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050 00 $aQC7$b.P84 1997
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100 1 $aPurrington, Robert D.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82095376
245 10 $aPhysics in the nineteenth century /$cRobert D. Purrington.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axvii, 249 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-237) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPrologue: The Century of Science --$g2.$tNineteenth-Century Science in Context --$g3.$tElectromagnetism --$g4.$tHeat and Thermodynamics --$g5.$tEnergy and the Energy Principle --$g6.$tAtomism --$g7.$tThe Kinetic Theory of Gases and Statistical Mechanics --$g8.$tFin de Siecle --$g9.$tEpilogue.
520 $aPutting 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.
650 0 $aPhysics$xHistory$y19th century.
852 00 $bmat$hQC7$i.P84 1997