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Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science, Volume 1 - October 1950

Contents

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Report of the committee

Presidential address

  • Reflections on the Writing of the History of Science

  • F. Sherwood Taylor
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    05 January 2009, pp. 239-245
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Report of the Committee

Research Article

  • The Possible Influence of Early Eighteenth Century Scientific Literature on Jonathan Hulls, a Pioneer of Steam Navigation

  • Leonard G. Hulls
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    05 January 2009, pp. 105-108

  • The story of Jonathan Hulls and his scientific work is, for various reasons, of peculiar interest. Although mention of him is to be found in many works dealing with the steam-engine and, in some instances, he is referred to as the inventor of the steam-boat, it is a fact that very little is known concerning the man and his work. From time to time articles dealing with his invention appear in newspapers and journals, sometimes accompanied by drawings which are intended to represent the steam-boat. The authors of these articles usually appear to have given free rein to their imagination, with the result that readers are misinformed. Errors of this sort are not confined to non-scientific literature, and various conflicting statements are to be found spread throughout the body of engineering text-books. The object of this paper is to set out briefly such facts as are known concerning Hulls; to consider the scientific literature to which he had access, and to show how this may have influenced him.

Committee's Report

Presidential Address

  • The Theory of Metals in the Works of the 13th-Century Encyclopaedists

  • P. Sherwood Taylor
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    05 January 2009, pp. 195-204
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Research Article

Presidential Address

  • The History of Ancient Technology

  • J. R. Partington
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    05 January 2009, pp. 73-78
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Committee's Report

Abstract of Papers

  • The Equatorie of the Planetis

  • Derek J. Price
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    05 January 2009, pp. 223-226
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Research Article

  • The Historian and the History of Science

  • H. Butterfield
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    05 January 2009, pp. 49-58

  • Students of European history have long known that they must concern themselves with a little art in the period of the Renaissance, with religion at the time of the Reformation, and with literature in the age of Voltaire and the philosophes. The time has now come when, by the rules of their own game, they are bound to take an interest in the history of science.

Abstracts of papers

  • Discussion on Some Philosophical Problems of Cosmology

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    05 January 2009, pp. 127-128
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Annual Report of the Committee

Abstract of Papers

  • Heuristics and the Inductive Method

  • G. Polya
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    05 January 2009, p. 67
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The foundation of the society

Research Article

Presidential Address

  • Chemistry as Rationalised Alchemy

  • J. R. Partington
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    05 January 2009, pp. 129-135
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Abstract of Papers

  • Joule's Scientific Outlook

  • Leon Rosenfeld
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    05 January 2009, pp. 169-176
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Abstract of papers

Abstract of Papers

  • Problems and Theories of Causation

  • Reginald O. Kapp
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    05 January 2009, pp. 192-194
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