Title | No Truth Except in the Details [electronic resource] : Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein / edited by A. J. Kox, Daniel M. Siegel |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1995 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0217-9 |
Descript | XXV, 382 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource |
I. Foundations of Physics, Experimental and Mathematical -- The Last Experiment of Henry Cavendish -- Reading Mathematics, Constructing Physics: Fourier and His Readers, 1822โ1850 -- II. Electricity and Magnetism -- Electromagnetic Energy and the Early History of the Energy Principle -- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Maxwell Found There -- Electric Discharge in Rarefied Gases: The Dominion of Experiment. Faraday. Plรผcker. Hittorf. -- III. Thermodynamics and Matter Theory, Physical and Biological -- Gibbs and the Energeticists -- Heinrich Hertzโs Attempt to Generate a Novel Account of Evaporation -- Crystals and Carriers: The Chemical and Physiological Identification of Hemoglobin -- IV Einstein -- Einstein, Specific Heats, and Residual Rays: The History of a Retracted Paper -- From Periphery to Center: Einsteinโs Path from Bern to Berlin (1902โ1914) -- Einstein and Books -- V Further Perspectives -- Text and Context in Maxwellโs Electromagnetic Theory -- Prediction and Theory Evaluation in Physics and Astronomy -- The Power of the Word -- The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics at the Crossroads -- Appendix. List of Publications of Martin J. Klein -- Index of Names