Recent Publications of Interest
Compiled by Tanya Levin

Annals of Science, vol. 60, no. 2 (April 2003) includes Antoni Malet, "Kepler and the Telescope," 107-136. Vol. 60, no. 3 (July 2003) features Buhm Soon Park, "`The Hyperbola of Quantum Chemistry': The Changing Practice and Identity of a Scientific Discipline in the Early Years of Electronic Digital Computers, 1945-1965," 219-248.

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 57, no. 1 (January 2003) includes Shaul Katzir, "The Discovery of the Piezoelectric Effect," 61-91. Vol. 57, no. 4 (May 2003) features Bruce Pourciau, "Newton's Argument for Proposition 1 of the Principia," 267-311, and J. Bruce Brackenridge, "Newton's Easy Quadratures `Omitted for the Sake of Brevity,'" 313-336. Vol. 57, no. 5 (July 2003) includes A.E.L. Davis, "The Mathematics of the Area Law: Kepler's Successful Proof in Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1621)," 355-393, and Helge Kragh, "Magic Number: A Partial History of the Fine-Structure Constant," 395-431.

The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 36, no. 1 (March 2003) features David N. Livingstone, "Science, Religion and the Geography of Reading: Sir William Whitla and the Editorial Staging of Isaac Newton's Writings on Biblical Prophecy," 27-42. Vol. 36, no. 2 (June 2003) includes Ron Naylor, "Galileo, Copernicanism and the Origins of the New Science of Motion," 151-181, and Rienk Vermij, "The Formation of the Newtonian Philosophy: The Case of the Amsterdam Mathematical Amateurs," 183-200.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 59, no. 1(Jan/Feb 2003) includes William Bur and Jeffrey Kimball, "Nixon's Nuclear Play," 28-37. Vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2003) includes Dan Stober, "No Experience Necessary," 56-63. Vol. 59, no. 3 (May/June 2003) features Peter Hayes and Nina Tannenwald, "Nixing Nukes in Vietnam," 52-59, and Arjun Makhijani, "Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years," 60-65. Vol. 59, no. 4 (July/August 2003) includes Berjt Carlsen, "How Ulam Set the Stage," 46-51.

Centaurus, vol. 44, no. 3-4 (2002) features M. Nakane and C.G. Fraser, "The Early History of Hamilton-Jacobi Dynamics 1834-1837," 161-227, and J.R. Christianson, "The Legacy of Tycho Brahe," 228-247.

CERN Courier, vol. 43, no. 4 (May 2003) includes Daniel Denegri, "When CERN Saw the End of the Alphabet," 26-30. Vol. 43, no. 5 (June 2003) features Shawna Williams, "The Ring on the Parking Lot," 16-18. Vol. 43, no. 6 (July/August 2003) includes "The Legacy of the Bubble Chamber," 19-20.

Endeavour, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 2003) includes Volker R. Remmert, "In the Sign of Galileo: Pictorial Representation in the 17^th-Century Copernican Debate," 26-31.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 33, no. 2 (2003) includes Seiya Abiko, "On Einstein's Distrust of the Electromagnetic Theory: The Origin of the Light-Velocity Postulate," 193-216, Joseph-James Ahern, "'We Had the Hose Turned on Us!': Ross Gunn and the Naval Research Laboratory's Early Research into Nuclear Propulsion, 1939-1946," 217-236, Laura A. Bruno, "The Bequest of the Nuclear Battlefield: Science, Nature, and the Atom During the First Decade of the Cold War," 237-260, H.M. Collins, "LIGO Becomes Big Science," 261-298, Arne Schirrmacher, "Experimenting Theory: The Proofs of Kirchhoff's Radiation Law Before and After Planck," 299-336, Stefan L. Wolff, "Physicists in the `Krieg der Geister': Wilhelm Wien's `Proclamation,'" 337-368, Chen-Pang Yeang, "The Study of Long-Distance Radio-Wave Propagation, 1900-1919," 369-404.

History and Technology, vol. 19, no. 2 (2003) features Stephen Twigge, "A Baffling Experience: Technology Transfer, Anglo-American Nuclear Relations, and the Development of the Gas Centrifuge, 1964-1970," 151-163.

History of Science, vol. 41, part 2, no. 132 (June 2003) includes Helge Kragh and Robert W. Smith, "Who Discovered the Expanding Universe?," 141-162, and Katrina Dean, "Inscribing Settler Science: Ernest Rutherford, Thomas Laby and the Making of Careers in Physics," 217-240.

