Physics in the nineteenth century:

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physi...

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Main Author: Purrington, Robert D. 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick [u.a.] Rutgers Univ. Press 1997
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Summary:Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth.
Physical Description:XVII, 249 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0813524415
0813524423
9780813524429