Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks / J. L. Heilbron.
Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks / J. L. Heilbron.
Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks / J. L. Heilbron.
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G 2016/525
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English
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Physical content
ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Invention in antiquity -- Selection in Islam -- Domestication in Europe -- A second creation -- Classical physics and its cure -- From old world to new -- The quintessential.
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First edition.
Place of Publication
England
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"How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that h...
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Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks / J. L. Heilbron.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/525
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74VKzK3eabEb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzK3eabEb
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ISBN
0198746857 hardcover
9780198746850 hardcover
DDC
530.09
MMS ID
991023405339702626
