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Professor Roberto de Andrade Martins releases books on the history of physics

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Professor Roberto de Andrade Martins has released four books with unpublished material on the history of physics. The books are part of the series “Scientiarum Historia et Theoria Studia”.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science I
MARTINS, Roberto de Andrade. 2021.

  1. The early history of dimensional analysis: I. Foncenex and the composition of forces [PDF]
  2. The early history of dimensional analysis: II. Legendre and the postulate of parallels [PDF]
  3. Experimental studies on mass and gravitation in the early twentieth century: the search for non-Newtonian effects [PDF]
  4. The search for an influence of temperature on gravitation [PDF]
  5. Philosophy in the physics laboratory: measurement theory versus operationalism [PDF]

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Historical Essays on Radioactivity.
MARTINS, Roberto de Andrade. 2021.

  1. A pool of radiations: Becquerel and Poincaré’s conjecture [PDF]
  2. Did Niepce de Saint-Victor discover radioactivity? [PDF]
  3. Becquerel’s experimental mistakes [PDF]
  4. The guiding hypothesis of the Curies’ radioactivity research: secondary X-rays and the Sagnac connection [PDF]

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science II
MARTINS, Roberto de Andrade. 2021.

  1. A priori components of science: Lavoisier and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions [PDF]
  2. Jevons and the role of analogies in empirical research [PDF]
  3. Wave mechanics, from Louis de Broglie to Schrödinger: a comparison [PDF]
  4. The cultural relevance of astronomy in classical Antiquity [PDF]
  5. The transformation of astronomical culture in the seventeenth century [PDF]

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Ensaios sobre História e Filosofia das Ciências I
MARTINS, Roberto de Andrade. 2021.

  1. O Tratado da Esfera de André do Avelar (1593) [PDF]
  2. O surgimento da mecânica quântica – uma ou duas teorias? [PDF]
  3. Ibn al-Haytham e a revolução medieval na Óptica [PDF]
  4. O formalismo da mecânica clássica, de Aristóteles a Galileo [PDF]
  5. O desenvolvimento do formalismo da mecânica clássica, de Christiaan Huygens e Isaac Newton até Leonhard Euler [PDF]

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