1. Each of the examples considered here derives from the following publications, where full details can be found. On the ozone layer: Jed Z. Buchwald and George Smith, “The Ozone Layer (review),” American Scientist 89 (2001), 546–49. On Hertz: Jed Z. Buchwald, The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) and Manuel G. Doncel, “On the Process of Hertz’s Conversion to Hertzian Waves,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 43 (1991), 1–27. On Fraunhofer: Myles W. Jackson, Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000). On Marconi and Fleming: Sungook Hong, Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001). On Helmholtz: Jed Z. Buchwald, “Helmholtz’s Electrodynamics in Context: Object States, Laboratory Practice and Anti–Idealism,” in Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, ed. David Cahan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 334–73.
2. To wit, the egregious, apocalyptic Left Behind series by the Christian dispensationalist and John Birch Society member Tim LaHaye, co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins.
3. Johanna Hertz, ed., Heinrich Hertz: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries, 2nd enl. ed., trans. L. Brinner, M. Hertz, and C. Susskind (San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1977).
4. Ibid., 237.
5. Heinrich Hertz, Electric Waves, being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through Space, trans. D. E. Jones (1893; New York: Dover, 1963), 8.