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Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century

Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century

MacFarlane, Alexander

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Biographies GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 9353705134
ISBN13: 9789353705138
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Victorian Britain built the modern world in laboratories as much as in mills. Listen in as one clear voice traces the minds behind it. Science made history in Britain. In these history of physics lectures, Alexander Macfarlane delivers a classic science lecture series on ten of the era's defining figures, blending british physicists biographies with the intellectual drama of victorian physics discoveries. Macfarlane writes with the cadence of the lecture hall, linking character, experiment, and institution, and showing why these names directly mattered beyond academia - to industry, navigation, telegraphy, and the confidence of an expanding empire. Written as science lectures and essays, the portraits keep the mathematics at arm's length while staying faithful to the ideas: experimentation, measurement, energy, fields, and the public debate that shaped nineteenth century Britain. The result is a scientist biography collection that reads briskly and rewards rereading, whether you want context for the development of classical physics or simply the pleasure of meeting great thinkers at work. As a period piece of victorian era scientific thought, this volume stands as a durable history of science reference and a classic physics history anthology, capturing how physics was taught, argued, and admired in its own time. It also serves as physics student supplemental reading, a bridge between textbooks and lived scientific culture. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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