Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6 / / ed. by Russell McCormmach.

• MitwirkendeR: Brooke, John Hedley,; Cantor, Geoffrey,; Doran, Barbara Giusti,; D’Agostino, Salvo,; Kohler, Robert E.,; Koizumi, Kenkichiro,; McEvoy, J. G.,; McGuire, J. E.,; Stuewer, Roger H.,; Trenn, Thaddeus J.,
• HerausgeberIn: McCormmach, Russell,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5089
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (570 p.)

This sixth volume of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences presents articles by ten eminent scholars on the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. CONTENTS The Emergence of Japan's First Physicists: 1868-1900 (Kenkichiro Koizum...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Editor’s Foreword
• The Emergence of Japan’s First Physicists: 1868–1900
• The Reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role of Methodology in Scientific Debate
• Origins and Consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From the Mechanical to the Electromagnetic View of Nature
• Hertz’s Researches on Electromagnetic Waves
• God and Nature: Priestley’s Way of Rational Dissent
• Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry
• The Lewis-Langmuir Theory of Valence and the Chemical Community, 1920–1928
• G. Ν. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light
• Rutherford and Recoil Atoms: The Metamorphosis and Success of a Once Stillborn Theory
• Notes on Contributors