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Electricity and Experimental Physics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Electricity and Experimental Physics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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At the beginning of the 18th century there was no science of
physics as we recognise it today; by the early years of the
nineteenth century, there was. The articles in this volume are
concerned with the process by which this came about. They focus, in
particular, on the rise of experimental physics and the
interactions between experiment, theory and mathematics in the
study of electricity and, to a lesser extent, magnetism and
physical optics during this period. Along the way, they provide a
significant reassessment of Isaac Newton's influence on the science
of his successors. A further recurring theme is the process by
which ideas were disseminated within the expanding scientific
community of the day, and the manner of their reception, often in a
form somewhat different from that envisaged by their first
inventors, as Professor Home argues took place in the case of
Franklin. The social and intellectual context of the 'scientist',
indeed, is the specific subject of several essays, dealing not only
with England and France, but also offering new insights into the
position of science in 18th-century Russia. Au debut du 18e s., la
science physique telle que nous l'entendons de nos jours,
n'existait pas; des les premieres annees du 19e s., cela n'etait
plus le cas. Les articles contenus dans ce volume s'interessent au
procede qui a provoque ce changement. Ils s'attachent plus
particulierement A la montee de la physique experimentale et A
l'interaction entre experience, theorie et mathematiques en ce qui
concerne l'etude de l'electricite et, dans une moindre mesure,
celle du magnetisme et de l'optique physique durant cette periode.
Ce faisant, les etudes fournissent une re-evaluation significative
de l'influence d'Isaac Newton sur la science de ses successeurs. Un
autre theme est celui du processus par lequel les idees etaient
disseminees A l'epoque au sein d'une communaute scientifique en
pleine expans
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