Because the ideas of modern physics represented totally new directions in thought when
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Twentieth Century Physics, Second Edition is a major historical study of the scientific and
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There is no synthetic history of early modern science that meets contemporary standards of
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I n November 1881, DA Appleton and Company of New York City issued as Volume XXXVIII
of their International Scientific Series a highly unusual sort of book, entirely without …

Welcome to physics, the science of relativity and gravitation, matter and energy, quarks and
quanta, lasers and masers, and many other intriguing scientific areas. Since the appearance …

For several years, the author has given at Cornell University, and, occasionally, in summer
sessions, elsewhere, a course of lectures under the title" Introduction to Modern Physical …

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The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the
last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating …

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THE articles collected in this volume all result from the same motive and all have the same
goal. Both motive and goal have been determined by the intellectual situation in the first third …