Works by J. L. Heilbron
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- Are Historians Fit to Rule?J. L. Heilbron -2016 -Isis 107 (2):350-352.No categories
- The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy.J. L. Heilbron (ed.) -2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.With over 150 alphabetically arranged entries about key scientists, concepts, discoveries, technological innovations, and learned institutions, the Oxford Guide to Physics and Astronomy traces the history of physics and astronomy from the Renaissance to the present. For students, teachers, historians, scientists, and readers of popular science books such as Galileo's Daughter, this guide deciphers the methods and philosophies of physics and astronomy as well as the historical periods from which they emerged. Meant to serve the lay reader and the professional (...) alike, this book can be turned to for the answer to how scientists learned to measure the speed of light, or consulted for neat, careful summaries of topics as complicated as quantum field theory and as vast as the universe. The entries, each written by a noted scholar and edited by J. L. Heilbron, Professor of History and Vice Chancellor, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, reflect the most up-to-date research and discuss the applications of the scientific disciplines to the wider world of religion, law, war, art and literature. No other source on these two branches of science is as informative or as inviting. Thoroughly cross-referenced and accented by dozens of black and white illustrations, the Oxford Guide to Physics and Astronomy is the source to turn to for anyone looking for a quick explanation of alchemy, x-rays and any type of matter or energy in between. (shrink)
- Comment: A Last Judgment.J. L. Heilbron -2017 -Isis 108 (1):122-123.No categories
- Deep narrow territories: Peter Harrison: The territories of science and religion. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015, xiii+300pp, $30 Cloth.J. L. Heilbron -2016 -Metascience 25 (3):349-353.
- Have I Explained Anything?J. L. Heilbron -2019 -Isis 110 (2):305-307.No categories
- In Reply.J. L. Heilbron -2017 -Isis 108 (4):867-867.No categories
- Literature on the history of physics in the 20th century.J. L. Heilbron -1981 - Berkeley, CA: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley. Edited by Bruce R. Wheaton.
- La philosophie naturelle de galilée. Essai sur Les origines et la formation de la méchanique classique.J. L. Heilbron -1970 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 8 (3):341-343.
- Moseley letters.J. L. Heilbron -1976 -Annals of Science 33 (3):309-309.No categories
- Natural philosophy and science.J. L. Heilbron -2003 - In Alan Charles Kors,Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 134--42.Export citation
Bookmark - Physics: a short history, from quintessence to quarks.J. L. Heilbron -2015 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.How does the physics we know today-- a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-- link back to its origins as a liberal art in ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the (...) size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the 'House of Wisdom' in 9th-century Baghdad; Europe's first universities; the courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the 18th century; the increasingly specialized world of 20th and 21st century science. Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology-- and the implications for humankind's self-understanding-- Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries. (shrink)
- Roman Thought Police and Early-Modern Astrology.J. L. Heilbron -2015 -Perspectives on Science 23 (2):228-240.The Roman Inquisition against Heretical Depravity, also known as the Holy Office, established in 1542, and the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books, announced officially in 1572, undertook to protect Italy from ideas and practices that menaced the authority of the Roman Catholic Church in this world and the salvation of its members in the next. This grandiose public-health program required trained and dedicated thought police to receive and evaluate alarms from the public and, when business was bad, to (...) seek out sources of infection themselves. The resultant records of accusations, investigations, trials, condemnations, expurgations, and exceptions, if extant in its entirety, would go far to fill.. (shrink)
- Reply to Westman.J. L. Heilbron -2013 -Perspectives on Science 21 (3):386-386.The question of the Copernican Question is whether, in arguing its thesis, Professor Westman met the standards of argument and evidence expected of a senior historian. In my review I pointed to problems in reasoning and translation pertinent to an answer. In response, Professor Westman gives further specimens of his reasoning and describes his botched translations as “peccadilloes.” Had I known that he was writing in Peccadillo, I would willingly have expressed the admiration his performance deserves. When judged on the (...) permissive Peccadillian principle, Tant pis tant mieux (in ordinary English, “never mind, so much the better,” in high Peccadillo, “Aunt feels better since she’s been to the toilet”), much of .. (shrink)
- Robert Westman on Galileo and Related Matters.J. L. Heilbron -2012 -Perspectives on Science 20 (3):379-388.
