David P Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7879-4427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The experiences of community organizations partnering with a medical school to improve students’ understanding of the social determinants of health: A qualitative study
PURPOSE: There has been increasing interest among national organizations for medical schools to provide students experiential training in the social determinants of health (SDH) through community partnerships. Despite this interest, there is limited data about how these experiential activities can be designed most effectively, and community organizations' views of partnering with medical schools on these curricula is unknown. The authors' objecti…
Older Adult Internet Use and eHealth Literacy
We examine Internet use and eHealth literacy among older adults (aged 55+ years) who were patients at clinics serving low-income populations. Participants included 200 minority and White adults who completed interviews based on a technology acceptance conceptual model. A total of 106 participants (53.0%) used the Internet; utilization was associated with personal characteristics (age, ethnicity, education, poverty), computer characteristics (numb…
A New Perspective on the Natural Philosophy of Steams and Its Relation to the Steam Engine
Historians' understanding of the steam engine's evolution suffers from back-projections of nineteenth-century physical science, notably thermodynamics, onto the eighteenth century. The idea of steam as a "working substance" to merely transfer heat is anachronistic in the eighteenth-century context. It has led to serious misconceptions. To correct this misreading, this article uncovers three major areas discussing steam in the eighteenth century: …
The ballistics of seventeenth century musket balls
This paper investigates the firing of seventeenth Century musket balls. Prior to this research, the main concerns with making range predictions were associated with the deformed shape of the musket balls affecting their drag coefficient and therefore their distance to ground impact. However, the distance due to bounce and roll after initial impact has been unknown. In this work, the distance travelled after the first ground impact greatly exceede…
Testing Power and Trust: The Steam Indicator, the 'Reynolds Controversy', and the Relations of Engineering Science and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
The steam-engine indicator has become at once the tool of a trade and the instrument of a science. The operating engineer employs it to perfect the adjustment of valves and to measure power, the physicist to investigate thermodynamic transfers and to trace the cycle of the heat engine. It is to steam engineering at once the commercial scale and the chemical balance.Frederick Rollins Low, 18981INTRODUCTIONThe steam indicator is one of the most imp…
History from Between
The Brokered World and its depiction of the crucial role of "go-betweens" in the development of modernity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The impulse behind this history from between is found to be similar to the 1960s movement for a history from below. While convinced that this critique of the idea of European imperial acquisition of the "view from nowhere" is well placed, the reviewer notes the dangers of over-valorizing …
The Paradoxes of Patenting at General Electric: Isador Ladoff's Journey from Siberian Exile to the Heart of Corporate Capitalism
Isador Ladoff (1857-1918) worked briefly in the General Electric Company Research Laboratory, from 1901 to 1903. Since he was not employed to invent, Ladoff maintained that he, not the company, owned his invention of a new arc lamp electrode, eventually winning his case on appeal in 1911. The conduct and course of this patent litigation are examined in the light of Ladoff's remarkable life as a prisoner of the czar in Siberia before his escape to…
David Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
David Knight has long been a historian of science expert in producing accessible syntheses for the general, or beginning, reader in the field. Like a number of Knight's earlier books of this type, The Making of Modern Science focuses on the nineteenth century, though covering the period from the French Revolution to the First World War. It is presented as an exploration of the emergence of the ‘scientist’ as both knowledge producer and cultural l…
"Indeterminacy and Performance Practice in Cage’s "Variations
Research Article| April 01 2009 Indeterminacy and Performance Practice in Cage’s "Variations" David P. Miller David P. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2009) 27 (1): 60–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/25602254 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David P. Miller; Indeterminacy and Performance Practice in Cage’s "Variations". American Music 1 …
Principle, practice and persona in Isambard Kingdom Brunel's patent abolitionism
The nineteenth-century engineering hero Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a prominent patent abolitionist in debates about the patent system in Britain. His opposition is usually regarded as principled, that is, based in liberal laissez-faire opposition to monopolies and to the constraints of bureaucracy. Against this it is argued that Brunel's views on patents evolved. As late as 1840, despite lessons about patents from the bad experiences of his fath…
