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Through Measurement to Knowledge

The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853–1926

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Authors:
  1. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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Editors:
  1. Kostas Gavroglu

    1. National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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  2. Yorgos Goudaroulis

    1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 124)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-cxv
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  2. Selected Papers of H. Kamerlingh Onnes

    3. Properties of Liquid Helium

      1. “Further experiments with liquid helium.”
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 201-220
      2. Further experiments with liquid helium
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes, J. D. A. Boks
        Pages 221-226
      3. <i>Further experiments with liquid helium</i>. BB. <i>Preliminary determinations of the specific heat of liquid helium</i>
        • L. I. Dana, H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 227-235

    4. Electrical Researches

      1. On phosphorescence at very low temperatures
        • Henri Becquerel, Jean Becquerel, H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 236-251
      2. <i>Further experiments with liquid helium</i>. B. <i>On the change in the resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures, etc</i>. III. <i>The resistance of platinum at helium temperatures</i>
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 252-260
      3. <i>Further experiments with liquid helium</i>. C. <i>On the change of electric resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures etc</i>. IV. <i>The resistance of pure mercury at helium temperatures</i>
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 261-263
      4. <i>Further Experiments with Liquid Helium</i>. D. <i>On the Change of the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals at very low Temperatures, etc.</i> V. <i>The Disappearance of the resistance of mercury</i>
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 264-266
      5. <i>Further experiments with Liquid Helium</i>. G. <i>On the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals, etc</i>. VI. <i>On the Sudden Change in the Rate at which the Resistance of Mercury Disappears</i>.
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 267-272
      6. <i>Further experiments with liquid helium</i>. H. <i>On the electrical resistance of pure metals etc</i>. VII. <i>The potential difference necessary for the electric current through mercury below</i> 4°.19 K.
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 273-314
      7. <i>Further Experiments with liquid helium. H. On the electrical resistance etc. (continued)</i>. VIII. <i>The sudden disappearance of the ordinary resistance of tin, and the super-conductive state of lead</i>
        • H. Kamerlingh Onnes
        Pages 315-332
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"Tile; D'apC:Tile; l. DpWTa ()coi 7rpo7rapod)w £ D'T}K,mi'. "between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows". This quote from Isiodos, the first lyrical poet, is jotted on a sheet of paper found among the papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. On this same sheet, one can also read quotes from Schiller, Goethe, Shakespeare, Homer, Pindar and Dante. Each quote is for somebody or something. It appears to have been a game played at least by Ehrenfest and Crommelin -an unmistakable sign of these two physicists's deep culture. This particular quote was for the "Werkplaats", the Physical Laboratory of the University of Leiden. Our purpose in putting together the Selected Papers of its first Director, Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), is to try and articulate the dominant trends of a different type of culture at Leiden: its physics culture during the years that established low temperature physics as a distinct branch of physics. Our aims in choosing the particular papers are threefold. First, we wish to present the interconnectedness among the different research programs of Kamerlingh Onnes and to bring out the decisive role of the work initiated by van der Waals in determining the direction of nearly all of these research programs.

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  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    Kostas Gavroglu

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yorgos Goudaroulis

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