Physics : a short history, from quintessence to quarks
Record details
- ISBN: 0198746857
- ISBN: 9780198746850 :
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Physical Description:
ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Greek way -- Invention in antiquity. Physica ; Applications ; Dumbing down -- Selection in Islam. Falsafa ; Mixed mathematics ; Departures -- Domestication in Europe. At the interface ; Alma mater ; Fresh imports -- A second creation. Revolution or integration? ; The invention of physics ; Institutional frameworks ; Physics and enlightenment -- Classical physics and its cure. Standard models ; Physicists as librarians ; Woes and wonders in 1900 ; The profession -- From Old World to new. Legacies of World War I ; The legacy enriched ; Other interwar business ; Americanization -- The quintessential. |
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Subject: | Physics History Physics |
Genre: | History. |
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