TY - BOOK AU - MCCORMMACH,Russell TI - Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences T2 - Princeton Legacy Library, SN - 9781400870172 (vol. 5) CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, 2017 KW - UDJG KW - DE-Fizică KW - udjg KW - DE-Biologie KW - DE-Chimie N1 - Vol. 5; Frontmatter; Editor's Foreword; Contents; Introduction; A. Number of Academic Physicists; B. Personal Income; C. Laboratory Expenditures; D. New Plant; E. Productivity; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Vol. 6; Frontmatter; Contents; Editor’s Foreword; The Emergence of Japan’s First Physicists: 1868–1900; The Reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role of Methodology in Scientific Debate; Origins and Consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From the Mechanical to the Electromagnetic View of Nature; Hertz’s Researches on Electromagnetic Waves; God and Nature: Priestley’s Way of Rational Dissent; Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry; The Lewis-Langmuir Theory of Valence and the Chemical Community, 1920–1928; G. Ν. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light; Rutherford and Recoil Atoms: The Metamorphosis and Success of a Once Stillborn Theory; Notes on Contributors; Vol. 7; Frontmatter; Contents; Editor's Foreword; The Ether Problem, the Mechanistic Worldview, and the Origins of the Theory of Relativity; Einstein’s Early Scientific Collaboration; Max Planck’s Philosophy of Nature and His Elaboration of the Special Theory of Relativity; The Concept of Particle Creation before and after Quantum Mechanics; Chemistry as a Branch of Physics: Laplace's Collaboration with Lavoisier; Mayer’s Concept of “Force”: The "Axis" of a New Science of Physics; Debates over the Theory of Solution: A Study of Dissent in Physical Chemistry in the English-Speaking World in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; The Rise of Physics Laboratories in Britain; The Establishment of the Royal College of Chemistry: An Investigation of the Social Context of Early-Victorian Chemistry; Note on Contributors; IN MEMORIAM: Tetu Hirosige (1928-1975) UR - https://www-degruyter-com.am.e-nformation.ro/princetonup/view/title/529664?rskey=nZ43Jl&tab_body=toc-79062 ER -