num_pages: 196
description: By focusing on the conceptual issues faced by nineteenth century physicists, this book clarifies the status of field theory, the ether, and thermodynamics in the work of the period. A remarkably synthetic account of a difficult and fragmentary period in scientific development.
language: English
title: Energy, Force and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics
titlecomplete: Energy, Force and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
genres: Science, Physics, History Of Science
ratings_count: 19
series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
publisher: Cambridge University Press