Skúli
Sigurdsson. "On the Road." In Kostas Gavroglu, and Jürgen Renn, eds.,
Positioning the History of Science (
This is a quasi-Festschrift for Silvan
-----.
"From the Icelandic 'Sonderweg' in the Development of Electric Energy to
the National Power Company." In Sigrún Pálsdóttir, ed., Landsvirkjun 1965-2005: Fyrirtćkid og
umhverfi thess (Reykjavík: Hid íslenska bókmenntafélag, 2005), pp. 267-301.
Icelandic original title: "Frá
íslensku sérleidinni á svidi raforkumála til Landsvirkjunar."
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"
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"Everything Is Afloat Everywhere." Website of Icelandic philosophers
Icel.
orig. title: "Thad er allt á floti allsstadar."
-----.
"Decoding Broken Promises." openDemocracy,
Furthermore
see the documentation on the Health Sector Database (HSD) deCODE Controversy
available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/hsd_dec.html
incl. a bibliography available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/kit.html
-----.
"Bioethics Lite™: Two Aspects of the Health Sector Database deCODE
Controversy." In Tillmann Hornschuch, Kirsten Meyer,
Gerlind Rüve, and Miriam Voß, eds., Schöne--Gesunde--Neue--Welt?
Das humangenetische Wissen und seine Anwendungen aus philosophischer,
soziologischer und historischer Perspektive (Bielefeld 2002) (IWT-Paper
28). Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/lite_tm.html
Includes
an article from tazmag,
-----. "The Flying Historian and the
Infinite Expanses of Technology." In Erla
Hulda Halldórsdóttir, ed., 2. íslenska
söguthingid 30. maí-1. júní 2002: Rádstefnurit
I (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2002), pp. 268-285.
Icel. orig. title: "Sagnfrćdingurinn fljúgandi og óravíddir
tćkninnar."
-----.
"Progress, Freedom of Thought, and Eroded Landscapes: Reflections on the
History of Science and Technology." In Loftur Guttormsson, Páll Björnsson,
Sigrún Pálsdóttir, and Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon, eds., Íslenskir sagnfrćdingar. II:
Vidhorf og rannsóknir (Reykjavík: Mál og mynd, 2002), pp. 433-440.
Icel. orig.
title: "Framfarir, hugsanafrelsi og rofabörd: Hugleidingar um vísinda- og tćknisögu." Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/erosion.html
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"Journeys in Spacetime." In Erhard Scholz, ed., Hermann Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and a General Introduction to
His Scientific Work (DMV Seminar Series, vol. 30) (
-----.
"Spaces of Memory: Reflections on Museums of Technology." November
2001. Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/raum.html
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"Systems, Toys, and Nostalgia: Technological and Museological
Journeys." November 2001. Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/reise.html
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"Yin-Yang Genetics, or the HSD deCODE Controversy." New Genetics and Society, 20:2 (2001),
103-117. Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/Y2.html
-----.
"The Dome of the World:
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"Icelandic Genes." Correspondence,
spring/summer 1999, p. 18. Available at: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/corr.html
Appeared in
Japanese translation in Asteion, 52
(1999), 217-219.
-----. "About Genes and Human Beings." Lćknabladid,
84 (1998), 577-581.
Icel. orig. title: "Um gen og menn."
-----.
"Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting." In Thomas Söderqvist,
ed., The Historiography of Contemporary
Science and Technology (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997), pp.
129-149.
-----. "Journals and the Passage of Time." hochschule ost: politisch-akademisches journal aus ostdeutschland,
6:3-4 (1997), 9-20.
-----.
"Physics, Life, and Contingency: Born, Schrödinger, and Weyl in
Exile." In Mitchell G. Ash, and Alfons Söllner, eds., Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking
Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Washington, D.C.: German Historical
Institute and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 48-70.
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"
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"Unification, Geometry and Ambivalence: Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen
Community." In Kostas Gavroglu, Jean Christianidis, and Efthymios
Nicolaďdis, eds., Trends in the
Historiography of Science (
-----. "'Have We Walked for Good the Road
Ahead': History of Science, Modern Society, and the Belief in Progress." Sagnir, 14 (1993), 31-33.
Icel. orig. title: "Höfum vid
gengid til góds götuna fram eftir veg? Vísindasaga, nútímathjódfélag og trúin á
framfarir."
-----.
"Batteries, Electromagnetism, and Electrification." In Grímur
Björnsson, ed., Edlisfrćdi á Íslandi VI
(Proceedings of the Sixth Biannual Physics Conference, Munadarnes, Iceland,
October 1992) (Reykjavík: Edlisfrćdifélag Íslands, 1992), pp. 119-135.
Icel. orig.
title: "Rafhlödur, rafsegulfrćdi og rafvćding."
-----.
