Roberto De Andrade Martins Bücher

A set of papers by Roberto de Andrade Martins on history and philosophy of science. Chapter titles: The early history of dimensional analysis: I. Foncenex and the composition of forces; The early history of dimensional analysis: II. Legendre and the postulate of parallels; Experimental studies on mass and gravitation in the early twentieth century: the search for non-Newtonian effects; The search for an influence of temperature on gravitation; Philosophy in the physics laboratory: measurement theory versus operationalism

A collection of papers on the history of radioactivity from Henri Becquerel to Marie and Pierre Curie, by Roberto de Andrade Martins. (1) A pool of radiations: Becquerel and Poincaré's conjecture (2) Did Niepce de Saint-Victor discover radioactivity? (3) Becquerel's experimental mistakes (4) The guiding hypothesis of the Curies' radioactivity research: secondary X-rays and the Sagnac connection