1. Sherry Turkle, ed., Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), 5, 37, 279. See also her other books on the topic of affect and material culture: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007) and The Inner History of Devices (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008). On how regular people deal with stuff, from an anthropological point of view, see Daniel Miller, The Comfort of Things (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008). On a theoretical approach to “stuff” see Miller, Stuff (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010).
2. Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949), 4–9.
3. Gerard L’E. Turner, “Presidential Address: Scientific Toys,” British Journal for the History of Science 20 (1987), 377–98; Paolo Brenni, “The Evolution of Teaching Instruments and Their Use Between 1800 and 1930,” Science & Education 21 (2012), 191–226; Peter Heering and Roland Wittje, eds., Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Teaching (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011); Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Simon Schaffer, “A Science Whose Business is Bursting: Soap Bubbles as Commodities in Classical Physics,” in Things that Talk: Objects Lessons from Art and Science, ed. Lorraine Daston (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 147–92; Sofie Lachapelle, Conjuring Science. A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). A fascinating case study is Anke Te Heesen, The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
4. Olival Freire Junior, The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950–1990) (New York: Springer, 2015), 262–63. See, for instance, Costas Papaliolios, “Experimental Test of a Hidden-Variable Quantum Theory,” Physical Review Letters 18 (1967), 622–25. See also the oral history of John Clauser, a theoretical physicist who worked on Bell’s theorem, who mentions Papaliolios’s early contribution to the field and describes him as “a charming fellow.” John Clauser, interview with Joan Bromberg, May 20, 21, and 23, 2002, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, American Institute of Physics, accessed February 6, 2016, https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/25096 .
5. “Memorial Minute, Costas Papaliolios,” Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2004.