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  1. Work and Waste: Political Economy and Natural Philosophy in Nineteenth Century Britain (II).M. Norton Wise & Crosbie Smith - 1989 - History of Science 27 (4):391-449.
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  • Herschel in Bedlam: Natural History and Stellar Astronomy.Simon Schaffer - 1980 - British Journal for the History of Science 13 (3):211-239.
    In his comprehensive survey of the work of William Herschel, published in the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes for 1842, Dominique Arago argued that the life of the great astronomer ‘had the rare privilege of forming an epoch in an extended branch of astronomy’. Arago also noted, however, that Herschel's ideas were often taken as ‘the conceptions of a madman’, even if they were subsequently accepted. This fact, commented Arago, ‘seems to me one that deserves to appear in the history (...)
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  • Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation.Simon Schaffer - 1988 - Science in Context 2 (1):115-145.
    The ArgumentIt is often assumed that all sciences travel the path of increasing precision and quantification. It is also assumed that such processes transcend the boundaries of rival scientific disciplines. The history of the personal equation has been cited as an example: the “personal equation” was the name given by astronomers after Bessel to the differences in measured transit times recorded by observers in the same situation. Later in the nineteenth century Wilhelm Wundt used this phenomenon as a type for (...)
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  • Was There Such a Thing as Stellar Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century?M. E. W. Williams - 1983 - History of Science 21 (4):369-388.
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  • Work and Waste: Political Economy and Natural Philosophy in Nineteenth Century Britain (III).M. Norton Wise & Crosbie Smith - 1990 - History of Science 28 (3):221-261.
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  • The Foundation of the Geological Society of London: Its Scheme for Co-operative Research and its Struggle for Independence.M. J. S. Rudwick - 1963 - British Journal for the History of Science 1 (4):325-355.
    The Geological Society of London was the first learned society to be devoted solely to geology, and its members were responsible for much of the spectacular progress of the science in the nineteenth century. Its distinctive character as a centre of geological discussion and research was established within the first five years from its foundation in 1807. During this period its activities were directed, and its policies largely shaped, by its President, George Bellas Greenough, on whose unpublished papers this account (...)
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