References for Johann Segner

1. A T Grigorian, A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903950.html
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066597/Johann-Andreas-von-Segner

Books:

3. W Kaiser, Johann Andreas Segner : der 'Vater der Turbine' (Leipzig, 1977).
4. B Szénássy, History of Mathematics in Hungary until the 20th Century (Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1992).

Articles:

5. J J Bikerman, Capillarity before Laplace : Clairaut, Segner, Monge, Young, Arch. History Exact Sci. 18 (2) (1977/78), 103-122.
6. M Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik III, IV (Leipzig, 1908).
7. Slovakia Today 2 (8) (May 1996).
8. B Szénássy, The mathematical activity of András Segner (Hungarian), Acta Universitatis Debrecen VI/2 (1960), 37-42.

March 2004