(P/B) WHEN PHYSICS BECAME KING

Παρουσίαση

As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve legitimacy in the scientific community and culture at large. In fact, the term "physicist" did not appear in English until the 1830s. When Physics Became King traces the emergence of this revolutionary science, demonstrating how a discipline that barely existed in 1800 came to be regarded a century later as the ultimate key to unlocking nature's secrets. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Queen of the sciences
A revolutionary science
The romance of nature
The science of showmanship
The science of work
Mysterious fluids and forces
Mapping the heavens
Places of precision
Imperial physics
Bibliographic essay
Index