Research

My publications include:

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ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHS

BOOKS

 

*Editor, The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1994. The volume includes 27 articles (xiv + 252 pp.). Reviewed in: Science, 26 August 1994, 265: 1253-1254; Newsletter of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), for 1993 (issued in 1994), No. 26: 45-46; History: Reviews of New Books, Spring 1995, 23: 118; Journal for the History of Astronomy, May 1995, 26: 183-184; Earth Sciences History, 1995, 14: 103-104.

*Editor, Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena, in the series "Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science". 240 articles, approximately 900 pages. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998. Includes my articles as noted below.

*Toward a History of the Geosciences. Introduction to Sciences of the Earth, above. 1998, pp. xvii-xxvi.

*Presentism. In Sciences of the Earth, above. 1998, pp.708-709.

*Disciplinary History. In Sciences of the Earth, above. 1998, pp. 171-172.

*Geomagnetic Theories from 1800 to 1900. In Sciences of the Earth, above. 1998, pp. 350-357.

*Resources for Research in History of the Geosciences. In Sciences of the Earth , above. 1998, pp. xxxiii-xl.

*Magnetometer (History of). In Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner, New York: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 368-371.

*Dip Circle (History of). In Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner, New York: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 175-177.

*The Breadth, Height, and Depth of the Geosciences at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Introduction to The Earth..., above, 1994, pp. xi-xiii.

*Vision of a Global Physics: The Carnegie Institution and the First World Magnetic Survey. In The Earth..., above, 1994, pp. 29-36.

*Die Rockefeller Stiftung, das Geophysikalische Institut Leipzig und der Nationalsozialismus der dreißiger Jahre. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, December 1993, 21: 1-12.

*Follow the Needle: Seeking the Magnetic Poles. Earth Sciences History, 1991, 10: 154-167. Special Arctic history issue.

*Scientific Sovereignty: Canada, The Carnegie Institution, and the Earth's Magnetism in the North. Scientia Canadensis, 1991, 38: 3-37.

*The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute and National Socialism in the 1930s. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 1991, 21: 299-316.

*Between Two Empires: The Toronto Magnetic Observatory and American Science before Confederation, Scientia Canadensis, 1986, 30: 34-52. Reprinted in Richard A. Jarrell and James P. Hull, eds., Science, Technology and Medicine in Canada's Past: Selections from Scientia Canadensis. Thornhill, Canada: The Scientia Press, 1991, pp. 36-53.

*Secular Variation of the Earth's Magnetism. Encyclopedia of the Earth Sciences, (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), pp. 540-547.

*Patrick Blackett, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1948. The Nobel Prize Winners: Physics (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), pp. 551-559.

*The Study of Geomagnetism in the Late 19th Century. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 1988, 69: 218-232.

*John Herschel's Optical Researches and the Development of his Ideas on Method and Causality, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 1987, 18: 1-41.

*A History of Geomagnetic Instruments and a Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 48, 1987, 87 pp. Co-author: Robert P. Multhauf. Reviewed by Anita McConnell in ISIS, 1987, 78: 611-612 and by Gerard L'E. Turner in Technology and Culture, 1989, 30: 681-682.

*Government Funding of Scientific Instrumentation: A Review of U.S. Policy Debates since World War II, Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1986, 11: 34-46. Co-author: Jeffrey K. Stine. A revision and extension of report to NSF on contract listed above.

*Geomagnetics and Scientific Institutions in 19th-Century America, Eos: The Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 1985, 66: 521-526.

Honors: 2005-2006 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge ; Visiting Scholar, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge .

Grants and Contracts: 2005-2006  National Science Foundation, Magnetic World: Consensus, Separation, and Re-connection in Disciplinary Transformations of Geomagnetism in the 20th Century.

 2003-2006  National Park Service, History of New River Gorge National River .

Publications:

Magnetic World: The Historiography of Disciplinary Transformations in Geomagnetism in the 20th Century, to be published in Earth Sciences History, 2006.

On the Verge of a New Science: Meteorology in John Herschel’s Terrestrial Physics, to be published in 2006 in Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the

History of Weather and Climate, eds. James R. Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, by Science History Publications.

Geophysical Travelers: The Magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington . To be included in a book being published in 2006 by INHIGEO, the International Commission for the History of Geological Sciences.

Co-Editor, Six Historic Contexts of the Greenbrier River Valley ( Morgantown , WV , 2005). 192 p.

From Terrestrial Magnetism to Geomagnetism: Disciplinary Transformation in the Twentieth Century, in The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century, ed. David R. Oldroyd, Geological Society ( London ) Special Publication No. 192 ( London , UK : Geological Society, 2002), 229-239.

The Assembly of Geophysics: Scientific Disciplines as Frameworks of Consensus, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2000, 31:259-292.