The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

by J.L. Heilbron

Book Overview

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels?

This Very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019968412X
• ISBN13: 9780199684120
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 6.8"