Intellectual Property and Narratives of Discovery/Invention: The League of Nations' Draft Convention on ‘Scientific Property’ and its Fate
Crowning Achievement
Absolutely Fabulous History of Science
Readers of Social Studies of Science will understand, perhaps, that this caused some concern and bemusement in our corridors in the School of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of New South Wales! Some of us suspected that Buzo's animus sprang from days of yore when, as an undergraduate Arts student, he was more or less obliged to take history and philosophy of science. However, his broadside was puzzling, not least because…
True Myths: James Watt's Kettle, His Condenser, and His Chemistry
The Shapes of Indeterminacy: John Cage’s Variations I and Variations II
I. Introduction: Indeterminacy and the Nature of the Inquiry I am interested in the question: what is determined by indeterminate music compositions?The question may seem inherently absurd, since it is in the nature of such compositions to specify less and less, the greater the indeterminacy they exhibit.The case of John Cage's Variations I and Variations II may put the case most clearly.James Pritchett states that these compositions, the first t…
The encyclopaedic life
The ‘Sobel Effect’
Puffing Jamie: The Commercial and Ideological Importance of Being a 'Philosopher' in the Case of the Reputation of James Watt (1736-1819)
L'auteur esquisse trois contextes dans lesquels la reputation de James Watt fut discutee : les polemiques concernant les brevets de Watt a la fin du 18e siecle ; les controverses liees au systeme des brevets d'invention au milieu du 19e siecle et les debats developpes a partir de 1820 sur la nature de la science et sa relation avec les progres technologiques
The usefulness of natural philosophy: The Royal Society and the culture of practical utility in the later eighteenth century
From its very beginning the Royal Society was regarded by many, if not most, of its founders as centrally concerned with practical improvement. How could it be otherwise? The study of nature was not only a pious act in and of itself – a reading of the book of nature – but it was also the way in which God's Providence would provide discoveries for the relief of man's estate. The early ideologues of the Society, such as Robert Boyle and Thomas Spra…
Science as Practice and Culture. Andrew Pickering
The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy . Yaron Ezrahi The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers . Sheila Jasanoff
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID PHILIP MILLER DAVID PHILIP MILLER University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 498–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.498 Published: 01 April 1993
Values Redivivus
A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London . A. T. Gage , W. T. Stearn
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820): A Guide to Biographical and Bibliographical Sources . Harold B. Carter
The Revival of the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815-1840
Between Hostile Camps: Sir Humphry Davy's Presidency of The Royal Society of London, 1820–1827
The career of Humphry Davy (1778–1829) is one of the fairy tales of early nineteenth-century British science. His rise from obscure Cornish origins to world-wide eminence as a chemical discoverer, to popular celebrity amongst London's scientific audiences, to a knighthood from the Prince Regent, and finally to the Presidency of the Royal Society, provide apposite material for Smilesian accounts of British society as open to talents. But the use o…
Into the Valley of Darkness: Reflections on the Royal Society in the Eighteenth Century
Essay Review: Sir Joseph Banks: An Historiographical Perspective: The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1781–1820, Sir Joseph Banks: 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur
Puffing Jamie: The Commercial and Ideological Importance of Being a 'Philosopher' in the Case of the Reputation of James Watt (1736-1819)
L'auteur esquisse trois contextes dans lesquels la reputation de James Watt fut discutee : les polemiques concernant les brevets de Watt a la fin du 18e siecle ; les controverses liees au systeme des brevets d'invention au milieu du 19e siecle et les debats developpes a partir de 1820 sur la nature de la science et sa relation avec les progres technologiques
The ballistics of seventeenth century musket balls
This paper investigates the firing of seventeenth Century musket balls. Prior to this research, the main concerns with making range predictions were associated with the deformed shape of the musket balls affecting their drag coefficient and therefore their distance to ground impact. However, the distance due to bounce and roll after initial impact has been unknown. In this work, the distance travelled after the first ground impact greatly exceede…
Principle, practice and persona in Isambard Kingdom Brunel's patent abolitionism
The nineteenth-century engineering hero Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a prominent patent abolitionist in debates about the patent system in Britain. His opposition is usually regarded as principled, that is, based in liberal laissez-faire opposition to monopolies and to the constraints of bureaucracy. Against this it is argued that Brunel's views on patents evolved. As late as 1840, despite lessons about patents from the bad experiences of his fath…
