 Volume XXXVI , No. 1, Spring 2004 |
Volume XXXVI , No. 1, Spring 2004 |
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Annals of Science, vol. 60, no. 4 (October 2003) includes L. Boschiero, “Natural Philosophical Contention Inside the Accademia del Cimento: The Properties and Effects of Heat and Cold,” 329-350, R.R. Hamerla, “Edward Williams Morley and the Atomic Weight of Oxygen: The Death of Prout’s Hypothesis Revisited,” 351-372, and A.A. Mills, “Early Voltaic Batteries: An Evaluation in Modern Units and Application to the Work of Davy and Faraday,” 373-398. Vol. 61, no. 1 (January 2004) features, C. Reinhardt, “Chemistry in a Physical Mode: Molecular Spectroscopy and the Emergence of NMR,” 1-32, and D.L. Simms, “Newton’s Contribution to the Science of Heat,” 33-78. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 59, no. 6 (November/December 2003) features Leonard Weiss, “Atoms For Peace,” 34-44. CERN Courier, vol. 43, no. 7 (September 2003) includes Johann Rafelski and Torleif Ericson, “The Tale of the Hagedorn Temperature,” 30-34. Vol. 43, no. 9 (November 2003) includes Robert Eisenstein, “Constructing ATLAS: A Modern ‘Ship in a Bottle’,” 26-29, and Nikolai Tyurin, “Forty Years of High-Energy Physics in Protvino,” 31-34. Vol. 43, no. 10 (December 2003) features “Neutral Currents and W and Z: a Celebration,” 25-28. Endeavour, vol. 27, no. 4 (2003) features Eric Buffetaut, “Continental Drift Under the Third Reich,” 171-175, and Rita Griffin-Short, “The Ancient Mariner and the Transit of Venus,” 175-179. Foundations of Physics, vol. 33, no. 10 (October 2003) includes Daniel Greenberger and Abner Shimony, “The Presence of David Mermin,” 1419-1422. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 34, part 1 (2003) includes Michael S. Goodman, “Grandfather of the Hydrogen Bomb? Anglo-American Intelligence and Klaus Fuchs,” 1-22, Shizue Hinokawa, “A Comparative Study of Cyclotron Development at Cambridge and Liverpool in the 1930s,” 23-39, Shaul Kitzir, “From Explanation to Description: Molecular and Phenomenological Theories of Piezoelectricity,” 69-94, David Munns, “If We Build It, Who Will Come? Radio Astronomy and the Limitations of ‘National’ Laboratories in Cold War America,” 95-113, Robert A. Myers and Richard W. Dixon, “Who Invented the Laser: An Analysis of the Early Patents,” 115-149, and Hallam Stevens, “Fundamental Physics and its Justifications, 1945-1993,” 151-197. History of Science, vol. 41, no. 134, part 4 (December 2003) features Ronald E. Doel, “Oral History of American Science: A Forty-Year Review,” 349-378, and Hannah Gay, “Science and Opportunity in London, 1871-1885: The Diary of Herbert McLeod,” 427-458. Interdisciplinary Science Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (Autumn 2002) includes Klaus Hentschel, “What History of Science Can Learn from Michael Frayn’s ‘Copenhagen’,” 211-216. Isis, vol. 94, no. 3 (September 2003) includes Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, “Competing to Popularize Newtonian Philosophy: John Theophilus Desaguliers and the Preservation of Reputation,” 435-455, and Theresa Levitt, “Biot’s paper and Arago’s Plates: Photographic Practice and the Transparency of Representation,” 456-476. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 6, no. 2 (December 2003) features Patricia S. Whitesell, “Detroit Observatory: Nineteenth-Century Training Ground for Astronomers,” 69-106, Rudi Paul Linder, “Rebuilding Astronomy at Michigan: From Hussey to Goldberg,” 107-119, and Donald E. Osterbrock, “The California-Michigan Axis in American Astronomy,” 120-136. Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, vol. 107, no. 3 (May-June 2002) includes Arno Laesecke, “Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Inaugural Lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882),” 261-277. Naturwissenschftlich Rundschau, vol. 55, no. 11 (2002) includes Klaus Hentschel, “Zur Geschichte visueller Darstellungen von Spektren,” 577-587. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 57, no. 3 (2003) features W.P. Griffith and P.J.T. Morris, “Charles Hatchett FRS (1765-1847), Chemist and Discoverer of Niobium,” 299-316, B. Bleaney FRS and O.V. Lounasmaa, “Nuclear Orientation and Nuclear Cooling Experiments in Oxford and Helsinki: Part 1, Progress Before 1940,” 317-322, “… Part 2, Progress From 1945 to 1970,” 323-330, and “… Part 3, Progress From 1975 to 2001,” 331-344. Osiris (Second Series), vol. 17, (2002) includes Jessica Wang, “Scientists and the Problem of the Public in Cold War America, 1945-1969,” 323-347. Vol. 18, Second Series (2003) features David Aubin, “The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth-Century: Astronomers’ Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation,” 79-100, and Theresa Levitt, “Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country,” 101-115. Perspectives on Science, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 2003) includes Gregory B. Moynahan, “Herman Cohen’s Das Prinzip der Infinitesimalmethode, Ernst Cassirer, and the Politics of Science in Wilhelmine Germany,” 35-75, Thomas A. Ryckman, “Surplus Structure from the Standpoint of Transcendental Idealism: The ‘World Geometries’ of Weyl and Eddington,” 76-106. Vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2003) features Koffi Maglo, “The Reception of Newton’s Gravitational Theory by Huygens, Vaqrignon, and Maupertuis: How Normal Science May Be Revolutionary,” 135-169, Patrick McDonald, “Demonstration by Simulation: The Philosophical Significance of Experiment in Helmholtz’s Theory of Perception,” 170-207, and Jonathan Tsou, “Reconsidering Feyerabend’s ‘Anarchism’,” 208-235. Physics in Perspective, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 2003) features A. Loettgers, “Samuel Pierpont Langley and His Contributions to the Empirical Basis of Black-Body Radiation,” 262-280, and J.R. Goodstein, “A Conversation with Lee Alvin Dubridge—Part II,” 281-309. Vol. 5, no. 4 (December 2003) includes M. Leone and N. Robotti, “Are the Elements Elementary?: Nineteenth-Century Chemical and Spectroscopical Answers,” 360-383, A. Gambassi, “Enrico Fermi in Pisa,” 384-397, I.T. Durham, “Eddington and Uncertainty,” 398-418, and C.H. Holbrow, “Charles C. Lauritsen: A Reasonable Man in an Unreasonable World,” 419-472. Physics Today, vol. 57, no. 2 (February 2004) includes Ella Ryndina, “Family Lines Sketched in the Portrait of Lev Landau,” 53-59, and “Nobel Prizes, 1962,” 61-63 [reprint of Dec.1962 article]. Physics-Uspekhi,vol. 46, no. 9 (October 2003) includes V.I. Sanyuk and A.D. Sukhanov, “Dirac in 20th Century Physics: A Centenary Assessment,” 937-956. Physics World, vol. 16, no. 9 (September 2003) features Jeff Hughes, “Occultism and the Atom: The Curious Story of Isotopes,” 31-35. Vol. 16, no. 10 (October 2003) includes Barton J. Bernstein, “The Death of a Nuclear Legend,” 5-6. Vol. 16, no. 12 (December 2003) features Robert Seidel, “John von Neumann: The Fastest Brain in the West,” 29-33. Physik Journal, vol. 2, no. 11 (November 2003) includes Brenda P. Winnewisser, “Hedwig Kohn—eine Physikerin des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts,” 51-55. Science, Technology, and Human Values, vol. 28 no. 4, (Autumn 2003) features Andrea H. Tapia, “Technomillennialism: A Subcultural Response to the Technological Threat of Y2K,” 483-512. Vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter 2004) includes Ivan Tchalakov, “The