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Recent Publications on the History of Physics
A supplement to the Newsletter of the
Center for History of Physics/Niels Bohr Library
and the Forum of History of Physics, American Physical Society
Compiled by Per F. Dahl and Eleanor Dahl, Berkeley, California,
University of Maryland and the staff of the Niels Bohr Library
BOOKS
This list is the sixth of an annual series. It includes books on the
history of modern physics and related topics (including astronomy, geophysics,
and physics in medicine) published in 1997 or later. (See earlier lists
for details on how the list is prepared.)
Permission is hereby granted
to copy freely all or part of this list for any educational purpose. More
extensive versions of this and the other previous lists are available
on the Center's Web site at: www.aip.org/history/web-news.htm#bib.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About this Bibliography
Dusek, Val. The holistic inspirations of physics: The underground history
of electromagnetic theory. x + 387 pp., notes, bibl., index. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8135-2634-5 (pb).
Rothman, Tony; Sudarshan, George. Doubts and certainty: The celebrated
academy. Debates on science, mysticism, reality, in general on the knowable
and unknowable, with particular forays into such esoteric matters as the
mind fluid, the behavior of the stock market, and the disposition of a
quantum mechanical sphinx, to name a few. xvi + 320 pp., illus., index.
Reading, MA.: Perseus Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7382-0006-9 (hc) $25.00.
Kevles, Daniel J. The Baltimore case: A trial of politics, science, and
character. 509 pp., glossary of terms, glossary of source abbreviations,
illus., name index, subject index. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998.
ISBN 0-393-04103-4 (hc) $29.95.
Morus, Iwan Rhys. Frankenstein’s children: Electricity, exhibition, and
experiment in early-nineteenth-century London. xiv + 324 pp., illus.,
notes, bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN
0-691-05952-7 (hc) $45.00.
Schröder, Wilfried. Naturwissenschaft und Religion (Versuch einer Verhältnisbestimming,
dagestellt am Beispiel van Max Planck und Werner Heisenberg. [in German]
60 pp. bibl. Darmstadt: Dissertations Druck, 1999. (pb) $10.00.
Avery, Donald H. The science of war: Canadian scientists and Allied military
technology during the Second World War. xvi + 406 pp., illus., apps.,
bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8020-5996-1
(hc) $40.
Bowen, E. G. Radar days. 231 pp., illus. Bristol and Philadelphia: IOP
Publishing, 1998. ISBN 075030586x (pb) $41.00.
Dahl, Per F. Heavy water and the wartime race for nuclear energy. xiv
+ 399 pp., illus., appendices, notes, bibl., name index, subject index.
Bristol and Philadelphia: IOP Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0750306335 (hc) $60.00.
Hale, Peter Bacon. Atomic spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. 447
pp., bibl. refs., illus., maps, index. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 1997. ISBN 0-252-02296-3 (hc) $34.95.
Hevly, Bruce; Findlay, John (eds.). The Atomic West. x + 286, index.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. ISBN 0-295-97716-7 (pb)
$19.95 ISBN 0-295-97749-3 (hc) $35.00
Rose, Paul Lawrence. Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A study
in German culture. xx + 352 pp., bibl., frontispiece, index. Berkeley,
: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0-520-21077-8 (hc) $35.00
Shroyer, Jo Ann. Secret mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory.
230 pp., notes, index. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-471-04063-0
(hc) $24.95.
Nye, David E. Consuming power: A social history of American energies.
xii + 331, illus., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-262-14063-2 (hc) $25.00.
Smith, Crosbie. The science of energy: A cultural history of energy physics
in Victorian Britain. xi + 404 pp., epilogue, notes, bibl., figures, index.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN 0-226-76421-4 (hc) $25.00.
[See also Rose under Science and the Military.]
Galison, Peter; Thompson, Emily (eds.) The architecture of science. xviii
+ 576 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 0-262-07190-8
(hc) $65.00. Includes essays organized into six sections: “Of secrecy
and openness: Science and architecture in early modern Europe”; “Displaying
and concealing technics in the nineteenth century”; “Modern space”; “Is
architecture science?”; “Princeton after modernism: the Lewis Thomas Laboratory
for Molecular Biology”; and “Centers, cities, and colliders.”
