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Pages 477-482 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

References

  • Hackmann , W.D. 1978 . Electricity from glass: the history of the frictional electrical machine, 1600–1850 , Alphen aan den Rijn : Sijthoff and Noordhoff . Aepinus's essay on the theory of electricity and magnetism (introductory monograph and notes by R. W. Home, translation by P. J. Connor; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U.P., 1979).
  • I have reached a similar conclusion from my own study of ‘Newtonian’ attitudes to the theory of magnetism (‘“Newtonianism” and the theory of the magnet’. History of science 1977 15 252 266
  • Heathcote , N.H. de V. 1948–50 . Guericke's sulphur globe . Annals of science , 6 : 293 – 305 .
  • Lodge . 1898 . Nature , 54 : 271 – 271 . Compare Russell Moseley, ‘Tadpoles and frogs: some aspects of the professionalization of British physics, 1870–1939’. Social studies of science, 7 (1977), 423–446.
  • Kuhn , Thomas S. 1961 . The function of measurement in modern physical science . Isis , 52 : 161 – 193 . and ‘Mathematical vs. experimental traditions in the development of physical science’, Journal of interdisciplinary history, 7 (1976), 1–31. These papers are reprinted as chs. 8 and 3 respectively of Kuhn's The essential tension: selected studies in scientific tradition and change (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977).

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