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Zusatztext This excellent book points out connections between instruments, observations, theories and discoveries, as well as communication among physicists. The book is replete with key references, clear figures and name and subject indexes. Informationen zum Autor Jed Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995 and a Killam Fellowship in 1990 (Canada), Buchwald was trained at Princeton and Harvard. From 1974 to 1992 he taught at, and then served as Director of, the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. From 1992 to 2001 he was at MIT as Dibner Professor of the History of Science, where he also directed the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. Buchwald has authored or co-authored five books and edited eight volumes on the history of science and related matters, as well as about seventy articles.Robert Fox read physics at Oxford and then took a doctorate in the history of science, also at Oxford. He taught in the Department of History of the University of Lancaster from 1966, being awarded a personal chair in the history of science there in 1987. After a brief period as Assistant Director and Head of the Research and Information Services Division in the Science Museum, London, he was appointed to the chair of the history of science at the University of Oxford in 1988. Since retiring from the Oxford chair in 2006, he has held visiting professorships in the USA, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2007) and East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (2009), and the Czech Republic, at the Czech National University of Technology (2010). He has served as President of the Division of History of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (1993-7) and of the IUHPS (1995-7). Klappentext This 'Oxford Handbook' brings together contributions by leading authorities on key areas of the history of physics since the seventeenth century. In a single volume, it offers a comprehensive introduction to scholarly contributions that have tended to be dispersed in journals and books not easily accessible to the student or general reader. Zusammenfassung This 'Oxford Handbook' brings together contributions by leading authorities on key areas of the history of physics since the seventeenth century. In a single volume, it offers a comprehensive introduction to scholarly contributions that have tended to be dispersed in journals and books not easily accessible to the student or general reader. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Physics and the New Science 1: John Heilbron: Was there a Scientific Revolution? 2: Noel Swerdlow: Galileo's Mechanics of Natural Motion and Projectiles 3: John Schuster: Cartesian Physics 4: Anthony Turner: Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550-1700 5: Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk: Newton's Principia 6: Alan Shapiro: Newton's Optics 7: Bertoloni Meli: Experimentation in the Physical Sciences of the 17th Century 8: Niccolò Guicciardini: Mathematics and the New Sciences Part II: The Long Eighteenth Century 9: Giuliano Pancaldi: The Physics of Imponderable Fluids 10: Larry Stewart: Physics on Show: Entertainment, Demonstration, and Research in the Eighteenth Century 11: Anita McConnell: Instruments and Instrument-Makers, 1700-1850 12: Sandro Caparrini, and Craig Fraser: Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century 13: Robert Fox: Laplace and the Physics of Short-Range Forces 14: Jed Buchwald: Electricity and Magnetism to Volta Part III: Fashioning the Discipline: from Natural Philosophy to Physics 15: Jed Buchwald: Optics in the Nineteenth Century 16: Hasok Chang: Thermal Physics and Thermodynamics 17: Crosbie Smith: Engineering Energy: Constructing a New Physics for Victorian Britain 18: Fried...
