From clockwork to crapshoot:a history of physics
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 340 p.: ill., map ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
0674023374 (alk. paper) 9780674023376 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | O4 |
CLC: | O4-09 |
Call Number: | O4-09/N565 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-321) and index. Beginnings -- The Greek miracle -- Science in the Middle Ages -- The first revolution -- Newton's legacy -- New physics -- Relativity -- Statistical physics -- Probability -- The quantum revolution -- Fields, nuclei, and stars -- The properties of matter -- The constituents of the universe. |