The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, the Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Nye, Mary Jo
ISBN 10: 0521571995 ISBN 13: 9780521571999
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002
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This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and comprehensive insights into developments in the public culture, disciplinary organization, and cognitive content of the physical and mathematical sciences.
Book Description: This volume is a new and comprehensive examination by over thirty internationally recognized scholars of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences. The authors examine contested traditions and startling innovations within a broad range of scientific fields which are nonetheless connected. Chemical atoms and physical x-rays, quantum mechanics and modern cosmologies, algebraic analysis and statistical theories, geophysics, and environmental sciences area among the historical subjects.
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Title: The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: HRD
Condition: New