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La Cour, Poul (1846-1908); Appel, Jakob: 



1905: Die Physik auf Grund ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung (2 vols., ill., 

 Braunschweig ) . 



The original Danish edition was published in Copenhagen (1896-97). This 

 book is hsted, because it was a remarkable attempt to teach physics by means of the 

 history of physics. 



Laue, Max von ( 1879- ) : 



1946: Geschichte der Physik (176 p. Bonn; Isis 38, 258-60).— Second ed. 1947 

 (Isis 40, 169). 



Magie, William Francis: 



1935: A source book in physics (634 p., iU., New York; Isis 26, 176). 



Massain, Robert 



1948: Physique et physiciens (400 p., 52 ill., Paris; Isis 41, 89). 

 Anthology. First edition 1939. 



Miller, Dayton Clarence ( 1866-1941 ) : 



1935: Anecdotal history of the science of sound (126 p., 15 pi.. New York; Isis 

 26, 569). 



Poggendorff, Johann Christian (1796-1877): 



1879: Geschichte der Physik (937 p., Leipzig). 

 Stops at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 



Rosenberger, Ferdinand (1845-99): 



1882-90: Geschichte der Physik in Grundziigen mit synchronistischen Tabellen 

 (3 vols. 1439 p., Braunschweig). Up to ca. 1880. 



Schurmann, Paul F.: 



1946: Historia de la fisica (2 vols., 1078 p., Buenos Aires). — First ed. Montevideo 

 1936 (Isis 29, 172-76). 



Todhunter, Isaac ( 1820-84 ) : 



1886-93: History of the theory of elasticity and of the strength of materials from 

 Galilei to the present time. Edited and completed by Karl Pearson (2 vols., 

 Cambridge University). 



MECHANICS, INCLUDING CELESTIAL MECHANICS 



Borel, Emile ( 1871- ) : 



1943: L'evolution de la mecanique (227 p., 26 ill., Paris). 



Brunet, Pierre (1893-1950: 



1938: Etude historique sur le principe de la moindre action (113 p., Paris; Isis 

 33,329-34). 



Chapuis, Alfred (1880- ); Gelis, Edouard: 



1928: Le monde des automates. Etude historique et technique (2 vols., 700 p., 

 Neuchatel ) . 



Dircks, Henry (1806-73): 



1861 : Perpetuum mobile, or Search for self -motive power during the seventeenth, 

 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (600 p., London). 



1870: Perpetuum mobile, or a History of the search for self -motive power from 

 the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Second series (400 p., London). 



Diihring, Eugen Karl (1833-1921): 



1873: Kritische Geschichte der allgemeinen Principien der Mechanik (544 p., 

 Berhn).— Second ed., 582 p., 1877.— Third ed., 638 p., 1887. 



Dugas, Rene: 



1950: Histoire de la mecanique (650 p., 116 fig., Neuchatel; Isis 42). 



