References for George Atwood

1. E M Cole, W Back, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography by Simon Schaffer, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

Books:

3. H E Bird, Chess History and Reminiscences (London, 1882).
4. E G R Taylor, The mathematical practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840 (Cambridge, 1966).

Articles:

5. J L Heilbron, A mathematicians' mutiny, with morals, in World changes, Cambridge, MA, 1990 (Cambridge, MA, 1993), 81-129.
6. J Ravetz, The representation of physical quantities in eighteenth-century mathematical physics, Isis 52 (1961), 7-20.
7. S Schaffer, Machine philosophy, Osiris 9 (1994), 157-82

February 2005