based technologies (lasers, fusion, aerodynamics, etc.); 19th century electromagnetism, 20th century nuclear physics.
"Experiment vis à vis Theory in Superconductivity Research," in J. Stachel & M. W. Wartofsky (eds.), Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community. Kleuwer, 1995.
Thermodynamics.
"Duhem's Contribution to the Development of Modern Thermodynamics," History and Philosophy of Thermodynamics. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1991, pp. 17-22.
"Einstein's Brand of Verification," in Laboratory of Mind: Thought Experiments in Natural Science. (1991).
Elementary particles.
Editor & contributor, Renormalization: From Lorentz to Landau (and Beyond). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
History of modern physical science; dynamics of theory change in science
History of Modern Planetary Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
19c optics, electrodynamics, mechanics.
"How the ether spawned the microworld," L. Daston (ed.), The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Scientific Objects. (University of Chicago) forthcoming, 1998.
Scientific Instrumentss, Electrical technology.
Thermodynamics.
"The Revolution, Thermodynamics, and the Scientists' Roles," Chem. Tech. 2 (1973): 416 .
"Albert Mousson, 1805-1890: Erster Professor für Experimentelle Physik in Zurich," Nach Einem Vortrag vor der Physikalischen Gesellschaft. (1991).
History of electricity and its applications.
To See the Unseen: A History of Planetary Radar Astronomy. Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4218, 1995.
"Dirichlet and his Role in the Founding of Mathematical Physics," Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 37 (1987).
20th Century physics from particle physicists' veiwpoint; contributions of 20th century women to physics; women's history as regards studies of physics and mathematics.
"E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws," Proceedings of Symposium on the Heritage of Emmy Noether to Algebra, Geometry and Physics, Bar Ilan University, December 1997.
Nuclear programmes and debates; History of relativity.
Enlightenment to the present; Helmholtz.
"From Dust Figures to the Kinetic Theory of Gases: August Kuudt and the Changing Nature of Experimental Theories in the 1860s and 1870s," Annals of Science 47 (1990): 151-172.
Thermodynamics; statistics; Boltzmann.
"Freccia del tempo e principio probabilistico nella construzione teorica di Ludwig Boltzmann," Physis 29 (1992).
Climatology.
Clima e Uomo. Milan: Garzanti, 1990.
19th century physics.
Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Philosophy of science; social relations of science; humanistic relations of science; physics; chemistry.
"The Making of a British Theoretical Physicist - E.C. Stoner's Early Career," British Journal for the History of Science 24 (1994): 277-90.
Quantum theory; 20th century theoretical physics.
"From Time Atoms to Space-Time Quantization," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 25 (1994) 437-462.
Modern physics.
"The peculiar notion of exchange forces, I and II," Studies of the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 27 (1996) 23-45, 99-131.
Haphazard Reality (1983).
Quantum physics.
Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1992.
Director of the "Giornale Di Fisica" Of the Italian Society of Physics (1991).
General relativity; mathematical physics; differential geometry.
"Levi-Civita's Influence on Palatini's Contribution to General Relativity," The Attraction of Gravitation. Birkhauser, 1993, pp. 206-222.
Nuclear and particle physics; women and gender in the physical sciences; 18th century "physics."
"Il luogo del Sunto," in Cannizzaro (ed.), Sunto di un corso di filosofia chimica (1991).
"J.J. Thompson: The Discovery of the Electron and the Chemists," Annals of Science (November 1991)
Social relations of science; history of science in education; quantum mechanics; dialectical materialism in modern physics; Germany; USSR.
Acoustics.
Predpoklady pre prenikanie modernych fyzikálnych koncepcií. v. 17. a 18. storocí na územie Slovenska (1988).
History of astronomy: Scientific Revolution; Hubble.
Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.
Second law of thermodynamics; Carnot; Boltzmann; irreversibility; origins of quantum mechanics.
"The Late Emergence of Thermodynamics," in Thermodynamics: History and Philosophy, Facts, Trends, Debates. 1991.
Galileo; 17c mechanics and natural philosophy.
Statistical mechanics.
"Two Faces of Maxwell's Reveal the Nature of Irreversibility," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 21 (1990).
Gravitational radiation; TEA laser.
with T.J. Pinch, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Scientific institutions; social relations of science; 19th - early 20c physics and chemistry; France; Germany; Scandinavia; Central Europe.
Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 1880-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
History of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th Century Physics. New York: MacMillan, 1986; reprinted by New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Green's theorem; potential theory; Stokes; Dirichlet.
Peter Gustan Lejeune Dirichlet (1992).
Stellar astronomy; vector analysis; optics; John Herschel.
Theories of the Universe from Herschel to Hubble. New York: Dover, 1994.
19c electrodynamics; modern physics; instruments.
"Boltzmann and Hertz on the BIild-Conception of Physical Theory," History of Science 28 (1990): 380-398.
Rise of modern physics; history of superconductivity and low-temperature physics.
Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of JJ Thomson's Electron. Bristol, England: IOPP, 1997.
Kepler; Newton; Galileo.
Introductory Paper, Russian Translation and Commentaries to "Il Saggiatore" by Galileo Galilei (1987).
Leo Szilard; history of nuclear physics and weapons; social responsibility in science.
"The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerators," Scientific American January 1997: 90-95.
Quantum field theory; nuclear physics; 19c electrodynamics.
From C-Numbers to Q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory (1992).
Molecular physics.
