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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It usually scares the bleep out of me when a physicist attempts history. Purrington is a major exception. PHYSICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY perfectly fills a void in the history of physics, and the intellectual growth of America and Europe. It's a compulsive read-read it straight through without putting it down once. I know of no better book dealing with the intellectual 'threads' of the growth of physics. Purringtons' writing is clear, crisp, and to the point. A good book has exactly the right number of words. This book has exactly the right number.
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The book is a good read, and fairly to even a novice. It is fairly clear that Purrington wrote it, I could hear his voice and mannerisms dripping off of every page. Would recommend.
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It is not particularly remarkable that a century should see in its predecessor the prelude to its own modernism; so we might be excused if we were to view the nineteenth century in this way, finding it interesting primarily for its role in setting the stage for the revolutions of the early twentieth century, ignoring other aspects of the critical heritage of that century and its impact on our own, and, most of all, failing to take it on its own terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
point atomism, blackbody formula, caloric theory, molecular vortices, chemical atomism, contiguous particles, imponderable fluids, vis viva, combining proportions, molecular currents, dynamical theory, undulatory theory, quantum discontinuity, point atoms, electrical fluid, equipartition theorem, electrical action, kinetic theory, mechanical equivalent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Thomson, Royal Society, Royal Institution, Humphrey Davy, James Clerk Maxwell, John Dalton, Michael Faraday, Academy of Sciences, Industrial Revolution, Sadi Carnot, Benjamin Thompson, William Whewell, Hermann von Helmholtz, John Herschel, Lord Rayleigh, Philosophical Magazine, Rudolph Clausius, Count Rumford, Ecole Polytechnique, Experimental Researches, French Revolution, Peter Guthrie Tait, Pierre Duhem, Thomas Young, William Hamilton New!
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It is not particularly remarkable that a century should see in its predecessor the prelude to its own modernism; so we might be excused if we were to view the nineteenth century in this way, finding it interesting primarily for its role in setting the stage for the revolutions of the early twentieth century, ignoring other aspects of the critical heritage of that century and its impact on our own, and, most of all, failing to take it on its own terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
point atomism, blackbody formula, caloric theory, molecular vortices, chemical atomism, contiguous particles, imponderable fluids, vis viva, combining proportions, molecular currents, dynamical theory, undulatory theory, quantum discontinuity, point atoms, electrical fluid, equipartition theorem, electrical action, kinetic theory, mechanical equivalent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Thomson, Royal Society, Royal Institution, Humphrey Davy, James Clerk Maxwell, John Dalton, Michael Faraday, Academy of Sciences, Industrial Revolution, Sadi Carnot, Benjamin Thompson, William Whewell, Hermann von Helmholtz, John Herschel, Lord Rayleigh, Philosophical Magazine, Rudolph Clausius, Count Rumford, Ecole Polytechnique, Experimental Researches, French Revolution, Peter Guthrie Tait, Pierre Duhem, Thomas Young, William Hamilton New!
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