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  1. Trajectories in the History and Historiography of Physics in the Twentieth Century.Richard Staley - 2013 - History of Science 51 (2):151-177.
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  • So simple a thing as a star: the Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology.Matthew Stanley - 2007 - British Journal for the History of Science 40 (1):53-82.
    Theoretical astrophysics emerged as a significant research programme with the construction of a series of stellar models by A. S. Eddington. This paper examines the controversies surrounding those models as a way of understanding the development and justification of new theoretical technologies. In particular, it examines the challenges raised against Eddington by James Jeans, and explores how the two astronomers championed different visions of what it meant to do science. Jeans argued for a scientific method based on certainty and completeness, (...)
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  • On the Co‐Creation of Classical and Modern Physics.Richard Staley - 2005 - Isis 96 (4):530-558.
    While the concept of “classical physics” has long framed our understanding of the environment from which modern physics emerged, it has consistently been read back into a period in which the physicists concerned initially considered their work in quite other terms. This essay explores the shifting currency of the rich cultural image of the classical/modern divide by tracing empirically different uses of “classical” within the physics community from the 1890s to 1911. A study of fin‐de‐siècle addresses shows that the earliest (...)
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  • An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War.Matthew Stanley - 2003 - Isis 94 (1):57-89.
    The 1919 eclipse expedition’s confirmation of general relativity is often celebrated as a triumph of scientific internationalism. However, British scientific opinion during World War I leaned toward the permanent severance of intellectual ties with Germany. That the expedition came to be remembered as a progressive moment of internationalism was largely the result of the efforts of A. S. Eddington. A devout Quaker, Eddington imported into the scientific community the strategies being used by his coreligionists in the national dialogue: humanize the (...)
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  • The gravitational red shift as a test of general relativity: History and analysis.John Earman & Clark Glymour - 1980 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 11 (3):175-214.
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  • James Jeans and radiation theory.Rob Hudson - 1989 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 20 (1):57-76.
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  • Precision measurement and the genesis of physics teaching laboratories in Victorian Britain.Graeme Gooday - 1990 - British Journal for the History of Science 23 (1):25-51.
    The appearance and proliferation of physics laboratories in the academic institutions of Britain between 1865 and 1885 is an established feature of Victorian science. However, neither of the two existing modern accounts of this development have adequately documented the predominant function of these early physics laboratories as centres for theteachingof physics, characteristically stressing instead the exceptional cases of the research laboratories at Glasgow and Cambridge. Hence these accounts have attempted to explain, somewhat misleadingly, the genesis of these laboratories purely by (...)
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  • Ethers, religion and politics in late-Victorian physics: beyond the Wynne thesis.Richard Noakes - 2005 - History of Science 43 (4):415-455.
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  • “A dedicated missionary”. Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain.Jaume Navarro - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4):316-326.
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  • The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything.Helge Kragh - 2002 - Centaurus 44 (1-2):32-114.
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  • Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas.David Knight - 2006 - Routledge.
    Examining sources and case studies, this fascinating book explores early Christianity, how it was studied, how it is studied now, and how Judaeo-Christian values came to form the ideological bedrock of modern western culture. Looking at the diverse source materials available, from the earliest New Testament texts and the complex treaties of third century authors such as Lactantius, to archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology, the book examines what is needed to study the subject, what materials were available, how useful they were, (...)
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  • Miscellaneous methods: authors, societies and journals in early modern England.Adrian Johns - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2):159-186.
    Historians of science have long acknowledged the important role that journals play in the scientific enterprise. They both secure the shared values of a scientific community and certify what that community takes to be licensed knowledge. The advent of the first learned periodicals in the mid-seventeenth century was therefore a major event. But why did this event happen when it did, and how was the permanence of the learned journal secured? This paper reveals some of the answers. It examines the (...)
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  • Planck's principle and jeans's conversion.Geoffrey Gorham - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (3):471-497.
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  • ‘Keeping in the race’: physics, publication speed and national publishing strategies in Nature, 1895–1939.Melinda Baldwin - 2014 - British Journal for the History of Science 47 (2):257-279.
    By the onset of the Second World War, the British scientific periodicalNature– specifically,Nature's ‘Letters to the editor’ column – had become a major publication venue for scientists who wished to publish short communications about their latest experimental findings. This paper argues that the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford was instrumental in establishing this use of the ‘Letters to the editor’ column in the early twentieth century. Rutherford's contributions setNatureapart from its fellow scientific weeklies in Britain and helped construct a defining (...)
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  • Sir James Jeans: A Biography.E. A. Milne & S. C. Roberts - 1953 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4 (15):254-256.
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