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Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth. Robert D. Purrington is a professor of physics at Tulane University and coauthor of Frame of the Universe.

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title Physics in the Nineteenth Century author Purrington Robert - photo 1
title:Physics in the Nineteenth Century
author:Purrington, Robert D.
publisher:Rutgers University Press
isbn10 | asin:0813524423
print isbn13:9780813524429
ebook isbn13:9780585039206
language:English
subjectPhysics--History--19th century.
publication date:1997
lcc:QC7.P84 1997eb
ddc:530/.09/034
subject:Physics--History--19th century.
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Physics in the Nineteenth Century
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Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Photograph by Sir R Hadfield Page - photo 2
Michael Faraday (1791-1867).
Photograph by Sir R. Hadfield.
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Physics in the Nineteenth Century
Robert D. Purrington
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Purrington, Robert D.
Physics in the nineteenth century/Robert D. Purrington.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8135-2441-5 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-8135-02442-0
(pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Physics History 19th century. I. Title.
QC7.P84 1997Picture 4 96-49115
530'.90'034 dc21 CIP
British Cataloging-in-Publication information available
Copyright 1997 by Robert D. Purrington All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, Livingston Campus, Bldg. 4161, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. The only exception to this prohibition is "fair use" as defined by U.S. copyright law.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue: The Century of Science
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Nineteenth-Century Science in Context
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Electromagnetism
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Heat and Thermodynamics
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Energy and the Energy Principle
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Atomism
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The Kinetic Theory of Gases and Statistical Mechanics
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Fin de Sicle
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Index
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Frontispiece. Michael Faraday.
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1.William Whewell.
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2.Title Page of Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity.
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3. Charles Augustin Coulomb
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4. Hans Christian Oersted.
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5. Andr-Marie Ampre.
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6. Faraday's Laboratory at the Royal Institution.
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7. William Thomson.
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8. George Gabriel Stokes.
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