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by George Gamow
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ISBN: 0486257673 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 |
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Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th century BC to today's research on elementary particles. Includes fascinating biographical data about Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein and others. 136 illustrations.
Table of Contents for The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
| PREFACE | |||||||
| I THE DAWN OF PHYSICS | |||||||
| II THE DARK AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | |||||||
| III "GOD SAID, "LET NEWTON BE!" | |||||||
| IV HEAT AS ENERGY | |||||||
| V THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY | |||||||
| VI RELATIVISTIC REVOLUTION | |||||||
| VII THE LAW OF QUANTUM | |||||||
| VIII THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLES | |||||||
| SOURCES | |||||||
| INDEX |