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Product Description: Energy and Empire is a definitive biographical study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of nineteenth-century Britain. As part of this study, it delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science, that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it...read more

Hardcover:

9780521261739 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $260.00 | About this edition: This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.

Paperback:

9780521129213, titled "Energy & Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2010), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Energy and Empire is a definitive biographical study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of nineteenth-century Britain.

Hardcover:

9780226764207 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 26, 1999, cover price $91.00

Paperback:

9780226764214 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $48.00

Product Description: In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. This book brings together contributors with diverse interests to examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780312210533 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1998, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts.

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