Publications of Julian Holland

In Press:

‘Instruments and Expeditions: from Beagle to Challenger’, chapter of a book on science and exploration to be published by UNSW Press in 2009

 

Published:

‘Thomas Dawson and the Parramatta Observatory Instruments’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 97 (2008): 14-20

‘Standard Needles’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 96 (2008): 15-16 [Instrument for testing surveying instruments]

‘Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall’, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey, editor in chief (Springer, New York: 2007), vol. 1, pp. 170-71

‘Ellery, Robert Lewis John’, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey, editor in chief (Springer, New York: 2007), vol. 1, pp. 333-34

‘Hirst, George Denton’, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey, editor in chief (Springer, New York: 2007), vol. 1, p. 551

‘Rümker, Christian Karl Ludwig’, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey, editor in chief (Springer, New York: 2007), vol. 2, pp. 990-91

Julian Holland and David Kaus, ‘Aboriginal Breastplates – An Australian Tradition in Metalware’, Journal of the Antique Metalware Society [UK], No. 15, June 2007, pp. 20-25

[Book review] (Samuel Furphy, Selbys the Science People, A History of H.B. Selby Australia Limited, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly, 2005), Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (2006): 121-23

‘Thomas Mitchell and the Wellington Fossils’, Australian Heritage, (Winter 2006), pp. 55-60

‘Frederick Newton, Citizen’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 86 (2005): 24-26

[Book review] (Ann Moyal, The Web of Science.  The Scientific Correspondence of the Rev. W.B. Clarke, Australia’s Pioneer Geologist, 2 vols, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2003), Prometheus, 23/3 (September 2005): 356-63

[Book review] ‘Of bolls and charities: the tangled history of Scottish weights and measures’ (R.D Connor and A.D.C. Simpson, edited by A. Morrison-Low, Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective, Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland and Tuckwell Press, 2004), The Australian Metrologist, No. 35, July 2005, pp. 15-19

[Book review] ‘Holding the universe by the thumb’ (Gerard L’E. Turner, Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003), Metascience, 14/1 (March 2005): 142-45

‘Ellery, Robert Lewis John (1827-1908)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

‘Kater, Henry (1777-1835)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

‘Public Time’, Australian Antiquarian Horological Society Newsletter vol. 31, no. 3 (September 2004), pp. 7-9 [revised version of 1998 article]

‘Daintree, Richard (1832-1878)’, The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 2. pp. 519-20

‘Kater, Henry (1777-1835)’, The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 3. pp. 1119-20

‘Macleay, William Sharp (1792-1865)’, The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 3. pp. 1307-11

(Reprint) ‘A Testing Machine for Adelaide’, Rittenhouse, vol. 17, no. 2 (2003): 99-106

‘Photo Opportunity: Queenwood College, Hampshire’ Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 78 (2003): 24-26

‘Scientific Instrument Makers in an Institutional Context’, Rittenhouse, vol. 17, no. 1 (2003): 1-8

Review of M. Dingley, A Catalogue of Portable Microscopes (CD-ROM, 2002), Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 77 (2003): 39

‘Instruments in the Cemetery: Carl Rümker’s Grave in Lisbon ’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 77 (2003): 32-35

 ‘Churches and Measurement’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 29, March 2002, pp. 8-11

‘Arthur Lionel Rogers (1861-1939)’, The Old Berkhamstedian, Spring 2002, pp. 52-54

[Book Review] 'The Adams Family' (John R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to George III, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), Rittenhouse, vol. 15, no. 2 (2001): 119-21

‘Metrology in Retrospect - A Testing Machine for Adelaide’, The Australian Metrologist, No. 24, March 2001, pp. 9-12; reprinted in NATA News, Issue 102 (December 2001): 12-15

‘The Man Behind the Clock Dials - A L Franklin’s Ashfield Town Hall Clock’, Ashfield at Federation, edited by Chris Pratten (Sydney: Ashfield and District Historical Society, 2001), pp. 319-50

‘John Jennings Smith (1782-1846) and his Philosophical Apparatus’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 69 (2001): 21-26, No. 70 (2001): 5

‘Cutting it Fine’, Antiques in New South Wales , December 2000 - May 2001, pp. 8, 17 [microtomes in the Macleay Museum]

