The Oxford handbook of the history of physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox.
The Oxford handbook of the history of physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox.
The Oxford handbook of the history of physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox.
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Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, c2013.
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G 2014/3880
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English
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Physical content
945 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I PHYSICS AND THE NEW SCIENCE -- 1.Was There a Scientific Revolution? / John L. Heilbron -- 2.Galileo's Mechanics of Natural Motion and Projectiles / N. M. Swerdlow -- 3.Cartesian Physics / John A. Schuster -- 4.Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550--1700 / Ant...
Contents note continued: 14.Electricity and Magnetism to Volta / Jed Z. Buchwald -- pt. III FASHIONING THE DISCIPLINE: FROM NATURAL PHILOSOPHY TO PHYSICS -- 15.Optics in the Nineteenth Century / Jed Z. Buchwald -- 16.Thermal Physics and Thermodynamics / Hasok Chang -- 17.Engineering Energy: Construc...
Contents note continued: 26.Three and a Half Principles: The Origins of Modern Relativity Theory / Daniel Kennefick -- 27.Quantum Physics / Suman Seth -- 28.The Silicon Tide: Relations between Things Epistemic and Things of Function in the Semiconductor World / Terry Shinn -- 29.Physics and Cosmolog...
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Edition
First edition.
Date Published
c2013.
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Summary
This book brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. By presenting a wide diversity of studies in a single volume, it provides authoritative introductions to scholarly contributions that have tended to be dispersed in journals and books not...
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Full title
The Oxford handbook of the history of physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox.
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History of physics.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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c2013.
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G 2014/3880
Record Identifier
74VKv5b7V4xZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKv5b7V4xZ
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ISBN
9780199696253
019969625X
DDC
530.09\223
MMS ID
991021717159702626
