Course Bibliography: Action and Reaction: Teaching Physics in Context

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY

I.  PHYSICS TODAY, INSTITUTIONAL:

Klaw, The New Brahmins, ch. I, II, X

Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science, ch. I.  II, VII

Lewinton, “Why I Resigned from the National Academy of Science,” Science for the People, Vol. 3 No. 4, Sept. 1971.

Censored pamphlet

Derek Price, Big Science, Little Science

Materials from American Institute of Physics

National Academy Science study of Physics

Samples from Science, Scientific American, Physics Today, Science for the People, Physical Review (xeroxes and mimeoed excerpts for comparison)

II.  GREEK COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY:

Butterfield, Origins of Modern Science, ch. II, IV

III.  AFTER COPERNICUS:

Koestler, The Sleepwalkers

Galilei, Two World Systems

IV.  KEPLER’S LAWS:

Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo—excerpts

(Starry Messenger) xerox

V.  PRE-GALILEAN MECHANICS:

March, Physics for Poets, ch. I,  II, IV

VI.  GALILEAN MECHANICS:

Galilei, Two World Systems—excerpts

VII.  GALILEO IN CONTEXT:

Brecht, Galileo

Goldsmith & MacKay, eds., Science and Society, Needham, “Science and Society in East and West” (comparative study)

Hessen, Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia

Santillana, Crime of Galileo

Geymonet, Galileo Galilei

VIII. NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS

March, ch. III

IX.  UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION:

March, ch. V

Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, ch. I,  II

X.  NEWTONIAN SYNTHESIS

Principia, excerpts

Butterfield, “The Scientific Revolution,” Scientific American, 1960

Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science

XI. NEWTON IN CONTEXT:

Merton, Science, Technology and Society in 17th Century England—excerpt

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels—excerpts

Kemble, Physical Science, Its Structure and Development, ch. XI: “Impact of Newtonian Science on the Intellectual World of the 18th Century”

Bernal, Science in History

Randall, The Making of the Modern Mind, ch. XI-XV

XII.  MOMENTUM:

March, ch. III

XIII.  POTENTIAL ENERGY:

Project Physics Course No.  3, ch. X

Marx, The Communist Manifesto

XIV.  HEAT:

Feynman, ch. III

XV.  ENERGY IN CONTEXT:

Kemble, ch. XV

Bernal, Science in History

XVI. WAVES:

March. ch. VIII

Project Physics No. 3, ch. XII

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