Science In The Making: Scientific Development As Chronicled Historic Papers In The Philosophical Magazine, with commentaries and illustrations

by E. A. Davis (Editor)

Overview

This text celebrates, in four volumes, the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine" and chronicles the history of scientific development as chonicled in its pages.  Each volume previews a 50 year period and contains not only classical works but also papers of an amusing controversial nature.  Commentaries preceding each part set the pa

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040190494
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/22/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	456
File size:	10 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword Sir Nevill Mott, Foreword The Diffusion of Philosophical Knowledge: 1798–1850 Sir John Meurig Thomas, Philosophical Magazine An Abbreviated History, Introduction Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Note to the Reader, Plate Section, Part One Early Papers 1 Part Two Electricity Discovered: The Voltaic Pile to the Electric Motor; Part Three Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday; Part Four Miscellany; Part Five On the Nature of Light and Matter; Part Six Electricity and Magnetism; Part Seven James Prescott Joule.