Truesdell C. An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science. Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances

Berlin—Heidelberg—New York: Springer-Verlag, 1968. — XVIII + 657 p.In this long and peculiar book the fugitive idiot (p. 589) author provides a selection from his many previous publications, some reprinted elsewhere already, many rewritten in a minor or major way; in addition, five items appear for the first time.Aims, programs, and methodsExperience, Theory, and Experiment (1955)
The Field Viewpoint in Classical Physics (1960)
Modern Continuum Mechanics in Adolescence (1962)
Purpose, Method, and Program of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics (1965)
War, Socialism, and Quantum Mechanics (1968)
The Tradition of Elasticity (1973)
Statistical Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics (1973, 1979)
Our Debt to the French Tradition: "Catastrophes" and Our Search for Structure Today (1978, 1981)
Draw from the Model and Imitate the Antique (1979)
The Role of Mathematics in Science as Exemplified by the Work of the Bernoullis and Euler (1979, 1981)
Conceptual Analysis (1978)Criticism: selected reviewsWriting and Texts for Living ScienceA Comment on Scientific Writing (1954)
Goldstein's Classical Mechanics (1950)
Murnaghan's Finite Deformation of an Elastic Solid (1952)
Novozhilov's Foundations of the Nonlinear Theory of Elasticity (1953)The Light of History upon the PresentCritical Problems in the History of Science (1961)
Dugas' Histoire de la Mecanique (1953)
Jammer's Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics (1963)
Clagett's The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages
Stevin's Works on Mechanics (1957)
Dugas' La Mecanique au XVII Siecle (1956)
Costabel's Leibniz and Dynamics (1975)
John Bernoulli and L'Hopital (1958)
The Works of James Bernoulli (1973)
Daniel Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica (1960)
Rouse & Ince's History of Hydraulics (1959)
Hankins'Jean d'Alembert (1971)
The Mathematical and Physical Papers of G.G. Stokes (1966)
Gillmor's Coulomb (1973)
Timoshenko's History of Strength of Materials (1953)
Szabo's Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979)Biography and circumstancesGenius Conquers and Despises the Establishment: Newton
Newton's Letters (1960, 1962)
Newton's Mathematical Works (1973, 1977)Genius Turns the Establishment to Profit: EulerEuler's Letters (1960/1977)
Euler's Early Manuscripts on Mechanics (1967)
A Sample: Ten out of Seventy-three (1958/1981)
Leonard Euler, Supreme Geometer (1972, 1982)
The Establishment Stifles Genius: Herapath and Waterston (1968, 1982)
Genius and the Establishment at a Polite Standstill in the Modern University: Bateman (1976, 1981)TrainingThe Scholar's Workshop and Tools (1970, 1976, 1981)
Has the Private University a Future? (1976) 455Philosophy?Is there a Philosophy of Science? (1973)
SuppEsian Stews (1980/1981)DirgeThe Scholar: A Species Threatened by Professions (1972)
The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind (1979/1982)
Of All and of None (1964)Index of Names Mentioned