"Equivalence, Pragmatic Platonism, and Discovery of the Calculus." In
Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, and Roger H. Stuewer, eds., The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology
and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin
N. Hiebert (
-----.
"Relativity Theory, Universal World Law, and the Science in Göttingen."
Fréttabréf Íslenska stćrdfrćdafélagsins,
4:1 (1992), 11-23.
Icel. orig. title:
"Afstćdiskenning, alheimskenning og vísindin í Göttingen."
-----.
"17,000 Reprints Later: Description and Analysis of the Vito Volterra
Reprint Collection." Historical
Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 22:2 (1992), 391-397.
-----.
"Der Springer Verlag." In Michael Cahn, ed., Der Druck des
Wissens: Geschichte und Medium der wissenschaftlichen Publikation (Berlin:
Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1991), pp. 20-21.
-----.
"Natural Selection, Universal Gravitation and Scientific Revolutions, or
about
Icel. orig.
title: "Thróunarkenning,
thyngdarlögmál og vísindabyltingar, eda um afstödu
-----.
"History of Mathematics at the High School Level: Reflections after a
Summer School on the History of Geometry." Fréttabréf Félags raungreinakennara, 7:1 (1990), 6-13.
Icel. orig.
title: "Stćrdfrćdisaga í framhaldsskólum: Hugleidingar ad loknu
sumarnámskeidi í sögu rúmfrćdinnar."
-----. "The Production of Modernity,
1880-1920." Fréttabréf Sagnfrćdingafélags Íslands, 8:5 (1990), 9-13.
Icel. orig.
title: "Framleidsla nútímans, 1880-1920."
-----. "History of Science for Research
and Teaching." Fréttabréf
Sagnfrćdingafélags Íslands, 8:2 (1990), 3-6.
Icel. orig.
title: "Vísindasaga sem frćdigrein og
kennslugrein."
-----.
"The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Interview with Thomas [S.]
Kuhn." Harvard Science Review,
winter 1989/90, 18-25.
The interview
tape was transcribed by Katrin Chua (editor of Harvard Science Review). The three photographs of Kuhn were made by
Skúli Sigurdsson.
Appeared in
Persian translation in Science Policy
Quarterly, no. 3 (winter 1993).
-----. "On the History of the
Icel. orig.
title: "Um sögu Vegagerdar ríkisins."
-----.
"History of Science at Harvard: A Graduate Student's View." Harvard Graduate Society Newsletter,
fall 1988, 8-9.
Einar
H. Gudmundsson, and Skúli Sigurdsson. "On
the Nature of Space and Time: Ólafur Dan Daníelsson and His Articles on the
Theory of Relativity." RAUST,
no. 1 (2005), 21-39.
Icel. orig.
title: "Edli rúms og tíma: Ólafur Dan
Daníelsson og greinar hans um afstćdiskenninguna."
Available at: http://www.raust.is
(web-released
Skúli
Sigurdsson, and Stefán Pálsson. "Dirty Beautiful City." In Páll
Björnsson, ed., Borgarbrot: Sextán
sjónarhorn á borgarsamfélagid (Reykjavík: Borgarfrćdasetur og
Háskólaútgáfan, 2003), pp. 83-95.
Icel. orig.
title: "Foruga fagra borg."
Michael
Fortun, and Skúli Sigurdsson. "'So Human a Brain': Ethnographic
Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Conference." In Anne Harrington, ed.,
So Human a Brain: Knowledge and Values in
the Neurosciences (Dibner Institute Publication) (Boston: Birkhäuser,
1992), pp. 325-337.
Kristján
Jónasson, and Skúli Sigurdsson. "Measurement of the Roughness of Road
Surfaces." Vegamál, 11:1 (1988),
6-9.
Icel. orig.
title: "Hrýfismćlingar á yfirbordi vega."
Skúli
Sigurdsson. Review of Peter Galison's Einsteins Uhren, Poincarés Karten: Die Arbeit an der Ordnung der Zeit
(2003). Physik Journal, 4:3 (2005),
98.
-----. Review of Günther Frei, and Urs Stammbach's Hermann Weyl und die Mathematik an der ETH Zürich, 1913-1930
(1992).
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"Sublime and Worldly
Essay review
of D.W.J. Cruichshank, H.J. Juretschke, and N. Kato, eds., P.P. Ewald and His Dynamical Theory of X-Ray Diffraction: A Memorial
Volume for Paul P. Ewald 23 January 1888-22 August 1985 (1992).
-----. Review of Renatus Ziegler's Mathematik
und Geisteswissenschaft: Mathematische Einführung in die Philosophie als
Geisteswissenschaft in Anknüpfung an Plato, Cusanus, Goethe, Hegel und Steiner
(1992). Isis, 87 (1996), 148-149.