"Charles Rugeley Bury: His Contributions to Physical Chemistry," Journal of Chemical Education 63 (1986): 741-743.
17c physics.
"Cavalieri's Indivisibles and Euclid's Canons," in Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1991.
19th century spectroscopy; high-vacua physics; Scientific Revolution.
"William Crookes and the Quest for Absolute Vacuum in the 1870s," Annals of Science 40 (1983): 1-18.
18c electromagnetism.
Maxwell e la Fisica Classica (1978).
17c-19c experimental physics.
"Les enseignements et l'histoire des sciences," in Problèmes actuels de l'histoire de la physique et de la chimie. Sciences et Techniques en Perspective 25 (1993): 22-33.
Quantum statistics.
"From the Chemical Constant to Quantum Statistics: A Thermodynamic Route to Quantum Mechanics," Physis 29 (1992): 465-537.
Principles of mechanics.
"Contingence et Nécessité en Mécanique. Etude de Deux Textes Inédits de Jean D'Alembert," Physis 28 (1991): 35-114.
Physics in China; light; electricity; sonic theory; mechanics.
"Processes of Introducing the Theory of Electricity into China at the End of the 19th Century," Journal of the History of Physics
Astronomy.
"Deutsche Astronomen-Briefe in der Autographensammlung Schardius," Archivalia Cosmologica 104 (1990).
Collaborations (reasons for and changing conventions of)
"Boyle, Hooke, and Newton: Some Aspects of Scientific Collaboration," Rivista di Storia della Scienza 4 (1987): 319-338.
Physical Sciences and Astronomy in Greek Speaking Regions 16c-19c, Transmission of Scientific Ideas in the Enlightenment
With K. Gavroglu and M. Patiniotis "The Sciences in the Greek Speaking Regions During the 17th and 18th Centuries," in The Science at the Periphery of Europe during the 18th Century, Archimedes vol. 2. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Early European astronomy; Renaissance
with Owen Gingerich, "The Master of 1550 Radices: Jofrancus Offusius," Journal for the History of Astronomy 24 (1993): 235-253.
19th and early 20th c; electromagnetic field; particles and fields; philosophy of science.
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 47 (1994): 291-386.
Cosmic rays (astrophysical, geophysical, and nuclear aspects); accelerators; elementary particles.
"Cosmic Rays and Accelerators: History and Interaction," in Cosmic Rays, Accelerators and New Particles (1989).
19th century French and German physics.
"Heinrich Kayser as Philologist of Physics," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 26 (1995):1-33.
Theory of relativity; relativistic quantum field theory.
"Renormalized Quantum Field Theory and Cassirer's Epistemological System," Philosophia Naturalis 28 (1991).
Geophysics and seismology in Australia.
"Geophysics in Australia," Earth Science History 6 (1987).
Methodology of history of science; revisiting history of science by means of constructive mathematics and non-classical logic; science during French Revolution; Lazare Carnot; Sadi Carnot; Lobachevsky
Editor, Essai sur les Machines en général by Lazare Carnot. (Dijon: Defay, 1782), Napoli: Cuen, 1994.
Goethe/Newton controversy on color.
"Newton and Goethe on Colour: Physical and Physiological Considerations," Annals of Science 45 (1990): 507-519.
Newton; 17c-18c.
Editor, (with Robert D. Purrington), Some Truer Method: Reflections on the Heritage of Newton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
19c and early 20c physics; development of professionalization of physics; history of learned societies in physics.
"The Development of the Physics Profession Linked to the Education and Training of Physicists to 1939," PhD dissertation, University of Salford, England, 1991.
Social history of 20c theoretical physics.
"Primacy Doomed to Failure: Heisenberg's Role as Scientific Advisor for Nuclear Policy in the FRG," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 21 (1990): 29-58.
Aurora; geomagnetic field; space physics.
The Northern Light. Springer-Verlag, 1983.
General relativity; gravitation; Einstein; astronomy.
"De l'influence de la gravitation sur la propagation de la lumiere en theorie newtonienne. L'archeologie des trous noirs," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 (1991): 315-386.
Cosmology.
"Innovation, Resistance, and Change," in B. Bertotti, R. Balbinto, S. Bergia, & A. Messina (eds.), Modern Cosmology in Retrospect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 97-114.
Atomism and its development; quantum theory; spectroscopy; Bohr; Rydberg; Ritz; philosophy of science.
"Rydberg and the Development of Atomic Spectroscopy," Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk 160 (1990).
20c; atomic & nuclear physics.
W. Herschel; F.U.T. Aepinus; Argo; B.P. Gerasimovich; meteorites.
Nineteenth and twentieth century physics.
"The Creative Imagination of an Experimental Physicist," in J.D. Fairbank, B.S. Deaver, Jr., C.W.F. Everitt & P.F. Michelson (eds.), Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1988.
Application of non-Euclidean geometries in mathematical models of physics; work of W.K. Clifford (1844-1879)
with C. Knee, "The End of the Absolute: A Nineteenth Century Contribution to General Relativity," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 21 (1990): 91-21.
Niels Bohr; Quantum theory.
Niels Bohr's Philosophical Background. Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 1992.
17c physics and methodology; Galileo; Leibnitz; Newton.
"The Triumphant March of a Paradigm: A Case Study of the Popularization of Newtonian Science," Tractrix 2 (1990): 93-110.
17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; experimental physics; meteorology; climatology.
