Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 33 (3):639-641 (1980)
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An excellent account of one of those rare occasions in history when a number of great minds, working on a common problem independently, come up with sufficiently new answers as to send their science, and in this case a good part of human thinking, in a completely new direction.

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