Historiography of science and technology in focus. A discussion with Professor Robert Fox

Authors

  • Robert Fox University of Oxford
  • Michał Kokowski Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.17.006.7707

Keywords:

Robert Fox, history of the historiography of science and technology, discussion

Abstract

The article is an extended discussion with a laureate of numerous international distinctions, Professor Robert Fox, about his career, intellectual fascinations, as well as changing methods, styles, approaches and themes in the historiography of science and technology.

Author Biographies

Robert Fox, University of Oxford

Michał Kokowski, Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY A (The works about the biography of Robert Fox)

Centre d’Historia de la Ciencia 2015: Robert Fox, catedrático emérito de Historia de la Ciencia de la Universidad de Oxford, en la celebración del 20 aniversario del CEHIC (19/10/2015). Available online: http://www.cehic.es/ficha_noticies.php?sitelang=es&idnoti=353.

The History of Science Society 2015: Science Society’s Sarton Medal. Available online: https://web.archive.org/web/20160712192918/http://www.chemheritage.org/about/news-and-press/press-releases/2015-11-24-robert-fox-awarded-the-history-of-science-societys-sarton-medal.aspx.

Nicolaidis, Efthymios 2017: Éloge to Robert Fox. Studia Historiae Scientiarum 16, pp. 21–27. Available online: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.17.003.7704.

Wikipedia 2017a: Robert Fox (historian). Available online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fox_(historian).

BIBLIOGRAPHY B (The selected works of Robert Fox)

Buchwald, Jed Z.; Fox, Robert (eds.) 2013: The Oxford handbook of the history of physics (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199696253.

Fox, Robert 1971: The caloric theory of gases from Lavoisier to Regnault. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Pp. xvi + 378. ISBN 9780198581314.

Fox, Robert 1973: Scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800–70. Minerva 11 (4), pp. 442–473. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41820168.

Fox, Robert 1974: The Rise and Fall of Laplacean Physics. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 4, pp. 89–136. Available online: https://doi.org/10.2307/27757328 (purchase PDF). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27757328.

Fox, Robert 1978: Sadi Carnot. Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu. Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire, augmentée de documents d’archives et de divers manuscrits de Carnot. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. Pp. 371; also editions in English (1986: Sadi Carnot. Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire: a Critical Edition with the Surviving Scientific Manuscripts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, New York: Lilian Barber Press; ISBN 978-0-936508-16-0), German (1988), and Italian (1992).

Fox, Robert 1984: Science, industry, and the social order in Mulhouse, 1798–1871. The British Journal for the History of Science 17(2), pp. 127–168. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400020896; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4700E674338526610B0A5912CC64ABD8/S0007087400020896a.pdf/science_industry_and_the_social_order_in_mulhouse_17981871.pdf.

Fox, Robert 1992: The culture of science in France, 1700–1900. Aldershot: Variorum. Pp. xiii + 335. ISBN 9780860783398.

Fox, Robert 1995: Science, technology, and the social order in post-revolutionary France. Aldershot: Variorum. Pp. xiv + 291. ISBN 9780860784814.

Fox, Robert (ed.) 1996a: Technological change. Methods and themes in the history of technology. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic. Pp. viii + 271. ISBN 9057023377, ISBN 9789057023378. Available online: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=Jz9PVU-28vgC.

Fox, Robert 1996b: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology. In: Robert Fox (ed.) 1996a, pp. 1–15. Available online: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=Jz9PVU-28vgC&pg=PA1.

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Fox, Robert 1997: Alistair Cameron Crombie, 4 November 1915 – 9 February 1996. Isis 88, pp. 183–186. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/235887.

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Fox, Robert 2006b: Curriculum Vitae. Available online: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/harriot/upload/fox_cv.doc.

Fox, Robert 2006c: Fashioning the discipline: History of Science in the European tradition. Minerva 44(4), pp. 410–432. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-006-9015-x (purchase PDF). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41821374.

Fox, Robert 2008: History and the public understanding of science: Problems, practices, and perspectives. In: M. Kokowski (ed.), The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe. Proceedings of the 2nd ICESHS (Cracow, Poland, September 6–9, 2006) (WWW version: 2007–2008, CD-ROM version: 2008; ISBN: 978-83-60183-42-7), pp. 174–177. Available online: http://www.2iceshs.cyfronet.pl/2ICESHS_Proceedings/Chapter_8/RE_Fox.pdf.

Fox, Robert 2011: Robert Fox’s favourites. The Royal Society Publishing. Available online: http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/board-member-favourites/robert-fox.

Fox, Robert 2012: The savant and the state: science and cultural politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421405223.

Fox, Robert 2013a: Science International, 1. Mapping the Universe of Knowledge (lecture). OSU Oregon State University – School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, 14 June 2013. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHXJL6NwTo&feature=youtu.be.

Fox, Robert 2013b: Science International, 2. Universalism in Action – The Age of Exhibitions (lecture). OSU Oregon State University – School of History, Philosophy, and Religion (17 June 2013). Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLi9gnpr3eY.

Fox, Robert 2013c: Science International, 3. Legacy of a Fractured World (lecture). OSU Oregon State University – School of History, Philosophy, and Religion (19 June 2013). Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btfmbgwQa0U.

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Fox, Robert; Guagnini, Anna 1999: Laboratories, workshops, and sites. Concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800–1914. Berkeley, California: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, pp. x +214. ISBN 0-9672617-0-8. Available online: http://www.cis.unibo.it/bshs/books/foxguagn.pdf.

Fox, Robert; Nieto-Galan, Agustí (eds.) 1999: Natural dyestuffs and industrial culture in Europe 1750–1880. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, pp. xx + 354.

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Fox, Robert; Turner, Anthony (eds.) 1998: Luxury trades and consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris. Studies in the history of the skilled workforce. Alder¬shot: Ashgate. Pp. xviii +307. ISBN: 135192110X, 9781351921107.

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Fox, R., & Kokowski, M. (2017). Historiography of science and technology in focus. A discussion with Professor Robert Fox. Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 16, 69–119. https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.17.006.7707

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