Peter M. Harman
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British historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Michael Harman was a British historian who was Professor of the History of Science at the University of Lancaster. Career Harman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, the son of Herbert and Gertrude Heimann. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford and later at the University of Leeds. He was Assistant Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and at the University of Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Clare Hall , before being appointed Lecturer at the University of Lancaster in 1974. He was appointed Reader in 1993 and Professor in 1999 until his retirement in 2007.
Peter M. Harman's Published Works
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- The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 1, 1846-1862 (1990) (163)
- Energy, Force and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics (1982) (147)
- Newtonian Forces and Lockean Powers: Concepts of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Thought (1971) (106)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Frontmatter (1982) (103)
- The natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell (1998) (97)
- THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (1979) (54)
- Voluntarism and Immanence: Conceptions of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Thought (1978) (38)
- Helmholtz and Kant: The metaphysical foundations of über die erhaltung der kraft (1974) (36)
- The collected papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 5, The Swiss years: correspondence, 1902-1914 (1996) (35)
- The Unseen Universe: Physics and the Philosophy of Nature in Victorian Britain (1972) (33)
- “Nature is a Perpetual Worker”: Newton's Aether and Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy (1973) (28)
- James Clerk Maxwell: Physicist and Natural Philosopher (1977) (27)
- Maxwell and the modes of consistent representation (1970) (25)
- Molecular forces, statistical representation and Maxwell's demon (1970) (20)
- Conversion of Forces and the Conservation of Energy (1974) (20)
- Faraday's Theories of Matter and Electricity (1971) (19)
- Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (1997) (18)
- Metaphysics and natural philosophy : the problem of substance in classical physics (1982) (17)
- Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century (1985) (16)
- Metaphysics and natural philosophy (1982) (11)
- >>Geometry and Nature<<: Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli's Theory of Motion (1977) (9)
- Cambridge scientific minds (2002) (9)
- Newton To Maxwell: The Principia and British Physics (1988) (9)
- The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680-1860 (2009) (8)
- The investigation of difficult things : essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside (1992) (7)
- Adam Sedgwick: A confident mind in turmoil (2002) (6)
- The birth of history and philosophy of science: Kepler’s ‘A Defence of Tycho against Ursus’ with essays on its provenance and significance (1988) (5)
- Newtonian Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution (1973) (5)
- Force and Inertia: Euler and Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1983) (5)
- Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook (1984) (5)
- Mayer's Concept of "Force": The "Axis" of a New Science of Physics (1976) (4)
- Dynamics and Intelligibility: Bernoulli and Maclaurin (1988) (4)
- Scientific Revolution (1980) (4)
- Maxwell and Faraday (1993) (4)
- Maxwell, Hertz, and the Nature of Electricity (1971) (4)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Matter Theory: Problems of Molecular Physics (1982) (3)
- Essay Review: Science and the English Enlightenment: The Newtonians and the English Revolution 1689–1720, Reason, Ridicule and Religion. The Age of Enlightenment in England 1660–1750 (1978) (3)
- Moseley's interpretation of x-ray spectra. (1968) (3)
- From Obscurity to Enigma. The Work of Oliver Heavidise, 1872–1891 Ido Yavetz, Birkhäuser, Basel; 1995 (ix + 334 pp) DM 118/SFr. 98 ISBN 3-7643-5180-2. Hardback (1996) (2)
- Charles Babbage: Science and reform (2002) (2)
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Maxwell Found There (1995) (2)
- Isaac Newton: Creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition (2002) (2)
- Bruce J. Hunt, The Maxwellians. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 266. ISBN 0-8014-2641-3. $38.45. (1993) (1)
- Seventeenth Century (1976) (1)
- CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE, with the collaboration of ROBERT FOX and IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS. Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749–1827. A Life in Exact Science. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1998. Pp. xii+322. ISBN 0-691-10850-0. $49.50, £35.00. (2000) (1)
- Paul Dirac: A quantum genius (2002) (1)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Energy Physics and Mechanical Explanation (1982) (1)
- Maxwell's other demons (1992) (1)
- Correcting tunnel vision (1993) (1)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume II: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909. Albert Einstein , John StachelThe Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume II: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1990-1909. English Translation. Albert Einstein , Anna Beck (1991) (1)
