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

2807. GREGORY, Jane. Fred Hoyle’s Universe. (x
+ 406 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford / New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198507917.
2808. HUFBAUER, Karl. “Stellar Structure and Evolution,
1924–1939.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006):
203–227.
Review Article
2809. HUNT, James Christopher. “ ‘We Shall Have
to Make the Best of It’: The Conversion of Dennis
Sciama.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/09 (2006): 3436.
Dissertation at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
2005. Adviser: Pitt, Joseph C. UMI pub. no.
3191741. 272 pp. On Sciama’s eventual rejection of the
steady-state model and how he made this conversion.
2810. LAMBERT, Dominique. “Les origines de
l’hypothèse de l’Atome primitif : une perspective
nouvelle.” Rev. Quest. Sci. 176 (2005): 187–200.
Focus on cosmological ideas of Georges Lemaître and their
ramifications for ideas about God.
2811. LANE, K. Maria D. “Geographers of Mars:
Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative
in Late Victorian Representations of the Red Planet.”
Isis 96 (2005): 477–506.
2812. LONGAIR, Malcolm. “Hoyle Assessed.” J.
Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 111–114.
Essay review of MITTON [ref. 2815].
2813. MARCHÉ, Jordan D. Theaters of Time and
Space: American Planetaria, 1930–1970. (xv + 266
pp.; bibl.; index.) New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ.
Press, 2005. ISBN: 081353576X.
2814. MARKLEY, Robert. Dying Planet: Mars in
Science and the Imagination. (444 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Durham, N. C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0822336006.
2815. MITTON, Simon. Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred
Hoyle’s Life in Science. (xvii + 401 pp.; ill.; index;
bibl.) Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry, 2005. ISBN:
0309093139.
Reviews: [ref. 2812, R627]
2816. NIU Weixing. “On Gao Pingzi’s
Astronomical-Calendrical Study.” [Translated title.]
In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 25 (2006):
182–191.
2817. PRICE, Katy. “Flame Far Too Hot: William
Empson’s Non-Euclidean Predicament.” Interdiscipl.
Sci. Rev. 30 (2005): 312–322.
On Empson’s poetic speculations on the limits of relativistic
cosmology, in which he hypothesizes something like a black
hole.
2818. SMITH, Robert W. “Beyond the Big Galaxy:
The Structure of the Stellar System 1900–1952.” J.
Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 307–342.
2819. SOBEL, Barry J. “The Story of the Orrery and
the Trippensee Company.” Rittenhouse 15 (2001):
83–92.
2820. WICKRAMASINGHE, Chandra, Geoffrey
BURBIDGE, and Jayant V. NARLIKAR. (Eds.) Fred
Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating
Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contribution to
Science, 25–26 June 2002, Cardiff University. (328
pp.; ill.) Dordrecht / London Kluwer Academic,
2003. ISBN: 1402014155.
Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science 285 (2003):
281–608 (no. 2).
370. Twentieth century 131
2821. YOSHIDA Seiko. “Asteroids and Stars and
K. Hirayama: Motion of the Heavenly Bodies in
the Cloud of Resisting Particles.” [Translated title.]
In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002):
203–213.
370-111. ASTROLOGY
2822. CAMPION, Nicholas. “Surrealist Cosmology:
André Breton and Astrology.” Cult. Cosmos 6. no. 2
(2002): 45–56.
370-112. PHYSICS AND GENERAL WORKS ON
THE EXACT SCIENCES
2823. ABIKO, Seiya. “Einstein and Quantum Theory.”
In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 183–203.
2824. ABIKO, Seiya. “The Origins and Concepts of
Special Relativity.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 71–91.
2825. ABIKO Seiya. “The Two Research Traditions
of Physics in the Early 20th Century.” [Translated
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43
(2004): 129–137.
2826. BROWN, Harvey R. Physical Relativity:
Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective.
(xiii + 225 pp.; bibl.; index.) Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0199275831.
On Einstein and contemporary relativity theorists’ understanding
of and doubts about relativity.
2827. BUSTAMANTE, Martha Cecilia. “Rayonnement
et quanta en France : 1900–1914.” Physis 39
(2002): 63–108.
2828. CAHN, Robert W. “An Unusual Nobel Prize.”
Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. Lond. 59 (2005): 145–153.
“The objective of this short paper is to justify the [1920 Nobel
Prize in physics to C.-E. Guillaume] retrospectively.” (from
the abstract)
2829. CAPRIA, Marco Mamone. “General Relativity:
Gravitation as Geometry and the Machian
Programme.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 93–128.
2830. CAPRIA, Marco Mamone. (Ed.) Physics
Before and After Einstein. (ii + 324 pp.; ill.; bibl.)
Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2005. ISBN: 1586034626.
Contents: CAPRIA [ref. 2640]; MARTINS [ref. 2151];
BARACCA [ref. 2132]; ABIKO [ref. 2824]; CAPRIA
[ref. 2829]; CAPRIA [ref. 2806]; ABIKO [ref. 2823]; FILHO
[ref. 2841]; SRIVASTAVA [ref. 2885]; David DROSDOFF,
Yogendra N. SRIVASTAVA and Allan WIDOM, “Quantum
Theory and Gravitation,” 253-265; Erasmo RECAMI, “Superluminal
Waves and Objects: Theory and Experiments. A
Panoramic Introduction,” 267-283; DAIGNEAULT [ref. 3509].
2831. CARBONARI, Luca, and Fabio SEBASTIANI.
“La scoperta dell’azione di sostanze idrogenate sulla
radioattività provocata da neutroni: nota in margine
al ritrovamento di un cimelio fermiano.” Physis 39
(2002): 483–510.
2832. CASTELLANA, Mario. Razionalismi senza
dogmi: per una epistemologia della fisicamatematica.
Università. (223 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Soveria Mannelli, Catanzaro : Rubbettino, 2004.
ISBN: 8849807147.
2833. COFFEY, Patrick. “Chemical Free Energies
and the Third Law of Thermodynamics.” Hist. Stud.
Phys. Biol. Sci. 36 (2006): 365–396.
2834. CREAGER, Angela N. H. “The Industrialization
of Radioisotopes by the U. S. Atomic Energy