Oliver Lodge and the Liverpool Physical Society

by Peter Rowlands

In 1889, Liverpool's first Professor of Physics, Oliver Lodge, was invited to form a society for the cultivation of physics in the city. Lodge is commonly regarded as a conservative in comparison with many of the physicists of his time, a time when the most fundamental theories and discoveries about the nature of space, matter and time were being made. However, this book argues that this view needs to be modified. It advances the idea that Lodge's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853230277
• ISBN13: 9780853230274
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.