Energy, Force and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics

ISBN: 9780521288125 出版年：1982 页码：194 Peter M Harman Cambridge University Press

By focusing on the conceptual issues faced by nineteenth century physicists, this book clarifies the status of field theory, the ether, and thermodynamics in the work of the period. A remarkably synthetic account of a difficult and fragmentary period in scientific development.