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Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics
by Mary B. Hesse

ISBN: 0486442403
Dover Publications Price: $18.95
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An in-depth look at the science of ancient Greece, this volume examines the influence of antique philosophy on 17th-century thought. Additional topics embrace many elements of modern physics: the empirical basis of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, and the action-at-a-distance theory of Wheeler and Feynman. 1961 edition.


Table of Contents for Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics
I. The Logical Status of Theories
II. The Primitive Analogies.
III. Mechanism in Greek Science
IV. The Greek Inheritance
V. The Corpuscular Philosophy
VI. The Theory of Gravitation
VII. Action at a Distance
VIII. The Field Theories
IX. The Theory of Relativity
X. Modern Physics
XI. The Metaphysical Framework of Physics
Appendixes
Bibliography
Indexes

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