‘Curiosities of Measurement in Myth and History’, in Michael R. Matthews (ed.), History, Philosophy & New South Wales Science Teaching, Third Annual Conference (Sydney, 2000), pp. 193-98

‘Metrology in Retrospect - A.L. Franklin, Manufacturer of Precision’, The Australian Metrologist, No. 22, August 2000, pp. 3-5

‘Charles Wheatstone and the representation of waves, Part 2’, Rittenhouse, vol. 14, no. 1 (2000): 27-46

‘Metrology in Retrospect - Our First Metrologist?’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 21, May 2000, pp. 3-4 [on James Blanch]

‘Il Macleay Museum di Sydney’, Giornale di Astronomia [Italy], vol. 26, no. 1 (March 2000), pp. 60-61

‘Charles Wheatstone and the representation of waves, Part 1’, Rittenhouse, vol. 13, no. 2 (1999): 86-106

‘150 Years of Aneroids’, Antiques in New South Wales, December 1999-May 2000, p. 46

‘Henry Kater and the Social Context of Science in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in Michael R. Matthews (ed.), History, Philosophy & New South Wales Science Teaching, Second Annual Conference (Sydney, 1999), pp. 131-38

‘Historic Scientific Instruments and the Teaching of Science: A guide to resources’, in Michael R. Matthews (ed.), History, Philosophy & New South Wales Science Teaching, Second Annual Conference (Sydney, 1999), pp. 121-29 [revised version]

‘Australian Exploration and the Introduction of the Aneroid Barometer’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 61 (1999): 24-26; reprinted as ‘Metrology in Retrospect - Australian Exploration and the Introduction of the Aneroid Barometer’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 18, August 1999, pp. 7-11

‘Metrology in Retrospect - Facts not Opinions’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 17, June 1999, pp. 9-12; reprinted in NATA News, vol. 97, September 2000, pp. 18-19

‘T.F. Wiesener’, Summer Hill, edited by Chris Pratten (Sydney: Ashfield and District Historical Society, 1999), pp. 83-89

‘Metrology in Retrospect - Getting Results’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 16, February 1999, pp. 5-6

‘Instruments of Delight’, Antiques in New South Wales, December 1998 - April 1999, p. 50

‘Historic Scientific Instruments and the Teaching of Science: A guide to resources’, in Michael R. Matthews (ed.),  Teaching History in New South Wales Years 7-10 Science, Volume Two: Workshop Papers (UNSW, 1998), pp. 141-49

‘Metrology in Retrospect - Public Time’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 15, May/August 1998, pp. 6-7; reprinted in NATA News, Issue 101 (September 2001): 23-24

‘The Perfect Angle’, Alliance - The Newsletter of the University of Sydney’s Science Alliance, Issue 5, May 1998, p. 5 [article on reflecting goniometer reprinted from Macleay Museum News, No. 11, April 1998]

‘Metrology in Retrospect - Trial by Fire’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 14, February 1998, pp. 12-13; reprinted in NATA News, vol. 98, December 2000, pp. 10-11

‘A Measured Life: Captain Henry Kater, 1777-1835’, Metrology Society of Australia , Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial Conference MSA97, (Melbourne, 1997), pp. 341-44

‘A Historical Letter: Captain Kater and Standards of Length’, The Australian Metrologist, Issue 13, November 1997, pp. 3-4

‘Diminishing Circles: W.S. Macleay in Sydney 1839-1865’, Historical Records of Australian Science 11(2) (Dec 1996): 119-47

‘Tale of a Telescope’, United Service, 49/3 (1996), p. 69 [reprinted from Macleay Museum News, No. 7, April 1996]

‘Footprints in Time’, Dinosaur Collectors’ Club Newsletter, No. 17, June 1996, pp. 1-2 [reprinted from Macleay Museum News, No. 6, September 1995]

‘The Staff Club’, [University of Sydney] Gazette, vol. 24, no. 1, April 1996, p. 26 [article on University mace]

‘Useful, Ornamental and Scientific: An Irish Contribution to Australian Retail History’, Australian Antique Collector, 51st edition, April-October 1996, pp. 184-87 [an expanded version of the article below]

‘Useful, Ornamental and Scientific: An Irish Contribution to Australian Science’, History of Irish Science, Technology and Medicine (HISTM) Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2, November 1995

