Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
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2807. GREGORY, Jane. Fred Hoyle’s Universe. (x<br />
+ 406 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford / New York:<br />
Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198507917.<br />
2808. HUFBAUER, Karl. “Stellar Structure and Evolution,<br />
1924–1939.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>):<br />
203–227.<br />
Review Article<br />
2809. HUNT, James Christopher. “ ‘We Shall Have<br />
to Make the Best <strong>of</strong> It’: The Conversion <strong>of</strong> Dennis<br />
Sciama.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/09 (<strong>2006</strong>): 3436.<br />
Dissertation at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,<br />
2005. Adviser: Pitt, Joseph C. UMI pub. no.<br />
3191741. 272 pp. On Sciama’s eventual rejection <strong>of</strong> the<br />
steady-state model and how he made this conversion.<br />
2810. LAMBERT, Dominique. “Les origines de<br />
l’hypothèse de l’Atome primitif : une perspective<br />
nouvelle.” Rev. Quest. Sci. 176 (2005): 187–200.<br />
Focus on cosmological ideas <strong>of</strong> Georges Lemaître and their<br />
ramifications for ideas about God.<br />
2811. LANE, K. Maria D. “Geographers <strong>of</strong> Mars:<br />
Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative<br />
in Late Victorian Representations <strong>of</strong> the Red Planet.”<br />
<strong>Isis</strong> 96 (2005): 477–506.<br />
2812. LONGAIR, Malcolm. “Hoyle Assessed.” J.<br />
Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>): 111–114.<br />
Essay review <strong>of</strong> MITTON [ref. 2815].<br />
2813. MARCHÉ, Jordan D. Theaters <strong>of</strong> Time and<br />
Space: American Planetaria, 1930–1<strong>97</strong>0. (xv + 266<br />
pp.; bibl.; index.) New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ.<br />
Press, 2005. ISBN: 081353576X.<br />
2814. MARKLEY, Robert. Dying Planet: Mars in<br />
<strong>Science</strong> and the Imagination. (444 pp.; ill.; bibl.;<br />
index.) Durham, N. C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2005.<br />
ISBN: 0822336006.<br />
2815. MITTON, Simon. Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred<br />
Hoyle’s Life in <strong>Science</strong>. (xvii + 401 pp.; ill.; index;<br />
bibl.) Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry, 2005. ISBN:<br />
0309093139.<br />
Reviews: [ref. 2812, R627]<br />
2816. NIU Weixing. “On Gao Pingzi’s<br />
Astronomical-Calendrical Study.” [Translated title.]<br />
In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 25 (<strong>2006</strong>):<br />
182–191.<br />
2817. PRICE, Katy. “Flame Far Too Hot: William<br />
Empson’s Non-Euclidean Predicament.” Interdiscipl.<br />
Sci. Rev. 30 (2005): 312–322.<br />
On Empson’s poetic speculations on the limits <strong>of</strong> relativistic<br />
cosmology, in which he hypothesizes something like a black<br />
hole.<br />
2818. SMITH, Robert W. “Beyond the Big Galaxy:<br />
The Structure <strong>of</strong> the Stellar System 1900–1952.” J.<br />
Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>): 307–342.<br />
2819. SOBEL, Barry J. “The Story <strong>of</strong> the Orrery and<br />
the Trippensee Company.” Rittenhouse 15 (2001):<br />
83–92.<br />
2820. WICKRAMASINGHE, Chandra, Ge<strong>of</strong>frey<br />
BURBIDGE, and Jayant V. NARLIKAR. (Eds.) Fred<br />
Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings <strong>of</strong> a Conference Celebrating<br />
Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contribution to<br />
<strong>Science</strong>, 25–26 June 2002, Cardiff University. (328<br />