"The Ancient Climate in the 18th and Early 19th Century," in Michael Shortland (ed.), Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Experimental Sciences. Stanford in the Vale: British Society for the History of Science, 1993, pp. 23-40.
Astronomy.
The Hells and Their Contribution to the Development of Physics and Technology (1986).
Galileo; 18c mechanics; early quantum theory.
"Planck's Heritage and the Bose Statistics," Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie 10 (1985).
Origins of modern science; Galileo; mathematics and physics in 17c Italy and France.
"La notion d'`agrégat d'indivisibles' dans la constitution de la cinématique galiléenne: Cavalieri, Galilée, Torricelli," Rev. Hist. Sci. 45 (1992): 307-336.
Galileo; chaotics.
Physics experimentation.
Physical Experiment in the XIX Century.
20th century, especially quantum theory & Einstein.
with Mara Beller, "Bohr's Response to EPR," in J. Faye & H. Folse (eds.), Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994, pp. 1-31.
Electricity.
"History of Thermoelectricity," Advances in Electronics and Electronic Physics 50 (1980): 175-240.
Galileo; 16c and 17c mechanics; nuclear physics; physical science in the Middle Ages; scientometrics; history of methodology.
Changing Landscapes of Nuclear Physics - A Scientometric Study. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
Statistical mechanics.
"Boltzmann's Statistical Approach to Irreversibility," in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ludwig Boltzmann. Austrian Academy of Science, 1992.
Medieval science; art & science.
"The Comet of Bethlehem: An Early Thirteenth Century Representation by Nicholas of Verdun," Journal for the History of Astronomy 23 (1992): 137-140.
18c-early 20c physical sciences and technology in France; scientific institutions; humanistic relations of science.
Sadi Carnot: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. Manchester, 1986.
History of astronomy.
with R. Freitzg, "Women in Astronomy: A Bibliography," Mercury (Jan./Feb. 1992): 46.
Twentieth century experiment
"The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-KeV Neutrino, " Reviews of Modern Physics 67 (1995), pp. 457-490.
Mathematical analysis and mechanics from 1600 to the present; celestial dynamics; calculus of variations; foundations of mathematics.
"The Origins of Euler's Variational Calculus," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 47 (1994):103-141.
Quantum physics; 20th century physics.
"L'interpretation de la mecanique quantique selon Paul Langevin," La Pensee 292 (March/April 1993): 117-134.
Condensed matter (solids, liquids); quantum theory; nuclear physics; physics of quasi-particles; biographies of physicists.
with E. Tropp and A. Chernin, Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
19th and 20th century geophysics (meteorology, oceanography, auroral studies); Nobel prize.
The Expeditions of Harald Ulrik Sverdrup: Contexts for Shaping an Ocean Science. LaJolla, CA: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1994.
Physics institutions; laboratories; universities in the 19th and 20th centuries in U.S., Europe, and Japan; science ethics.
"Early X-Ray Research at Physical Laboratories in the United States of America, circa 1900: A Reappraisal of American Physics," in M. Oono and M. Ogawa (eds.), Kagakusi no Sekai. (The World of the History of Science.) Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing Co., 1991.
19c-early 20c American science; contemporary science and technology; science policy studies; East Asia; Japan; Germany; Britain.
"Some Topics and Historical Episodes in Geomagnetism and Aeronomy," Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics (1994).
Thermodynamics.
"Kant, Space, and Helmholtz," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24 (1993): 485-491.
Early and mid-19th century electricity, electrochemistry, etc.
with M.C. Usselman, "Faraday's Election to the Royal Society," Bulletin of the History of Chemistry 11 (1991): 17-28 ; vols. 13-14 (1992-1993): 74-75.
Foundations of classical statistical mechanics, and its connections with foundations of quantum mechanics; electrodynamics; relativity.
"Relaxation Times and the Foundations of Classical Statistical Mechanics in the Light of Modern Perturbation Theory," in G. Gallavotti & A.M. Anile (eds.) Nonlinear Evolution and Chaotic Phenomena. New York: Plenum Press, 1988.
Experimentation; quantum theory; philosophy of science.
Editor (with D. Stump), The Disunity of Science: Contexts, Boundaries, and Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Astronomy; contemporary science; Italy.
Celestial mechanics.
"Le probleme de Locha," Science et Techniques en Perspective (1990).
Teaching history and philosophy of science.
Physical chemistry; physical sciences from mid-19c; transmission of scientific ideas in the Enlightenment; philosophy of science.
Fritz London, A Scientific Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Science policy; organization of physics experiments.
"Microwave Radar, the Atomic Bomb, and the Background to U.S. Research Priorities in World War II," Science, Technology and Human Values 13 (1988): 276-289.
Classical electromagnetism; special relativity wave-particle theories in optics.
Conventionalism and the Pluralist Conception of Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Upper atmosphere and space physics, 20th century; physics, geophysics, and engineering since 1750.
with S.G. Brush, "Geophysics," (Chapter 26) in Twentieth Century Physics. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1995.
Social relations of science; philosophy of science; 19c-early 20c physics; Canada; USA.
Special and general theory of relativity; unified field theories.
"The Reaction to Relativity Theory I: The Anti-Einstein Campaign in Germany in 1920," Science in Context 6 (1993).
Thermodynamics; quantum mechanics.
"Some Thermodynamic Aspects of LAO TXU's Philosophy," in Thermodynamics: History and Philosophy (1991).
