4 papers
physics.hist-ph2025
A Cassini pamphlet against Delambre on lunar libration and other issues
Pasquale Tucci
In this paper I analyze the context in which Cassini 1st described lunar libration and proposed its interpretation.
physics.hist-ph2024
E. Amaldi, C. Dilworth, G.P.S. Occhialini on F.G. Houtermans
Pasquale Tucci
In the Occhialini-Dilworth Archives of the University of Milan are preserved four typescripts by E. Amaldi, dealing with F.G. Houtermans, German physicist, who fled to the USSR to…
physics.hist-ph2023
The Physicists and the Historians of Physics
Pasquale Tucci
In the 60s of the last century the few courses of History of physics in Physics degree were held by scholars who, apart from a few exceptions, did not have a specific research back…
physics.hist-ph2023
Historical reconstruction and personal recollections in the Memoirs of Dilworth/Occhialini
Pasquale Tucci
The folder containing the sheets of the Memoirs of Dilworth/Occhialini is kept in the Dilworth-Occhialini Archives at the BICF Library of the University of Milan. They cover the tw…