-----. Review of David Hilbert's Natur
und mathematisches Erkennen: Vorlesungen gehalten 1919-1920 in Göttingen
(Based on lecture notes taken by Paul Bernays) ed. by David E. Rowe (1992). Isis, 84 (1993), 600-602.
-----. "Einsteinian Fixations." Annals of Science, 49 (1992), 577-583.
Essay review of
Klaus Hentschel's Interpretationen und
Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins (1990).
-----. Review of Dieter Lohmar's Phänomenologie
der Mathematik: Elemente einer phänomenologischen Aufklärung der mathematischen
Erkenntnis nach Husserl (1989). Isis,
83 (1992), 702-704.
-----. Review of Herbert Mehrtens's Moderne,
Sprache, Mathematik: Eine Geschichte des Streits um die Grundlagen der
Disziplin und des Subjekts formaler Systeme (1990).
-----.
Essay review of an Icelandic translation of Stephen W. Hawking's A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang
to Black Holes ([1988] 1990). Hugur, 3-4 (1990/91), 112-117 (in
Icelandic).
-----.
Essay review of Ólafur Jens Pétursson's History
of Ideas (1989). Hugur, 3-4 (1990/91), 118-122 (in
Icelandic).
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Essay review of Ian Hacking's Representing
and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (1983). Hugur, 2 (1989), 98-104 (in Icelandic).
-----.
Review of Linda Dalrymple Henderson's The
Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (1983).
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"Where Philosophy, History of Culture, and
Science Meet." Skírnir, 163
(1989), 431-445.
Icel. orig.
title: "Thar sem heimspeki, menningarsaga og vísindi mćtast." Essay
review of Thorsteinn Vilhjálmsson's Heimsmynd
(2 vols., 1986/1987). The two volumes survey the history of astronomy and
mechanics from Antiquity to the 17th century.
Kristín
Halla Jónsdóttir, and Skúli Sigurdsson. Essay review of Joan L. Richards's Mathematical Visions: The Pursuit of
Geometry in Victorian England (1988). Hugur,
5 (1992), 100-106 (in Icelandic).
Silvan
S. Schweber, and Skúli Sigurdsson. Review of Christa Jungnickel and Russell
McCormmach's Intellectual Mastery of
Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein (2 vols., 1986). The Journal of Modern History, 61
(1989), 354-358.
Skúli Sigurdsson. "Nur ein neuer Rohstoff." tazmag (weekend supplement to tageszeitung
[taz]), April 20-21, 2002, p. iii.
-----.
"Calling Spade a Spade." Morgunbladid,
Icel. orig. title: "Ad kalla hlutina réttum nöfnum."
-----.
"Icelanders Opt Out of Genetic Database." Nature, 400 (
-----.
"Anxiety and Joy." Morgunbladid,
Icel. orig. title: "Kvídi og gledi."
-----.
"Knowledge of Good and Evil." Morgunbladid,
Icel. orig. title: "Thekking góds og ills."
-----. "Genetic Mongering and deCODEspeak." Dagur,
Icel. orig. title: "Genmang og erfdaenska."
-----.
Review of Langdon Winner's The Whale and
the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (1986). Morgunbladid,
-----.
Review of J.L. Heilbron's The Dilemmas of
an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science (1986). Morgunbladid,
-----.
Review of Donald Worster's Nature's
Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas ([1977] 1985). Morgunbladid,
Einar Árnason, and Skúli Sigurdsson. "Is
Black White?" Fréttabréf
Háskóla Íslands, 23:1 (2001), 10-11.
Icel. orig.
title: "Er svart hvítt?"
Loftur
Guttormsson, and Skúli Sigurdsson. "Comments
on Ethics." Fréttabréf
Sagnfrćdingafélags Íslands, 18:4 (1999), 2.
Icel.
orig. title: "Sidaregluthankar."
Skúli
Sigurdsson. Translation from German into English of Dieter Hoffmann's
"Paul Drude (1863-1906)." Annalen der Physik (Leipzig), 15:7-8 (2006), 449-460.
Ketill Berg Magnússon, and Skúli Sigurdsson. Translation of
Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Road Since Structure." In Einar Logi Vignisson,
and Ólafur Páll Jónsson, eds., Heimspeki
á tuttugustu öld: Safn merkra ritgerda úr heimspeki aldarinnar (Reykjavík:
Mál og menning [Heimskringla], 1994), pp. 225-240.
Icel. title: "Hvad hefur gerst eftir Gerd vísindabyltinga?" Appeared orig. in PSA 1990, 2 (1991), 3-13.
Kristín
Halla Jónsdóttir, and Skúli Sigurdsson. Translation of Ian Hacking's
"'Style' for Historians and Philosophers." In Heimspeki á tuttugustu öld (1994), pp. 241-265.
Icel. title: "'Stíll' fyrir sagnfrćdinga og
heimspekinga." Appeared orig.
in Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, 23 (1992), 1-20.