19c physics laboratories and their social history, especially in relation to the practices of electrical and mechanical engineering.
"Teaching, Telegraphy, and Electrotechnics in the Physics Laboratory: William Ayrton and the Creation of an Academic Space for Electrical Engineering in Britain, 1873-1884," History of Technology 13 (1991): 73-111.
19c-early 20c physics; Faraday; experimentation; technology and engineering; philosophy of science.
"Mathematics and Method in Faraday's Physics," Physis 29 (1992): 121-147.
Greek science; 16th and 17th century astronomy & mechanics.
"The Nature of Physical Reality: The Classical Inheritance and Nuclear Physics," Publication of the Society for Literature and Science 5 (1990): 2,8.
Early heliocentrism; Aristarchus of Samos.
"Anticipations of Progress: Historical Evidence for a Realistic Epistemology," in D. Prawitz & D. Westerstahl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994, pp. 273-295.
Theoretical physics; social history of Russian physics.
"Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties," Birkhaeuser, 1994.
19c-early 20c physics; instruments; chemistry; Netherlands; England; France; philosophy of science.
Atomic energy projects.
"Lord Hinton of Bankside: 12 May 1901 - 22 June 1983," Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 36 (1990).
18c-19c mechanics; origins of mathematics.
Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840. (three volumes) Birkhauser, 1990.
Bibliography and archives; historiagraphy; mathematics; 18c physics; France; USA.
The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut: The Rise of Mathematical Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Fall of "Normal" Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
The 19th century physics course and its apparatus.
"The Acoustical Apparatus of Rudolph Koenig," Physics Teacher 30 (1992): 318-324.
Statistical mechanics; Boltzmann.
"A Signal Breakthrough in the Twentieth Century Thinking Methods in Physics," Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1990).
Soviet astronomy; astrometry and planetology; archaeoastronomy; philosophy of science.
"On the Origin of the Zodiacal Constellations," Vistas in Astronomy 36 (1993): 171-190.
19c-20c chemistry and physics; biography; scientific institutions.
The irreversibility problem; statistical physics of irreversible processes; entropy.
"Development of Natural Views Concerning the Relationship between the Second Law and Evolution," in Conception of Self-Organization in Historical Retrospection. Moscow: Nauka, 1994, pp. 158-189 (in Russian).
18c-early 20c physics; history of scientism; Wilhelm Ostwald; historiography; Netherlands; Germany.
Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700 - 1795. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Islam; Middle and Near East to 1600; Greek and Roman Antiquity; medieval Europe; social relations of science; early history of mechanics; optics and physical astronomy; contemporary Islamic world.
Semiconductor physics, technology and industry; Solid state physics; interactions between science and technology.
"Die Entwicklung der Supraleitung: Kühlschränke, Telegraphenleitungen, Kriegsforschung und Festkörperphysik," Wechselwirkung 71 (1995): 23-27.
Classical physics (mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics); origins of quantum theory.
"Animals versus the Laws of Inertia," Review of Metaphysics 46 (1992): 29-61.
Theories of relativity and gravity.
"The General- Relativistic Two-Body Problem and the Einstein - Silberstein Controversy," in The Attraction of Gravitation. Einstein Studies 5 Boston: Birkhäuser, 1993, pp. 88-125.
Modern optics.
City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Quantum theory, historiography of science.
"Hermenentical Phenomenology and the History of Science," in Daniel Dahlstrom (ed.), Nature and Scientific Method: William A. Wallace Festschrift. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1991, pp. 23-36.
18c/19c experimental practice.
Das Grundgesetz de Elektrostatik: Experimentelle Replikation und wissenschaftshistorische Analyse. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts Verlag. 1998
Philosophy of science and its history; 19c - early 20c physics and psychology; historiography; Germany.
"Force, Law, and Experiment: The Evolution of Helmholtz's Philosophy of Science," in Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Science (1993).
17th century physics in England; quantum and statistical mechanics.
"Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists," in W. Woodward & R. Cohen (eds.), World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 177-190.
16c-early 20c physics; historiography; contemporary science and technology; quantum and relativity theories; Maxwell; science and visualization.
with J.D. Lawson, Fusion Research in the UK, 1945-1960. London: HMSO, 1993.
Spectroscopy; astrophysics; relativity theory; interplay of instrumentation, experiment, and theory.
The Einstein Tower. An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy , Stanford University Press, 1997.
Contributions of women to physics.
"Peter and Paul Visit the Old Quantum Theory," Physics Essays, June 1995.
Cosmology.
Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.
History of physics since 1800, chemical physics, musical acoustics.
"Electronic Discharge in Rarefied Gases: The Dominion of Experiment: Faraday, Plüches, Hittorf," in A.J. Kux & D.M. Siegel (eds.), No Truth Except in the Details. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 95-134.
Philosophy of science; social relations of science; humanistic relations of science; astronomy.
History of Electricity
Ampère, 19th century electrodynamics.
Andrè-Marie Ampère. (2nd ed.) Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Theory of scientific communication; Max Born; scientific book trade; Alexander von Humboldt.
Produktion und Distribution Wissenschaftlicher Literatur. Der Physiker Max Born und sein Verleger Ferdinand Springer, 1913-1970. Frankfurt, a. M.: Buchhändler Vereinigung, 1996.
History of modern physics; interaction of science, philosophy, and culture.
Einstein, History, and Other Passions. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.
18c-early 20c physics; electricity and magnetism; bibliography and archives; Australia.
