Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

( Completed: 2012)

Reorganizing Knowledge in Developed Science: The Rise and Decline of the Mechanical World View.

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Christian Joas, Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn, Horst Kant, Jaume Navarro

Other involved scholars: Daniela Monaldi; Dieter Fick; Anthony Duncan; Michel Janssen; Arianna Borrelli

Extended Bibliography

Articles and Chapters

  • Borrelli, Arianna. "Dirac's bra-ket notation and the notion of a quantum state." In: Styles of thinking in science and technology : proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science ; Vienna, September 10-12, 2008 (CD-ROM), eds.: Hunger, Hermann; Seebacher, Felicitas; Holzer, Gerhard. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010.
  • Borrelli, Arianna. "The emergence of selection rules and their encounter with group theory, 1913-1927. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Borrelli, Arianna. "[Entries] 'Bose-Einstein statistics', 'Quantum statistics', 'Renormalization', 'Spin statistics theorem'." In: Compendium of quantum physics : concepts, experiments, history and philosophy, eds.: Greenberger, Daniel; Hentschel, Klaus; Weinert, Friedel. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2009.
  • Duncan, Anthony; Janssen, Michel. "Pascual Jordan's resolution of the conundrum of the wave-particle duality of light. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 (3 2008)
  • Duncan, Anthony; Janssen, Michel. "From canonical transformations to transformation theory, 1926–1927 : the road to Jordan's Neue Begründung. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Fick, Dieter; Kant, Horst. "Walther Bothe's contributions to the understanding of the wave-particle duality of light. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Joas, Christian; Lehner, Christoph. "The classical roots of wave mechanics : Schrödinger's transformations of the optical-mechanical analogy. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Monaldi, Daniela. "A note on the prehistory of indistinguishable particles. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Navarro, Jaume. "'A dedicated missionary' : Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
  • Navarro, Jaume. "Electron diffraction chez Thomson : early responses to quantum physics in Britain. " The British Journal for the History of Science 43 (2 2010)