- Science in the Church.J. L. Heilbron -1989 -Science in Context 3 (1):9-28.The ArgumentA brief review of the Merton thesis shows that its restriction to England is arbitrary. An example from the historiography of modern physics suggests the possible payoff of an ecumenical Merton thesis and the means to explore it. A summary of the careers of men who practiced science literally in the church – men who built meridian lines in Italian cathedrals – indicates the range of social support of astronomical studies by Catholic institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.No categories
- Tore Frängsmyr.J. L. Heilbron -2018 -Isis 109 (2):356-359.No categories
- The history of physics: a very short introduction.J. L. Heilbron -2018 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.How does the physics we know today-- a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-- link back to its origins as a liberal art in ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the (...) size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the 'House of Wisdom' in 9th-century Baghdad; Europe's first universities; the courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the 18th century; the increasingly specialized world of 20th and 21st century science. Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology-- and the implications for humankind's self-understanding-- Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries. (shrink)
- Guide to the Archival Materials of the German-Speaking Emigration to the United States after 1933.J. L. Heilbron -1981 -Philosophy of Science 48 (1):161-161.
- Finding a policy for mapping and sequencing the human genome: Lessons from the history of particle physics. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron &Daniel J. Kevles -1988 -Minerva 26 (3):299-314.
- Reviews: Biography-Jean Paul Marat. Scientist and revolutionary. [REVIEW]Clifford D. Connor &J. L. Heilbron -1998 -Annals of Science 55 (4):423-423.Export citation Bookmark
- A Choice of CompanionsBernard Lightman . A Companion to the History of Science. xvi + 601 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. £120 .Georgina M. Montgomery; Mark A. Largent . A Companion to the History of American Science. xvii + 692 pp., bibl., index. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. £120. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -2017 -Isis 108 (3):660-663.No categories
- Between Raphael and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -2014 -Annals of Science 71 (1):140-142.
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The Master of Light. A Biography of Albert A. Michelson. By Dorothy Michelson Livingston. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. Pp. xi + 376. $12.50. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -1975 -British Journal for the History of Science 8 (2):187-188.
- Photons. The history and mental models of light quanta: Klaus Hentschel, Cham, Switzerland, Springer International, 2018, xiii + 231 pp., €69,99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-3-319-95251-2. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -2019 -Annals of Science 76 (3-4):387-389.No categories
- Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Einstein. The Man and his Achievement. G. J. Whitrow. London: British Broadcasting Corporation. 1967. Pp. xv + 94, bibliog. 18s. 6d. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -1968 -British Journal for the History of Science 4 (2):195-196.
- von Leibniz'Metaphysik (2001), Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics, 1666–1686 (2005), and Biomedical Ontology and the Metaphysics of Composite Substances, 1540–1670 (2010). Martin Campbell-Kelly is emeritus professor in the Department of Com-puter Science at the University of Warwick, where he specializes in the. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron &Helge Kragh -2013 -Perspectives on Science 21 (3).
- Vinum novum in utres veteresNoretta Koertge . New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 volumes. Volume 1: lvi + 471 pp.; Volume 2: vi + 433 pp.; Volume 3: vi + 437 pp.; Volume 4: vi + 361 pp.; Volume 5: vi + 369 pp.; Volume 6: vi + 576 pp.; Volume 7: vi + 416 pp.; Volume 8: lxii + 208 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farmington Mills, Mich.: Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale, Cengage, 2008. $995. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -2010 -Isis 101 (4):839-842.
- William T. Lynch. Solomon’s Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of London. xi + 292 pp., bibl., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. $60. [REVIEW]J. L. Heilbron -2002 -Isis 93 (4):693-693.
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