Electricity and Experimental Physics in Eighteenth Century Europe. Aldershot, Hampshire / Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, 1992.
19c-early 20c chemistry; technology and engineering; instruments.
Lord Rayleigh and his contemporaries.
"Research of Third Baron Rayleigh," Proceedings of the Royal Institution 60 (1988): 73-86.
Low-Temperature Physics
"The Status of Thermodynamic Thermometry," Metrologia 33 (1996): 409-414.
20th century astrophysics, especially the stellar-energy problem.
"Artificial Eclipses: Bernard Lyot and the Coronagraph, 1929-1939," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 24 (1994):337-394.
19th century electromagnetic theory, telegraphy.
The Maxwellians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Ocean wave physics; Earth Observing System (EOS).
Mach and Einstein; receptive process of Einstein's relativity theory.
"Three Batches of Reasons for Mach's Rejection of Einstein's Theory of Relativity," in J. Blackmore (ed.), Ernst Mach: A Deeper Look. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992, pp. 277-295.
19c-early 20c physics and chemistry; astronomy; bibliography and archives; Faraday.
Editor, The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: Volume 2, 1832-1840, Letters 525-1333. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993.
16c-17c physics; chemistry; medieval Europe; Britain; France; philosophy of science.
Interaction of science and society.
"J.D. Bernal F.R.S.: Some Irish Influences," Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 47 (1993): 93-101.
20th century industrial research.
"Electrical Contacts - The Tale of a Field of Research that Originated at the Royal Board of Telegraphy Test Laboratory," Tele: Swedish Telecommunications 45, no.1 (1994): 22-27.
Quantum theory; transformation of physics from 13th to 17th century.
Turning Point in Physics (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century): Antique and Medieval Sources. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 1994.
Physics contributions of Hermann G. Grassmann.
Translator, A New Branch of Mathematics: The Ausdehnungslehre of 1844 and Other Works by Hermann Grassman. Open Court, 1994.
19th & 20th century physics (esp.social & institutional aspects); biography.
Physics in the Balkans, 18th-19th c., atomism, centre-periphery dissemination of physics.
The meaning of matter during the Neohellenic Renaissance (in Greek). Athens: Trohalia pbls. (1997).
Humanistic relations of science; history of philosophy, physics, physiology, and music theory.
Inner Music: Hobbes, Hooke and North on Internal Character. London: Athlone, 1995.
Social, political, and intellectual development of physics; physics and government since 1900.
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Astrophysics.
"Harvard Astronomers & World War II," in Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1992.
Thermodynamics; statistical physics; quantum theory.
"Duhem on Gibbs," in Elizabeth Gerber (ed.), Beyond History of Science. Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1990, pp. 52-66.
Biography; 18c-early 20c physics; Euler; France; Germany.
16c-17c mathematics, astronomy, physics, and music; philosophy of science in 18c - early 20c; Leibnitz; Euler; probability theory.
"Eulers früheste Studie zum Dreikörperproblem," in S.S. Demidov, M. Folkerts, D. Rowe, & C.J. Scriba (eds.), Amphora, Festschrift für Hans Wussing zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Boston/Berlin: Basel, 1992, pp. 389-405.
Electromagnetism 19c and early 20c, thermodynamics 19c
"Electromagnetic Energy and the Early History of the Energy Principle," in A. J. Kox and Daniel M. Siegel (eds.), No Truth Except in the Details. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 55-78.
Theoretical physics; cosmology; relations to chemistry.
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Contemporary physics.
Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Big laboratories.
Editor, History of CERN, vol. III. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1996.
Quantum theory.
"Quantum Entanglement and Nonideal Measurements: A Critique of Margenau's Objections to the Projection Postulate," Synthese 89 (1991): 229-251.
History of matter theories; atomism; molecularism; general and special thermodynamics; from statistical mechanics to statistical thermodynamics; rise of subatomic physics; Dutch contributions to physics (Stevin, Beeckman, Huygens, Van der Waals).
"La théorie de la matière de Boscovich: l'atomisme de points et le concept d'individu substantiel," in P. Bursill Hall (ed.), R.J. Boscovich vita e attività scientifica - his life and scientific work. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993, pp. 281-306.
History of nuclear physics, including nuclear/thermonuclear weapons and nuclear power .
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Astronomy; 19c-early 20c physics; technology and engineering; scientific institutions; bibliography and archives; Europe; North America.
Philosophy of science; physics; astronomy; medieval Europe.
Early Scientific Revolution; Giordano Bruno.
Editor and translator (with E.A.. Gosselin), G. Bruno, The Ash Wednesday Supper. E.A. Gosselin & L.S. Lerner (eds. & trans.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Social and humanistic relations of science; astronomy; England.
"Constructing Victorian Heavens: Agnes Clerke and the 'New Astronomy'." in Barbara Gates and Ann Shteir (eds.), Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997, 61-75.
Medieval optics; medieval mechanics; medieval astrophysics.
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religeous, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
History of infrared-spectroscopy.
East Asia; 19c-early 20c physics; contemporary science and technology; Japan; Australia; Pacific countries.
"Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Science - Nakasone, Physicists and the State," in Etel Solingen (ed.), Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and the International Context. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, pp. 93-125.
Bibliography of 19th century astronomy in English.
Bibliography of Astronomers, Books and Pamphlets in English by and about Astronomers. Volume One. The Spirit of the Nineteenth Century. Bernardston, MA: Astronomy Books, 1989.
