The World of physics
Subtitle: a small library of the literature of physics from antiquity to the present
By: [edited] by Jefferson Hane Weaver ; with additional commentaries and notes by Lloyd Motz and Dale McAdoo.
Contributors: Weaver, Jefferson Hane.; Motz, Lloyd, 1910-; McAdoo, Dale.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Brand: Simon n Schuster, Inc.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2948
Subjects: Physics -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The Aristotelian cosmos and the Newtonian system; title: v. 2. The Einstein universe and the Bohr atom; title: v. 3. The evolutionary cosmos and the limits of science.