The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical SciencesDavid C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Mary Jo Nye, Cambridge University Press, Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, Theodore M. Porter This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and comprehensive insights into developments in the public culture, disciplinary organization, and cognitive content of the physical and mathematical sciences. |
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Contents
The Modern Physical and Mathematical | 1 |
Models for | 21 |
z Intersections of Physical Science and Western Religion | 36 |
Women in the Physical Sciences in | 54 |
Womens Colleges A World of Their Own | 61 |
PostWorld War II and Womens Liberation | 67 |
Literature and the Modern Physical Sciences | 91 |
Literature and the Modern Physical Sciences in the History | 106 |
Electrical Theory and Practice in | 311 |
Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure 190019x7 | 331 |
Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics | 350 |
From QED to the Standard | 375 |
Chemical Physics and Quantum Chemistry in | 394 |
Plasmas and SolidState Science | 413 |
Their Structures and Functions | 429 |
MATHEMATICS ASTRONOMY | 447 |
Mathematical Schools Communities and Networks | 113 |
The Industry Research and Education Nexus 13 3 | 133 |
Instruments and Practice | 154 |
Languages in Chemistry | 174 |
Imagery and Representation in TwentiethCentury | 191 |
The Physical Sciences in the Life Sciences | 219 |
Chemical Atomism and Chemical Classification | 237 |
The Theory of Chemical Structure and Its Applications | 255 |
Theories and Experiments on Radiation from Thomas | 272 |
Force Energy and Thermodynamics | 289 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences Cambridge histories online Cambridge history ebook collection The Cambridge History of Science, Roy Porter Volume 5 of The modern physical and mathematical sciences, Mary Jo Nye |
| Editors | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Mary Jo Nye, Cambridge University Press, Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, Theodore M. Porter |
| Contributors | Ronald L. Numbers, Alexander Jones, Michael H. Shank, Peter J. Bowler, John V. Pickstone, David N. Livingstone |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521571995, 9780521571999 |
| Length | 678 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / History Science / Physics / General Technology & Engineering / History |
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