[Book Review] ‘Maynooth College’ (Charles Mollan and John Upton, The Scientific Apparatus of Nicholas Callan and other Historic Instruments (Maynooth College: St Patrick’s College, 1994), Metascience, New Series Issue Seven 1995, pp. 211-12

[Book Review] ‘Heavenly Libraries’ (review of Jim Bennett and Domenico Bertolone Meli, Sphaera Mundi.  Astronomy Books in the Whipple Museum 1478-1600, Cambridge: Whipple Museum, 1994), Metascience, New Series Issue Seven 1995, pp. 149-50

[Book Review] (A. McConnell, R.B. Bate of the Poultry 1782-1847: The Life and Times of a Scientific Instrument-Maker, London: Scientific Instrument Society, 1993), Annals of Science, 52 (1995): 211-12

‘Scientific Instruments for Sydney University in the 19th Century’, in Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (eds), Recovering Science - strategies and models for the past, present and future (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 83-85

[Report] Scientific Instrument Collections in Australian Universities, 15 pp

[Book Review] ‘Victorian Miniatures’ (Brian Bracegirdle and James B. McCormick, The Microscopic Photographs of J.B. Dancer, Chicago: Science Heritage Limited, 1993), Metascience, New Series Issue Six 1994, pp. 157-59

[Book Review] ‘A Man among Muskegs’ (Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, Restless Energy: A Biography of William Rowan 1891-1957, Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1993), Metascience, New Series Issue Five 1994, pp. 133-34

[Book Review] ‘Royal Instruments’ (Alan Q. Morton and Jane Wess, Public and Private Science. The King George III Collection, Oxford: OUP, 1994), Metascience, New Series Issue Five 1994, pp. 113-15

[Book Review] ‘Northern Exposure’ (Debra Lindsay, Science in the Subarctic. Trappers, Traders, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1993), Metascience, New Series Issue Four 1993, pp. 127-28

[Book Review] ‘Mr Troughton and Mr Simms’ (Anita McConnell, Instrument Makers to the World. A History of Cooke, Troughton & Simms; and Eleanor Mennim, Transit Circle. The Story of William Simms 1793-1860), Metascience, New Series Issue Four 1993, pp. 116-18

‘Relations between Instrument Manufacturers’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 38 (1993): 15-16

[Book Review] ‘Lab Reports’ (Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams (eds), The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine, Cambridge: CUP, 1992), Metascience, New Series Issue Three 1993, pp. 137-42

‘Thomas Mitchell and the Origins of Australian Vertebrate Palaeontology’, Journal and Proceedings, Royal Society of New South Wales, 125 (1992): 103-6

H.C. Bolton, J. Holland, and N.H. Williams, ‘The Grimwade Milligram Chemical Balance: An Early Attempt to Establish a Scientific Instrument Industry’, Historical Records of Australian Science, 9(2), December 1992, pp. 107-17

‘John Roach’s Instruments in Sydney’, Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, 6/1 (1991): 20-24

‘On the Trail of a Bunyip’, Australian Natural History, 23 (1990-91): 520-21

Microscopes and Microscopy - Instruments and Related Items in the Macleay Museum (Macleay Museum in association with the Microscopical Society of Australia, Sydney: 1989), 52pp.

‘Woollahra in Camera: Photographs and Postcards’, in Impressions of Woollahra - Past and Present, Compiled and edited by Elaine Cassidy et al.  (Allen and Unwin, Sydney: 1988), pp. 53-113

Contributor to Mr Macleay's Celebrated Cabinet, edited by Peter Stanbury and Julian Holland (Macleay Museum, Sydney: 1988)

‘Antipodean Update’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No 18 (1988): 7-8

‘Historic Scientific Collections in Australian Universities’, History of Australian Science Newsletter, No 14 (1987): 1-2

[Book review] (Robert T. Lagemann, The Garland Collection of Classical Physics Apparatus at Vanderbilt University), Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society No 13 (1987): 13-15

‘Scientific Instrument Research in Australia’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No 10 (1986): 15-16

‘Archives of Science and Technology’, [Museums Association of Australia] Quarterly News, No 39 (1985): 7-8

(Compiler), ‘Medieval Science: a bibliography’, Studium, The Record of the Sydney Medieval and Renaissance Group (issue edited by J.P. Holland and L.S. Davidson) No. 15 (1983): 30-43

 

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