Derek J. de Solla Price
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British historian and physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Derek John de Solla Price was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist. He was known for his investigation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek planetary computer, and for quantitative studies on scientific publications, which led to his being described as the "Herald of scientometrics".
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Published Works
- NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. (1965) (2695)
- Little Science, Big Science (1965) (1998)
- A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes (1976) (1786)
- Collaboration in an invisible college. (1966) (763)
- Science Since Babylon (1961) (526)
- Little Science, Big Science and Beyond (1986) (444)
- Is Technology Historically Independent of Science? A Study in Statistical Historiography (1965) (282)
- Science, Technology and Society a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (1978) (106)
- Automata and the Origins of Mechanism and Mechanistic Philosophy (1964) (101)
- Studies in Scientometrics I Transience and Continuance in Scientific Authorship (1975) (92)
- Some remarks on elitism in information and the invisible college phenomenon in science (1971) (87)
- An Ancient Greek Computer (1959) (80)
- The Scientific Foundations of Science Policy (1965) (62)
- The Science of Science (1965) (61)
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27 (1976) (49)
- Book Reviews: Heavenly Clockwork. The great astronomical clocks of medieval China (1960) (35)
- The Babylonian “Pythagorean Triangle” Tablet (1964) (31)
- A History of Calculating Machines (1984) (31)
- The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds (1968) (24)
- Ups and Downs in the Pulse of Science and Technology (1978) (23)
- Notes Towards a Philosophy of the Science/Technology Interaction (1984) (23)
- Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. (1978) (23)
- Medieval Land Surveying and Topographical Maps (1955) (22)
- Ethics of Scientific Publication. (1964) (18)
- Principles for Projecting Funding of Academic Science in the 1970s (1971) (13)
- PHILOSOPHICAL MECHANISM AND MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY (1980) (12)
- The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1975) (11)
- Cumulative advantage urn games explained: A reply to kantor (1978) (11)
- The Equatorie of the Planetis. (1953) (11)
- Chaucer's Astronomy (1952) (11)
- The Mathematical Practitioners (1955) (11)
- The early observatory instruments of trinity college, Cambridge (1952) (10)
- The expansion of scientific knowledge. (1971) (10)
- Automata in History (1964) (10)
- Studies in scientometrics II. The relation between source author and cited author populations (1975) (8)
- 1907. Some unusual series occuring in n-dimensional geometry (1946) (7)
- An Extrinsic Value Theory for Basic and “Applied” Research (1976) (7)
- Note on the calculation of optical constants (1946) (7)
- Book-Review - Heavenly Clockwork - the Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China (1961) (5)
- The distribution of citations from nation to nation on a field by field basis — A computer calculation of the parameters (1981) (5)
- On the Historiographic Revolution in the History of Technology: Commentary on the Papers by Multhauf, Ferguson, and Layton (1974) (5)
- The little ship of Venice--a Middle English instrument tract. (1960) (5)
- Smiles at the Unobtrusive (1970) (5)
- A medieval footnote to Ptolemaic precession (1955) (5)
- Life of Thomas Young (1954) (4)
- Scientists and Their Tools (1982) (4)
- The history of science as training and research for administration and political decision-making / D. J. de Solla Price. (1964) (4)
- The Cavendish Laboratory Archives (1953) (4)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. vol. 1. 1661-1675. H. W. Turnbull, Ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1959. xxxviii + 468 pp. Illus. + plates. $25 (1960) (3)
- Clockwork Before the Clock and Timekeepers Before Timekeeping (1975) (3)
- Fractals – Form, Chance and Dimension (1978) (3)
- A Guide to Graduate Study and Research in the History of Science and Medicine (1967) (2)
- Comments on “U. S. science in an international perspective” (1980) (2)
- Two Mariner's Astrolabes (1956) (2)
- Happiness is a warm librarian (1979) (2)
- A collection of armillary spheres and other antique scientific instruments (1954) (2)
- Book-Review - a Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum (1985) (2)
- Two Cultures—And One Historian of Science (1963) (1)
- The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science. vol. 1, The Physical Sciences. vol. 2, The Biological Sciences. Isaac Asimov. Basic Books, New York, 1960. xiv + 853 pp. Illus. + plates. 2 vols. (boxed), $15; $11.95 (until 25 December) (1960) (1)
