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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J L Heilbron |
| ISBN: | 0520034783 9780520034785 |
| OCLC Number: | 5451580 |
| Description: | xiv, 606 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Early modern physics and its cultivators. Physical principles -- The physicists -- pt. II. Electricity in the seventeenth century. William Gilbert and the amber effect -- The Jesuit school -- Testing the air theory -- Immaterialists -- The Cartesians -- pt. III. The great discoveries. Hauksbee and Gray -- Dufay -- Electricity beyond the Rhine -- Electricity in France after Dufay -- