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Ether and Reality
A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space
Av Oliver Lodge
Häftad, 2012
422 kr
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Among the widely agreed facts of physics in the late nineteenth century was the existence of luminiferous ether: the medium through which light was thought to travel. Theorised to be a highly rarefied substance, the ether accounted for the movement of light, gravity and even heat across a vacuum. …
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy
Av John Frederick William Herschel
Häftad, 2009
618 kr
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Astronomer and philosopher J. F. W. Herschel's A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, originally published in 1830, can be regarded as the first modern work on the philosophy of science. In this book, Herschel carefully sets out what he regards as the principles and methods of …
Mechanism of the Heavens
Häftad, 2009
1025 kr
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Published in 1831, this work forms part of a collection of introductory volumes suggested by Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Due to the exceptional mathematical ability of its author, however, it outgrew its original plan and …
The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Oceanic Tides and Lunar Disturbance of Gravity
Häftad, 2009
797 kr
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Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His family home …
The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Tidal Friction and Cosmogony
Häftad, 2009
797 kr
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Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His family home …
The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Liquid and Geophysical Investigations
Häftad, 2009
797 kr
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Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His family home …
The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Periodic Orbits and Miscellaneous Papers
Häftad, 2009
895 kr
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Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His family home …
The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Supplementary Volume
Av George Howard Darwin, F. J. M. Stratton m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
390 kr
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Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His work was concerned primarily …
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
Häftad, 2009
780 kr
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Mary Somerville (1780-1872) would have been a remarkable woman in any age, but as an acknowledged leading mathematician and astronomer at a time when the education of most women was extremely restricted, her achievement was extraordinary. Laplace famously told her that 'There have been only three …
An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that …
Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
822 kr
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Sir James Jeans' well-known treatise covers the topics in electromagnetic theory required by every non-specialist physicist. It provides the relevant mathematical analysis and is therefore useful to those whose mathematical knowledge is limited, as well as to the more advanced physicists, engineers …
Atomicity and Quanta
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
390 kr
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This is the full text of James Jeans's Rouse Ball Lecture given in 1925 at Cambridge University, and surveys the field of atomic and subatomic physics in the early days of quantum mechanics, with a brief historical perspective on measurement.
The Dynamical Theory of Gases
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
684 kr
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Jeans's primary aim with the first edition of his book, originally published in 1904, was to 'develop the theory of gases upon as exact a mathematical basis as possible'. Twenty years later and those theories were being revolutionised by Quantum Theory. In this fourth edition, Jeans does not …
The Growth of Physical Science
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
650 kr
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The Growth of Physical Science is a detailed but very accessible survey of what began as natural philosophy and culminated in the mid-twentieth century as quantum physical science. From the earliest physical investigations of nature made by the various civilisations of Babylonia, Phoenicia and …
The Mysterious Universe
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
455 kr
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Originating from the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in November 1930, this book is based upon the conviction that the teachings and findings of astronomy and physical science are destined to produce an immense change on our outlook on the universe as a whole, and on views …
Physics and Philosophy
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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Originally published in 1942, this book discusses an emerging physical science that brought with it a fresh message as to the fundamental nature of the world, and of the possibilities of human free will in particular. The aim of the book is to explore that territory, which forms a borderland …
Through Space and Time
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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Through Space and Time is based upon the 1933 Christmas Lectures that James Jeans gave at the Royal Institution, London. Intended to appeal to a wide readership and presenting a broad understanding of the Earth, solar system and the universe, the book begins its journey with the history, structure …
The New Background of Science
Av James Jeans
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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Published in 1934 as a second edition to James Jeans' popular work on the general understanding of the physical universe, The New Background of Science took advantage of a comparatively 'quiescent' period in physical investigation when fundamental theories and findings gained wide acceptance. …
Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light
Av William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Häftad, 2010
1009 kr
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The mathematical physicist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1904) is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The lectures in this collection demonstrate an attempt by Baron Kelvin to …
Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.
Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor
Av George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Larmor
Häftad, 2010
846 kr
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and President of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, physics, and geodesy, in which numerous discoveries still bear his name. The Memoir and Scientific …
Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.
Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor
Av George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Larmor
Häftad, 2010
811 kr
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and President of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, physics, and geodesy, in which numerous discoveries still bear his name. The Memoir and Scientific …
Radiations from Radioactive Substances
Av Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
895 kr
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Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) was a New Zealand-born physicist who has become known as the 'father of nuclear physics' for his discovery of the so-called planetary structure of atoms. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. His co-authors, James Chadwick and Charles D. Ellis also …
Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish
Av Henry Cavendish, James Clerk Maxwell
Häftad, 2010
797 kr
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Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), the grandson of the second duke of Devonshire, wrote papers on electrical topics for the Royal Society, but the majority of his electrical experiments did not become known until they were collected and published by James Clerk Maxwell a century later, in 1879, long …
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
Av James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven
Häftad, 2011
1107 kr
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The publication in 1890 of the two-volume Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, edited by W. D. Niven, was one of the two objects of a committee formed 'for the purpose of securing a fitting memorial of him' (the other object being the commissioning of a marble bust for the Cavendish …
Cosmos
Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
Av Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine
Häftad, 2010
813 kr
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Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the U.S., and Russia, and his voyages and observations resulted in the discovery of …
Cosmos
Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
Av Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine
Häftad, 2010
797 kr
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Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the U.S. and Russia, and his voyages and observations resulted in the discovery of …
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age
With Selections from her Correspondence
Av Mary Somerville, Martha Somerville
Häftad, 2010
950 kr
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These Personal Recollections contain the memoirs and a selection of the correspondence of the nineteenth-century polymath Mary Somerville (1780-1872). The book was first published in 1873, a year after Mary's death, by her daughter Martha, who wrote brief introductions to the text. Mary Somerville …
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
With a Selection from his Correspondence and Occasional Writings and a Sketch of his Contributions to Science
Av Lewis Campbell, William Garnett
Häftad, 2010
1048 kr
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish physicist well-known for his extensive work with electromagnetism, colour analysis, and kinetic theory. Considered by many to be a giant in his field with significant influence on the physicists who would follow, Maxwell spent time as a professor at …
Biographical Memoir of James Dinwiddie, L.L.D., Astronomer in the British Embassy to China, 1792, '3, '4,
Afterwards Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of Fort William, Bengal
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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This is an account of the career of James Dinwiddie (1746-1815). First published in 1868 by Dinwiddie's grandson William Jardine Proudfoot, the work is based on Dinwiddie's own autobiographical notes, travel logbook and personal correspondence. The biography traces Dinwiddie's career from the …
Matter and Motion
Häftad, 2010
390 kr
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Published posthumously in 1888, this treatise by the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge explores and explains the fundamental principles and laws that are the basis of elementary physics. Maxwell was at the forefront of physics and mathematics during the nineteenth century and his …
