Author: McCormmach, Russell ; editor:
Title: Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Sixth Annual Volume
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1975). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xiv,550 pp. A pencilled note to front fixed flyleaf. Weighs 1 kilo.. ISBN: 0691081662. Spine bump. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 9 papers. Includes: Kenkichiro Koizumi "The Emergence of Japan's First Physicists: 1868-1900"; Geoffrey Cantor "The Reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role of Methodology in Scientific Debate"; Barbara Giusti Doran "Origins & Consolidation of Field Theory in 19th Century Britain: From the Mechanical to the Electromagnetic View of Nature"; Salvo d'Agostino "Hertz's Researches on Electromagnetic Waves"; J.G. McEvoy & J.E. McGuire "God & Nature: Priestley's Way of Rational Dissent"; John Hedley Brooke "Laurent, Gerhardt & the Philosophy of Chemistry"; Robert E. Kohler, Jr. "The Lewis- Langmuir Theory of Valence & the Chemical Community, 1920-1928"; Roger H. Stuewer "G.N. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light"; Thaddeus J. Trenn "Rutherford & Recoil Atoms: The Metamorphosis & Success of a Once Stillborn Theory".

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