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Personal viewpoints on the history of science

A highly personal view of science and its history

Pages 49-56 | Received 05 Oct 1976, Published online: 23 Aug 2006

  • Smith , C.S. 1960 . A history of metallography Chicago
  • Smith , C.S. 1965 . The prehistory of solid-state physics . Physics today , 18 ( 12 ) : 18 – 30 .
  • Smith , C.S. 1968 . Matter versus materials: A historical view . Science , 162 : 637 – 644 .
  • This structural view of change is elaborated in an article to be published in the forthcoming book On aesthetics in science Wechsler J. M.I.T. Press Cambridge, Mass. 1977 See also C. S. Smith, ‘Structure, substructure, and superstructure’, in G. Kepes (ed.), Structure in art and science (1964, New York), 29–41, preprinted in Reviews of modern physics, 36 (1964), 524–532.
  • Smith , C.S. 1971 . “ Art, technology and science; Notes on their historical interaction ” . In Perspectives in the history of science and technology Edited by: Roller , Duane . 129 – 165 . Norman, Oklahoma preprinted in Technology and culture, 11 (1970), 493–549; idem, ‘Metallurgical footnotes to the history of art’, Proc. American Philosophical Society, 116 (1972), 97–135; and idem, ‘Reflections on technology and the decorative arts in the 19th century’, in I. A. M. Quimby and P. A. Earl (eds.), Technological innovation and the decorative arts (1974, Charlottesville, Virginia), 1–64. More than half of the last-cited paper is devoted to a re-examination of the origins of electrometallurgy.
  • Smith , C.S. 1975 . Metallurgy as a human experience . Metallurgical transactions , 6A : 603 – 623 . To be republished as a separate booklet by the American Society for Metals, 1977.
  • Ercker , Lazarus . 1574 . Beschreibung Allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Berckwercksarten Prague For an English translation, see footnote 9.
  • Smith , C.S. and Gnudi , Martha Teach . 1942 . The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio New York
  • Sisco , Anneliese G. and Smith , C.S. 1951 . Lazarus Ercker's treatise on ores and assaying Chicago idem, Bergwerk und Probierbüchlein (1949, New York); A. G. Sisco, Réaumur's memoirs on steel and iron (1956, Chicago).
  • Hawthorne , John G. and Smith , C.S. 1963 . On divers arts: The treatise of Theophilus Chicago and idem, Mappae Clavicula; a little key to the world of medieval techniques (1974, Philadelphia).
  • For other translations see Smith C.S. Sources for the history of the science of steel Cambridge, Mass. 1968
  • On the influence of Eastern techniques on Western science and technology in the eighteenth century see Smith C.S. The discovery of carbon in steel Technology and Culture 1964 5 149 175 and idem, ‘Porcelain and Plutonism’, in C. J. Schneer (ed.), Toward a history of geology (1969, Cambridge, Mass.), 317–338. See also footnote 6.

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