Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference

for History of Science in Science Education

Keszthely, Hungary
at the Festetics Palace

12-16 July, 2004

Table of Contents*

* Abstract only

Introduction

Stephen Klassen

Zemplén’s Monograph on “Electricity and its Practical Applications” from 1910

Ivan Abonyi

*Learning from Medieval Mathematics: Nicole Oresme’s approach to series and “qualities.”

Jeff Babb

Structure of Dimensions/Revolution of Dimensions (Classical and Fractal) in Education and Science

József Berke

Q. Majorana’s Experiments on Gravitational Absorption: Further Documents and Manuscripts

Giorgio Dragoni

*The “Kármán vortex street”: approaches to fluid dynamics with a historical and phenomenological perspective

Michael Eckert

The Story of the Light Ray and Vision as a Story for Teaching Optics as a Discipline-Culture

Igal Galili

Fleas Like Elephants, Lice Like Bears: 18th Century Solar Microscope Projections
Between Enlightened Natural Philosophy and Amusement For Women and Children

Peter Heering

Push-Button Experiments in Museums: An Original Experiment of Röntgen

Sándor Jeszenszky

Concepts of the Electron

Stephen Klassen

The Zemplén Competitions and Memorial Days in Nagykanizsa as Homage to the Brilliant Hungarian Physicist

László Kovács

Measuring Speed of Light: Why ? Speed of what?

Pierre Lauginie

*Geometry for Nunavut: A postmodern approach to the cognition of Archimedes

Ralph Mason

*How Bad Philosophy Leads Educational Research Astray
Some Comments on Constructivism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism

Michael Matthews

Logbooks and Journals: Using Historical Materials in School Science

Barbara McMillan

Using Historical Narratives to Guide Science Experiments

Don Metz

*How we are using the history of physics in our schoolbooks?

László Molnár

*Let’s play! Designing games that facilitate the learning of science

Georgios Primerakis & Vassilis Koulountzos

*Teaching ways of thinking instead of overcoming ideas: The case of idealization

Fanny Seroglou

*Ars Computi

Wesley M. Stevens

Using Thought Experiments to Teach Einstein’s Ideas

Art Stinner & Don Metz

*Historical Surprises

Roger H. Stuewer

*Georg Simon Ohm, Ohm's Law, and Electrical Resistance

Jürgen Teichmann

A Hundred Years Make No Small Difference: Popularization of Science in Hungary
at the Turn of Two Centuries: Győző Zemplén’s Conventionalism
and Modern Fundamentalists

Gábor Á. Zemplén 

Zemplén: The Scientist and the Teacher

László Kovács, (Ed.)