Kevles, Daniel J. The Baltimore Case: A trial of politics, science, and
character. 509 pp., glossary of terms, glossary of source abbreviations,
endnotes, essay on sources, illus., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,
1998. ISBN 0-393-04103-4 (hc) $29.95.
Morus, Iwan Rhys. Frankenstein’s children: Electricity, exhibition, and
experiment in early-nineteenth-century London. xiv + 324, illus., notes,
bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-05952-7
(hc) $ 45.00.
Bromberg, Joan Lisa. NASA and the space industry. 256 pp., illus., index.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8018-6050-4
(hc) $38.50.
Hecht, Gabrielle. The radiance of France: Nuclear power and national
identity after World War II. xvi + 454 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index.
Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0-262-08266-7 (hc) $45.
NjØlstad, Olav. StrŒlende forskning: Institutt for Energiteknikk 1948-1998.
588 pp., illus., appendices, notes, index. Oslo: Tano Aschehoug, 1999.
ISBN 82-518-3736-7.
Roberg, Jeffrey L. Soviet science under control: The struggle for influence.
xii+169 pp., bibl., index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. ISBN: 0312177364
(hc) $58.50.
Wang, Jessica. American science in an age of anxiety: Scientists, anticommunism
and the cold war. 392 pp. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press,
1999. (hc) $49.95. (pb) $19.95.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Canada enters the nuclear age: A technical
history of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. xiv + 434 pp., illus., bibl.,
index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-77351601-8
(hc) ~$65.00.
Bethell, John T. Harvard observed: An illustrated history of the university
in the twentieth century. 320 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass, London:
Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-674-37733-8 (hc) $39.95.
Brock, W.H.; Meadows, A.J. The lamp of learning: Two centuries of publishing
at Taylor & Francis. xviii + 290 pp., illus., apps., index. London: Taylor
& Francis, 1998. ISBN 0-85066-253-2 (hc) $55.00.
Crease, Robert P. Making Physics: A biography of Brookhaven National
Laboratory, 1946-1972. 416 pp. (est), halftones, maps, line drawings.
Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 0-226-12017-1
(hc) $38.00.
Mutel, Cornelia F. Flowing through time: A history of the Iowa Institute
of Hydraulic Research. 299 pp., illus. Iowa City, IA: Iowa Institute of
Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa. 1998. ISBN 0-87414-108-7 (pb)
$20.00.
Pyenson, Lewis; Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. Servants of nature: A history
of scientific institutions, enterprises and sensibilities. xv + 496 pp.,
illus., notes, further reading, index. New York, London: W. W. Norton
& Co., 1999. ISBN 0-393-04614-1 (hc) $ 32.50.
Burke, James. The knowledge web, from electronic agents to Stonehenge
and back—and other journeys through knowledge. 285 pp., illus., bibl.,
index. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-684-85934-3 (hc) $25.00.
McClellan III, James E.; Dorn, Harold. Science and technology in world
history: An introduction. viii + 404 pp., illus., further reading, index.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8018-5868-2
(hc) $55.00; ISBN 0-8018-5869-0 (pb) $ 18.95.
Schulman, Eric. A briefer history of time, from the big bang to the big
mac. xiv + 171 pp., illus. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1999. ISBN 0-7167-3389-7
(pb) $14.95.
Fraser, Gordon (ed.) The particle century. 236 pp. Bristol and Philadelphia:
IOP Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0750305436 (hc) $59.50.
Garber, Elizabeth. The language of physics: The calculus and the development
of theoretical physics in Europe, 1750-1914. xx + 400 pp., bibl., index.
Boston, Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1998. ISBN 0-8176-4039-8 (hc) $64.50.
Greene, Brian. The elegant universe: Superstrings, hidden dimensions,
and the quest for the ultimate theory. xiii + 448 pp., illus., notes,
glossary, refs., index. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.
ISBN 0-393-04688-5 (hc) $27.95.
Han, M.Y. Quarks and gluons: A century of particle charges. 168 pp. New
Jersey: World Scientific, 1999. ISBN 981-02-3704-9 (hc) $30; ISBN 981-02-3745-6
(pb) $14.
