Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
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102 360. Nineteenth century<br />
2110. ROWE, David E. “Felix Klein as Wissenschaftspolitiker.”<br />
In BOTTAZZINI and DAHAN<br />
DALMEDICO [ref. 315], 69–92.<br />
2111. SHELL-GELLASCH, Amy. “The Olivier String<br />
Models at West Point.” Rittenhouse 17 (2003): 71–<br />
84.<br />
2112. WANG Youjun. “Jueyi Shuxue: The Earliest<br />
Probability Book in Chinese with Laplacian Probability<br />
Style.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran<br />
Kexueshi Yanjiu 25 (<strong>2006</strong>): 159–169.<br />
2113. YAJIMA Keiji. “Introduction to the Book<br />
‘Mathematics Education’ by Rikitaro Fujisawa Published<br />
in the End <strong>of</strong> the 19th Century.” [Translated<br />
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43<br />
(2004): 243–246.<br />
360-104. MUSIC<br />
2114. BROTMAN, Charles M. “The Power <strong>of</strong> Sound:<br />
Evolutionary Naturalism and Music in Anglo-<br />
American Victorian Culture.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A<br />
66/03 (2005): 1127.<br />
Dissertation at the University <strong>of</strong> Rochester, 2005. Adviser:<br />
Rubin, Joan Shelley. UMI pub. no. 3169565. 305 pp.<br />
“Examines the genesis <strong>of</strong> music theorizing in the work<br />
<strong>of</strong> Anglo-American evolutionary naturalists.” (from the<br />
abstract)<br />
360-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY<br />
2115. BEEKMAN, George. “I.O. Yarkovsky and the<br />
Discovery <strong>of</strong> ‘His’ Effect.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>):<br />
71–86.<br />
2116. CHINNICI, Ileana. (Ed.) La carte du ciel :<br />
Correspondence inédite conservée dans les Archives<br />
de l’Observatoire de Paris. Foreword by Johannes<br />
ANDERSEN. Prefaces by Michel COMBES and Salvatore<br />
SERIO. Introduction by Giorgia FODERÀ,<br />
Nandou DALIÈS, and Suzanne DÉBARBAT. (xviii<br />
+ 475 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Paris: Observatoire de<br />
Paris, 1999. ISBN: 2901057403.<br />
On correspondence spanning the dates 1884–1913.<br />
2117. D’ESTIENNE, Jean. “Comment s’est formé<br />
l’univers.” Rev. Quest. Sci. 175 (2004): 229–340.<br />
Reprint <strong>of</strong> an 1877 article. Includes an introduction: Dominique<br />
LAMBERT, “Note Introductive” Rev. Quest. Sci.<br />
175 (2004): 225–228.<br />
2118. GATTO, Romano, Lisa IODICE, and Emilia<br />
OLOSTRO CIRELLA. “Sul Ritrovamento di un Carteggio<br />
Scientifico di Emanuele Fergola.” Nuncius 19<br />
(2004): 245–252.<br />
Announcing the discovery <strong>of</strong> 150 letters from Fergola’s<br />
correspondence.<br />
2119. HENCHMAN, Anna Alexandra. “Astronomy<br />
and the Problem <strong>of</strong> Perception in British Literature,<br />
1830–1910.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/05 (2004): 1794.<br />
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2004. Adviser: Scarry,<br />
Elaine, Philip Fisher, and Isobel Armstrong. UMI pub. no.<br />
3131862. 236 pp.<br />
2120. HIGGITT, Rebekah. “Astronomers against<br />
Newton.” Endeavour 28 (2004): 20–24.<br />
On Francis Baily’s account <strong>of</strong> Flamsteed’s conflict with<br />
Newton and its use in contemporary debates over astronomy.<br />
2121. KOLLERSTROM, Nicholas. “An Hiatus in <strong>History</strong>:<br />
The British Claim for Neptune’s Co-prediction,<br />
1845–1846: Part I.” Hist. Sci. 44 (<strong>2006</strong>): 1–28.<br />
2122. LAUNAY, Françoise, and Peter D. HINGLEY.<br />
