Product Description: Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the twentieth century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Professor Brush also offers perspectives on the changing reputation of planetary science relative to the "pure" sciences, such as physics, and a comparison of history and geology as ways of studying the past...read more

Product Description: This book introduces physics students and teachers to the historical development of the kinetic theory of gases, by providing a collection of the most important contributions by Clausius, Maxwell and Boltzmann, with introductory surveys explaining their significance...read more

This work is the third edition of the classic text "Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science". It has been reworked to further clarify the physics concepts and to incorporate physical advances and research. The book shows the unifying power of science by bringing in connections to chemistry, astronomy and geoscience. In short, the aim of this edition is to teach good physics while presenting physical science as a human adventure that has become a major force in our civilization. New chapters discuss theories of the origin of the solar system and the expanding universe - fission, fusion, and the Big Bang-Steady State Conservatory, and thematic elements and styles in scientific thought. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The early twentieth century saw the replacement of the Nebular Hypothesis with the Chamberlain-Moulton theory that the solar system resulted from the encounter of the Sun with a passing star. Fruitful Encounters follows the eventual refutation of the encounter theory and the subsequent revival of a modernized Nebular Hypothesis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book, edited by two eminent historians of science, is a comprehensive collection of the seminal papers from the last 60 years of research on planetary cosmogony by Soviet scientists. The book opens with two introductory essays by the editors describing the historical context of Soviet science in which this research developed and the historical context of Western planetary cosmogony into which it was introduced...read more

Product Description: Book by Brush, Stephen G. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Comprising two volumes this work provides a particularly comprehensive account of the development of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics up to the beginning of the 20th century. The author's historical researches go far beyond any other books on the subject, filling in many more details and putting the history of kinetic theory in the context of 19th century scientific and intellectual history...read more

Product Description: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is generally considered the most important mathematical physicist in the period between Newton and Einstein. His work, like theirs, exhibits range as well as depth and extends from his grand synthesis of electrical, magnetic, and optical phenomena in the theory of electromagnetic fields to his contributions to the kinetic theory of gases and its generalization into statistical mechanics...read more

Product Description: The Description for this book, Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager, will be forthcoming.

Product Description: Dies ist der zweite Band einer Sammlung grundlegender Arbeiten über die kinetische Gastheorie; er enthält ins­ besondere die zwei Arbeiten von MAXWELL und BOLTz­ MANN, in denen die Grundgleichungen für Transport­ prozesse in Gasen formuliert werden, einschließlich der ersten Herleitung des BOLTZMANNschen "H -Theorems", sowie eine Probe der späteren Diskussion dieses Satzes und des Irreversibilitätsproblems...read more