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Published by Princeton University Press , Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 1975
Seller: Librairie Philoscience, Malicorne sur Sarthe, France
First Edition
1 plate in frontispiece, Japanese, Kanagaki Robun, few black and white illustrations 1st edition, 1975 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's printed dust-jacket clear blue and black grand In-8 1 vol. - 564 pages Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Editor's Foreword, xiv, Text, 550 pages, Contributors - Kenkichiro Koizumi : The emergence of Japan's first physicists, 1868-1900 - Geoffrey Cantor : The reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain : A case study illustrating the role of methodology in scientific debate - Barbara Giusti Doran : Origins and consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth century Britain : From the mechanical to the electromagnetic view of nature - Salvo d'Agostino : Hertz's researches on Electromagnetic Waves - J.G. McEvoy and J.E. McGuire : God and nature : Priestley's way of rational dissent - John Hedley Brooke : Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry - Robert E. Kohler, Jr. : The Lewis-Langnuit Theory of Valence and the chemical community, 1920-1928 - Roger H. Stuewer : G.N. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light - Thaddeus J. Trenn : Rutherford and Recoil Atoms : The metamorphosis and success of a once Stillborn Theory near fine copy, the dust-jacket is complete and near fine, but with minor wear (folding tracks mainly), the top of the right part is lightly torn on 2 cms, inside is fine, no markings 1000.