Resources
Useful stuff
Books
History
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelvin and the Age of the Earth | Joe D Burchfield | 1990 | University of Chicago Press |
| Degrees Kelvin | David Lindley | 2004 | Aurum |
| The Age of the Earth | B Dalrymple | 1991 | Stanford University Press |
| The Dating Game (Arthur Holmes) | C Lewis | 2000 | Cambridge University Press |
| Energy and Empire | C Smith & N Wise | 1989 | Cambridge University Press |
| The Chronologer's Quest | P W Jackson | 2018 | Cambridge University Press |
Sociology
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mangle of Practice | Andrew Pickering | 1995 | University of Chicago Press |
| The Mangle in Practice | Ed. Andrew Pickering | 2003 | University of Chicago Press |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | 2015 | Abacus |
| The Hunt for Vulcan | Thomas Levenson | 2016 | Head of Zeus |
| The Scientific Revolution | Steven Shapin | 2018 | University of Chicago |
| Beyond Measure (chpt 4) | James Vincent | 2022 | Faber & Faber |
| Darwin to Einstein: Historical Studies in Science and Belief (4.1) | Ed. C Chant & J Fauvel | 1980 | The Open University |
| Natural Order (Chpt, 3,4,6) | Ed. B Barnes & S Shapin | 1979 | Sage Publications |
| Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (Chpt 1, 11) | Werner Heisenberg | 2000 | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Science in the nineteenth century | R Taton | 1965 | Thames & Hudson |
Geology
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity | Jack Repcheck | 2009 | Basic Books |
| Very Short Introduction to Geology | Jan Zalasiewicz | 2018 | Oxford University Press |
Gaming
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing with the Past (Introduction) | Ed M Kapell and A B R Elliott | 2013 | Bloomsbury |
| Digital Games as History, How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice | |||
| A Chapman | 2016 | NY: Routledge | |
| Board Games and the Construction of Cultural Memory | J Begy | 2017 | Sage Publishing LINK |
| Graduate Skills and Game-Based Learning: Using Video Games for Employability in Higher Education | Matthew Barr | 2019 | Springer LINK |
Papers
History
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age-of-the-Earth Debate | Badash L | 1989, Aug | Scientific American, 90-96 |
| Lord Kelvin and the Age-of-the-Earth Debate | A Stinner | 2000, Nov/Dec | Physics in Canada, 321-332 |
| Calculating the Age of the Earth and the Sun | A Stinner | 2002 | Physics Education 23(4), 296-305 |
| Lord Kelvin and the Age-of-the-Earth Debate: A Dramatization | A Stinner & J Teichmann | 2003 | Science & Education 12, 213-228 |
| Kelvin and the Age of the Earth | F M Richter | 1986 | Journal of Geology |
| John Perry’s neglected critique of Kelvin’s age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics | England, Molnar, Richter | 2007 | GSA Today |
| Kelvin's age of the earth paradox revisited | F D Stacey | 2000 | Journal of Geophysical Research |
Gaming
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction: what is historical game studies? | A Chapman, A Foka & Jonathan Westin | 2017 | Rethinking History 21.3, 359-371 |
| Ten years of Historical Game Studies | S Caselli, KBR Giappone, TZ Majkowski | 2023 | Game |
Others
| Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Causality in Complex Systems | A Wagner | 1999 | Biology and Philosophy 14: 83–101 |
Podcasts
In Our Time
BBC Radio 4 (archive)
| Title | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
| The Earth's Origins | 05/06/2001 | link |
| Aging the Earth | 20/11/2003 | link |
| The Second Law of Thermodynamics | 16/12/2004 | link |
| Catastrophism | 30/01/2014 | link |
Links
William B. Robison, Stimulation, Not Simulation: An Alternate Approach to History Teaching Games, The History Teacher, Vol. 46, No. 4 (August 2013) LINK
Mark Wong, Timothy Noël Peacock, Rachel Porteous and Lauren Watson, Video Game Research Innovation Starter Toolkit: A Beginners Guide for Innovation and Industry and Community Engagement_. Project Report. University of Glasgow (2023). LINK