Science history haiku

Written for STS 3301.

A disclaimer

These haiku are forced.
But everything is forces,
there is no free will.

On Max Planck

Suffering upright,
revolution unasked for,
walk a middle plank.

To the theorists,
blessed are the peacemakers
and the go-betweens.

Planck, from Einstein's perspective

A splendid fellow,
careful incrementalist,
imperialist.

On writing about Peter Galison

In which the author
finds himself critical of
an opalescence.

On the American who went to Europe

Augustus Rowland
Elite grating on our nerves
very precisely.

On Bernoulli's disciple

Monsieur Maupertuis
enjoyed a tour of England
brought back some Newton.