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According to Wikipedia, Harry Woolf was an American educator and historian of science who served as provost of The Johns Hopkins University and was later the fifth Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Born in New York City, Woolf received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1948 and 1949 from the University of Chicago in mathematics, physics, and history. His Ph.D. in 1955 was from Cornell University in the history of science. Between 1953 and 1961, Woolf was a faculty member at Boston University, Brandeis University, and the University of Washington. In 1961 he moved to The Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Willis K. Shepard professor of the history of science, department chairman from 1961 to 1972, and finally provost .

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Prison disturbances, April 1990 : report of an inquiry (1991) (77)
Are the courts excessively deferential to the medical profession? (2001) (58)
Some strangeness in the proportion (1980) (55)
Review of Publications- The Transits of Venus, A Study of Eighteenth-Century Science (1960) (38)
Quantification: A History of the Meaning of Measurement in the Natural and Social Sciences. (1963) (38)
The Transits of Venus: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Science (1961) (36)
Prison disturbances April 1990 (1991) (27)
De Smith's Judicial Review (2012) (27)
The Analytic spirit : essays in the history of science in honor of Henry Guerlac (1981) (19)
ARE THE JUDICIARY ENVIRONMENTALLY MYOPIC (1992) (16)
Access to justice : draft civil proceedings rules (1996) (13)
Science as a Cultural Force (1965) (10)
Protection of the public: A new challenge (1990) (6)
Basic research and industrial enterprise (1984) (5)
De Smith, Woolf & Jowell's principles of judicial review (1999) (5)
Manuscripts and the History of Science (1962) (4)
Ibn al-Muthannâ's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwârizmî. Two Hebrew versions, edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1967. 418 pp., illus. $17.50 (1968) (4)
Historical Chronology. (1963) (3)
The Conference on the History of Quantification in the Sciences (1961) (3)
The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Thomas S. Kuhn (1958) (3)
News of the Profession (1959) (2)
The Role of the English Judiciary in Developing Public Law (1986) (2)
The Declaratory Judgment (1993) (2)
Book Review:The Journals of Captain Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. Volume I, The Voyage of the Endeavour J. C. Beaglehole; Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and His Officers and Reproduced from the Original Manuscripts R. A. Skelton (1957) (1)
Thomas Wright's Theological Cosmology (1972) (1)
Eighty-Fifth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1960) (1960) (1)
Eighty-Eighth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1963) (1963) (1)
Science for the People: Copernicanism and Newtonianism in the Almanacs of Early America (1973) (0)
Medieval Astronomy: Ibn al-Muthannâ's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwârizmî . Two Hebrew versions, edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1967. 418 pp., illus. $17.50. (1968) (0)
The History of Sciences in India. Proceedings of the symposium held at Calcutta, August 1961. P. Maheshwari, Ed. National Institute of Sciences of India, New Delhi, 1963. viii + 343 pp. Illus. Paper, R. 13.75 (1964) (0)
A System of the World: Celestial Mechanics . Vols. 1-4. Pierre Simon de Laplace. Translated, with a commentary, from the French edition by Nathaniel Bowditch. Reprint of 1829-39 edition. Chelsea, New York, 1966. 3940 pp., illus. $79.50. (1967) (0)
History of Science: The History of Sciences in India . Proceedings of the symposium held at Calcutta, August 1961. P. Maheshwari, Ed. National Institute of Sciences of India, New Delhi, 1963. viii + 343 pp. Illus. Paper, R. 13.75. (1964) (0)
Notices of Books (1983) (0)
History of Science: The World of Leonardo da Vinci . Man of science, engineer, and dreamer of flight. Ivor B. Hart. Viking Press, New York, 1962. 374 pp. Illus. $7.95. (1963) (0)
Book Review:Sundials: The Art and Science of Gnomonics Frank W. Cousins (1971) (0)
Oral History Interview of Harry Woolf, 1993 (1993) (0)
The Judicial Process in Comparative Perspective. By Mauro Cappelletti. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. xxiv + 417 pp. ISBN 019–825–6345. £50] (1991) (0)
Eighty-Sixth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1961) (1961) (0)
Book Review:The Rittenhouse Orrery, Princeton's Eighteenth-Century Planetarium, 1767-1954 Howard G. Rice, Jr. (1955) (0)
Theories of the Universe in the Late Eighteenth Century (1972) (0)
British Preparations for Observing the Transit of Venus of 1761 (1956) (0)
Book Review:The Principal Works. Volume III Astronomy and Navigation Simon Stevin, A. Pannekoek, Ernst Crone (1963) (0)
Eighty-Fourth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1959) (1959) (0)
The Pursuit of Justice (2008) (0)
An Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of Kepler. Robert Small. A reprinting of the 1804 text, with a foreword by William D. Stahlman. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1963. xvi + 386 pp. Illus. $5.50 (1963) (0)
Andreas Alföldi Faculty file: bibliography (1983) (0)
The Einstein Centennial Symposium (1979) (0)
Letter from Harry Woolf, Institute for Advanced Study to Joshua Lederberg (1981) (0)
Eighty-Seventh Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1962) (1962) (0)
Marshall Clagett Faculty file: correspondence about travel fund (1986) (0)
Book Review:Articles on Antiquity in Festschriften. The Ancient Near East, the Old Testament, Greece, Rome, Roman Law, Byzantium. An Index Dorothy Rounds (1963) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1995) (0)
Medicine and the Courts (1991) (0)
The World of Leonardo da Vinci. Man of science, engineer, and dreamer of flight. Ivor B. Hart. Viking Press, New York, 1962. 374 pp. Illus. $7.95 (1963) (0)
Albert Einstein: Encounter with America (1980) (0)
Engineers of the Renaissance. Bertrand Gille. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1966. 256 pp., illus. $12 (1968) (0)
Back Matter (1970) (0)
Teaching the History of Science (1958) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1957) (0)
The Apparatus of Science at Harvard, 1765-1800. David P. Whfatland alssisted by Barbara Carson. Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Cambridge, Mass., 1968 (distributed by Harvard University Press). xii + 204 pp., illus. $20 (1969) (0)

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