By Professor David Philip Miller

Books

Miller DP, 2019, The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh

Miller DP, 2009, James Watt, chemist: understanding the origins of the Steam Age, Pickering &Y Chatto, London, UK

Miller DP, 2004, Discovering water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the nineteenth-century `water controversy`, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot,UK Burlington, VT, USA

Gascoigne J, 1998, Science in the service of the empire: Joseph Banks, the British state and the uses of science in the age of revolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Book Chapters

Miller DP, 2017, '“Men of Letters” and “Men of Press Copies”: The Cultures of James Watt’s Copying Machine', in Archimedes, pp. 65 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58436-2_4

Miller DP, 2016, 'Was Matthew Boulton a scientist? Operating between the abstract and the entrepreneurial', in Matthew Boulton Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment, pp. 51 - 65

Miller DP, 2015, 'The 'relocation' of technology between East and West: Stationary steam engines and steamboats in India in the early nineteenth century', in Kanjirakkat JM; McOuat G; Sarukkai S (ed.), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West, Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 261 - 304

Miller DP, 2015, 'Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770–1840', in Dunn R; Higgitt R (ed.), Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, UK, New York, USA, pp. 223 - 247

Miller DP, 2013, 'Attributing creativity in science and engineering: the discourses of discovery, invention and breakthrough', in Thomas K; Chan J (ed.), Handbook of Research on Creativity, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 138 - 149

Miller DP, 2007, 'EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION, Engineering James Watt¿s Reputation: An Introduction to the James Patrick Muirhead Papers, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library', in IND REV: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY S4: Sources from R Os in the U K; P3: The Papers of James Watt (1736-1819) and James Watt, jnr (1769-1848) from the JP Muirhead Coll, Glasgow U Lib, Adam Matthew Publications, Marlborough UK (and online), pp. 1 - 11

Miller DP, 2003, 'Professional Society', in Heilbron JL (ed.), Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Miller DP, 2002, 'The `Sobel Effect`', in Metascience, Springer, pp. 185 - 200

Miller DP, 1996, 'Introduction [Visions of Empire]', in Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany and Representations of Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 18

Miller DP, 1996, 'Joseph Banks, empire and `centers of calculation` in late Hanoverian London', in Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany and Representations of Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 21 - 37

Miller DP, 1986, 'Method and the ‘Micropolitics’ of Science: The Early Years of the Geological and Astronomical Societies of London', in The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method, Springer Nature, pp. 227 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4560-9_7

Journal articles

Miller DP, 2020, 'A new perspective on the natural philosophy of steams and its relation to the steam engine', Technology and Culture, 61, pp. 1129 - 1148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2020.0113

Miller DP; Rudder D, 2020, 'A ‘revolver’ evolving: the careers of a Boulton & Watt rotative steam engine at the Whitbread Brewery, London and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1784–2020', International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology, pp. 238 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1782619

Miller DP, 2020, 'Depicting Watt: contextualism, myopia and the long view', Metascience, 29, pp. 377 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00559-3

Miller DP, 2017, 'The story of ‘scientist: The story of a word’', Annals of Science, 74, pp. 255 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1390155

Miller DP, 2017, 'Jan Golinski. The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science . vii + 259 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $30 (cloth).', Isis, 108, pp. 201 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/690697

Iliffe R; Miller DP, 2017, 'Winner of the Annals of Science Prize for 2016.', Ann Sci, 74, pp. 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1366152

Miller DP, 2016, 'Of patents, principles, and the construction of heroic invention: The case of Neilson's hot blast in iron production', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 160, pp. 361 - 422

Miller DP, 2016, 'Review of Hjalmar Fors, The Limits of Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment', Annals of Science: a review of the history of science since the thirteenth century, 73, pp. 110 - 112

Miller DP, 2016, 'The Limits of Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment', ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 73, pp. 110 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.1064997

Miller DP, 2015, 'Neil Chambers (Editor). The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820 . Volume 7. (The Pickering Masters.) 608 pp. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. £100 (cloth).Neil Chambers (Editor). The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820 . Volume 8. (The Pickering Masters.) 448 pp. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £100 (cloth).', Isis, 106, pp. 924 - 925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684732

Miller DP, 2015, 'Review of Neil Chambers, The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, vols 7 and 8', Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 106, pp. 924 - 925

Miller DP, 2015, 'The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, vol 7', ISIS, 106, pp. 924 - 925, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000369575200039&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Miller DP, 2015, 'The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, vol 8', ISIS, 106, pp. 924 - 925, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000369575200040&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Miller DP; Iliffe R; Levere T, 2015, 'Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (1941–2014)', Annals of Science, 72, pp. 276 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.1034782

Miller D; Iliffe R; Levere T, 2015, 'David Roger Oldroyd (20 January 1936--7 November 2014) An Appreciation.', Ann Sci, 72, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.994863

Miller DP, 2015, 'David Roger Oldroyd 1936–2014 [Obituary]', Australian Academy of Humanities, Annual Report, 2014-15, pp. 44 - 46

Miller DP, 2014, 'Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 60, pp. 501 - 502, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342625400043&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Miller DP, 2013, 'Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism', AMBIX, 60, pp. 295 - 296, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000322369400010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Miller DP, 2013, 'George Rousseau. The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity . xxxi + 391 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2012. $90 (cloth).', Isis, 104, pp. 620 - 621, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674486

Miller DP, 2012, 'TESTING POWER AND TRUST: THE STEAM INDICATOR, THE 'REYNOLDS CONTROVERSY', AND THE RELATIONS OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN', HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 50, pp. 212 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327531205000204

Miller DP, 2012, 'The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science', ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 69, pp. 581 - 584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2011.627454

Miller DP, 2012, 'Climate engineering, past and present', Metascience, 21, pp. 243 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9576-7

Miller DP, 2012, 'Leslie Tomory, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xii+348. ISBN 978-0-262-01675-9. £19.95 (hardback).', The British Journal for the History of Science, 45, pp. 466 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087412000891

Miller DP, 2012, 'Testing Power and Trust: The Steam Indicator, the 'Reynolds Controversy' and Engineering Science and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain', History of Science, 50, pp. 212 - 250

Miller DP, 2011, 'Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein', BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 44, pp. 609 - 610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087411001130

Miller DP, 2011, 'History from Between', Technology and Culture, 52, pp. 610 - 613, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0109

Miller DP, 2011, 'The Mysterious Case of James Watt's '"1785" Steam Indicator': Forgery or Folklore in the HIstory of an Instrument?', Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 81, pp. 129 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175812110X12869022260231

Miller DP, 2011, 'The Paradoxes of Patenting at General Electric: Isador Ladoff's Journey from Siberian Exile to the Heart of Corporate Capitalism', Isis, 102, pp. 634 - 658

Miller DP, 2011, 'The political economy of discovery stories: The case of Dr Irving Langmuir and general electric', Annals of Science, 68, pp. 27 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033791003761926

Miller DP, 2011, 'The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century', Annals of Science, 68, pp. 563 - 565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790903243365

Miller DP, 2010, 'The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914', SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 23, pp. 421 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkq017

Miller DP, 2010, 'Mannered science and political identity', Metascience, 19, pp. 133 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9351-1

Miller DP, 2010, 'Matthew D. Eddy. The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry, and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700–1945.) xii + 309 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. £60 (cloth).', Isis, 101, pp. 218 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653876

Miller DP, 2009, 'Scales of Justice: Assaying Matthew Boulton's Reputation and the Partnership of Boulton and Watt', Midland History, 34, pp. 58 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175638109X406587

Miller DP, 2009, 'Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty`s Navy', Isis, 100, pp. 429 - 430

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