- An international catalogue of scientific instruments made before A.D. 1500. A preliminary report (1967) (1)
- Review : Nakayama Shigeru, David L. Swain, Yagi Eri (eds.), Science and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Historical Sources (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, and Boston: M.I.T. Press), 5700 Yen (£10.00 UK) (1975) (1)
- Revolution needs heroism (1978) (1)
- Book Review:Islamic Astrolabes and Their Works L. A. Mayer (1957) (1)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton . vol. 2. 1676-1687. H. W. Turnbull, Ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1960. xiii + 552 pp. Illus. + plates. $25. (1960) (1)
- Science, technology, and society: a cross-disciplinary perspective. [15 papers] (1977) (1)
- Book Review: Richard of Wallingford, Richard of Wallingford: An Edition of his Writings with Introductions, English Translation and Commentary: (1978) (1)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. vol. 3. 1688-1694. H. W. Turnbull, Ed. Published for the Royal Society. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1961. xviii + 445 pp. Illus. $25 (1962) (1)
- The tower of the winds: piecing together an ancient puzzle (1967) (1)
- A Great Encyclopedia Doesn't Have To Be Good? (1964) (1)
- Book Review:The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshid Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi (d. 1429) Jamshid Guiyath al-Din al-Kashi, E. S. Kennedy (1963) (0)
- Smithsonian Treasury of Science. Webster P. True, Ed. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960 (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution). xvi + 1208 pp. Illus. 3 vols., boxed, $15 (1961) (0)
- Unobjective Science (1972) (0)
- Course Syllabus: History of Science: (1981) (0)
- Back Matter (1961) (0)
- A Bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke. Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford University Press, New York, 1960. xix + 115 pp. Illus. $8 (1961) (0)
- Frontiers of science : on the brink of tomorrow (1982) (0)
- Scientific Books, Libraries, and Collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to science. John L. Thornton and R. I. J. Tully. Library Association, London, ed. 2, 1962. xiii + 406 pp. Illus. 68s (1963) (0)
- Medieval Land Surveying and Topographical Maps: Discussion (1955) (0)
- The Orion Book of the Sun.; The Orion Book of Time.; The Orion Book of the Sky. (1961) (0)
- Newton as an Elder Statesman: The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 4, 1694-1709. J. F. Scott, Ed. Published for the Royal Society by Cambridge University Press, New York, 1967. 611 pp., illus. $38.50 (1967) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (1959) (0)
- The Analytical (Quantitative) Theory of Science and its Implications for the Nature of Scientific Discovery (1981) (0)
- Book Reviews: A History of Mechanics. (1957) (0)
- Precursors of a New Era: The Correspondence of Isaac Newton . vol. 3. 1688-1694. H. W. Turnbull, Ed. Published for the Royal Society. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1961. xviii + 445 pp. Illus. $25. (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Scientific Instruments of the 17th and 18th Centuries Maurice Daumas, Mary Holbrook (1973) (0)
- The Transits of Venus. A study of eighteenth-century science. Harry Woolf. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1959. xiii + 258 pp. Illus. $6 (1960) (0)
- Science, Technology, andSociety: ACross‐DisciplinaryPerspective (1980) (0)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 4, 1694-1709. J. F. Scott, Ed. Published for the Royal Society by Cambridge University Press, New York, 1967. 611 pp., illus. $38.50 (1967) (0)
- Book Review:The Globe of Martin Bylica of Olkusz and Celestial Maps in the East and in the West Zofia Ameisenowa, Andrzej Potocki (1961) (0)
- The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages . Marshall Clagett. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison; Oxford University Press, London, 1959, xxix + 711 pp. Illus. $8. (1959) (0)
- The Transits of Venus . A study of eighteenth-century science. Harry Woolf. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1959. xiii + 258 pp. Illus. $6. (1960) (0)
- A Bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke . Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford University Press, New York, 1960. xix + 115 pp. Illus. $8. (1961) (0)
- A Source Book in Greek Science . Morris R. Cohen and I. E. Drabkin. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2nd printing, 1958. xxi + 581 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1959) (0)
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