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Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science, Volume 2 - July 1961

Contents

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Proceedings at Meetings

Presidential Address

  • The Dependence of Science on its History

  • Herbert Dingle
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 65-73
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Report of the council

Research Article

  • The History of the Determination of the Ohm

  • L. G. A. Sims
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    05 January 2009, pp. 57-61

  • A century ago the work of laying the first Atlantic cable and the measurements which were needed of the electrical resistivity of the copper, as well as of the resistance of the cable itself, had shown the inadequacy of the resistance standards which then existed.

Presidential address

  • The History of Science in Modern Education

  • H. Hamshaw Thomas
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    05 January 2009, pp. 1-8
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Research Article

  • The History of Electricity in Germany During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

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    05 January 2009, pp. 49-51

  • During the early years of the eighteenth century few people were interested in electricity, in Germany or elsewhere. No clear conception of electricity as a property common to all bodies had yet been achieved, and progress in this field of knowledge resulted from the gradual and intermittent accumulation of observations which were hardly related to each other at all.

Proceedings at meetings

Research Article

  • Scientific Literature and the Classification of the Sciences

  • H. D. Anthony
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    05 January 2009, pp. 89-93

  • The word “classification” is used here in its sense of “the result of classifying” rather than the action of so doing. Since the resulting classification has special reference to the subject-matter of science as a whole, it is natural to turn to the scientific literature of various periods for an indication of how this classification has been developed. For sake of comparison, reference may be made to one of the modern systems of library classification. In the Dewey Decimal System the numbers 550 to 559 are allotted to Geology and 560 to 569 to Palaeontology. By placing numbers to the right of the decimal point, further sub-divisions may be made, for example, 560·942 is classed as Palaeon-tology of England. Thus a number is available for every reasonable demand of classification. The present purpose is to trace the natural evolution of the various branches of science, in contrast to the mechanical process of providing a classification of scientific literature for ease of reference. An example may make this distinction clearer.

Presidential Address

  • Experimental Plant Biology in Pre-Linnean Times

  • H. Hamshaw Thomas
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    05 January 2009, pp. 15-22
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Abstracts of Papers

  • Abstracts of Papers, March 1958–May 1960

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    05 January 2009, pp. 97-105
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Reviews

Report of the Council

Report of the council

Reviews

Report of the Council

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Reviews

Report of the Council

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