Klever, Wim (ed.). Die Schwere der Luft. 211 pp., illus., name index.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997. ISBN 3-447-03988-4 (hc).
Marage, P.; Wallenborn, G. (eds) The Solvay Council and the birth of
modern physics. xiii+224 pp., illus., bibl. refs, index. Basel, Boston:
Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-7643-5705-3 (hc) $79.95.
Mladjenovic, M. The Defining Years in Nuclear Physics 1932-1960s. xx
+ 441 pp., figures, author index, index. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute
of Physics Publishing, 1998. ISNB 0-7503-0472-3 (hc) $150.
Porter, Neil A. Physicists in conflict: From antiquity to the new millennium.
xv + 275 pp., illus. Bristol and Philadelphia: IOP Publishing, 1998. ISBN
0-7503-0509-6 (hc) $39.50.
Pullman, Bernard. The atom in the history of human thought. Translated
by Axel Reisinger. x + 416 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Oxford
University Press. 1998. ISBN 0-19-511447-7 (hc) $32.50.
Ryutova-Kemoklidze, M. The quantum generation: Highlights and trageties
of the golden age of physics. xix + 326 pp., bibl., illus. Berlin; New
York: Springer-Verlag 1995. ISBN 0-540-53298-6 (hc) DM 59.00; Fr 52.00.
Tomonaga, Sin-itiro (translated from the Japanese by T. Oka). The story
of spin. xii + 258 pp., illus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-226-80794-0 (pb) $21.00.
Townes, Charles H. How the laser happened: adventures of a scientist.
200 pp., illus, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN:
0195122682 (hc) $26.95.
Burrough, Bryan. Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard MIR. 528 pp.,illus.,
ackn., index. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-88736-783-3
(hc) $26.95.
Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Don. The last man on the Moon: Astronat Eugene
Cernan and America’s race in space. xii + 356 pp., illus., index. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-19906-6 (hc) $ 24.95.
Dick, Stevens J. Life on other worlds: The 20th-Century extraterrestrial
life debate. xiii + 290 pp., illus., bibl., essay, index. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-62012-0 (hc) $24.95.
Evans, James. The history and practice of ancient astronomy. xiii + 480
pp., illus., apppendix, bibl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-19-509539-1 (hc) $65.00.
Hockey, T. A. Galileo’s planet: Observing Jupiter before photography.
236 pp. Bristol and Philadelphia: IOP Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-7503-0448-0
(hc) $49.50.
[Ptolemy] Ptolemy’s Almagest. Translated and annotated by G. J. Toomer,
with foreword by Owen Gingerich. xvii + 693 pp., illus., appendices, bibl.,
index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-00260-6
(pb) $39.50.
Stephenson, Richard F. Historical eclipses and Earth’s rotation. xvi
+ 557 pp., appendices, indices: eclipse records, places of observation,
name, and subject. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-521-46194-4
(hc) $160.00.
[See also Lankford under REFERENCE WORKS]
Fleming, James Rodger. Historical perspectives on climate change. xi
+ 194 pp., notes, bibl., figures, index. New York: Oxford University Press,
1998. ISBN 0-19-50787-0 (hc) $45.00.
Lamb, Simon; Sington, David. Earth story: The shaping of our world. 240
pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1998. 0-691-00229-0 (hc) $29.95.
Schröder, Wilfried. Physics and Geophysics (A compilation of special
historical case studies) [in German, some English]. 344 pp., illus. Bremen-Roennebeck:
History Commission of the German Geophysical Society, 1999. ISSN: 0179-5658
(pb) $25.00.
Aull, C. E.; Lowen, R. (eds.) Handbook of the history of general topology.
Vol. 1. 408 pp., illus., bibl., index. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1997.
ISBN 0-7923-4479-0 (hc) $183.00.
Aull, C. E.; Lowen, R. (eds.) Handbook of the history of general topology.
Vol. 2. 408 pp., illus., bibl., index. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1998.
ISBN 0-7923-5030-8 (hc) $173.00.
