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inauthor:"M. Norton Wise" from books.google.com
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 ...
inauthor:"M. Norton Wise" from books.google.com
This collection reflects on the history and significance of this turn toward “growing explanations” from the bottom up.
inauthor:"M. Norton Wise" from books.google.com
Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.