Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist

'A sensitive and compelling work about the confrontation of a classical spirit with the raw disorders of the modern scientific age.'---Daniel J. Kevles, New York Times Book Review

List of contents

The Town The Study The Institute The World-City The World The Mountains Afterword Sources Acknowledgements

About the author

Russell McCormmach is Professor of the History of Sience at The Johns Hopkins Univeristy.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Mccormmach, McCormmach Russell
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1991
• EAN: 9780674624610
• ISBN: 978-0-674-62461-0
• Weight: 336 g
• Illustrations: 6 halftone, 1 line illustration
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / General, History of Science, Physics, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary