An Idiot's Fugitive Essays On Science: Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances

Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 14
PART I. AIMS, PROGRAMS, AND METHODS......Page 18
1. Experience, Theory, and Experiment (1955)......Page 20
2. The Field Viewpoint in Classical Physics Exordium of The Classical Field Theories (1960), co-author R. TOUPIN......Page 38
3. Modern Continuum Mechanics in Adolescence (1962) Extracts from the preface and annotations to the reprints of The Mechanical Foundations of Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics (1952) and A Program of Physical Research in Classical Mechanics (1953)......Page 58
4. Purpose, Method, and Program of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics Introduction to The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics (1965), co-author W. NOLL......Page 66
5. War, Socialism, and Quantum Mechanics Extract from the preface to Essays in the History of Mechanics (1968)......Page 86
6. The Tradition of Elasticity Extract from the preface to Introduction to Rational Elasticity (1973), co-author c.-c. WANG......Page 87
7. St atistical Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics (1973, 1979)......Page 89
8. Our Debt to the French Tradition: "Catastrophes" and Our Search for Structure Today (1978, 1981)......Page 97
9. Draw from the Model and Imitate the Antique (1979)......Page 112
10. The Role of Mathematics in Science as Exemplified by the Work of the BERNOULLIS and EULER (1979,1981)......Page 114
11. Conceptual Analysis Address upon receipt of a Birkhoff Prize (1978)......Page 150
A. WRITING AND TEXTS FOR LIVING SCIENCE......Page 156
12. A Comment on Scientific Writing (1954)......Page 158
13. GOLDSTEIN'S Classical Mechanics (1950)......Page 161
14. MURNAGHAN'S Finite Deformation of an Elastic Solid (1952)......Page 165
15. NOVOZHILOV'S Foundations of the Nonlinear Theory of Elasticity (1953)......Page 168
B. THE LIGHT OF HISTORY UPON THE PRESENT......Page 176
16. Critical Problems in the History of Science (1961)......Page 178
17. DUGAS' Histoire de la Mécanique (1953)......Page 181
18. JAMMER'S Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics (1963)......Page 187
19. CLAGETT'S The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (1961)......Page 191
20. STEVIN'S Works on Mechanics (1957)......Page 195
21. DUGAS' La Mécanique au XVle Siècle (1956)......Page 197
22. COSTABEL'S Leibniz and Dynamics (1975)......Page 203
23. JOHN BERNOULLI and L'HÔPITAL (1958)......Page 205
24. The Works of JAMES BERNOULLI (1973)......Page 219
25. DANIEL BERNOULLI'S Hydrodynamica (1960)......Page 226
26. ROUSE & INCE'S History of Hydraulics (1959)......Page 229
27. HANKINS' Jean d'Alembert (1971)......Page 235
28. The Mathematical and Physical Papers of G. G. STOKES (1966)......Page 240
29. GILLMOR'S Coulomb (1973)......Page 253
30. TIMOSHENKO'S History of Strength of Materials (1953)......Page 268
31. SZABO'S Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979)......Page 271
PART III. BIOGRAPHY AND CIRCUMSTANCES......Page 284
a. NEWTON'S Letters (1960, 1962)......Page 286
b. NEWTON's Mathematical Works (1973, 1977)......Page 293
a. EULER'S Letters (1960/1977)......Page 310
b. EULER's Early Manuscripts on Mechanics (1967)......Page 329
c. A Sample: Ten out of Seventy-three (1958/1981)......Page 333
d. LEONARD EULER, Supreme Geometer (1972, 1982)......Page 354
34. The Establishment Stifles Genius: HERAPATH and WATERSTON (1968,1982)......Page 397
35. Genius and the Establishment at a Polite Standstill in the Modern University: BATEMAN (1976, 1981)......Page 420
PART IV. TRAINING......Page 456
36. The Scholar's Workshop and Tools (1970, 1976, 1981)......Page 458
37. Has the Private University a Future? (1976)......Page 472
PART V. PHILOSOPHY?......Page 486
38. Is there a Philosophy of Science? (1973)......Page 488
39. SUPPESian Stews (1980/1981)......Page 520
PART VI. DIRGE......Page 598
40. The Scholar: A Species Threatened by Professions (1972)......Page 600
41. The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind (1979/1982)......Page 611
42. Of All and of None (1964)......Page 649
Index of Names Mentioned......Page 650