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

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