From clockwork to crapshoot : a history of physics /
Newton presents a history of physics from the early beginnings, with the associated mathematics, astronomy and chemistry. He gives explanations of the scientific concepts at issue, thumbnail sketches of the protagonists, and descriptions of the changing instruments that enabled scientists to make th...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Beginnings
- The Greek miracle
- Science in the Middle Ages
- The first revolution
- Newton's legacy
- New physics
- Relativity
- Statistical physics
- Probability
- The quantum revolution
- Fields, nuclei, and stars
- The properties of matter
- The constituents of the universe
- Epilogue.
