Roderick Weir Home

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Roderick Weir Home's Degrees

Masters History University of Melbourne
PhD History Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, Roderick Weir "R.W." Home , is an Australian academic and historian of Science. Home has been Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne from 1975 to 2002 on his retirement. Previously he was lecturer and then senior lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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Science in the service of empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the uses of science in the age of revolution (1999) (57)
Australian science in the making (1990) (46)
Electricity and the nervous fluid (1970) (20)
Science and Technology in the Story of Australian Federation: The Case of Meteorology, 1876-1908. (1994) (19)
Postwar Scientific Intelligence Missions to Japan (1993) (16)
International Science and National Scientific Identity (1991) (14)
DSIR: Making Science Work for New Zealand: Themes from the History of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1926-1992. Ross Galbreath (2000) (13)
Science under Scrutiny (1983) (12)
The Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne: New Documents relating to its Foundation. (1989) (11)
Science under scrutiny : the place of history and philosophy of science (1983) (10)
International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America (1992) (10)
The Third Law in Newton's Mechanics (1968) (9)
The effluvial theory of electricity (1981) (8)
The Origin of the Lunar Craters: An Eighteenth-Century View (1972) (7)
The Problem of Intellectual Isolation in Scientific Life: W.H. Bragg and the Australian Scientific Community, 1886-1909. (1984) (7)
Francis Hauksbee's theory of electricity (1967) (7)
Aepinus, the Tourmaline Crystal, and the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (1976) (6)
The Royal Society and the Empire: The colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship Part 2. After 1847 (2003) (6)
A World-Wide Scientific Network and Patronage System (1991) (6)
Electricity and experimental physics in eighteenth-century Europe (1992) (6)
First Physicist of Australia: Richard Threlfall at the University of Sydney, 1886-1898. (1984) (5)
Origins of the Australian physics community (1983) (5)
Physics in Australia and Japan to 1914: A comparison (1987) (5)
Humboldtian Imagery and "the Humboldt of Australia" (1998) (5)
Speculating about atoms in early 20th-century Melbourne: William Sutherland and the 'Sutherland-Einstein' diffusion relation (2005) (4)
Neumayer, Humboldt and the search for a global physics (2011) (3)
The history of classical physics : a selected, annotated bibliography (1984) (3)
HOME, RODERICK WEIR (1963) (3)
Aepinus and the British Electricians: The Dissemination of a Scientific Theory (1972) (3)
The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century France (1985) (3)
HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN AUSTRALIA (1982) (2)
Guest Editorial: History of Science in Australia (1982) (2)
Towards an international bibliographical database in the history of science, technology and medicine. (1996) (2)
William Sutherland and the 'Sutherland-Einstein' Diffusion Relation : Theoretical Physics in a Colonial Setting( Colonial Science) (2005) (2)
Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (2015) (2)
Ferdinand Mueller: Migration and the Sense of Self. (1996) (2)
The History and Philosophy of Science: Its Place in Science Teaching. Some Introductory Remarks. (1977) (1)
W.H. Bragg and J.P.V. Madsen: Collaboration and Correspondence, 1905-1911. (1980) (1)
Why Explore Antarctica?: Australian Discussions in the 1880s* (2008) (1)
Book Review:Un physicien au siecle des lumieres: L'Abbe Nollet, 1700-1770 Jean Torlais (1991) (1)
Ferdinand Mueller’s Alpine Itinerary (2014) (1)
A botanist for a continent: Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-96). (1998) (1)
ELECTRICITY FROM GLASS - THE HISTORY OF THE FRICTIONAL ELECTRICAL MACHINE, 1600-1850 - HACKMANN,WD (1980) (0)
FORMATION OF THE MODERN SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES - PHYSICS IN GERMANY 1740-1890 - GERMAN - STICHWEH,R (1990) (0)
2. The Electrical Background (2015) (0)
History and Philosophy of Science (2014) (0)
1. Biographical Outline (2015) (0)
Russell McCormmach. The Personality of Henry Cavendish—A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities. (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 36.) xviii + 310 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cham: Springer, 2014. €105.99 (cloth). (2016) (0)
Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. A Place in History (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Magnetism (2015) (0)
Technical expertise in colonial Australia (2018) (0)
CHAPTER II. Concerning Electrical and Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion (2015) (0)
CHAPTER I. General Principles of the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (2015) (0)
2. Concerning Electrical and Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion (2015) (0)
Book Review:Benjamin Franklin: New World Physicist Raymond J. Seeger (1976) (0)
The Engineer as Physicist (1972) (0)
An Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism by F.U.T. Aepinus (2015) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Electricity in the Essay (2015) (0)
5. A Place in History (2015) (0)
Book Review: Coffee House Science: Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780–1787 (2003) (0)
3. Electricity in the Essay (2015) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Biographical Outline (2015) (0)
3. Concerning the Communication of Electricity and Magnetism (2015) (0)
Essay Review: Post-Newtonian Optics: Optics after Newton: Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704–1840, Brewster and Wheatstone on Vision (1985) (0)
CHAPTER IV. Concerning Certain Phenomena of Bodies Immersed in Electric and Magnetic Vortices, and Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth (2015) (0)
Points or Knobs: Lightning Rods and the Basis of Decision Making in Late Eighteenth Century British Science (2009) (0)
CHAPTER III. Concerning the Communication of Electricity and Magnetism (2015) (0)
Books (2012) (0)
Defining the Boundaries of the Field: Early Stages of the Physics Discipline in Australia (1993) (0)
Timothy P. Barnard. Nature’s Colony: Empire, Nation, and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. xiv + 287 pp., bibl., index. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. SGD 34 (paper). ISBN 9789814722223. (2019) (0)
Fluids and forces in eighteenth-century electricity (2002) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Electrical Background (2015) (0)
The truth behind Newton' many faces (2002) (0)
Most Illustrious Count Most Gracious Lord (2015) (0)
Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Aepinus's, Published Writings (2015) (0)
To Watheroo and Back: The DTM in Australia, 1911–1947 (2013) (0)
ELECTRICITY IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES - A STUDY OF EARLY MODERN PHYSICS - HEILBRON,JL (1981) (0)
Archives of contemporary science (SU1) (1997) (0)
Hales's Activities. (1981) (0)
LET NEWTON BE - FAUVEL,J, FLOOD,R, SHORTLAND,M, WILSON,R (1989) (0)
Essay Review: The Chemistry of Light (1995) (0)
1. General Principles of the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (2015) (0)
A beguiling story (2006) (0)
Reviews : European Studies (1982) (0)

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