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Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
J. L. Heilbron
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Description for Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
Hardcover. How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding. Num Pages: 256 pages, Between 20-30 black and white images and line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 206 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; ... Read more
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198746850
SKU
V9780198746850
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About J. L. Heilbron
John Heilbron was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics and history; and began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He returned to Berkeley in 1967, where he rose to become professor of history and vice chancellor. After retiring in 1994 Heilbron taught sporadically at Caltech and Yale, and lived mostly around Oxford, where he has ... Read more
Reviews for Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
Elegantly written and entertaining.
Daan Wegener, Isis Review
delightful... Heilbron leaves us rooted in lived reality
Nature, Robert P. Crease
manages to pack an awful lot into that very short space ... interesting and informative for non-scientists
A Hermit's Progress
The book is effectively a short history of ideas that moves around the cultures ... Read more
Daan Wegener, Isis Review
delightful... Heilbron leaves us rooted in lived reality
Nature, Robert P. Crease
manages to pack an awful lot into that very short space ... interesting and informative for non-scientists
A Hermit's Progress
The book is effectively a short history of ideas that moves around the cultures ... Read more