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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585039208 9780585039206 9780813524412 0813524415 9780813524429 0813524423 0813557909 9780813557908 |