I. Bernard Cohen

Life

Cohen studied at Harvard University ( BA 1937), where he was student George Sartons. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1947 in this and remained thereafter at the University until his death, most recently as " Victor S. Thomas Professor " for the History of Science.

His works were dealing with a wide range of issues but especially Isaac Newton. He examined the emergence of Newton's major work, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and gave a new critical edition and in addition a new English translation in 1974 out ( with Anne Whitman ), where he had worked for over 15 years. Cohen's interview with Albert Einstein in April 1955 was the last of the famous physicist ( published in the Scientific American edition, July 1957). He was also involved in the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin and William Harvey.

Cohen was awarded the 1974 George Sarton - Medal, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science, founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson History of Science Society ( HSS).

Writings

  • Franklin and Newton: An Inquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin 's Work in Electricity as in Example thereof, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1956
  • The Birth of a New Physics, Anchor Books 1960
  • Science: Server of man. A layman 's primer for the age of science. London, Sigma Books 1949
  • The Newtonian revolution - with illustrations of the transformation of scientific ideas, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 1985, ISBN 0-521-22964-2
  • Publisher: Studies on William Harvey, New York, Arno Press, 1981, ISBN 0-405-13866-0
  • Revolution in Science, Harvard University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-674-76777-2
  • From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800, Scribner 1980, ISBN 0-684-15377-7
  • Benjamin Franklin 's Science, Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-674-06658-8
  • Benjamin Franklin: Scientist and Statesman, New York, Scribner 1975
  • Interactions: Some Contacts Between The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences, MIT Press 1994, ISBN 0-262-03223-6
  • Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison, New York, Norton, 1995, ISBN 0-393-03501-8
  • Publisher Richard Westfall: Newton: Texts, Backgrounds and Commentaries, Norton Critical Editions, 1995, ISBN 0-393-95902-3
  • Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press (Series: History of Computing), 1999 ISBN 0-262-03262-7
  • Alexandre Koyré, Anne Whitman editor of Isaac Newton: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Harvard University Press 1972 (916 pages)
  • Translator ( with Anne Whitman ) and editor of Isaac Newton The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1999, ISBN 0-520-08816-6
  • Introduction to Newton 's Principia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, 1999, ISBN 1-58348-601-1
  • Publisher: Isaac Newton 's papers and letters on natural philosophy and related documents, Harvard University Press 1978
  • Publisher with Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton 's Natural Philosophy, MIT Press 2000, ISBN 0-262-02477-2
  • Editor with George E. Smith: The Cambridge Companion to Newton, Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0-521-65177-8
  • The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life, W. Norton, 2005, ISBN 0-393-05769-0
  • Historians of science
  • Americans
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2003
  • Man
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