Thomas L. Hankins

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Leroy Hankins is an American historian of science. Education and career Hankins studied physics at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and at Harvard University with an M.A.T. in 1958. From 1958 to 1962 he taught high school physics and worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute during the summers. In 1962 he matriculated in the history department of Cornell University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1964. In the history department of the University of Washington , he was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1969, an associate professor from 1969 to 1975, and a full professor from 1975 to 2000, when he retired as professor emeritus. In retirement he continued to teach part-time at UW until 2005. In his early years at UW, he was the only historian of science in the department and taught widely in the history of science. In later years his teaching focused on early modern science, the Age of Enlightenment and the history of the atomic bomb.

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Science and the Enlightenment (1970) (237)
Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe (1986) (114)
Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Resolve the Vis viva Controversy (1965) (106)
Instruments and the Imagination (1995) (100)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1980) (91)
The Influence of Malebranche on the Science of Mechanics During the Eighteenth Century (1967) (65)
Jean D'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment (1990) (64)
In Defence of Biography: The Use of Biography in the History of Science (1979) (64)
Blood, Dirt, and Nomograms: A Particular History of Graphs (1999) (61)
Introduction: Instruments in the History of Science (1994) (58)
Triplets and Triads: Sir William Rowan Hamilton on the Metaphysics of Mathematics (1977) (28)
A “Large and Graceful Sinuosity” (2006) (20)
The Concept of Hard Bodies in the History of Physics. (1971) (19)
Pierre Simon Laplace, 17491827: A Determined Scientist (2005) (15)
Blood, Dirt, and Nomograms (2000) (13)
The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; Or, The Instrument That Wasn't (1994) (11)
Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus. Paul H. Theerman , Karen Hunger Parshall (1999) (9)
CHAPTER SIX. Science since Babel: Graphs, Automatic Recording Devices, and the Universal Language of Instruments (1999) (5)
John Herschel's Graphical Method (2011) (4)
How the Magic Lantern Lost Its Magic (2003) (4)
Jean d'Alembert between Descartes and Newton: A Critique of Thomas L. Hankins' Position (1976) (3)
A Principle of Physics. (Book Reviews: The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy) (1974) (3)
CHAPTER FIVE. The Aeolian Harp and the Romantic Quest of Nature (1999) (2)
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Giant Eyes of Science: The Stereoscope and Photographic Depiction in the Nineteenth Century (1999) (1)
CHAPTER ONE. Instruments and Images: Subjects for the Historiography of Science (1999) (1)
Essay Review: The Concept of Hard Bodies in the History of Physics: The Conflict between Atomism and Conservation Theory 1644 to 1860 (1970) (1)
CHAPTER THREE. The Magic Lantern and the Art of Demonstration (1999) (1)
Science and the Enlightenment: The Moral Sciences (1985) (1)
Nineteenth-century physics. (1977) (1)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Vox Mechanica: The History of Speaking Machines (1999) (1)
Book Review:The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron, Robin E. Rider (1992) (1)
Computer assisted bypass management. 1980. (2004) (1)
Book Review:The Concept of Matter in Modern Philosophy Ernan McMullin (1980) (1)
Book Review:Joseph Fourier 1768-1830. A Survey of His Life and Work, Based on a Critical Edition of His Monograph on the Propagation of Heat, Presented to the Institut de France in 1807 I. Grattan-Guinness, J. R. Ravetz (1973) (1)
A Principle of Physics: The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy . Yehuda Elkana. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1974. x, 214 pp. $8.50. (1974) (0)
Science and the Enlightenment: Experimental Physics (1985) (0)
Book Review:The Unpublished Writings of Tobias Mayer Eric G. Forbes (1975) (0)
Book Review:Jean Le Rond d'Alembert philosophe Veronique Le Ru (1995) (0)
Life and Work of Fourier: Joseph Fourier . The Man and the Physicist. John Herivel. Clarendon (Oxford University Press), New York, 1975. xii, 350 pp. + plates. $31.25. (1975) (0)
The rise of experimental physics. (1979) (0)
Science and the Enlightenment: The Character of the Enlightenment (1985) (0)
Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 (2006) (0)
A Comparison of the Utility of Cotton Production Procedures Practices by Usukuma, Tanzania Farmers With Techniques Recommended by Their Agricultural Advisors (1977) (0)
A Debate over Experiment: Leviathan and the Air-Pump. (1986) (0)
Sources of Quotations (1985) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; or, The Instrument That Wasn't (1999) (0)
A Scottish mathematician. (1982) (0)
Book Review:Actes de la journee Maupertuis (Creteil, ier decembre 1973) (1976) (0)
Osiris. Vol. 9, Instruments (1997) (0)
Prosopography of the British Association: an essay review. (1982) (0)
Russell McCormmach.Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill. (Archimedes, 28.) xvii + 488 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. $239 (cloth). (2013) (0)
Seeing through the Enlightenment (1982) (0)
Meany, Katz, and the history of science at the University of Washington. (2000) (0)
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth by Joe D. Burchfield. Reviewer (1976) (0)
Elizabeth Chambers Patterson, Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 . (Archives internationales d'histoire des idees, 102) Boston, The Hague, Dordrecht, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1983. Pp. xiv + 264. ISBN 90-247-2823-1. (1985) (0)
Book-Review - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1980) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion (1999) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Athanasius Kircher's Sunflower Clock (1999) (0)
Book Notices (1999) (0)
W. R. Hamilton’s View of Algebra as the Science of Pure Time and His Revision of This View (2003) (0)
Die Werke von Daniel Bernoulli. Volume 7: Magnetism and Technology. Daniel Bernoulli , Patricia Radeletde Grave , David Speiser , Andre Englebert (1996) (0)
Marc J. Ratcliff.The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment. xv + 315 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. $124.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
William Rowan Hamilton.Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Volume 4: Geometry, Analysis, Astronomy, Probability and Finite Differences, Miscellaneous. Edited by, Brendan Scaife. (Cunningham Memoir, 16.) x + 842 pp., frontis., figs., bibl., indexes.Cambridge/New York: Cambridge Univers (2002) (0)
Science and the Enlightenment: Natural History and Physiology (1985) (0)
Comment: Reviewing a Review (2017) (0)
Mathematics and the Exact Sciences (1985) (0)
A Bit More Sinuosity: John Herschel's Graphical Method (2006) (0)
Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined ScientistPierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist , Roger Hahn Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. $35.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01892-3 (2006) (0)

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