Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
Highly recommended.(Choice)Pursuing Power and Lightis the best and most up-to-date treatment, especially for undergraduates, of the key concepts and figures of 19th-century physics.(Robert FriedelPhysics Today)Essential reading both for students in engineering and the sciences and for those in HPS departments... enjoyable and very interesting reading.(Stathis ArapostathisMetascience)Pursuing Power and Lightis a bravura performance that should inform and inspire many an undergraduate and general reader.(David Philip MillerBritish Journal of the History of Science)Pursuing Power and Lightis a bravura performance that should inform and inspire many an undergraduate and general reader.(David Philip MillerBritish Journal for the History of Science)Concise, technically lucid, and remarkably readable.(Suman SethIsis)