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"Michael Faraday (1791?1867) was one of the most important men of science in nineteenth century Britain. His discoveries of electro-magnetic rotations (1821) and electro-magnetic induction (1831) laid the foundations of the modern electrical industry. His discovery of the magneto-optical effect and diamagnetism (1845) led him to formulate the field theory of electro-magnetism, which forms one of the cornerstones of modern physics.These and a whole host of other fundamental discoveries in physics and chemistry, together with his lecturing at the Royal Institution, his work for the state (including Trinity House), his religious beliefs and his lack of mathematical ability, make Faraday one of the most fascinating scientific figures ever.All these aspects of his life and work and others, such as his illnesses, are reflected in his correspondence. This volume, in which just over 70 per cent of the 841 letters are previously unpublished, covers the latter half of the 1850s and most of 1860.Topics include: Faraday's work on regelation, the transmission of light through gold and his attempts to bring gravity into his general scheme of forces; the offer by Queen Victoria - and Faraday's acceptance - of a 'grace and favour' house at Hampton Court; his advice to Trinity House, the Board of Trade and the Royal Commission on lighthouses; his investigation of the deterioration of the stonework of the relatively new Houses of Parliament; the conservation issues surrounding the National Gallery's pictures; and his appointment by Emperor Napoleon III to be a Commander of the Legion of Honour."

"Banyak dari fisikawan perempuan tidak dikenal oleh masyarakat umum sehingga perempuan yang memilih jurusan fisika di perguruan tinggi dilihat sebagai pengecualian. Hal itu kemudian memberi citra maskulin pada ilmu fisika. Studi kasus ini menggunakan wawancara mendalam dan dianalisis menggunakan perspektif perempuan, mencoba memahami pengalaman dan pola pemelajaran mereka di jurusan fisika, FMIPA-UI.Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara pandang dominan yang diadopsi ilmu fisika telah menempatkan pola pemelajaran perempuan pada posisi yang rendah sehingga otoritas intelektual mereka tidak diakui setara. Albasil, sedikit sekali permmpuan yang memercayai intuisi dan perasaan mereka untuk menghasilkan solusi. Intuisi dan perasaan, dipakai dalam pemelajaran berbasis pengalaman, dinilai bagian dari subyektivitas yang hares diminimalisasi demi mencapai obyektivitas yang tinggi_ Perempuan juga mengalami tekanan untuk mengadopsi strategi fragmentasi untuk bertahan dalam komunitas yang mayontas adalah lakilaki. Selama proses itu, yang tadinya dianggap sebagai strategi menjadi identitas din. Seluruh pengorbanan yang tidak sepadan dengan hasil yang akan diperoleh membuat perempuan kurang tertarik menjadi pemelajar fisika.Menjadi panting untuk membawa sejarah penemuan dalam pengajaran di kelas serta merekrut beberapa pendidik perempuan dalam fisika. Strategi ini diharapkan dapat mengubah cara pandang dominan untuk mengakui kesetaraan pemelajaran berbasis pengalaman dalam menghasilkan pengetahuan.

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Many of women physicists were unknown to public therefore some women who chose physics in higher education were considered as exception. This eventually created the image of physics as male-domain. This case study, using in-depth interview and was analyzed with women perspective, tried to explore women experience and way of knowing at physics department in UI.

This research found that the dominant epistemology adopted in physics has put women's way of knowing no place to gain intellectual authority equal to men. Therefore only few of the women have trusted their intuition and feeling to produce solution. Intuition and feeling, important in experiential learning, were seen as part of subjectivity that should be proscribed for the sake of objectivity. Women also were pressured to adopting' fragmentation strategy to survive in the male-majority community. During the process, what was strategy has become self-identity. With all the agony and only little gain in the end of it, women were not enthusiast in becoming physics knower.

It is then important to bring history of discovery and recruit more women lecturer into the class. The strategy hopefully could change the dominant epistemology in recognizing experiential learning authority in producing knowledge."

"The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell?s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century, equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature."

"The book is an expanded autobiography of the famous theoretical physicist Isaak Khalatnikov. He worked together with L.D. Landau at the Institute for Physical Problems lead by P.L. Kapitza. He is the co-author of L.D. Landau in a number of important works. They worked together in the frame of the so-called Nuclear Bomb Project. After the death of L.D. Landau, I.M. Khalatnikov initiated the establishment of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, named in honour of L.D. Landau, within the USSR Academy of Sciences. He headed this institute from the beginning as its Director. The institute inherited almost all traditions of the Landau scientific school and played a prominent role in the development of theoretical physics. So, this is a story about how the institute was created, how it worked, and about the life of the physicists in the "golden age" of the Soviet science. A separate chapter is devoted to today´s life of the institute and the young generation of physicists working now in science."