Blay, Michel. Reasoning with the infinite: From the closed world to the
mathematical universe. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. x + 216 pp., notes,
bibl., figures, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN
0-226-05834-4 (hc) $30.00.
Ceruzzi, Paul. A history of modern computing. xii + 398 pp., illus.,
bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0-262-03255-4 (hc)
$35.00.
Heilbron, John. Geometry civilized: History, culture and technique. 328
pp., color plates, halftones and linecuts. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-850078-5 (hc) $60.00.
Mancosu, Paolo. From Brouwer to Hilbers: The debate on the foundations
of mathematics in the 1920s. x + 337, index. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-509632-0 (pb) $29.95.
Maor, Eli. e: The story of a number. xiv + 227 pp., illus., appendices,
bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-05854-7
(pb) $14.95.
Nahin, Paul J. An imaginary tale: The story of Ö-1. xvi + 257 pp., illus.,
appendices, notes, name index, subject index. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-02795-1 (hc) $ 24.95.
Gove, Harry. From Hiroshima to the iceman: The development and applications
of accelerator mass spectrometry. 226 pp., illus. Bristol and Philadelphia:
IOP Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0750305584 (pb) $27.00.
Harris, J.R. Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and
France in the eighteenth century. xvii + 655 pp., illus., notes, list
of archives consulted, bibl., index. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing
Co., 1998. ISBN 0-85967-827-X (hc) $110.95.
Mack, Pamela E. (ed.) From engineering science to big science: The NACA
and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project winners. (NASA History Series,
SP-4219.) xxiv+428 pp., illus., app., index. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1998.
$35.00.
Pattillo, Donald M. Pushing the envelope: The American aircraft industry.
viii+459 pp., illus., appendix, notes, bibl., index, index of aircraft,
engines, missiles, and space vehicles. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1998. ISBN 0-472-10869-7 (hc) $45.00.
Rhodes, Richard (ed.) Visions of technology: A century of vital debate
about machines, systems and the human world. 400 pp., illus., bibl., index.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-684-83903-2 (hc) $30.00.
Wolpert, Lewis; Richards, Allison. Passionate minds: The inner world
of scientists. vii + 240, illus., index. Oxford, New York, Tokyo: Oxford
University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-854904-0 (hc) $25.00.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize women in science: Their lives,
struggles, and momentous discoveries. 451 pp., illus., index. New York:
Carol, 1998. ISBN 0-806502025-6 (pb) $19.95.
INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; analysis of scientist's work
[Bacon, Francis] Zagorin, Perez. Francis Bacon. xvi + 286, illus., notes,
index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-05928-4
(hc) $29.95.
[Boltzmann, Ludwig] Cercignani, Carlo. Ludwig Boltzmann: The man who
trusted atoms. xvii + 319 pp., illus., appendices, index. Oxford, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-198-50154-4 (hc) $50.00.
[Edison, Thomas Alva] Israel, Paul: Edison: A life of invention. viii
+ 552 pp., illus., index. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN 0-471-52942-7
(hc) $30.00.
[Erdös, Paul] Hoffman, Paul. The man who loved only numbers: The story
of Paul Erdös and the search for mathematical truth. 302 pp. New York:
Hyperion, 1998. ISBN 0-7868-6362-5 (hc) $22.95.
[Erdös, Paul] Schechter, Bruce. My brain is open: The mathematical journey
of Paul Erdös. 224 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-84635-7
(hc) $25.00.
[Halley, Edmond] Cook, Alan. Edmond Halley: Charting the heavens and
the seas. 576 pp., illus., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-19-850031-9 (hc) $37.50.
Harman, P.M. The natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell. xiv + 232
pp., notes, figures, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-521-56102-7 (hc) $59.95.
[Land, Edwin H.] McElheny, Victor K. Insisting on the impossible:
The life of Edwin Land. xvi + 510 pp., illus. Reading, Mass.: Perseus
Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7382-0009-3 (hc) $30.00.
[Mott, Nevill] Davis, E. A. (ed.) Nevill Mott: Reminiscences
and appreciations. Preface by Tony Selvey. xxx + 338 pp., illus.
London: Taylor & Francis, 1998. ISBN 0748407901 (hc) $45.00.
