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245 04 $aThe World of physics :$ba small library of the literature of physics from antiquity to the present /$c[edited] by Jefferson Hane Weaver ; with additional commentaries and notes by Lloyd Motz and Dale McAdoo.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon and Schuster,$c℗♭1987.
300 $a3 volumes :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $gv. 1. The Aristotelian cosmos and the Newtonian system --$gForeword --$gIntroduction --$gA. What is physics? --$tBasic physics /$rRichard P. Feynman --$tOn the meaning of physical theories /$rMax Born --$tThe fundamentals of theoretical physics /$rAlbert Einstein --$tDynamical laws and statistical laws /$rMax Planck --$tHow science grows /$rGerald Holton --$tNovum organum /$rFrancis Bacon --$gB. Myths and megaliths --$tThe Gorgon's eye /$rJerome Lettvin --$tHamlet's mill /$rGiorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend --$tStonehenge: a neolithic computer /$rGerald S. Hawkins --$tThe dawn of science /$rGeorge Sarton --$gC. Ancient visions --$tThe cosmology of Ancient Egypt /$rJ.M. Plumley --$tEnuma Elish -- The Babylonian Genesis /$rThorkild Jacobsen --$tGenesis 1-2 --$tHymn of creation --$tKena Upanishad --$tBhagavadgita --$tTao-Te Ching /$rLao Tzu --$tI ching (Book of changes) --$tThe Pre-Socratics /$rReginald E. Allen --$tTimaeus /$rPlato --$tNatural science and its principles /$rAristotle --$tLetter to Herodotus /$rEpicurus --$tA method of treating mechanical problems /$rArchimedes --$tOn the nature of the universe /$rLucretius --$tAlmagest /$rClaudius Ptolemy --$gD. The Middle Ages --$tTime /$rSaint Augustine --$tGuide for the perplexed /$rMoses Ben Maimon --$tOn experimental science /$rRoger Bacon --$tEssence and unity /$rRamo n Lull --$tBook of vexations /$rParacelsus --$gE. The Copernican revolution --$tOn the revolutions of the heavenly spheres /$rNicholas Copernicus --$tOn the infinite universe and worlds /$rGiordano Bruno --$tDialogue concerning two chief world systems /$rGalileo Galilei --$tThe dream /$rJohannes Kepler --$gF. Newton's world --$tMathematical principles of natural philosophy /$rIsaac Newton --$tRules of reasoning in philosophy /$rIsaac Newton --$tOptics /$rIsaac Newton --$tNewton, the man /$rJohn Maynard Keynes --$tLaputa /$rJonathan Swift --$tThe monadology /$rGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz --$tEvolution of the Solar System /$rPierre Simon de LaPlace --$gG. Atoms --$tRestoring force /$rRobert Hooke --$tKinetic theory of gases /$rDaniel Bernoulli --$tA theory of natural philosophy /$rRoger G. Boscovich --$tNew system of chemical philosophy /$rJohn Dalton --$tDetermining the relative masses of molecules and the proportions in which they form compounds /$rAmedeo Avogadro --$tFree and elastic molecules /$rJohn James Waterston --$tAtoms and electricity /$rMichael Faraday --$gH. Energy --$tEnergy /$rThomas Young --$tThe source of the heat which is excited by friction /$rBenjamin Thompson, Count Rumford --$tThe mechanical equivalent of heat /$rJulius Robert Mayer --$tOn the mechanical equivalent of heat /$rJames Prescott Joule --$tInteraction of natural forces /$rHermann Helmholtz --$gI. Entropy --$tThe motive power of heat /$rNicolas Sadi Carnot --$tThe second law of thermodynamics /$rRudolf Clausius --$tHeat and thermodynamics /$rWilliam Thomson, Lord Kelvin --$tStatistical mechanics /$rJosiah Willard Gibbs --$tApplication of the second law of thermodynamics: statistical mechanics /$rLudwig Boltzmann --$tThe second law of thermodynamics /$rMax Planck --$tStatistical mechanics and the second law of thermodynamics /$rPercy Williams Bridgman --$gJ. The electromagnetic field --$tPrinciples of philosophy /$rRene Descartes --$tTreatise on light /$rChristian Huygens --$tInterference of light /$rThomas Young --$tExperimental researches in electricity /$rMichael Faraday --$tA dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field /$rJames Clerk Maxwell -- v. 2. The Einstein universe and the Bohr atom -- v. 3. The evolutionary cosmos and the limits of science.
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700 1 $aWeaver, Jefferson Hane.
700 1 $aMotz, Lloyd,$d1909-2004.
700 1 $aMcAdoo, Dale.
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