书目名称 | No Truth Except in the Details | 副标题 | Essays in Honor of M | 编辑 | A. J. Kox,Daniel M. Siegel | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimentaland mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendishand Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas ofinvestigation that constituted the central foci of the development ofthe physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity andmagnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, WilliamThomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and mattertheory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah WillardGibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetictheory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe onhemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry. Movingon to the beginning of the twentieth century, a set of three articleson Albert Einstein deal with his early career and various influenceson his work. Finally, a set of historiographical issues important forthe history of physics are discussed, and the chronological conclusionof the volume is an article on the Solvay Conference of 1933. .For physicists interested in the history of their discipline,historians and philosophers of science, and graduate students in | 出版日期 | Book 1995 | 关键词 | Albert Einstein; History of physics; electricity; experiment; magnetism; science; thermodynamics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0217-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-4097-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-0217-9Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | issn_series | 0068-0346 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995 |
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