Late 19th - early 20th century physics.
"Thermodynamics and Cold Light," Annals of Science 51 (1994): 203-224.
19c-early 20c physics; philosophy of science.
Newton.
Gravitation; radioactivity; relativity; electromagnetism, science in Portugal and Brazil up to 19c.
"Becquerel and the choice of uranium compounds," Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol.51, 1997.
16c-18c physics; mathematics; astronomy; philosophy of science; humanistic relations of science; Boskovich; S. Gradic; Croatia; Italy; Austria; Hungary.
Historiography; philosophy of science; humanistic relations of science; physics; contemporary science and technology; aesthetic evaluation of scientific theories; law-formulating versus natural historical sciences.
"Competition among Scientific Disciplines in Cold Nuclear Fusion Research," Science in Context 5 (1992): 17-49.
20th century physics.
"The Friendship among Three Singular Men: Einstein and His Swiss Friends Besso and Zangger," Isis 85 (1994): 456-478.
19c-early 20c physics; biography; contemporary science and technology; astronomy; quantum theory; relativity theory; statistical mechanics; elementary particle theory.
19c-20c physics; editions of scientific correspondence (Pauli, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Einstein).
Editor, Wolfgang Pauli, Wiss. Briefwechsel Band III: 1940-1949. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
19th - early 20th century biographies of American physicists; 19th - early 20th century physics education in America; 19th - early 20th century physics experimentation and instruments in electron theory.
"The Chicago Connection: Michelson and Millikan, 1894-1921," in The Michelson Era in American Science, 1870 - 1930. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1988, pp. 152-176.
20th century physics.
Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art, New York: Copernicus, 1996.
Thermodynamics; ballistics.
"Origins of Onsager's Key Role in the Development of Linear Irreversible Thermodynamics," Journal of Statistical Physics 78 (1995): 563-573.
Oceanography and marine sciences.
"Physical oceanography: disciplinary history" in G.A. Good (ed.) History of the Geosciences. New York: Garland Press, 1997.
Meterology; fundamental constants; history of measurement.
"Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage," Science in Context 7 (Autumn 1994): 563-589.
Medieval and Early Modern Mathematics and Physics.
Mathematics and the Medieval Ancestry of Physics. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995.
19c physics; thermodynamics; technology; philosophy of science.
"Thermodynamics as a Physics of Qualities. The Evolution of the Concept of State," in K. Martinas, P. Szegedi & L. Ropolyi (eds.), Thermodynamics: History and Philosophy. World Science Publications, 1991.
16c-17c & 19c-early 20c physics; philosophy of science. "
A Study in Theory Unification: The Case of Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 23 (1992).
Greek and Roman antiquity; medieval and 16c-17c Europe; Greece; philosophy of science; mathematics.
Physics in the United States.
A Scientist's Voice in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.
Late 19th & early 20th century physics, especially in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.
Editor, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894): A Collection of Articles and Addresses. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994.
17th mechanics and fluid dynamics. Galileo, Descartes, Mersenne, Torricelli, Jean Bernoulli, De Chasles.
"Descartes "presque" galilèen," Rev.Hist.Sci. 1(1986): 3-16. "Thèoréme de Torricelli ou thèoréme de Mersenne," Les Etudes philosophiques, 1-2 (1994): 87-118. "La quadratura della velocità: Galileo, Mersenne, la tradizione," Nuncius, 2 (1988): 27-64.
Statistical mechanics; early quantum physics (1900-1925).
"Josiah Willard Gibbs," in K. Von Meÿenn (ed.), Die Grossen Physiker Zweiter Band: Von Maxwell bis Gell-Mann. München: Verlag C.H. Beck (1997), pp. 37-50.
Thermodynamics, quantum theory, institutions, social relations.
"Lloyd Berkner, Merle Tuve, and the Federal Role in Radio Astronomy," Osiris 3 [2nd Series] (1987): 261-288.
Electromagnetic field theory, relativity, H.A. Lorentz.
"Ad hoc is not a Four-Letter Word: H.A. Lorentz and the Michelson-Morley Experiment," in Stanley Goldberg & Roger Stuewer (eds.), The Michelson Era in American Science. New York: AIP Press, 1988, pp. 71-77.
History of mathematics.
Editor for Mechanics at the "Lexikon des Mittelalters."
19th century; isotope mass spectrometry, and mass spectrometers in general.
"Mass Spectrometer," in R. Bud, S. Johnston, & D. Warner (eds.), Instuments of Science: A Historical Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
Women scientists, esp. physics and astronomy
From Sorceress to Scientist, Biographies of Women Physical Scientists. California Video Institute,1990.
16c-17c physics and chemistry; pneumatics; theories of matter; Italy; England; France.
19c-early 20c physics, astronomy, and mathematics; instruments; Medieval Europe; philosophy of science.
The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology. London: Harper Collins, 1994.
Einstein, relativity, quantum theory.
"General Covariance and the Foundations of General Relativity: Eight Decades of Dispute," Reports on Progress in Physics 56 (1993): 791-858.
19th and 20th century physics, especially in intersections with physical chemistry and chemical physics; theories of the structure of matter; French physics; British physics.
Editor (with Joan Richards & Roger Stuewer), The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections with Mathematics, Theology, and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.
Seismology and solid earth geophysics since 1940, nuclear weapons technology and arms control.
with R.E. Reinke, "TRINITY 1945: Seismograms of the First Nuclear Explosion," Seismological Research Letters 63, no.1 (1992): 47.
