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A. van Helden. Measuring the Universe. Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 203. ISBN 0-226-84881-7. £31.50, $34.50.
manages to convince us that these questions are important ones. Willis Whitney, more than any other individual, provided the model for how the industrial research laboratory could effectively…
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Astronomical Observatories as Practical Space: The Case of Pulkowa
Astronomical observatories are among the oldest of scientific institutions. By the end of the seventeenth century in Britain and France, national resources had been invested in the study of…
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James Bradley and the eighteenth Century 'Gap' in attempts to measure annual stellar parallax
When, in 1728, James Bradley wrote to Edmund Halley of his ‘new discovered motion of the fixed stars’ (1) Bradley pointed out an important implication of his work for the problem of the detection of…
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Science, education and museums in Britain, 1870–1914
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Beyond the planets: early nineteenth-century studies of double stars
In 1837 the German-born astronomer F. G. W. Struve published his famous catalogue of double stars. For Struve this was the culmination of 12 years' detailed observation of a class of celestial…
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Attempts to measure annual stellar parallax : Hooke to Bessel
The Precision Makers. A History of the Instruments Industry in Britain and France, 1870-1939
The Industry in Britain, 1870-1900 New Developments, 1900-1914 Instruments and War, Industry and Government Instruments and War, Research and Education The Aftermath of War Survival Strategies…
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R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn, Glaxo: A History to 1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 405. ISBN 0-521-41539-X. £55.00.
Heims compared von Neumann and Wiener, it was Wiener who came to life: von Neumann remained a distant dabbler in technologies of death {John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT…
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Martin Campbell-Kelly. ICL: A Business and Technical History . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 409. ISBN 0-19-853918-5. £30.00.
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John North. The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology . London: Fontana, 1994. Pp. xxvii + 697. ISBN 0-00-686177-6. £12.99.
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