Intellectual Property and Narratives of Discovery/Invention: The League of Nations' Draft Convention on ‘Scientific Property’ and its Fate
True Myths: James Watt's Kettle, His Condenser, and His Chemistry
The usefulness of natural philosophy: The Royal Society and the culture of practical utility in the later eighteenth century
From its very beginning the Royal Society was regarded by many, if not most, of its founders as centrally concerned with practical improvement. How could it be otherwise? The study of nature was not only a pious act in and of itself – a reading of the book of nature – but it was also the way in which God's Providence would provide discoveries for the relief of man's estate. The early ideologues of the Society, such as Robert Boyle and Thomas Spra…
The Social History of British Science: After the Harvest
Not too long ago social history was regarded as, and arguably was, a rather effete enterprise feeding on the crumbs dropped at the feast of mainstream political, economic and intellectual history. If social history per se was rather quaint or lacking in coherence, the idea of a social history of science was beyond the pale. The situation today is very different, of course. Social history has joined the pantheon of respectable historical endeavour…
Some Estate Tax Consequences of a Community Property Divorce Settlement
Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise
Essay Review: Sir Joseph Banks: An Historiographical Perspective: The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1781–1820, Sir Joseph Banks: 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur
The Royal Society Catalogue of Portraits. Norman Robinson
The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England . T. W. Heyck
Between Hostile Camps: Sir Humphry Davy's Presidency of The Royal Society of London, 1820–1827
The career of Humphry Davy (1778–1829) is one of the fairy tales of early nineteenth-century British science. His rise from obscure Cornish origins to world-wide eminence as a chemical discoverer, to popular celebrity amongst London's scientific audiences, to a knighthood from the Prince Regent, and finally to the Presidency of the Royal Society, provide apposite material for Smilesian accounts of British society as open to talents. But the use o…
The Social History of British Science: After the Harvest
Not too long ago social history was regarded as, and arguably was, a rather effete enterprise feeding on the crumbs dropped at the feast of mainstream political, economic and intellectual history. If social history per se was rather quaint or lacking in coherence, the idea of a social history of science was beyond the pale. The situation today is very different, of course. Social history has joined the pantheon of respectable historical endeavour…
From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth-Century Oxford . A. J. Engel
Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science . Karin Knorr-Cetina, Michael Mulkay
Science and Technology in Manchester: Two Hundred Years of the Lit. and Phil. Chris E. Makepeace
Method and the ‘Micropolitics’ of Science: The Early Years of the Geological and Astronomical Societies of London
Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867 . David Gooding , Frank A. J. L. James
The Revival of the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815-1840
Reform CharactersAll Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century. Marie Boas Hall
The Botanists: A History of the Botanical Society of the British Isles through a Hundred and Fifty Years. David Elliston Allen
Jupiter Botanicus: Robert Brown of the British Museum . D. J. Mabberley
Into the Valley of Darkness: Reflections on the Royal Society in the Eighteenth Century
The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886. Philippa Levine
A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London . A. T. Gage , W. T. Stearn
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820): A Guide to Biographical and Bibliographical Sources . Harold B. Carter
Values Redivivus
The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy . Yaron Ezrahi The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers . Sheila Jasanoff
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID PHILIP MILLER DAVID PHILIP MILLER University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 498–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.498 Published: 01 April 1993
Science as Practice and Culture. Andrew Pickering
The usefulness of natural philosophy: The Royal Society and the culture of practical utility in the later eighteenth century
From its very beginning the Royal Society was regarded by many, if not most, of its founders as centrally concerned with practical improvement. How could it be otherwise? The study of nature was not only a pious act in and of itself – a reading of the book of nature – but it was also the way in which God's Providence would provide discoveries for the relief of man's estate. The early ideologues of the Society, such as Robert Boyle and Thomas Spra…
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