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  • Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Elements of Early Modern Physics by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Elements of Early Modern Physics

    Elements of Early Modern Physics comprises the two long introductory chapters of J. L. Heilbron's monumental work Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics plus a concluding summary of the remaining chapters. Heilbron opens with a presentation of...
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  • Elements of Early Modern Physics by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Elements of Early Modern Physics

    Elements of Early Modern Physics comprises the two long introductory chapters of J. L. Heilbron's monumental work Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics plus a concluding summary of the remaining chapters. Heilbron opens with a presentation of...
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  • H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915 by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915

    H. G. J. Moseley (1887 - 1915), the son and grandson of distinguished English scientists, a favorite student of Rutherford's and a colleague of Bohr's, completed researches of capital importance for atomic physics just before the outbreak of World War I. He was urged...
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  • H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915 by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915

    H. G. J. Moseley (1887 - 1915), the son and grandson of distinguished English scientists, a favorite student of Rutherford's and a colleague of Bohr's, completed researches of capital importance for atomic physics just before the outbreak of World War I. He was urged...
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  • Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I Volume 5 by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I Volume 5

    The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn...
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  • Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction

    Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a responsibility for the consequences of his work for the wider society, but also a compulsion to apply the philosophy...
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  • Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction

    In this Very Short Introduction John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century. In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as...
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  • Physics: A Short History from Quintessence to Quarks by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    Physics: A Short History from Quintessence to Quarks

    How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and...
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  • The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, with a New Afterword by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, with a New Afterword

    In this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and...
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  • The Ghost of Galileo: In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    The Ghost of Galileo: In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War

    In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painter is now almost forgotten, the painting much neglected, and the sitters themselves have left little to mark their lives, but...
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  • The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

    How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and...
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  • The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini's World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini's World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue

    Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe. Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the most exciting ideas of...
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  • The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by Heilbron, J. L.
    J. L. Heilbron

    The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories

    Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, within sight of the...
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