John Roche MSc, MA, DPhil
Linacre College and the Faculty of History, Oxford University.
Publications include Thomas Harriot’s Astronomy (1977); Physicists Look Back (1990); ‘The non-medical sciences, 1939-1970’, in B.H. Harrison (ed.), The History of the University of Oxford, VIII: The Twentieth Century (1994); The Mathematics of Measurement: a Critical History (1998); ‘Harriot, Oxford, and twentieth-century historiography’, in R. Fox (ed.), Thomas Harriot: an Elizabethan Man of Science (2000); ‘What is potential energy?’ in European Journal of Physics 24 (2003); ‘What is mass?’, in European Journal of Physics 26 (2005); ‘Concepts and models of the magnetic field’, in R. Flood et al. (eds), Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy (2008).
Research and teaching interests centre on the history of science and mathematics.
