Henry, John (Author)
I provide a tour of Edinburgh focusing on famous contributors to the history of physics and related sciences, using them as a way to write about particular parts of Edinburgh. I proceed chronologically, from the seventeenth century to the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and on to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the notable individuals I discuss are John Napier (1550--1617), James Gregory (1638--1675), George Sinclair (ca. 1625--1696), Colin Maclaurin (1698--1746), Joseph Black (1728--1799), James Hutton (1726--1797), John James Waterston (1811--1883), William J. Macquorn Rankine (1820--1872), David Brewster (1781--1868), Peter Guthrie Tait (1831--1901), James Clerk Maxwell (1831--1879), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819--1900), Charles Glover Barkla (1877--1944), Max Born (1882--1970), Edward Victor Appleton (1892--1965), Charles T.R. Wilson (1869--1959), and Peter Higgs (b. 1929).
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Emerson, Roger L.;
(2008)
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews Universities
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Wilson, David B.;
(1991)
P.G. Tait and Edinburgh natural philosophy, 1860-1901
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Article
Kinns, Roger;
(2014)
Did the Edinburgh Time Ball Really Weigh 15 cwt?
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Book
Robert Geoffrey William Anderson;
(2015)
The Cradle of Chemistry: The First Century of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
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Article
Eddy, Matthew Daniel;
(2014)
How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
(/isis/citation/CBB001550415/)
Article
Kearney, Will;
(2011)
That Beautiful Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB001450580/)
Article
Maxwell, James Clerk;
(1977)
Paradoxical philosophy
(/isis/citation/CBB000022564/)
Article
Bill Jenkins;
(2020)
Commercial Scientific Journals and Their Editors in Edinburgh, 1819–1832
(/isis/citation/CBB533586065/)
Article
Donavan, Arthur L.;
(1978)
James Hutton, Joseph Black, and the chemical theory of heat
(/isis/citation/CBB000007090/)
Book
(1997)
James Hutton and Joseph Black: Biographies by John Playfair and Adam Ferguson, from volume V of Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1805
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Article
Wendy McGlashan;
(2022)
John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): Graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
(/isis/citation/CBB917614120/)
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Marelene Rayner-Canham;
Geoff Rayner-Canham;
(2020)
Edith Pechey and Professor Crum Brown: A Key Part of the Edinburgh Seven Saga
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Schaffer, Simon;
(1997)
Metrology, metrication, and Victorian values
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Bill Jenkins;
(2020)
Race Before Darwin: Variation, Adaptation and the Natural History of Man in Post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–1835
(/isis/citation/CBB902634281/)
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Henry, John;
(2008)
Historical and Other Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine in the University of Edinburgh
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Clare Button;
(2018)
James Cossar Ewart and the Origins of the Animal Breeding Research Department in Edinburgh, 1895–1920
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Jacyna, L. S.;
(2001)
“A Host of Experienced Microscopists” The Establishment of Histology in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
(/isis/citation/CBB000100875/)
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Klaus Staubermann;
(2018)
Investigating Vision: Scientific Instruments as Historiographic Tools for the Understanding of the Development and Establishment of Colour, Perception and Performance Research at Edinburgh University, 1850–1950
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Bernstein, Jeremy;
(2013)
A Palette of Particles
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Sample, Ian;
(2010)
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
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