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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date
December 30, 2007
Pages
198
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9789812709196
ISBN-10
9812709193
Dimensions
0.75 by 9.25 by 6.25 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$86.00
Other format details
sci/tech
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics. This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts. Academics and anyone interested in science in the most general sense are likely to want to read this book.
Editions
Hardcover
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from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (December 30, 2007)
9789812709196 | details & prices | 198 pages | 9.25 × 6.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $86.00
About: This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930.
About: This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930.
Paperback
2 edition from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (August 31, 2011); titled "Quips, Quotes and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics"
9789814343473 | details & prices | 238 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $38.00
About: When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy.
About: When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy.
from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (December 30, 2007)
9789812709202 | details & prices | 198 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $42.00
About: This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930.
About: This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930.
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