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The man who changed everything : the life of James Clerk Maxwell
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ISBN: 047086088X 9780470860885 0470861711 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chichester : Wiley,

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J.D. Bernal : the sage of science
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ISBN: 0199205655 9780199205653 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,


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Newton, his friends and his foes
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ISBN: 0860783472 9780860783473 Year: 1993 Volume: 390 Publisher: Aldershot Brookfield Variorum

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Black holes and baby universes and other essays.
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ISBN: 0593034007 9780593034002 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Bantam,

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Paul Dirac: the man and his work
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ISBN: 9780521583824 9780511564314 9780521019538 0521583829 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Energy and empire : a biographical study of Lord Kelvin
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ISBN: 0521261732 9780521261739 9780521129213 9780521129251 9780521129282 0521129214 0521129281 0521129257 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge university press,

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This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.


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Newton
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ISBN: 2251760393 9782251760391 Year: 2003 Volume: 33

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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), mathématicien, physicien, théologien, historien, alchimiste, homme politique et grand commis de l’État, est à l’origine d’une révolution culturelle dont les effets continuent de se faire sentir : l’auteur des Principia Mathematica (1684) a donné sa pleine expansion à la science – telle que la conçoivent les Modernes – en mathématisant le monde, en l’expliquant sans faire intervenir de considération sur la structure ultime du cosmos ou sur le plan de Dieu pour l’univers. À partir de Newton, la science laisse à la métaphysique et à la religion le soin de s’interroger sur l’origine des phénomènes physiques et se donne pour tâche l’établissement, de plus en plus rigoureux, des lois gouvernant ces phénomènes – origine du succès planétaire de la science, une fois relayée par la technique. On essaie ici de restituer les grands moments de l’œuvre de cet immense savant, associé à la naissance de l’astronomie moderne ; à l’explication du mouvement des planètes (avec l’hypothèse d’une force gravitationnelle attirant ces planètes vers le soleil ainsi que les unes vers les autres) ; à la théorie du mouvement (la mécanique) qu’elle suppose ; à une explication des phénomènes de la couleur appuyée sur une conception nouvelle de la structure de la lumière ; à de grands résultats mathématiques, entre autres l’invention du calcul infinitésimal. On évoque également sa théologie, son activité politique et administrative, son intérêt pour l’histoire et pour l’alchimie : c’est la place de la rationalité dans la société moderne qui s’en trouve du même coup dévoilée.


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Bird of passage: recollections of a physicist
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ISBN: 0691083908 9780691083902 Year: 1985 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press


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Bird of Passage
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ISBN: 0691024162 140085461X 0691602204 0691631743 9781400854615 9780691631745 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, "some of the great characters" in this field.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Michael Faraday : Sandemanian and scientist : a study of science and religion in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0312066694 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York St. Martin's Press

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