[Serber, Robert] Serber, Robert, with Robert P. Crease.
Peace and war: Reminiscences of a life on the frontiers of science. xxiii+241
pp., illus, bibl. refs. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. ISBN
0-231-10546-0 (hc) $29.95.
[Sponer, Hertha] Maushart, Marie-Ann. “Um mich nicht zu
vergessen”: Hertha Sponer—ein Frauenleben für die Physik im 20
Jahrhundert. 188 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Bassum: GNT-Verlag,
1997. (pb) DM39.00.
[Wheeler, John Archibald] Wheeler, John Archibald, with
Kenneth Ford. Geons, black holes and quantum foam: A life in physics.
380 pp. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-04642-7 (hc) $29.95.
[Amaldi, Edoardo] 20th century physics: essays and recollections.
A selection of historical writings by Edoardo Amaldi, edited by Giovanni
Battimelli and Giovanni Paoloni. xiii + 747 pp., illus., bibl.
Singapore and New Jersey: World Scientific, 1998. ISBN 9810223692 (hc)
$119.00.
[Einstein, Albert] The collected papers of Albert Einstein,
Vol. 8: The Berlin years: Correspondence, 1914-1918, edited by Robert
Schulmann, A.J. Kox, Michel Janssen, and Jozsef Illy.
Parts A and B, lxxii + xxx + 1,118 pp., illus., apps., bibl., indexes.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-04849-5 (hc)
$175.00.
[Herschel, Sir John] A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir
John Herschel. Michael J. Crowe (ed), with David R. Dyck;
James J. Kevin (assoc. eds). 836 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-63149-1 (hc) $150.00.
[Lanczos, Cornelius] Cornelius Lanczos. Collected Published
papers with commentaries. Edited by W.R. Davis et al. 6 vols, bibliographies.
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University, 1999. ISBN 0-929493-00-3
(hc) $120.00.
[Œrsted, Hans Christian] Selected scientific works of Hans
Christian Œrsted, translated and edited by Karen Jelved, Andrew
D. Jackson, and Ole Knudsen, with an introduction by Andrew
D. Wilson. xl + 647 pp., subject index, name index. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-04334-5 (hc) $89.50.
Meitner, Lise and Laue, Max von. Lise Meitner-Max von
Laue: Briefwechsel 1938-1948, compiled by Jost Lemmerich. 560
pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Berlin: ERS, 1998. (hc) DM 64.50.
Barr, Jean; Birke, Lynda. Common science? Women, science, and
knowledge. x + 166 pp., bibl., indexes. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-253-21181-6 (pb) $13.95 ISBN 0-35233386-6
(hc) $29.95.
Creese, Mary R. Ladies in the laboratory?: American and British
women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributsion to research.
With contributions by Thomas Creese. xii+452 pp., illus., bibl.
ref., index. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998. ISBN: 0810832879 (hc)
$88.65.
Neu, John (ed.) ISIS cumulative bibliography, 1986-1995. Vol.
1, 496 pp., Persons: A-L; Vol. 2, 480 pp., Persons: M-Z, Institutions;
Vol. 3, 640 pp., Subjects, Time periods: Antiquity-18th century; Vol.
4, 739 pp., Time periods: 19th-20th centuries, Book reviews. Canton, MA:
Science History Publications, 1997. ISBN 0—88135-131-8 (hc) $249.95, the
set.
REFERENCE WORKS: ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, etc.
Good, Gregory A. (ed.). Sciences of the Earth: An encyclopedia
of events, people, and phenomena. 2 Vols.; Vol. 1: ix + 408 pp., Vol.
2: 409-901, illus., name index, subject index. New York: Garland Publishing
Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-815-0062-X (hc) $150.00 for both.
Gribbon, John. Q is for quantum: An encyclopedia of particle physics.
545 pp., illus., bibl., timelines. New York: The Free Press, 1998. ISBN
0-684-85578-X (hc) $ 35.00.
Lankford, John (ed.). History of Astronomy: An encyclopedia. xix
+ 594 pp., illus, index.. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997. ISBN
0-8153-0322-X (hc) $105.00.
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