Francis R Maddison

Biographic Data

ID3996746
NAMEFrancis R Maddison
GIVEN NAMESFrancis R
FAMILY NAMEMaddison
SIGNATUREMADDISON F R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1956
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
H-INDEX1

  • The Barber's Astrolabe

    Francis R MaddisonARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews1992

    Apparently only a single gold inlaid astrolabe has survived and is now in the collection of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. It is here described and linked to a tale in the 'Thousand and one nights

  • University of Oxford, Museum of the History of Science

    Donald Hoke, Francis R Maddison et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1979

  • A Sceptical View of the Tartar Relation

    Francis Maddison, Francis R MaddisonARTICLEGeographical Journal1974

  • Mechanical Universe

    Silvio A Bedini, Francis R MaddisonARTICLETransactions of the American…1966

  • Early Astronomical and Mathematical Instruments

    Open AccessFrancis Maddison, Francis R MaddisonARTICLEHistory of Science1963Cited by: 2References: 40

  • Joseph Priestley and the Birmingham riots

    Open AccessR E W Maddison, Francis R MaddisonARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1956

    Samuel Johnson regarded Joseph Priestley as a man whose theological works ‘tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settle nothing’; an opinion shared by many contemporaries. Like Priestley himself they paid more attention to those views religious and political, which by their unorthodoxy had made him obnoxious, than to those researches both chemical and physical, the merits of which when judged without bias were to replace an immediate notoriety …