Studies in History and Philosophy of Science I

A set of papers by Roberto de Andrade Martins on history and philosophy of science. Chapter titles: The early history of dimensional analysis: I. Foncenex and the composition of forces; The early history of dimensional analysis: II. Legendre and the postulate of parallels; Experimental studies on mass and gravitation in the early twentieth century: the search for non-Newtonian effects; The search for an influence of temperature on gravitation; Philosophy in the physics laboratory: measurement theory versus operationalism