Giora Hon - Selected Publications#


Hon, Giora and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2020. Reflections on The Practice of Physics: James Clerk Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism. London and New York: Routledge.

Kedar, Yael, and Giora Hon. 2017. “‘Natures’ and ‘Laws’: The Making of the Concept of Law of Nature—Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and Roger Bacon (1214/1220–1292).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 61: 21–31.

Kedar, Yael, and Giora Hon. 2017. “Roger Bacon (c.1220–1292) and his System of Laws of Nature: Classification, Hierarchy and Significance.” Perspectives on Science 25 (6): 719–745.

Zik, Yaakov, and Giora Hon. 2017. “History of Science and Science Combined: Solving a Historical Problem in Optics-the Case of Galileo and his Telescope.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 71: 337–344.

Hon, Giora. 2015. “Kepler’s revolutionary astronomy: Theological unity as a comprehensive view of the world,” in T. Demeter, K. Murphy, and C. Zittel (eds.), Conflicting Values of Inquiry: Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, pp. 155–175.

Hon, Giora, and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2013. “Centenary of the Franck-Hertz Experiments.” Annalen der Physik (Berlin) 525, No. 12: A179–A183.

Hon, Giora, and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2012. “Maxwell’s contrived analogy: An early version of the methodology of modeling.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 43: 236–257.

Hon, Giora and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2008. From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 20. Dordrecht: Springer.

Granek, Galina, and Giora Hon. 2008. “Searching for Asses, Finding a Kingdom: The Story of the Invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM).” Annals of Science, 65: 101–125.

Hon, Giora, and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2006. “Unpacking ‘For reasons of symmetry’: Two Categories of Symmetry Arguments.” Philosophy of Science 73: 419–439.

Hon, Giora, and Bernard R. Goldstein. 2005. “How Einstein Made Asymmetry Disappear: Symmetry and Relativity in 1905.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 59: 437–544. (The paper of 107 pages, the length of a monograph, appeared in a separate issue of this journal.)

Hon, Giora. 2004. “Putting Error to (Historical) Work: Error as a Tell-tale in the Studies of Kepler and Galileo.” Centaurus 46: 58–81.

Hon, Giora. 2003. “From Propagation to Structure: The Experimental Technique of Bombardment as a Contributing Factor to the Emerging Quantum Physics.” Physics in Perspective 5: 150–173.

Hon, Giora. 1995. “Going Wrong: To Make a Mistake, to Fall into an Error.” The Review of Metaphysics 49: 3–20.

Hon, Giora. 1989. “Towards a Typology of Experimental Errors: an Epistemological View.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 20: 469–504.

Hon, Giora. 1987. “On Kepler’s Awareness of the Problem of Experimental Error.” Annals of Science 44: 545–591.

Summary:

Two authored books with highly reputed international publishing houses
Seven edited books or special journal issues
46 articles in refereed journals, among them 20 in top-ranking journals (such as Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, and Perspectives on Science).
27 chapters in edited books
7 articles in conference proceedings

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