After World War II
After the end of the war, Herivel taught mathematics in a school for a year, but he found he could not handle the "rumbustious boys". He then lectured at Queen's University Belfast, where he was a reader in the History and Philosophy of Science.He published books and articles on Isaac Newton, Joseph Fourier and Christiaan Huygens. In 1978 he retired to Oxford, where he became a Fellow of All Souls College. His books include:
- Herivel, John (1965), The Background to Newton's Principia: A Study of Newton's Dynamical Researches in the Years 1664-84 Based on Original Manuscripts from the Portsmouth Collection in the Library of the University of Cambridge, Clarendon Press
- Herivel, John (1975), Joseph Fourier: the man and the physicist, Clarendon Press
- Herivel, John (2008), Herivelismus and the German Military Enigma, M & M Baldwin
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