Electromagnetism.
"The Origin of Waveguides: A Case of Multiple Rediscovery," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. MTT-32, no.9 (1984): 961-969.
Ancient physics; 17th - 18th century physics.
"Black Athena, Afro-centrism, and the History of Science," History of Science 31 (September 1993): 227-287.
18c-early 19c electricity; Alessandro Volta; Guglielmo Marconi; history of radio communications.
"Electricity and Life: Volta's Path to the Battery," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 21 (1990): 123-160.
16c-18c physics; mathematics; science and religion; Dutch Newtonians; The Netherlands.
18c-early 20c physics and electricity; astronomy; philosophy of science.
Nature and knowledge without walls in physics and physical sciences.
Science without Limits: Toward a Theory of Interaction between Nature and Knowledge. Amherst, NY: Promethens, 1995.
Particle physics; physics during and since WW II.
The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Probability and statistics in physics.
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
17th century mechanics; 19th century electromagnetism; quantum theory.
Medieval science and technology, 17th century science and 19th century industrial technology.
Non-industrial cultures; earth sciences; historiography; astronomy; physics; Latin America; Maghreb; Madagascar; Indonesia; Oceania; Asia; Germany; The Netherlands.
Civilizing Mission. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Philosophy of science; humanistic relations of science; 16c-17c physics; Germany; France; England.
"From Galileo to Leibniz: Motion, Qualities and Experience at the Foundation of Natural Science," Revue Internationale de Philosophie 48 (1994): 161-174.
Surface science; vacuum science.
Editor and contributor, Vacuum Science and Technology: Pioneers of the 20th Century. New York: AIP press, 1993, pp. 133-144.
Cultural and institutional studies of 19th and 20th century physics.
"Einstein Politicized: The Early Reception of Relativity in Italy," in Thomas F. Glick (ed.), The Comparative Reception of Relativity. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987, pp. 189-229.
Relationship between physics, the physical sciences, and religion.
Galileo; Medieval and Renaissance Aristotelian science and philosophy.
"Aquinas and Weisheipl: Aristotle's Physics and the Existence of God," in R. James Long (ed.), Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, O.P. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1991, pp. 179-190.
16c-17c, and 19c-early 20c physics; mathematics; astronomy; Germany; Austria; Switzerland.
Publication of books in all areas.
"Foreword," Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1993.
History of Electricity
Quantum theory; science and social responsibility 1945-present.
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1998.
Particle physics, solid-state physics.
"The Discovery of Quarks," Science 256 (1992): 1287-1293.
Quantum theory; quantum chemistry; civilization's impact on sciences; Russia.
"The Rational Explication of the Extrascientific in Physics," Problems of Philosophy (1994): 16-26.
Thermodynamics.
"Thermodynamic Elements in World Views - World View Elements in Thermodynamics," in K. Martin s, L. Ropolyi & P. Szegedi (eds.), Thermodynamics: History and Philosophy. London: World Scientific, 1991, pp. 424-439.
German atomic bomb history; Renaissance mathematical physics.
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-45. (in press).
18th and 19th century scientific instruments.
"Science on the Great Plains: The History of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln," University of Nebraska Studies, New Series No. 71 (1992): 1-168.
Emil Wiechert; History of the electron; history of the electron microscope.
with F.H. Rudenberg, "Reinhold Rüdenberg as a Physicist - His Contributions and Patents on the Electron Microscope Traced Back to the 'Göttingen Electron Group.' MSA Bulletin 24 (1994): 572-580.
Space research; cosmic-ray physics.
with J. Krige, Europe in Space, 1960-1973. Noordwjik, Netherlands: European Space Agency, 1994.
Kepler and Newton.
Relativity; electrodynamics; theories of space, time, and motion.
"From their Properties, Causes, and Effects: Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place, and Motion," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26 (December 1994).
19c-early 20c physics and engineering; Mexico; third world countries.
16c-17c physics.
19c-20c physics; scientific institutions; relativity; nuclear energy; aeronautics; Spain; Britain; USA.
Miguel Catal n: Su obra y su mundo. Madrid: CSIC, 1994.
19c-20c physics, especially general relativity.
19c-early 20c physics; scientific instruments; astronomy; earth sciences; England; Scotland; Germany.
Fluid mechanics.
"The Salt Finger Experiments of Jevons (1857) and Rayleigh (1880)," Journal of Physical Oceanography 25, no.1 (1995): 8-17.
16c-18c, early 20c physics and mathematics; Newton; Laplace; probability and statistics.
"Isaac Newtons Weltbild als Abschluá der copernicanischen Revolution," in Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) - Revolutionär wider Willen. Stuttgart: GNT-Verlag, 1994, pp. 218-227.
18th century theories of matter.
Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Reason. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.
Geophysics; Emil Wiechert; meteorology and relations to physics; relationship between Albert Einstein & Hans Ertel, and between Einstein & Emil Wiechert.
"Einstein and Geophysics," Geowissenschaften 12 (1994): 211-215.
20th century theoretical physics; QED; QFT.
QED and the Men Who Made It. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Galilean studies; 19c-20c foundation of mathematics; biography of science.
In the Wake of Galileo (1991).
Accelerators; lasers; computational physics.
"Accelerators and National Security: The Evolution of Science Policy for High-Energy Physics, 1947-1967," History and Technology 11 (1994): 361-391.
