I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton. Cohen was a student of George Sarton, an important figure in the field of history of science.

His April 1955 interview with Albert Einstein was the last Einstein gave before his death. lt was published that July in Scientific American.

Bibliography

• 1956 - Franklin and Newton: An Inquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin's Work in Electricity as an Example thereof
• 1981 - The Newtonian Revolution (ISBN 0-521-22964-2)
• 1981 - Studies on William Harvey (ISBN 0-405-13866-0)
• 1985 - Revolution in Science (ISBN 0-674-76777-2)
• 1985 - Album of Science : From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800 (ISBN 0-68-415377-7)
• 1985 - The Birth of a New Physics (ISBN 0-393-01994-2)
• 1990 - Benjamin Franklin's Science (ISBN 0-674-06658-8)
• 1994 - Interactions: Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences (ISBN 0-262-03223-6)
• 1995 - Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison (ISBN 0-393-03501-8)
• 1996 - Newton: Texts Backgrounds Commentaries (Norton Critical Editions) (ISBN 0-39-395902-3)
• 1999 - Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) (ISBN 0-262-03262-7)
• 1999 - The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Translator) (ISBN 0-520-08816-6)
• 1999 - Introduction to Newton's 'Principia' (ISBN 1-583-48601-1)
• 2000 - Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy (Editor) (ISBN 0-262-02477-2)
• 2002 - The Cambridge Companion to Newton (Editor) (ISBN 0-521-65177-8
• 2005 - The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (ISBN 0-393-05769-0)

External links

Obituaries

• http://mathforum.org/epigone/historia/krunwhoxplum
• http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/obituary.html
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=1253895