Reworking the Bench

Chapter 1 The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten “Discovery” Buried in Galileo’s Notes on Mition

Chapter 2 The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey

Chapter 3 Newton’s Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data

Chapter 4 At Play with Nature: Luigi Galvani’s Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology

Chapter 5 The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Ampère and Faraday

Chapter 6 From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann’s Research Notes of the Years 1835–1838

Chapter 7 Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences

Chapter 8 Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-Red Region of the Solar Spectrum

Chapter 9 The Pocket Schedule

Chapter 10 From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov’s Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style

Chapter 11 Carl Correns’ Experiments with Pisum, 1896–1899

Chapter 12 Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein’s Zurich Notebook

Chapter 13 Hans Krebs’ and Kurt Henseleit’s Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models

Chapter 15 The Scholar’s Seeing Eye