Object and the Other in Holographic Research: Approaching Passivity and Responsibility of Human Actors,” 64-87. Social Studies of Science, vol. 33, no. 4 (August 2003) includes Walter G. Vincenti and David Bloor, “Boundaries, Contingencies, and Rigor,” 469-507, and Felicity Mellor, “Demarcating Science from Non-Science in Popular Physics Books,” 509-538. Vol. 33, no. 5 (October 2003) includes Ronald E. Doel, “Constituting the Postwar Earth Sciences,” 635-666, Kristine C. Harper, “Research from the Boundary Layer: Civilian Leadership, Military Funding and the Development of Numerical Weather Prediction (1946-55),” 667-696, Naomi Oreskes, “A Context of Motivation: US Navy Oceanographic Research and the Discovery of Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Vents,” 697-742, Kai-Henrik Barth, “The Politics of Seismology: Nuclear Testing, Arms Control, and the Transformation of a Discipline,” 743-781, Allison Macfarlane, “Underlying Yucca Mountain: The Interplay of Geology and Policy in Nuclear Waste Disposal,” 783-807, and Michael Aaron Dennis, “Earthly Matters: On the Cold War and the Earth Sciences,” 809-819. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 34A, no. 1 (March 2003) features Eric Watkins, “Forces and Causes in Kant’s Early Pre-Critical Writings,” 5-27, Michael Friedman, “Transcendental Philosophy and Mathematical Physics,” 29-43, Lisa Shabel, “Reflections on Kant’s Concept (and Intuition) of Space,” 45-57, and Martin Carrier, “How to Tell Causes from Effects: Kant’s Causal Theory of Time and Modern Approaches,” 59-71. Vol. 34A, no. 2 (June 2003) includes Paolo Palmieri, “Mental Models in Galileo’s Early Mathematization of Nature,” 229-264, Athanassios Raftopoulos, “Cartesian Analysis and Synthesis,” 265-308, Maria Rosa Antognazza, “Leibniz and the Post-Copernican Universe: Koyré Revisited,” 309-327. Vol. 34A, no. 3 (September 2003) includes Xiang Chen, “Why Did John Herschel Fail to Understand Polarization?: The Differences Between Object and Event Concepts,” 491-513, and Olivier Darrigol, “Number and Measure: Hermann von Helmholtz at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology,” 515-573. Vol. 34A, no. 4 (December 2003) features H.M. Collins, “Lead into Gold: The Science of Finding Nothing,” 661-691, Tad M. Schmaltz, “Cartesian Causation: Body-Body Interaction, Motion, and Eternal Truths,” 737-762, and E.B. Davies, “The Newtonian Myth,” 763-780. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 34, no. 4 (December 2003) includes Robert W. Batterman, “Falling Cats, Parallel Parking, and Polarized Light,” 527-557, John Earman, “The Cosmological Constant, the Fate of the Universe, Unimodular Gravity, and All That,” Shaul Katzir, “Measuring Constants of Nature: Confirmation and Determination in Piezoelectricity,” 579-606, Daniel Parker, “Finding Your Marbles in Wavefunction Collapse Theories,” 607-620, Michela Massimi and Michael Redhead, “Weinberg’s Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem,” 621-650, and Aharon Kantorovich, “The Priority of Internal Symmetries in Particle Physics,” 651-675. Vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2004) features Robert C. Bishop, “Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics Brussels-Austin Style,” 1-30, Frank Arntzenius, “Time Reversal Operations, Representations of the Lorentz Group, and the Direction of Time,” 31-43, Hans Halvorson, “Complementarity of Representations in Quantum Mechanics,” 45-56, R.E. Kastner, “Weak Values and Consistent Histories in Quantum Theory,” 57-71, Mario Castagnino and Olimpia Lombardi, “Self-Induced Decoherence: A New Approach,” 73-107, and F.A. Muller, “Maxwell’s Lonely War,” 109-119.
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