The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Adolphe Ganot

• Circumventing the "Elusive Quarries" of Popular Science: The Communication and Appropriation of Ganot's Physics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Josep Simon (in F. Papanelopoulou et al., eds., Popularising Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800-2000 [Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009]) [PDF]
• La escritura como invención: la Física-texto de Adolphe Ganot y el género ciencia by Josep Simon [Cultura Escrita y Sociedad 10, 81 (2010)] [PDF]

• WORKS:
  • Cours de physique purement expérimentale à l'usage des gens du monde by Adolphe Ganot [Paris: privately published, 1859]
    • Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons by Adolphe Ganot [New York: Appleton, 1876]
    • Marathi translation [Bombay: Nirnaya-sagar, 1899]
  • Traité élémentaire de physique expérimentale et appliquée et de météorologie, suivi d'un recueil de 103 problèmes avec solutions by Adolphe Ganot [Paris: privately published, 1868]
    • Traité élémentaire de physique, XX édition by Adolphe Ganot and Georges Maneuvrier Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Hachette, 1887-1888] This very long edition includes not only meteorology, but also elementary mathematics and a course of applied science for pharmacy students.
    • Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied ["Atkinson's Ganot"] by Adolphe Ganot [New York: Wm. Wood, 1890]

  • Descended from Ganot:
    • Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies ["Peck's Ganot"] by Wm. G. Peck [New York: Barnes, 1869] See also extensively revised edition [New York: American Book Co., 1888]
    • A Text-Book of Physics, Being a Short and Complete Course Based upon the Larger Work of Ganot by Henry Kiddle [New York: Wm. Wood, 1883] Archive edition poorly scanned.

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