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53The impossibility of free tachyonsIn Charles Goethe Kuper & Asher Peres (eds.), Relativity and Gravitation, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. pp. 41. 1971.
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35The Oxford handbook of the history of physics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.This book brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. By presenting a wide diversity of studies in a single volume, it provides authoritative introductions to scholarly contributions that have tended to be dispersed in journals and books not easily accessible to the general reader. While the core thread remains the theories and experimental practices of physics, the Handbook contains chapt…Read more
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34Instruments Gerard L'E. Turner, Antique scientific instruments. Poole: Blandford Press, 1980. Pp. 168. £3.95/£2.95British Journal for the History of Science 15 (3): 310-310. 1982.
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29Science, industry, and the social order in Mulhouse, 1798–1871British Journal for the History of Science 17 (2): 127-168. 1984.There is a story, which historians of modern France often tell, of the ministerial official in Paris who had only to glance at his clock in order to know the exact passage of Vergil being construed and the law of physics being expounded in every school throughout the country. Invariably, the story is told for a purpose. It is used to demonstrate the high degree of centralization and the attendant rigidity of the French educational system, usually with special reference to the nineteenth century.…Read more
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28Stochastic properties of stabilized-image binocular rivalry alternationsJournal of Experimental Psychology 88 (3): 327. 1971.
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28The Background to the Discovery of Dulong and Petit's LawBritish Journal for the History of Science 4 (1): 1-22. 1968.The years immediately after the final downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte could easily have been years of anti-climax in French science. In 1815, after two decades of undoubted greatness, the time, I feel, was ripe for decline. And decline might well have occurred if the traditions and the style of science as practised in France in the period of Napoleon's rule had been carried on unchanged by the disciples of the two great men who had dominated work in the physical sciences for so many years. These …Read more
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27Detection of motion during binocular rivalry suppressionJournal of Experimental Psychology 78 (3p1): 388. 1968.
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24Engineering Engineering at Cambridge University 1783–1965. By T. J. N. Hilken. London: Cambridge University Press. 1967. Pp. xi + 276. Figs. 45s (review)British Journal for the History of Science 4 (4): 414-414. 1969.
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23Invariance in the reaction time classification of same and different letter pairsJournal of Experimental Psychology 85 (1): 133. 1970.
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23Fashioning the Discipline: History of Science in the European Intellectual TraditionMinerva 44 (4): 410-432. 2006.This paper offers personal reflections on the fashioning of the history of science in Europe. It presents the history of science as a discipline emerging in the twentieth century from an intellectual and political context of great complexity, and concludes with a plea for tolerance and pluralism in historiographical methods and approaches
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20Essay Review: Referencing the History of Science: Dictionary of the History of ScienceHistory of Science 21 (2): 213-214. 1983.
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19Scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800–70Minerva 11 (4): 442-473. 1973.
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16Variations in asymmetry as a function of degree of forward learningJournal of Experimental Psychology 86 (3): 416. 1970.
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14Eighteenth Century Martinus van Marum, Life and Work. Volume II. Ed. by R. J. Forbes. Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink. 1970. Pp. 401. f. 52 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 5 (4): 420-421. 1971.
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11Bibliography and Bibliophily Isis Cumulative Bibliography. A Bibliography of the History of Science formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1–90, 1913–65. Volume iii: Subjects. Edited by Magda Whitrow. London: Mansell, in conjunction with the History of Science Society, 1976. Pp. xciv + 678. £28.00/$56.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 12 (2): 218-218. 1979.
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10Developmental aspects of incidental learning in retarded childrenBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 15 (6): 395-398. 1980.
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9Histoire generale de l'electricite en France. Volume 1: Espoirs et conquetes, 1881-1918 by Francois Caron; Fabienne Cardot (review)Isis 85 170-172. 1994.
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7Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800. by J. L. Heilbron (review)Isis 87 178-179. 1996.
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6Isis Cumulative Bibliography. A Bibliography of the History of Science formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65. Magda Whitrow (review)Isis 66 (2): 262-263. 1975.
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6Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning and College Life (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 offers a challenging new interpretation of pre-war physics at the University of Oxford, which was far more dynamic than most historians and physicists have been prepared to believe. It explains, on the one hand, how attempts to develop the University's Clarendon Laboratory by Robert Clifton, Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1865 to 1915, were thwarted by academic politics and funding problems, and latterly by Clifton's idiosyncratic concern with precision in…Read more
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6L’état, L’armée, La Science: L’invention De La Recherche Publique En France, 1763–1830 (review)Isis 94 731-732. 2003.
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6Scientific Societies The Lunar Society of Birmingham. University of Birmingham Historical Journal. Volume XI, no. 1 . Pp. iv + 111. Plates. 15s (review)British Journal for the History of Science 4 (2): 175-175. 1968.
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6Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr (review)Isis 100 631-632. 2009.
University of Oxford
DPhil, 1967
Areas of Specialization
History of Science, Misc |
Areas of Interest
History of Science, Misc |