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Hailed by the "Journal of the History of Astronomy" as "charming and witty," this chronicle by a renowned physicist traces the development of scientific thought from the works of the "founding fathers" -- Galileo, Huygens, and Newton -- to the more recent discoveries of Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs. 1984 edition.

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• Preface
• A Whimsical Prelude
• 1 The Founding Fathers: Galileo and Huygens
• 2 The Magic Mountain: Newton
• 3 What Is Light?
• 4 Electricity: From Thunder to Motors and Waves
• 5 Heat: Substance, Vibration, and Motion
• 6 Kinetic Theory: The Beginning of the Unraveling of the Structure of Matter
• Conclusions
• Appendix 1 Newton's mathematical principles (Section II): the determination of centripetal forces
• Appendix 2 Newton's mathematical principles (Section III): the motion of bodies in eccentric conic sections
• Appendix 3 Kepler's laws in modern standard derivation
• Appendix 4 Kirchhoff's law on heat exchange
• Appendix 5 The arguments of the "Newton of electricity."
• Appendix 6 The measurement of the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units of charge and the velocity of light
• Appendix 7 Plane waves from Maxwell's equations
• Appendix 8 The influence of pressure on the melting point of ice
• Appendix 9 The absolute scale of temperature and the gas thermometer
• Appendix 10 Maxwell's distribution of velocities of molecules in his own words
• Appendix 11 Boltzmann's epitaph
• Appendix 12 The essentials of Boltzmann's H-theorem
• Appendix 13 Dilemmas posed by the equipartition of energy
• Appendix 14 The marvelous equation of van der Waals and Clausius' virial theorem
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index