“Jules Janssen’s ‘Revolver Photographique’ and Its<br />
British Derivative, ‘The Janssen Slide.’ ” J. Hist.<br />
Astron. 36 (2005): 57–79.<br />
On a device used to photographically record the transit<br />
<strong>of</strong> Venus and its status as a precursor to motion picture<br />
technology.<br />
2123. LOGAN, Gabriella Berti. “Caterina<br />
Scarpellini: Astronomy and Meteorology in Risorgimento<br />
Rome.” Nuncius 20 (2005): 189–217.<br />
2124. MATSUMURA Masafumi. “Observation <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Comet in 1811 by Michikata Kume.” [Translated<br />
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 45<br />
(<strong>2006</strong>): 23–28.<br />
2125. SMELTZER, Ronald K. “An Early American<br />
Planisphere: Pettengill’s Stellarota <strong>of</strong> 1828.” Rittenhouse<br />
18, no. 2 (2004): 31–39.<br />
See also: Ronald K. SMELTZER, “An Early American Planisphere:<br />
Pettengill’s Stellarota <strong>of</strong> 1828: Addendum,” 63–64.<br />
2126. STAUBERMANN, Klaus. “Exercising Patience:<br />
On the Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> F.W. Bessel’s Early Star<br />
Chart Observations.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>):<br />
19–36.<br />
2127. UNNO Kazutaka. “The Heitengi by Iwahashi<br />
Yoshitaka.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi<br />
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 45 (<strong>2006</strong>): 29–33.<br />
On a celestial map.<br />
360-112. PHYSICS AND GENERAL WORKS ON<br />
THE EXACT SCIENCES<br />
2128. ALTSHULER, José, and Angelo BARACCA.<br />
“La enseñanza de la física en Cuba, desde la Colonia<br />
hasta 1959.” Llull 27 (2004): 557–608.<br />
2129. ARIANRHOD, Robyn. Einstein’s Heroes:<br />
Imagining the World through the Language <strong>of</strong> Mathematics.<br />
(323 pp.; bibl.; index.) Oxford / New York :<br />
Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0195183703.<br />
On how Maxwell’s use <strong>of</strong> mathematics “resolved the seemingly<br />
insoluble controversy between Faraday’s idea <strong>of</strong> lines<br />
<strong>of</strong> force and Newton’s theory <strong>of</strong> action-at-a-distance.” (from<br />
publisher)<br />
2130. ASSIS, Andre Koch Torres, Karin REICH, and<br />
Heinrich WIEDERKEHR. “On the Electromagnetic<br />
and Electrostatic Units <strong>of</strong> <strong>Current</strong> and the Meaning<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Absolute System <strong>of</strong> Units: For the 200th<br />
Anniversary <strong>of</strong> Wilhelm Weber’s Birth.” Sudh<strong>of</strong>fs<br />
Arch. 88 (2004): 10–31.<br />
Evaluates the contributions <strong>of</strong> both Gauss and Weber to<br />
electrical theory.<br />
2131. BADASH, Lawrence. “Becquerel’s Blunder.”<br />
Special Issue: Errors: Consequences <strong>of</strong> Big Mistakes<br />
in the Natural and Social <strong>Science</strong>s [ref. 13]. Soc. Res.<br />
72 (2005): 31–62.<br />
On the discovery <strong>of</strong> radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896.<br />
2132. BARACCA, Angelo. “Mechanistic <strong>Science</strong>,<br />
Thermodynamics, and Industry at the End <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Nineteenth Century.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 49–70.<br />
2133. BARUS, Carl. One <strong>of</strong> the 999 about to Be Forgotten:<br />
Memoirs <strong>of</strong> Carl Barus, 1865–1935. Selected<br />
and edited by Axel W.-O. SCHMIDT. (317 pp.; ill.)<br />
New York: AWOS, 2005. ISBN: 3833423080.<br />
Autobiography <strong>of</strong> a Brown University physicist.