Newton; history of optics.
Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Philosophy of science; mathematics; astronomy; physics; 17c; Scientific Revolution; Galileo; Descartes; 20c; Rutherford; Hahn; Canada; France; Italy.
Leo Szilard, thermodynamics, nuclear physics.
Scientific biography; alchemy and chemistry in China; institutionalization of science in Japan; 17c physics.
Maxwell; Einstein; progress in physics.
Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Currents, and Light. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Relationship between physics and mathematics in 19th and 20th centuries; relationship between physics and technology.
"Unification, Geometry, and Ambivalence: Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen Community," in Kostas Gavroglu et al. (eds.), Trends in the Historiography of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 151. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994, pp. 355-367.
Scientific instruments; acoustics; theories of vision, perception, & representation .
with Thomas L. Hankins, Instruments and the Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Lise Meitner.
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Quantum chemistry and quantum theory; physical sciences in Portugal, 18th - 20th century.
with Kostas Gavroglu, "The Americans, the Germans, and the Beginnings of Quantum Chemistry: The Conference of Diverging Traditions," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25 (1994): 47-110.
19c-early 20c chemistry and physics; chemical physics; England.
19c-early 20c physics; Lord Kelvin; literature and science; Britain.
Musical acoustics.
"Extended Indices of Grove Dictionary," Fontes Artis Musicae (January-March, 1991): 75.
18c physics and chemistry; The Netherlands.
"Auffassunger von der Materie in der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts," Rostocker Wissenschaftshistorische Beitrage 20 (1991).
Los Caminos de Agua. El origen de les rios y las fuentes. Madrid: Mondadori, 1992.
Quantum physics in the United States.
Quantum Physics in America: The Years through 1935. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1988.
Polish physics in 19th and 20th centuries.
"The Collaboration of Marian Smoluchowski and Theodor Svedberg on Brownian Motion and Density Fluctuations," Centaurus 35 (1992): 325-355.
17th century mechanics Sophics, 19th century electromagnetism, experimentation.
Entering New Fields: Exploratory Uses of Experimentation. Philosophy of Science 64 (Supplement) (1997), SS65-S74. Spring 1998
Kepler.
The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Relations between experimental science, popular belief, and speculative philosophies of nature; 18th & 19th centuries.
"Galvanic Disciplines: The Boundaries, Objects, and Identities of Experimental Science in the Era of German Romanticism," History of Science 33 (December 1995).
19th - 20th century physics; radiation theory; quantum physics; nuclear physics; history of science in education; humanistic relations of science; national science of USA and Germany.
"The Origin of the Liquid-Drop Model and the Interpretation of Nuclear Fission," Perspectives on Science 2 (1994): 39-92.
Space-time theories; 19c-20c mathematical physics.
"Poincaré's Thesis of the Translatability of Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries," Nous 25 (1991): 639-657.
Michelson-Morley experiment; interferometry,1880-1930; Einstein and relativity theories.
"Michelson and Measurement," Physics Today 40 (May 1987): 24-30.
Galileo; Ayao Kuwaki; Japanese physics.
"Kuwaki Turns to History of Science," Historia Scientiarum 2 (New Series, 1992): 85-108.
Geodesy; metric system; weights and measures; 18c-19c physics; national science of France and Spain.
"`No hay reyno que no sea newtoniano...' Sobre la introducción del newtonianismo en España," Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 43 (1993): 293-319.
Acoustics; 19th and 20th century architectural acoustics.
"'Mysteries of the Acoustic': Architectural Acoustics in America, 1800-1932," Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton, 1992.
Science, visual arts, and perception.
"The Parallel Fallacy," British Journal of Aesthetics 30 (1990): 311.
Science policy studies; Canadian fusion program; fusion research programs in USA and Europe; national science of Canada, USA, and Europe.
18c-early 20c physics and astronomy; relationship between physics and astronomy in the 19c; national science of Italy, France, and United Kingdom.
A. Mandrino, G. Tagliaferri, P. Tucci (a cura di), in Leo Olschki (ed.), Un viaggio in Eu-ropa nel 1786. Diario di Barnaba Oriani astronomo milanese. Firenze, 1994.
Einstein; Pauli; quantum theory.
Michael Faraday; optical theory and practice of microscopy.
Editor (with D. Gooding), Michael Faraday's "Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions and Objects of Pursuit" of 1822. Stevenage, Herts., UK: Peter Peregrinus, Ltd., 1991.
20th century astrophysics and astronomy;16c-17c mathematics and physics; historiography; national science of The Netherlands.
19c-early 20c physics and chemistry, national science of The Netherlands; bibliography and archives.
Astronomy and physics.
18c chemistry and physics; scientific institutions; national science of Belgium.
National science of Belgium and The Netherlands; scientific institutions; science and religion; social relations of science.
"Belgische bijdragen tot de thermodynamische verkaring van de Brownse beweging," Scientiarum Historia 19 (1993): 43-61.
18c physics; centre-periphery diffusion of science, physics in the Balkans, history of oceanography.
"The Reception of the Electric Theories during the Dawn of the Neohellenic Scientific Thought," Nuncius, Spring 1998.
16th and 17th century astronomy; Kepler.
Galileo, medieval and Renaissance origins of his thought; Newton, especially the Trinity Notebook.
"The Problem of Apodictic Proof in Early Seventeenth Century Mechanics: Galileo, Guevara, and the Jesuits,"