The laboratory revolution and the creation of the modern university, 1830-1940 /

Table of Contents: “…6 A Fertile Ecosystem : University Chemical Laboratories and their Suppliers in Fin-de-Siècle Paris --…”
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The scientific journal : authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century / by Csiszar, Alex

Table of Contents: “…-- Access fantasies at the fin de siècle -- Conclusion: whose impact?…”
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Quantum generations : a history of physics in the twentieth century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siecle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures -- Einstein's relativity, and others' -- A revolution that failed -- Physics in industry and war -- Science and politics in the Weimar republic -- Quantum jumps -- The rise of nuclear physics -- From two to many particles -- Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics -- Eddington's dream and other heterodoxies -- Physics and the new dictatorships -- Brain drain and brain gain -- From uranium puzzles to Hiroshima -- Nuclear themes -- Militarization and megatrends -- Particle discoveries -- Fundamental theories -- Cosmology and the renaissance of relativity -- Elements of solid state physics -- Engineering physics and quantum electronics -- Science under attack--physics in crisis? …”

Quantum Generations : A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siecle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures -- Einstein's relativity, and others' -- A revolution that failed -- Physics in industry and war -- Science and politics in the Weimar republic -- Quantum jumps -- The rise of nuclear physics -- From two to many particles -- Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics -- Eddington's dream and other heterodoxies -- Physics and the new dictatorships -- Brain drain and brain gain -- From uranium puzzles to Hiroshima -- Nuclear themes -- Militarization and megatrends -- Particle discoveries -- Fundamental theories -- Cosmology and the renaissance of relativity -- Elements of solid state physics -- Engineering physics and quantum electronics -- Science under attack -- physics in crisis? …”
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Growing explanations : historical perspectives on recent science /

Table of Contents: “…Norton Wise -- Mirror symmetry : persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison -- Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siècle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico -- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of René Thom : topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin -- From Boeing to Berkeley : civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson -- Fuzzyfying the world : social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental -- Marrying the premodern to the postmodern : computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. …”
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Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / by Weinstein, Galina

Table of Contents: “…. -- 1 Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau's Experiment of 1851 -- 1.1 Emission and Wave Theories of Light -- 1.2 Arago and Fresnel -- 1.3 Fizeau's Water Tube Experiment of 1851 -- 1.4 Lorentz Derives Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient in his Electron Theory -- 2 The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 2.1 Maxwell's Letter to Todd -- 2.2 Michelson in Helmholtz's Lab -- 2.3 Michelson in Paris -- 2.4 Michelson Returns to Cleveland and Works with Morley -- 3 Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics -- 4 The Contraction Hypothesis -- 5 Variation of Mass with Velocity -- Chapter C. …”
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Find a hotter place! : a history of nuclear astrophysics / by Celnikier, Ludwik Marian

Table of Contents: “…The rebirth of atoms -- 3. Fin de Siècle, Fin du Monde. 3.1. The atoms of chemistry. 3.2. …”
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Reenchanted science holism in German culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler / by Harrington, Anne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The ""Human Machine"" and the Call to ""Wholeness -- The Original Goethean Vision of ""Wholeness -- A Fractured Nation and the Mechanists' Quest for Unity in Nature -- Necessary Ways of Knowing and the Mechanization of Mind and Brain -- Wholeness Betrayed: Political Unification and the Rise of the ""Machine"" Society -- The Place of ""Wholeness"" in the Fin de Siecle Upheavals…”
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Quantum generations : a history of physics in the twentieth century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…From consolidation to revolution. 1. Fin-de-siècle physics: a world picture in flux -- 2. …”
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