Sunday 15 February 2009

Current reading

Articles

Van Heldon's Telescopes and Authority from Galileo to Cassini,

Finocchiaro on the Galileo affair (a preliminary work for his book Retrying Galileo 1633 to 1992)

A 1965 review by Buchdahl of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Agassi's Towards a Historiography of Science

Daston's article on Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

A terrible article by Tucker called A Theory of Historiography as a Pre-science

Stump's article on Koyre's approach to History of Science

Books

An introductory book on The Enlightenment. A new book has just arrived on this topic

Lehman's Sign of the Times - the response of deconstructivists to the de Man affair

A new book on Dirac called The Strangest Man

Ferguson's Tycho and Kepler

Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love

A reasonably varied collection I reckon.

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