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    ‘To reason by means of images’: J. J. Thomson and the mechanical picture of nature.David R. Topper - 1980 - Annals of Science 37 (1):31-57.
    Throughout his life J. J. Thomson was committed to a mechanical interpretation of nature. This work proceeded in several stages. Early in his career he attempted a Lagrangian formulation of mechanics. But due to certain epistemological difficulties with this approach, he began exploring various analogies and models, particularly those involving vortex motion. After his discovery of the electron in 1897, he commenced a synthesis of the electron with his previous physical conceptions. The result was a hypothesis of the ether as (...)
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    Art in the realist ontology of J. J. Gibson.David R. Topper - 1983 - Synthese 54 (1):71 - 83.
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    (1 other version)Alexander Marr. Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy. 376 pp., illus., tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. $45. [REVIEW]David R. Topper - 2012 - Isis 103 (1):169-171.
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    (1 other version)Andrew Robinson. Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. xxxv + 371 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. $34.95. [REVIEW]David R. Topper - 2011 - Isis 102 (3):595-596.
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    (1 other version)James Elkins. Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980–2000. xx + 274 pp., illus., figs., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. $29.95. [REVIEW]David R. Topper - 2008 - Isis 99 (4):869-870.
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