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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROGRESS OF PHYSICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY CARL BARU8 [Carl Barus, Dean of the Graduate Department, Brown University. b. February 19, 1856, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ph.D. Columbia University, University of Wrzburg, Bavaria. Physicist, U. S. Geological Survey; Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau; Professor of Physics, Smithsonian Institution; Memoerofthe National Academy of Science of the United States; Vice-President of American Association for the Advancement of Science; Corresponding Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; President of American Physical Society; Rumford Medalist. Author of The Laws of Gases; The Physical Properties of the Iron Carburets; and many other books; contributor to the standard magazines.] You have honored me by requesting at my hands an account of the advances made in physics during the nineteenth century. I have endeavored, in so far as I have been able, to meet the grave responsibilities implied in your invitation; yet had I but thought of the overwhelmingly vast territory to be surveyed, I well might have hesitated to embark on so hazardous an undertaking. To mention merely the names of men whose efforts are linked with splendid accomplishments in the history of modern physics would far exceed the time allotted to this address. To bear solely on certain subjects, those, for instance, with which I am more familiar, would be to develop an unsymmetrical picture. As this is to be avoided, it will be necessary to present a straightforward compilation of all work above a certain somewhat vague and arbitrary lower limit of importance. Physics is, as a rule, making vigorous though partial progress along independent parallel lines of investigation...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217195003
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 316
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217195008
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 567 gr


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