A world on paper: studies on the second scientific revolution

Cambridge: MIT Press (1980)
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This profound philosophical argument analyzes the mental processes and opinions of such physicists as Maxwell, Kelvin, Tait, etc... who, between 1750 and 1900, considered the relationship between mathematics and experience, causing a revolution which questioned the universal applicability of Newtonian "mechanism."

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0262021471   9780262021470   0262520818
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