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This is the reprint of a well-known and valuable work that has been out of print and widely sought for a number of years. A volume in the series Source Books in the History of the Sciences, it consists of selections from the writings of the great physicists from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century—such figures as Galileo and Newton, Franklin and Faraday, Rowland, Hertz, and the Curies—making available to the student in English translation their most important contributions, described in their own words, together with biographical and explanatory notes by the editor.

Table of Contents:
General Editor's Preface Author's Preface PART 1: MECHANICS Galileo: Life. Acceleration and Laws of Falling Bodies. The Pendulum. Motion of Projectiles. Stevinus: Life. The Inclined Plane. Huygens: Life. Theorems on Centrifugal Force. Newton: Life. Definitions. Axioms or Laws of Motion. Varignon: Life. Varignon's Theorem. Jean Bernoulli's Principle of Virtual Velocities. Descartes: Life. Quantity of Motion. Leibnitz: Life. Quantity of Motion. D'Alembert: Life. Quantity of Motion. Young: Life. Energy. Lagrange: Life. Principle of Virtual Velocities. Poinsot: Life. Forces and Couples. PART 2: PROPERTIES OF MATTER Galileo: Rise of Water in a Pump. Torricelli: Life. The Barometer. Pascal: Life. Experiments with the Barometer. Fluid Pressure. Von Guericke: Life. The Air Pump. Boyle: Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air. Mariotte: Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air. Newton: Law of Gravitation. Hooke: Life. Law of Elastic Force. Young: Modulus of Elasticity. Coulomb: Life. The Force of Torsion. Sliding Friction. Cavendish: Life. The Density of the Earth. Torricelli: Efflux of Liquids. Ampere: Molecules and Atoms. PART 3: SOUND Mersenne: Life. Musical Tones Produced by Strings. Wallis: Life. Vibrations of Parts of Strings. Sauveur: Life. Harmonics or Overtones. Helmholtz: Life. The Quality of Musical Tones. PART 4: HEAT Newton: A Scale of the Degrees of Heat. Amontons: Life. An Air-pressure Thermometer. Fahrenheit: Life. The Fahrenheit Scale. Taylor: Life. The Temperatures of Mixtures. Black: Life. Specific Heat. Latent Heat. Of Vapour and Vaporisation. Rumford: Life. Convection of Heat. Heat Produced by Friction. Davy: Life. Heat Produced by Friction. Gay-Lussac: Life. The Expansion of Gases by Heat. Free Expansion of Gases. Joule: Free Expansion of Gases. Joule and Thomson: Free Expansion of Gases. Fourier: Life. Theory of Dimensions. Dulong and Petit: Lives. Atomic Heat. Cagniard de la Tour: Life. Critical Temperature. Andrews: Life. Critical Temperature. Cailletet: Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen, etc. Pictet: Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen. Mayer: Life. The Conservation of Energy. Joule: Life. Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. Helmoltz: The Conservation of Energy. Carnot: Life. The Motive Power of Heat. Clausius: Life. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy. Kelvin: Life. An Absolute Scale of Temperature. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. An Absolute Scale of Temperature. D. Bernoulli: Life. Kinetic Theory of Gases. Brown: Life. The Brownian Movements. Joule: The Velocity of Gaseous Molecules. Maxwell: Life. The Distribution of Molecular Velocities. Boltzmann: Life. Entropy and Probability. PART 5: LIGHT Descartes: Refraction of Light. The Rainbow. Fermat: Life. Refraction of Light. Bartholinus: Life. Double Refraction. Huygens: Huygens' Principle. Reflection of Light. Refraction of Light. Double Refraction and Polarization. Grimaldi: Life. Diffraction of Light. Newton: Dispersion of Light. The Nature of Light. Young: Interference of Light. Interference of Light. Malus: Life. Polarization by Reflection. Fresnel: Life. Diffraction of Light. Diffraction of Light. Arago and Fresnel: Life of Arago. Interference of Polarized Light. Romer: Life. The Velocity of Light. Bradley: Life. The Velocity of Light. Fizeau: Life. The Velocity of Light. Foucault: Life. The Velocity of Light. Stokes: Life. Fluorescence. Faraday: Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarization. Kirchhoff: Life. The Fraunhofer Lines. Emission and Absorption. Balmer: Life. The Hydrogen Spectral Series. Rowland: Life. Plane and Concave Gratings. Michelson and Morley: Lives. The Michelson-Morley Experiment. Stefan: Life. Temperature Radiation. Christiansen: Life. Anomalous Dispersion. Kundt: Life. Anomalous Dispersion. Zeeman: Life. The Zeeman Effect. PART 6: MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY Gilbert: Life. Magnetism and Electricity. Von Guericke: Electric Attractions and Repulsions. Gray: Life. Electric Conductors and Nonconductors. Du Fay: Life. The Two Fluid Theory of Electricity. Franklin: Life. The One Fluid Theory of Electricity. The Electric Kite. Nollet: Life. The Leyden Jar. Aepinus: Life. Pyroelectricity. Coulomb: Law of Electric Force. Law of Magnetic Force. Galvani: Life. The Electric Current. Volta: Life. The Voltaic Pile. Nicholson: Life. The Decomposition of Water. Oersted: Life. The Action of Currents on Magnets. Biot and Savart: Lives. Biot and Savart's Law. Arago: Magnetization by the Current. Magnetism of Rotation. Ampere: Life. New Names. Actions between Currents. The Solenoid. Circuits and Magnetic Shells. Seebeck: Life. Thermoelectric Currents. Ohm: Life. Ohm's Law. Faraday: Life. Induced Currents. Self-induction. Static Electric Induction. Laws of Electrolysis. The Charge Resides on Surface. Specific Inductive Capacity. Diamagnetism. Physical Lines of Magnetic Force. Lenz: Life. Lenz's Law. Henry: Life. Self-induction. The Oscillatory Discharge. Gauss: Life. The Absolute Measure of Magnetic Force. Joule: Joule's Law. Maxwell: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Rowland: The Magnetic Effect of Electric Convection. Hall: Life. The Hall Effect. P. Curie: Piezoelectricity. Hertz: Life. Electric Radiation. Hittorf: Life. The Cathode Discharge. Crookes: Life. The Cathode Discharge. Goldstein: Life. The Canal Rays. Hallwachs: Life. Electric Discharge by Light. Perrin: Life. The Negative Charges in the Cathode Discharge. J. J. Thomson Life. The Electron. Wien: Life. The Canal Rays. Roentgen: Life. The Roentgen Rays. H. Bequerel: Life. The Radiation from Uranium. P. and M. S. Curie: Lives. Polonium. Radium Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674823655
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 636
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0674823656
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1935
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1092 gr


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