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American physics in transition : a history of conceptual change in the late nineteenth century / by Albert E. Moyer.
- Title
- American physics in transition : a history of conceptual change in the late nineteenth century / by Albert E. Moyer.
- Author
- Moyer, Albert E., 1945-
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Tomash Publishers, c1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC9.U5 M68 1983 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 218 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- History of modern physics, 1800-1950 ; v. 3
- Uniform Title
- History of modern physics, 1800-1950 ; v. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 191-210.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Stallo and the state of physics. Stallo's critique -- Reactions of reviewers -- The lawyer's rebuttal -- Pt. 2. The range of atomo-mechanical outlooks. The orthodoxy of Mayer and Dolbear -- Trowbridge and Rowland : cautious mechanists -- Michelson and Hall : experimentation and education -- Messages from Europe -- Pt. 3. Qualifications, alternatives, and deviations. Newcomb's operational outlook -- Gibb's phenomenalistic leanings -- Langley and Nipher : skeptics -- A reappraisal of Stallo and his critics -- Pt. 3. Conceptual ferment and revolutionary expectations. Realignments with the old guard -- Retrenchment -- The St. Louis Congress : foreign delegates -- Americans at St. Louis -- Franklin's operational perspective -- Adams : from unity to multiplicity.
- ISBN
- 0938228064 :
- LCCN
- ^^^82050750^//r84
- OCLC
- 8709438
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library