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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…
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…
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…