Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein (Häftad)
avOlivier Darrigol
ISBN: 9780198505938 - UTGIVEN: 200306Three quarters of a century elapsed between Ampere's definition of electrodynamics and Einstein's reform of the concepts of space and time. The two events occurred in utterly different worlds: the French Academy of Sciences of the 1820s seems very remote from the Bern Patent Office of the early 1900[...]
Physics and Necessity (Inbunden)
avOlivier Darrigol
ISBN: 9780198712886 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of qu[...]
Worlds of Flow (Häftad)
avOlivier Darrigol
ISBN: 9780199559114 - UTGIVEN: 200812The first of its kind, this book is an in-depth history of hydrodynamics from its eighteenth-century foundations to its first major successes in twentieth-century hydraulics and aeronautics. It documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a new mathematical physics. It gives full[...]
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Inbunden)
avOlivier Darrigol
ISBN: 9780199644377 - UTGIVEN: 201201This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subseque[...]
