Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Russell McCormmach
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from
Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: D. Baird
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-14 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The sub-title of this symposium is accurate and, in a curious way, promises more than it states: Classical Physicist, Modem Philosopher. Heinrich Hertz, as the
Inside Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Thomas Vargish
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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In this book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook encompass ph
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
Language: en
Pages: 956
Authors: Jed Z. Buchwald
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Presents a history of physics, examining the theories and experimental practices of the science.
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science
Language: en
Pages: 701
Authors: David Cahan
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-12 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics an