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

2134. BUCHWALD, Jed Z. “An Error within a Mistake?”
In BUCHWALD and FRANKLIN [ref. 128],
185–208.
On 19th-century electrodynamics, focusing on Helmholtz
and Hertz.
2135. CAVICCHI, Elizabeth. “Nineteenth-Century
Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences
with Electromagnetic Induction.” Ann. Sci. 63
(2006): 319–361.
2136. CHEN, Xiang. “Transforming Temporal
Knowledge: Conceptual Change between Event Concepts.”
Perspect. Sci. 13 (2005): 49–73.
As a case study presents the debate between Augustin Fresnel
and Thomas Young about the nature of light waves.
2137. CHEN, Xiang. “Visual Photometry in the
Early 19th Century: A ‘Good’ Science with ‘Wrong’
Measurements.” In BUCHWALD and FRANKLIN
[ref. 128], 161–183.
2138. D’AGOSTINO, Salvo. “Sostanza o funzione?
Il problema dell’oggettivazione nella fisica posteinsteiniana.”
Physis 41 (2004): 219–240.
On the problem of applying ideas about the nature of modern
physics to classical physics paradigms.
2139. DE FRENZA, Lucia. “Le ricerche di Faraday
sull’induzione elettrostatica: un confronto a più voci.”
Physis 39 (2002): 249–276.
2140. DÖRFEL, Günter, and Falk MÜLLER. “1857
– Julius Plücker, Heinrich Geißler und der Beginn
systematischer Gasentladungsforschung in Deutschland.”
NTM 14 (2006): 26–45.
2141. DRAGONI, Giorgio. “Grandi serie di misure
sperimentali e progetti teorici: speranza euristica tra
fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento.” Part of a Special
Issue: Giovanni Giorgi nella realtà del suo tempo
[ref. 1948]. Physis 41 (2004): 357–372.
2142. FOX, Robert, and Graeme GOODAY. (Eds.)
Physics in Oxford, 1839–1939: Laboratories, Learning,
and College Life. (xix + 363 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN:
0198567928.
Contents (from publisher): Robert FOX, “The Context and
Practices of Oxford Physics, 1839–77”; Robert FOX and
Graeme GOODAY, “Epilogue”; Robert FOX, Graeme GOO-
DAY and Tony SIMCOCK, “Physics in Oxford: Problems and
Perspectives”; Graeme GOODAY, “Robert Bellamy Clifton
and the ‘Depressing Inheritance’ of the Clarendon Laboratory,
1877–1919”; Jeff HUGHES, “Redefining the Context:
Oxford and the Wider World of British Physics, 1900–40”;
Benoit LELONG, “Translating Ion Physics from Cambridge
to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory,
1900–24”; Jack MORRELL, “The Lindemann Era”; Tony
SIMCOCK, “Laboratories and Physics in Oxford Colleges,
1848–1947”; Tony SIMCOCK, “Mechanical Physicists, the
Millard Laboratory and the Transition from Physics to Engineering”.
Reviews: [ref. R298]
2143. GRABER, Frédéric. “Article ou mémoire ?
Une réflexion comparative sur l’écriture des textes
scientifiques. Navier et l’écoulement des fluides
(1822–1827).” Rev. Hist. Math. 10 (2004): 141–185.
This paper compares two very similar texts by the same
author on the same subject in order to highlight variations in
the phrasing, structure, and purpose of the texts. (from the
abstract)
360. Nineteenth century 103
2144. GREENSLADE, Thomas B., Jr. “Collection
Profile: Visits to Apparatus Collections I: Kenyon
College.” Rittenhouse 13 (1999): 115–122.
On physics teaching equipment.
2145. HENTSCHEL, Klaus. “Wissenschaftliche Photographie
als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und
Dokumentation von Spektren.” Part of a special issue:
Fotografie und Wissenschaft [ref. 2602]. Ber.
Wissenschaftsgesch. 28 (2005): 193–214.
2146. HOU Yude. “Didn’t (Maxwell) Prophesy the
Existence of Electromagnetic Wave?” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 23 (2004):
173–178.
2147. KONAGAYA Daisuke. “The Reconsideration
of Paschen’s Research on the Heat Radiation in the
Latter Half of the 1890’s.” [Translated title.] In
Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 44 (2005):
75–85.
2148. LELONG, Benoit. “Ions, Electrometers, and
Physical Constants: Paul Langevin’s Laboratory
Work on Gas Discharges, 1896–1903.” Hist. Stud.
Phys. Biol. Sci. 36 (2005): 93–130.
2149. LÜTZEN, Jesper. Mechanistic Images in Geometric
Form: Heinrich Hertz’s Principles of Mechanics.
(xiii + 318 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198567375.
2150. MAGALHÃES, Gildo. “Remarks on a New
Autograph Letter from Augustin Fresnel: Light Aberration
and Wave Theory.” Sci. Context 19 (2006):
295–307.
2151. MARTINS, Roberto de Andrade. “Mechanics
and Electromagnetism in the Late Nineteenth Century:
The Dynamics of Maxwell’s Ether.” In CAPRIA
[ref. 2830], 21–48.
2152. MORANDO, Adriano Paolo. “Giovanni Giorgi
fisico matematico ed ingegnere elettrico.” Part of a
special issue: Giovanni Giorgi nella realtà del suo
tempo [ref. 1948]. Physis 41 (2004): 391–447.
2153. MOSINI, V. “Was the Methodology behind
Electrodynamics Inductive or Deductive?” Physis 39
(2002): 441–468.
2154. NAVARRO, Jaume. “J. J. Thomson on the
Nature of Matter: Corpuscles and the Continuum.”
Centaurus 47 (2005): 259–282.
2155. PAPANELOPOULOU, Faidra. “Gustave-
Adolphe Hirn (1815–90): Engineering Thermodynamics
in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France.” Brit. J.
Hist. Sci. 39 (2006): 231–254.
2156. RUDD, Eugene. “Instrument Collection Profile:
University of Nebraska.” Rittenhouse 17 (2003):
45–55.
Focuses on the physics and astronomy departments.
2157. RUDD, Eugene M. “DeWitt Bristol Brace:
Professor, Instrument Maker, Innovator.” Rittenhouse
13 (1999): 3–11.
2158. SCHEMMEL, Matthias. “An Astronomical
Road to General Relativity: The Continuity between
Classical and Relativistic Cosmology in the Work of
Karl Schwarzschild.” Sci. Context 18 (2005): 451–
478.
2159. STADLER, Ulrich. “Moving Objects, Moved
Observers: On the Treatment of the Problem of Relativity
in Poetic Texts and Scientific Prose.” Special