Books written by David Cahan
-
Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace
Nichols , Edward L. “ The Scientific Work of DeWitt Bristol Brace . ” PR 24 ( 1907 ) : 51521 . ... Parshall , Karen Hunger , and David E. Rowe . The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community , 1876–1900 : J. J. Sylvester ...
-
Helmholtz: A Life in Science
bMS Ger 198(3), folder 2; Adolf von Hildebrand to N. Kleinenberg, 11 February 1891, in Sattler 1962,358–59 (first two quotes on 359); Hugo Schiff to HH, 1 April 1891, in HN427; Hildebrand to Conrad Fiedler, 9 April 1891, in Sattler 1962 ...
-
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science
... Thinking about the Earth : A History of Ideas in Geology ( 1996 ) , Sciences of the Earth : Studies in the History of Mineralogy and Geology ( 1998 ) , and Earth , Water , Ice , and Fire : Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in ...
-
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences should be valuable for historians of science, but also of great interest to scholars of all aspects of 19th-century life and culture.
-
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy.