The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences Vol 5 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences Vol 5 Book

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.Read More

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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.

  • 0521571995
  • 9780521571999
  • 28 October 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 708
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