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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