Dear all: Here is the line up for the first three meetings of the:
Philosophy and History of Physics Reading Group Lent Term Theme: The Rise of Field Physics Tuesdays, 2.30 to 3.30 pm; Seminar Room 1, History and Philosophy of Science Department . Jan 24: led by Chitra Ramalingam: On Faraday as seen through his diaries. Readings are all in the Whipple library box file; details below. Join us to read some diary entries! Jan 31: led by Jeremy Butterfield Feb 7: Talk by Matthias Frisch (visiting from University of Maryland) Jan 24 Chitra suggests as the main reading for 24 January: Faraday's Diary, vol. IV, pp.313-366. These pages cover a two-week period in November 1845 when Faraday first observed and investigated diamagnetic effects. There are three optional readings, one by Faraday, and two modern. Chitra writes as follows: The results of Faraday.s investigation were eventually published in December 1845 in Michael Faraday, "On New Magnetic Actions; and on the Magnetic Condition of All Matter," in Experimental Researches in Electicity, vol 3, para 2243-2342. Material from these sections of the diary were discussed in detail in an article the group read last term, and if you weren't there for that discussion you may find it helpful to consult it: David Gooding, 'Final steps to the field theory: Faraday's study of magnetic phenomena, 1845?1850', Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 11 (1981): 231-275. For an overview of how Faraday's diary fits into the rest of Faraday's archive, see Ryan Tweney, "Faraday's notebooks: The active organization of creative science." Physics Education, 26 (1991), 301-306. Best, Jeremy ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ (tel = 01223 761524 (direct) or 07896 471002 (mobile)). Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are now archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
