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Amy Ogle
Isobel Falconer
A short account of the life of Amy Ogle, who, in 1876, was the first woman to come top of the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge.
Electromagnetism in the Encyclopaedias
Isobel Falconer
The paper is based on a talk given to celebrate Ørsted's discovery of electromagnetism in 1820. It gives a brief account of Ørsted's life and work, before using the evidence of art…
Historical Notes: The Gravitational Constant
Isobel Falconer
A brief account of the development of the concept of the gravitational constant and the debate around in in Britain at the end of the 19th century.
Women's participation in mathematics in Scotland, 1730-1850
Amie Morrison, Isobel Falconer
The eighteenth century saw a flourishing of scientific and philosophical thought throughout Scotland, known as the Scottish Enlightenment. The accomplishments of prominent male fig…
Vortices and atoms in the Maxwellian era
Isobel Falconer
The mathematical study of vortices began with Herman von Helmholtz's pioneering study in 1858. It was pursued vigorously over the next two decades, largely by British physicists an…
Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes' Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856)
Isobel Falconer
This paper takes James David Forbes' Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, Dissertation Sixth, as a lens to examine physics as a cognitive, practical, and social, enterprise. Forbes wrot…
No actual measurement ... was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics
Isobel Falconer
In 1877 James Clerk Maxwell and his student Donald MacAlister refined Henry Cavendish's 1773 null experiment demonstrating the absence of electricity inside a charged conductor. Th…
Editing Cavendish: Maxwell and The Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish
Isobel Falconer
During the last five years of his life, 1874-79, James Clerk Maxwell was absorbed in editing the electrical researches of Henry Cavendish, performed 100 years earlier. This endeavo…