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Physics in the Nineteenth Century

By Robert D. , Purrington

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
9780813524429
LCC
QC7.P84 1997
Google Books ID
rfGWoxqLhbwC
Language
eng
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1957835 bytes)
Volume
1.0
Pages
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Time added
2024-05-25 06:46:31
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Description

cited in Jungnickel and McCormmach's *[Second Physicist](https://isidore.co/calibre/browse/book/5957) *(2017), p. 2fn2, as a "fine history of physics" and "An ample defense of the evolutionary approach to history of science, currently somewhat out of step with academic fashion"* * *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. Robert D. Purrington is a professor of physics at Tulane University and coauthor of Frame of the Universe.

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