This sixth volume of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
presents articles by ten eminent scholars on the intellectual and
social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century
to the present. CONTENTS * The Emergence of Japan's First
Physicists: 1868-1900 (Kenkichiro Koizumi) * The Reception of the
Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role
of Methodology in Scientific Debate (Geoffrey Cantor) * Origins and
Consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth Century Britain: From
the Mechanical to the Electromagnetic View of Nature (Barbara
Giusti Doran) * Hertz's Researches on Electromagnetic Waves (Salvo
D'Agostino) * God and Nature: Priestley's Way of Rational Dissent
(J. G. McEvoy and J. E. McGuire) * Laurent, Gerhardt, and the
Philosophy of Chemistry (John Hedley Brooke) * The Lewis-Langrnuir
Theory of Valence and the Chemical Community, 1920-1928 (Robert E.
Kohler, Jr.) * G. N. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of
Time, and the Nature of Light (Roger H. Stuewer) * Rutherford and
Recoil Atoms: The Metamorphosis and Success of a Once Stillborn
Theory (Thaddeus J. Trenn) Originally published in 1976. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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