Publications of James G.O'Hara

 

list of books and papers

 

The following papers are accessible online :

 

Huygens Congress (University of Leiden, July 1995)

(published as: "Huygens, Leibnitz and the 'petit demin'. Agreement and dissension in their mathematical correspondence" in: De zeventiende eeuw, 12 (1996) 1, pp.151-160.)

Conference on Archives of the Scientific Revolution (Royal Society of London, April 1996)

(published as " 'A chaos of jottings that I do not have the leisure to arrange and mark with headings': Leibniz's Manuscript Papers and their Repository", in: Archives of the Scientific Revolution. The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe, Edited by Michael Hunter. Woodbridge, UK & Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 1998, pp. 159-170)

XXth International Congress of History of Science ( University of Liège, July 1997)

(published as: "The Mathematician as Engineer in the Seventeenth Century: Leibniz and Engineering Hydraulics", in: Engineers and Engineering: Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science. Volume XVII, Edited by Michael Ciaran Duffy. Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium, 2002, pp. 77- 89)

Xth International Congress on the Enlightenment (University College Dublin, July 1999)

(published as: "Leibniz and 'la liberté des Anglois' ", in: 2000. The European Journal/ Die Europäische Zeitschrift/ La Revue Européenne, III, no. 1 (June 2002), pp. 1-3)

VIIth International Leibniz Congress (Technische Universität Berlin, September 2001)

(published as: " 'Leibnutz's Universal Principle in Optics'. William Molyneux's translation and interpretation of Leibniz's Unicum opticae" in: Nihil Sine Ratione. Mensch, Natur und Technik im Wirken von G.W. Leibniz, VII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß. Vorträge 2. Teil, herausgegeben von Hans Poser et al., Berlin, 10.-14. September 2001, pp. 915-919)