pp.; ill.) Dordrecht / London Kluwer Academic,<br />
2003. ISBN: 1402014155.<br />
Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space <strong>Science</strong> 285 (2003):<br />
281–608 (no. 2).<br />
370. Twentieth century 131<br />
2821. YOSHIDA Seiko. “Asteroids and Stars and<br />
K. Hirayama: Motion <strong>of</strong> the Heavenly Bodies in<br />
the Cloud <strong>of</strong> Resisting Particles.” [Translated title.]<br />
In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002):<br />
203–213.<br />
370-111. ASTROLOGY<br />
2822. CAMPION, Nicholas. “Surrealist Cosmology:<br />
André Breton and Astrology.” Cult. Cosmos 6. no. 2<br />
(2002): 45–56.<br />
370-112. PHYSICS AND GENERAL WORKS ON<br />
THE EXACT SCIENCES<br />
2823. ABIKO, Seiya. “Einstein and Quantum Theory.”<br />
In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 183–203.<br />
2824. ABIKO, Seiya. “The Origins and Concepts <strong>of</strong><br />
Special Relativity.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 71–91.<br />
2825. ABIKO Seiya. “The Two Research Traditions<br />
<strong>of</strong> Physics in the Early 20th Century.” [Translated<br />
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43<br />
(2004): 129–137.<br />
2826. BROWN, Harvey R. Physical Relativity:<br />
Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective.<br />
(xiii + 225 pp.; bibl.; index.) Oxford: Clarendon<br />
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0199275831.<br />
On Einstein and contemporary relativity theorists’ understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> and doubts about relativity.<br />
2827. BUSTAMANTE, Martha Cecilia. “Rayonnement<br />
et quanta en France : 1900–1914.” Physis 39<br />
(2002): 63–108.<br />
2828. CAHN, Robert W. “An Unusual Nobel Prize.”<br />
Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. Lond. 59 (2005): 145–153.<br />
“The objective <strong>of</strong> this short paper is to justify the [1920 Nobel<br />
Prize in physics to C.-E. Guillaume] retrospectively.” (from<br />
the abstract)<br />
2829. CAPRIA, Marco Mamone. “General Relativity:<br />
Gravitation as Geometry and the Machian<br />
Programme.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 93–128.<br />
2830. CAPRIA, Marco Mamone. (Ed.) Physics<br />
Before and After Einstein. (ii + 324 pp.; ill.; bibl.)<br />
Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2005. ISBN: 1586034626.<br />
Contents: CAPRIA [ref. 2640]; MARTINS [ref. 2151];<br />
BARACCA [ref. 2132]; ABIKO [ref. 2824]; CAPRIA<br />
[ref. 2829]; CAPRIA [ref. 2806]; ABIKO [ref. 2823]; FILHO<br />
[ref. 2841]; SRIVASTAVA [ref. 2885]; David DROSDOFF,<br />
Yogendra N. SRIVASTAVA and Allan WIDOM, “Quantum<br />
Theory and Gravitation,” 253-265; Erasmo RECAMI, “Superluminal<br />
Waves and Objects: Theory and Experiments. A<br />
Panoramic Introduction,” 267-283; DAIGNEAULT [ref. 3509].<br />
2831. CARBONARI, Luca, and Fabio SEBASTIANI.<br />
“La scoperta dell’azione di sostanze idrogenate sulla<br />
radioattività provocata da neutroni: nota in margine<br />
al ritrovamento di un cimelio fermiano.” Physis 39<br />
(2002): 483–510.<br />
2832. CASTELLANA, Mario. Razionalismi senza<br />
dogmi: per una epistemologia della fisicamatematica.<br />
Università. (223 pp.; bibl.; index.)<br />
Soveria Mannelli, Catanzaro : Rubbettino, 2004.<br />
ISBN: 8849807147.<br />
2833. COFFEY, Patrick. “Chemical Free Energies<br />
and the Third Law <strong>of</strong> Thermodynamics.” Hist. Stud.<br />
Phys. Biol. Sci. 36 (<strong>2006</strong>): 365–396.<br />
2834. CREAGER, Angela N. H. “The Industrialization<br />
<strong>of</strong> Radioisotopes by the U. S. Atomic Energy