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  1. Re-presenting Faraday.David Gooding - 1994 - British Journal for the History of Science 27 (3):361-364.
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  • Joule’s Experiments on the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity.R. A. Martins & A. P. B. Silva - 2020 - Foundations of Science 26 (3):625-701.
    The focus of this paper is one of James Prescott Joule’s scientific contributions: the laws of heat production by electric currents in conductors. In 1841, the 22 years old Joule published a paper with the title “On the heat evolved by metallic conductors of electricity, and in the cells of a battery during electrolysis” where he presented an experimental study of that phenomenon and proposed two laws that were allegedly supported by his trials. On closer inspection, both his laboratory work (...)
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  • Aesthetic appreciation of experiments: The case of 18th-century mimetic experiments.Alexander Rueger - 2002 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (1):49 – 59.
    This article analyzes a type of experiment, very popular in 18th-century natural philosophy, which has apparently not led to insights into nature but which was aesthetically especially attractive. These experiments--"mimetic experiments"--allow us to trace a connection between aesthetic appreciation in science and in art contemporaneous with the science. I use this case as a problem for McAllister's theory of aesthetic induction according to which aesthetic standards in science tend to be associated with empirical success and propose an alternative mechanism that (...)
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  • Scientists, engineers and Wildman Whitehouse: measurement and credibility in early cable telegraphy.Bruce J. Hunt - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Science 29 (2):155-169.
    Between 1856 and 1858, a group of entrepreneurs and engineers led by the American Cyrus Field and the Englishmen J. W. Brett, Charles Bright and E. O. Wildman Whitehouse sought to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to Newfoundland. Their projected cable would be far longer, far more expensive, and far more difficult to lay than any previously attempted; that such an ambitious undertaking was launched and quickly drew financial backing was testimony to the technological enthusiasm of (...)
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  • Electricity and Imagination: Post-romantic Electrified Experience and the Gendered Body. An Introduction.Koen Vermeir - 2015 - Centaurus 57 (3):131-155.
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  • Manufacturing nature: science, technology and Victorian consumer culture.Iwan Rhys Morus - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Science 29 (4):403-434.
    The public place of science and technology in Britain underwent a dramatic change during the first half of the nineteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century, natural philosophy was still on the whole the province of a relatively small group of aficionados. London possessed only one institution devoted to the pursuit of natural knowledge: the Royal Society. The Royal Society also published what was virtually the only journal dealing exclusively with scientific affairs: the Philosophical Transactions. By 1851, when (...)
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  • No actual measurement … was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics.Isobel Falconer - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 65:74-86.
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  • The Weather Prophets: Science and Reputation in Victorian Meteorology.Katharine Anderson - 1999 - History of Science 37 (2):179-216.
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