Andrew Warwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Warwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Warwick |
| SIGNATURE | WARWICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
On first reading Bruno Latour
Through the Convex Looking Glass
The pedagogical resources that made the Electronic Theory of Matter (ETM) seem so plausible and researchable to the generation of wranglers trained by Larmor offered no similarly detailed and compelling account of electrodynamics according to Einstein. This chapter explores the process by which this apparent impasse was broken between 1916 and 1920. There are three aspects of the Cambridge perception of the general theory of relativity that need …
Exercising the Student Body
This chapter explores the relationship between training in the coaching room and on the playing field in order to reveal a new economy of the student mind and body that became definitive of mathematical study in early Victorian Cambridge. It discusses the relationship between mathematics and the ideals of a liberal education, and explains how these ideals enjoined students both to study extremely hard and to compete fiercely with their peers. Thi…
Epilogue
Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe.... Widespread riots occur, laboratories are burnt down, physicists are lynched, books and instruments are destroyed ... a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists. Later still there is a reaction against this destructive movement and enlightene…
Making Sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Mid-Victorian Cambridge
Maxwell had devoted much of his research effort to recasting Michael Faraday's novel conception of electric and magnetic lines of force in the form of a new, mathematical, field theory of electromagnetism, based on dynamical ether and the principle of the conservation of energy. During the 1860s, Maxwell had also served as a member of the British Association Committee on electrical standards, an experience that familiarized him with the instrumen…
Transforming the Field
There are several reasons why Searle's brief exchange with Einstein is an appropriate episode with which to open a discussion of the early Cambridge reception of relativity. Cambridge physicists were not in a position directly to compare the respective merits of Larmorian and Einsteinian electrodynamics because such a comparison would require them, among other things, to have a roughly comparable mastery of both approaches. The rapid mastery of a…
X-rays as Evidence in German Orthopedic Surgery, 1895-1900
Historians have found it difficult to give a general account of the early medical use of X-rays in medicine. While the rays were hailed by some as a miracle technology, their early medical application was patchy, often remaining subsidiary to traditional methods of diagnosis and treatment, and was of disputed value. In this essay, I argue that the selective appropriation of the new technology needs to be understood within the wider medical practi…
Masters of Theory
A Mathematical World On Paper Written Examinations in Early 19th Century Cambridge
The Values of Precision
Frequency, theorem and formula
Joseph Larmor (1857-1942) was one of the most distinguished British mathematical physicists of the late-nineteenth century. He introduced both the electron and the so-called Lorentz transformations into physics. His book of 1900, Aether and Matter, l helped to establish a research school that guided the development of mathematical electromagnetic theory in Cambridge until the end of World War I. Today, however, Larmor is widely remembered by scie…
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
International relativity
Masters of Theory
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
X-rays as Evidence in German Orthopedic Surgery, 1895-1900
Historians have found it difficult to give a general account of the early medical use of X-rays in medicine. While the rays were hailed by some as a miracle technology, their early medical application was patchy, often remaining subsidiary to traditional methods of diagnosis and treatment, and was of disputed value. In this essay, I argue that the selective appropriation of the new technology needs to be understood within the wider medical practi…
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
On first reading Bruno Latour
International relativity
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
Frequency, theorem and formula
Joseph Larmor (1857-1942) was one of the most distinguished British mathematical physicists of the late-nineteenth century. He introduced both the electron and the so-called Lorentz transformations into physics. His book of 1900, Aether and Matter, l helped to establish a research school that guided the development of mathematical electromagnetic theory in Cambridge until the end of World War I. Today, however, Larmor is widely remembered by scie…
Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics
The Values of Precision
A Mathematical World On Paper Written Examinations in Early 19th Century Cambridge
Masters of Theory
X-rays as Evidence in German Orthopedic Surgery, 1895-1900
Historians have found it difficult to give a general account of the early medical use of X-rays in medicine. While the rays were hailed by some as a miracle technology, their early medical application was patchy, often remaining subsidiary to traditional methods of diagnosis and treatment, and was of disputed value. In this essay, I argue that the selective appropriation of the new technology needs to be understood within the wider medical practi…
Through the Convex Looking Glass
The pedagogical resources that made the Electronic Theory of Matter (ETM) seem so plausible and researchable to the generation of wranglers trained by Larmor offered no similarly detailed and compelling account of electrodynamics according to Einstein. This chapter explores the process by which this apparent impasse was broken between 1916 and 1920. There are three aspects of the Cambridge perception of the general theory of relativity that need …
Exercising the Student Body
This chapter explores the relationship between training in the coaching room and on the playing field in order to reveal a new economy of the student mind and body that became definitive of mathematical study in early Victorian Cambridge. It discusses the relationship between mathematics and the ideals of a liberal education, and explains how these ideals enjoined students both to study extremely hard and to compete fiercely with their peers. Thi…
Epilogue
Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe.... Widespread riots occur, laboratories are burnt down, physicists are lynched, books and instruments are destroyed ... a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists. Later still there is a reaction against this destructive movement and enlightene…
Making Sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Mid-Victorian Cambridge
Maxwell had devoted much of his research effort to recasting Michael Faraday's novel conception of electric and magnetic lines of force in the form of a new, mathematical, field theory of electromagnetism, based on dynamical ether and the principle of the conservation of energy. During the 1860s, Maxwell had also served as a member of the British Association Committee on electrical standards, an experience that familiarized him with the instrumen…
Transforming the Field
There are several reasons why Searle's brief exchange with Einstein is an appropriate episode with which to open a discussion of the early Cambridge reception of relativity. Cambridge physicists were not in a position directly to compare the respective merits of Larmorian and Einsteinian electrodynamics because such a comparison would require them, among other things, to have a roughly comparable mastery of both approaches. The rapid mastery of a…
On first reading Bruno Latour
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Physics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Theoretical physics (6 works) · History of Science and Natural History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)