- After Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy (1993) (1)
- Book-Review - the Investigation of Difficult Things - Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences - Whiteside, D.T. (1993) (1)
- Establishing a bench mark (1990) (1)
- The puzzle of the preface (1987) (1)
- Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein (2002) (1)
- Cavendish and the Vis Viva Controversy: A Leibnizian Postscript (1971) (1)
- Chemistry Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black . By A. L. Donovan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 343. £7.00. (1976) (0)
- Book Review:The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves Jed Z. Buchwald (1995) (0)
- Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish (2002) (0)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Epilogue: The Decline of the Mechanical World View (1982) (0)
- Seventeenth Century (1984) (0)
- Book Review:The History of Classical Physics: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography R. W. Home, Mark J. Gittins (1985) (0)
- The discovery of pulsars – prelude and aftermath (2002) (0)
- Birth of a separate science (1986) (0)
- Russell McCormmach as a colleague (2007) (0)
- Donald S. L. Cardwell. James Joule: A Biography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 333. ISBN 0-7190-3025-0. £35.00. (1990) (0)
- EZIO VAILATI, Leibniz and Clarke. A Study of Their Correspondence. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press/OUP USA, 1997. Pp. xii+250. ISBN 0-19-5113993. £35.00. (2000) (0)
- Seventeenth Century (1984) (0)
- Elizabeth Carber, Stephen G. Brush and C. W. F. Everitt (eds.), Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On ‘Avoiding All Personal Enquiries of Molecules’ . London: Associated University Presses, 1995, Pp. 550. ISBN 0-934223-34-3. £45.00. (1996) (0)
- Matter and Force: Ether and Field Theories (1982) (0)
- Remember then (1990) (0)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: The Context of Physical Theory: Energy, Force, and Matter (1982) (0)
- IWAN RHYS MORUS, Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+324. ISBN 0-691-05952-7. $45.00, £32.50 (hardback). (2005) (0)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 4: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914. Albert Einstein , Martin J. Klein , A. J. Kox , Jurgen Renn , Robert Schulmann (1996) (0)
- Kepler’s Geometrical Cosmology (1990) (0)
- Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat (2002) (0)
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (2002) (0)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Introduction: The Conceptual Structure of Nineteenth-Century Physics (1982) (0)
- Joseph F. Mulligan (ed.), Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894): A Collection of Articles and Addresses . New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. xxi + 442. $70.00. (1995) (0)
- Intellectual mastery over nature (1994) (0)
- Contemporary Newtonian Research (1986) (0)
- Francis Crick and James Watson (2002) (0)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Preface (1982) (0)
- Maxwell portrayed as a hero of history (2003) (0)
- Essay Review: Biography: Fact or Fiction?: Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist (1983) (0)
- Chemistry in context (1992) (0)
- The correspondence of Michael Faraday. Volume 3, 1841 - 1848 (1997) (0)
- Energy, Force, and Matter: Bibliographic Essay (1982) (0)
- History of Aether (1972) (0)
- Eighteenth Century (1971) (0)
- Faraday as a Natural Philosopher. Joseph Agassi (1972) (0)
- Philosophy Hume's Philosophical Development. A Study of his Methods . By James Noxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 197. £2.50. (1974) (0)
- Life of Gauss (1971) (0)
- Chemistry (1976) (0)
- Essay Review: Newton and Continental Controversy: The Correspondence of Isaac Newton (1979) (0)
- Book Review:H. G. J. Moseley. The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915 J. L. Heilbron (1975) (0)
- Philosophy (1974) (0)
- Philosophy (1974) (0)
- Foundations of scientific method: the nineteenth century: Ronald N. Giere and Richard S. Westfall, eds., Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1973. $10.00 (1975) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1974) (0)
- Physical Sciences (1971) (0)
- "The Work of H. G. J. Moseley" (1967) (0)
- Newton on Matter and Activity (1980) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Epistemological Writings Hermann Von Helmholtz, Malcolm F. Lowe, Robert S. Cohen, Yehuda Elkana (1979) (0)
- Essay Review: Electricity and Natural Philosophy: Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries. A Study of Early Modern Physics (1981) (0)
- Reviews : The Born-Einstein Letters. Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916 to 1955 with commentaries by Max Born. Translated by Irene Born. London, Macmillan, I970. 320 pp. £3.85 (1973) (0)
- Book Review:Scottish Philosophy and British Physics 1750-1880. A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style Richard Olson (1976) (0)
- ESSAY REVIEW: The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 by Margaret C. Jacob; Reason, Ridicule and Religion. The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660-1750 by John Redwood (1978) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1977) (0)
- Book Review:The History of Physics and the Philosophy of Science: Selected Essays Armin Teske (1978) (0)
- Shadow history (1998) (0)
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