History of Modern Physics: Proceedings of the Xxth International Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. XIV: 57 (de Diversis Artibus) - Softcover

 
9782503512006: History of Modern Physics: Proceedings of the Xxth International Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. XIV: 57 (de Diversis Artibus)

Synopsis

Addressing modern physics in its largest perspective, the present volume, which includes 34 contributions, begins with a reappraisal of classical science. However, the stress is placed on the contemporary period with sections devoted to thermodynamics and mechanics, the centenary of the electron, Einstein, the quantum theory and particle physics.

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