Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

2029. FATET, Jérôme, and Jérôme VIARD. “La
naissance de la spectrométrie : l’actinomètre
électrochimique d’Edmond Becquerel.” Physis 41
(2004): 167–182.
2030. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Apparatus
for Natural Philosophy: The Microphone and the
Coherer.” Rittenhouse 16 (2002): 48–50.
2031. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Apparatus for
Natural Philosophy: The Radio Micrometer of C. V.
Boys.” Rittenhouse 17 (2003): 64–70.
2032. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Collection
Profile: Visits to Apparatus Collections III: Amherst
College.” Rittenhouse 15 (2001): 39–46.
2033. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Collection
Profile: Visits to Apparatus Collections IV: Vanderbilt
College.” Rittenhouse 16 (2002): 109–120.
2034. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Collection
Profile: Visits to Apparatus Collections V: The University
of Mississippi.” Rittenhouse 19, no. 1 (2005):
16–26.
On instruments at the university in the 1850s.
2035. HENTSCHEL, Klaus. Gaussens unsichtbare
Hand: der Universitäts-Mechanicus und Maschinen-
Inspector Moritz Meyerstein: Ein Instrumentenbauer
im 19. Jahrhundert. Abhandlungen der Akademie
der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Mathematisch-
Physikalische Klasse, 52. (321 pp.; ill.) Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. ISBN: 3525821263.
Reviews: [ref. R415]
2036. HOLLAND, Julian. “Charles Wheatstone and
the Representation of Waves – Part 1.” Rittenhouse
13 (1999): 86–106.
Concerns a demonstration instrument invented in Britain in
the 1840s and used in institutions around the world. Part 2 is
in vol. 14 (2000), pp. 27-46.
2037. KIDWELL, Peggy Aldrich. “An Erasable Surface
as Instrument and Product: The Blackboard
Enters the American Classroom—1800–1915.” Rittenhouse
17 (2003): 85–98.
2038. LA BERGE, Ann F. “Debate as Scientific Practice
in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Controversy
over the Microscope.” Perspect. Sci. 12 (2004):
424–453.
2039. LESCHIUTTA, Sigfrido. “Giovanni Giorgi
metrologo nel dibattito metrologico internazionale.”
Part of a Special Issue: Giovanni Giorgi nella realtà
del suo tempo [ref. 1948]. Physis 41 (2004): 375–
390.
2040. MESCHIARI, Alberto. “Giovanni Battista
Amici e il Reale Officio Topografico di Napoli: corrispondenza
con i colonnelli Visconti, De Sauget,
Melorio.” Physis 39 (2002): 161–248.
Correspondence of the optical instrument maker Amici.
2041. NUTTALL, R. H., and Alison MORRISON-
LOW. “Hugh Miller in an Age of Microscopy.” In
BORLEY [ref. 2201], 214–226.
2042. REIDY, Michael S. “Gauging Science and
Technology in the Early Victorian Era.” In ROZWAD-
OWSKI and VAN KEUREN [ref. 402], 1–38.
On instruments to measure tides.
2043. SCHETTINO, Edvige. “L’Italia e la Convenzione
del metro: negoziazioni tecniche, scientifiche,
legislative.” Part of a Special Issue: Giovanni Giorgi
360. Nineteenth century 99
nella realtà del suo tempo [ref. 1948]. Physis 41
(2004): 345–356.
2044. SCHICKORE, Jutta. “Cheese Mites and Other
Delicacies: The Introduction of Test Objects into
Microscopy.” Endeavour 27 (2003): 134–138.
2045. SCHMIDGEN, Henning. “Physics, Ballistics,
and Psychology: A History of the Chronoscope
in/as Context, 1845–1890.” Part of a special issue
[ref. 517]. Hist. Psychol. 8 (2005): 46–78.
2046. SKERRITT, William H. “The Surveying Instruments
of Andrew Meneely.” Rittenhouse 15 (2001):
1–10.
2047. TURNER, Steven. “The Reluctant Instrument
Maker: A. P. Gage and the Introduction of the Student
Laboratory.” Rittenhouse 18, no. 2 (2004): 40–61.
2048. WARNER, Deborah Jean. “Optical Elements
of Fire Control, 1890–1921.” Rittenhouse 18, no. 1
(2004): 21–59.
360-42. SCIENCE EDUCATION; THE HISTORY OF
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
2049. ARAKAWA Hideo. “An Analysis of the Authors
of the Science Textbooks for Secondary Schools
in Prewar Japan.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 42 (2003): 101–111.
2050. FENNESSY, Kathleen M. “ ‘Industrial Instruction’
for the ‘Industrious Classes’: Founding the
Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne.”
Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci. 16 (2005): 45–64.
2051. LINN, Mott. “Photographs from 1892: Clark
University’s New Laboratories for Biology and Psychology.”
Rittenhouse 19, no. 1 (2005): 1–15.
2052. LINN, Mott. “Photographs from 1892: Clark
University’s New Laboratories for Mathematics,
Physics and Chemistry.” Rittenhouse 18, no. 2
(2004): 1–18.
2053. O’CONNOR, Anne. “The Competition for the
Woodwardian Chair of Geology: Cambridge, 1873.”
Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 38 (2005): 437–461.
2054. RASMUSSEN, Carolyn. Increasing Momentum:
A History of the Faculty of Engineering. (254
pp.; ill.) Melbourne: Melbourne Univ. Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0522851355.
On the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
Reviews: [ref. R748]
2055. SUCHMIEL, Jadwiga. Działalno´sć naukowa
kobiet w Uniwersytecie we Lwowie do roku 1939.
(367 pp.; bibl.; index.) Cz ↩ estochowa: Wydawnistwo
WSP, 2000. ISBN: 8370985270.
Scientific work of women at the Lviv University in the 19th
and 20th century, with summary in English.
2056. TAKAHASHI Hiroshi, AKABANE Akira,
SHOZAWA Jun, TAMAKI Toyomi, MORISHITA
Takashi, and TAKIZAWA Toshiharu. “On Elementary
Science Education in the 1880–1900s in Gunma
Prefecture, Japan.” [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43 (2004): 74–82.
2057. YOSHIDA Tadashi. “Educational Systems for
the Training of Scientists and Engineers in Meiji
Japan.” In GÜNERGUN and KURIYAMA [ref. 656],
97–117.