ISIS, vol. 94, no. 1 (March 2003) includes Catherine Westfall, "Rethinking Big Science: Modest, Mezzo, Grand Science and the Development of the Bevalac, 1971-1993," 30-56.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 34, part 1, no. 114 (Feb. 2003) features Michael Hoskin, "Herschel's 40 ft. Reflector: Funding and Functions," 1-32. Vol. 34, part 2, no. 115 (May 2003) includes Simon Olling Rebsdorf, "Bengt Strömgren: Growing Up with Astronomy, 1908-1932," 171-200.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 6, no. 1 (June 2003) includes Donald E. Osterbrock, "Don Hendrix, Master Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Optician," 1-12, Gilbert E. Satterthwaite, "Airy's Zenith Telescopes and `the Birth-Star of Modern Astronomy,'" 13-26, Mary T. Brück, "An Astronomer Calls: Extracts from the Diaries of Charles Piazzi Smyth," 37-45, and Mary T. Brück, "The C41/ICHA Transits of Venus Working Group 2: Lord Lindsay's Transit of Venus Expedition to Mauritius 1874," 64.

Notes and Records of The Royal Society of London, vol. 57, no. 1 (2003) features R.W. Jones "Dalton's Unfortunate Choice," 15-33, J.S. Rowlinson, "Le Sage's Essai de Chymie Méchanique," 35-45, and N.N. Greenwood and J.A. Spink, "An Antipodean Laboratory of Remarkable Distinction," 85-105.

Physics in Perspective, vol. 5, no. 1 (2003) includes A. Schirrmacher, "Planting in his Neighbor's Garden: David Hilbert and Early Göttingen Quantum Physics," 4-20, H. Goenner, "Albert Einstein and Friedrich Dessauer: Political Views and Political Practice," 21-66, L. Hoddeson and A. Kolb, "Vision to Reality: From Robert R. Wilson's Frontier to Leon M. Lederman's Fermilab," 67-86, and B. Bederson, "Physics and New York City," 87-121. Vol. 5, no. 2 (2003) features R.H. March, "Physics at the University of Wisconsin: A History," 130-149, G. Hon, "From Propagation to Structure: The Experimental Technique of Bombardment as a Contributing Factor to the Emerging Quantum Physics," 150-173, and J.R. Goodstein, "A Conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge - Part I," 174-205.

Physics Today, vol. 56, no. 7 (July 2003) includes Lawrence Badash, "Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield," 37-43. Vol. 56, no. 8 (August 2003) includes Spencer Weart, "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change," 30-37.

Physics-Uspekhi, vol. 46, no. 4 (April 2003) features S.K. Betyaev "On the History of Fluid Dynamics: Russian Scientific Schools in the 20^th Century," 405-432.

Physics World, vol. 16, no. 1 (Jan. 2003) includes Gary Taubes, "Carlo Rubbia and the Discovery of the W and Z," 23-28. Vol. 16, no. 3 (March 2003) includes Hugh Huxley, "The Cavendish Laboratory and DNA," 29-36.

Science in Context, vol. 16, no. 1/2 (June 2003) includes Silvan S. Schweber, "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound," 219-242, and Cathryn Carson, "Objectivity and the Scientist: Heisenberg Rethinks," 243-269.

Science & Education, vol. 12, (2003) includes Gerald Holton, "What Historians of Science and Science Educators Can Do for One Another," 603-616.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 34 A, no. 2 (June 2003) features Paolo Palmeri, "Mental Models in Galileo's Early Mathematization of Nature," 229-264, and Maria Rosa Antognazza, "Leibniz and the Post-Copernican Universe. Koyré Revisted," 309-327.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 34 B, no. 2 (June 2003) includes Peter Holland and Harvey R. Brown, "The Non-relativistic Limits of the Maxwell and Dirac Equations: The Role of Galilean and Gauge Invariance," 161-187, Steven French, "Scribbling on the Blank Sheet: Eddington's Structuralist Conception of Objects," 227-259, Michael Stöltzner, "The Principle of Least Action as the Logical Empiricist's Shibboleth," 285-318, and E.B. Davies, "Quantum Mechanics Does Not Require the Continuity of Space," 319-328. Vol. 34 B, no. 3 (Sept. 2003) features Charles H. Bennett, "Notes on Landauer's Principle, Reversible Computation, and Maxwell's Demon," 501-510.

Technology and Culture, vol. 44, no. 1 (Jan. 2003) includes Frank N. Laird, "Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War." Vol. 44, no. 2 (April 2003) features Thomas C. Lassman, "Industrial Research Transformed: Edward Condon at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1935-1942."

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