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Science In The Making Scientific Development As Chronicled Historic Papers In The Philosophical Magazine, with commentaries and illustrations
Edited By E. A. Davis
Copyright 1995
454 Pages
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CRC Press
456 Pages
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CRC Press
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This text celebrates, in four volumes, the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine" and chronicles the history of scientific development as chonicled in its pages. Each volume previews a 50 year period and contains not only classical works but also papers of an amusing controversial nature. Commentaries preceding each part set the papers in the context of the time: Volume One... Read more
Foreword Sir Nevill Mott, Foreword The Diffusion of Philosophical Knowledge: 1798–1850 Sir John Meurig Thomas, Philosophical Magazine An Abbreviated History, Introduction Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Note to the Reader, Plate Section, Part One Early Papers 1 Part Two Electricity Discovered: The Voltaic Pile to the Electric Motor; Part Three Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday; Part Four Miscellany; Part Five On the Nature of Light and Matter; Part Six Electricity and Magnetism; Part Seven James Prescott Joule.
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E. A. Davis
