Title: Physics in the nineteenth century
First published: 1997
Description: Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth.
Subjects: Physics, History, Physics, history
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: QC7 .P84 1997