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Bibliography of John D. North BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN D. NORTH BOOKS [1965, 1967] The Measure of the Universe. A History of Modern Cosmology, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, pp. 436. [1990] 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, pp. 28+436. [1967] Isaac Newton, Oxford: The University Press, pp. 64, 8 plates. (Clarendon Biographies series.) [1968] Tolomeo, Milan: C.E.I.. (In the series "I Protagonisti".) [1976] Richard of Wallingford. An Edition of his Writings, with Introductions, English Translation and Commentary, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 3 vols, pp. 1320. [1986] Horoscopes and History, London: Warburg Institute, pp. xii, 232. [1988] Chaucer's Universe, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 564. [ 1990] 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 610. [1989] Stars, Minds, and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology, London: The Hambledon Press, pp. xii, 429. [1989] The Universal Frame: Historical Essays in Astronomy, Natural Philosophy and Scientific Method, London: The Hambledon Press, pp. xii, 384. [1994, 1995] The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology [The Norton History ... etc., in USA], London & New York: Harper Collins and W. W. Norton, pp. xxvii, 697. [1997] published in German as Viewegs Geschichte der Astronomie und Kosmologie, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, pp. xiv, 464. [1997] published in Polish as Historia Astronomii i Kosmologii, Katowice: Wydawnictwo "Ksiaznica", pp. 472. [1996] Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, London: Harper Collins, pp. 653. [1997] published in Italian as 77 Mister o di Stonehenge, Casale Monferrato: Piemme, pp. 735. PUBLISHED LECTURES [1980] Structuur en Verklaring in de Ideeengeschiedenis, Wieuwerd: Van den Linden, pp. 40. (Inaugurele Rede, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.) , [1997] 'Stonehenge: Archeologie en archeologica ) Verslag van de Verenigde Vergadering van de beide Afdelingen der Akademie (KNAW, 28.04.1997), (1997), pp. 19-33. EDITED WORKS [1969] Mid-Nineteenth Century Scientists, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 190. [1985] The Light of Nature. Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A.C.Crombie, in vols, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 472. [1992] Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, ed. by J. D. North & P. W. Klein in 55/2 vols, Amsterdam: Edita (KNAW), pp. 48. CHAPTERS & ARTICLES [1965] 'Apian, and Pacioli's Polyhedra', Physis, 7 (1965). [1965] 'Frege's Attack on Hubert's Use of Postulational Definition in the "Grundlagen der Geometrie"', in Actes du XI Congrès international d'Histoire des Sciences, Warsaw and Cracow: Orbis. [1966] 'Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium', Physis, 8 (1966), pp. 337-72. 410 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN D. NORTH [1966] 'Werner, Apian, Blagrave and the Meteoroscope', British Journal for the History of Science, 3 (1966), pp. 57-65. [1967] 'Medieval Star Catalogues and the Motion of the Eighth Sphere', Archives internatio­ nales d'histoire des sciences, 20 (1967), pp. 71-83. [1967] 'Physics and Astronomy', in Atti del Primo Convegno Internazionale ... della Scienza Italiana dei Secoli XIV-XVI, ed. by G. Polvani et al., Pisa. [ 1968] 'Walter of Odington', in Actes du Xlle Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences, Paris: IUHPS, pp. 113-118. [1969] 'A post-Copernican Equatorium', Physis, 11 (1969), pp. 418-57. [1969] 'Kalenderes enlumyned ben they. Some Astronomical Themes in Chaucer', Review of English Studies, 20 (1969), pp. 129-54,257-83, 418-44. [1972] 'The Attractions of Past Science', Times Literary Supplement, (1972), pp. 1421-2. [1972] 'The Time Coordinate in Einstein's Restricted Theory of Relativity', in The Study of Time, ed. by J. T. Fraser, et al., New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 1- 32. Reprinted from Studium Generale, vol. 23 (1970). [1974] 'The Astrolabe', Scientific American, Jan. (1974), pp. 96-106. [1974] 'Thomas Harriot and the First Telescopic Observations of Sunspots', in Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Scientist, ed. by J. W. Shirley, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 129-65. [1975] 'Les Idées coperniciennes au 16me siècle. La place de l'homme dans l'univers', in Avant, Avec, Après Copernicus, ed. by S. Delorme, Paris: Centre de Synthèse. (Chairman's opening address.) [1975] 'Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks', in The Study of Time, ed. by J. T. Fraser and Ν. Lawrence, New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 381-93. [1975] 'Summa ratione confectum. An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer', Archives internatio­ nales d'histoire des sciences, 25 (1975), pp. 73-81. [1975] 'The Medieval Background to Copernicus', in Copernicus Yesterday and Today, ed. by A. Beer and K. A. Strand, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 3-16. {Vistas in Astronomy, vol 17.) [1975] 'The Reluctant Revolutionaries. Astrology after Copernicus', in Studio Copernicana, ed. by P. Czartoryski et al., Ossolineum: Orbis, pp. 169-84. (Also published by Reidel, Dordrecht.) [1977] 'Chronology and the Age of the World', in Cosmology, History, and Theology, ed. by W. Yourgrau and A. D. Breck, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 307-33. [1977] 'The Alfonsine Tables in England', PRISMATA. Naturwissenschafisgeschichtliche Studien. Festschrift fir Willy Hartner, (1977), pp. 269-301. [1978] 'Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary', in Machaut's World. Science and Art in the Fourteenth Century, ed. by M. P. Cosman and B. Chandler, New York: Academy of Sciences, pp. 89-102. (Published as vol. 314 of the Academy's Annals.) [1978] 'Nicolaus Kratzer, the King's Astronomer', in Studia Copernicana. (Science and History. Studies in Honor of Edward Rosen), Ossolineum: Orbis, pp. 205-34. (Also published by Reidel, Dordrecht.) [1979] 'Astrologie', Lexikon des Mittelalters, 1 (1979), pp. 1135-43. [1979] 'Georg Markgraf. An Astronomer in the New World', in Johan Maurits van Nassau- Siegen, 1604-1679. A Humanist Prince in Europe and Brazil, ed. by E. van den Boogaart et al., The Hague: Johan Maurits van Nassau Stichting, pp. 394-423. [1980] 'Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches', Centaurus, 24 (1980), pp. 181-211. (This volume was a Festschrift for Olaf Pedersen.) [1980] 'Astronomie', in Zo Wijd de Wereld Strekt, ed. by E. van den Boogaart, The Hague: Mauritshuis, pp. 192-200. (Tentoonstelling, 300ste sterfdag van Joh. Maurits van Nassau.) [1980] 'On Making History', in Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics, and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science, ed. by J. Hintikka, D. Gruender, and E. Agazzi, Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 271-81. [1980] 'Science and Analogy', in On Scientific Discovery, ed. by M. D. Grmek et al., Dor­ drecht: Reidel, pp. 115-40. Also published in Italian (1984) and Chinese (1985). .
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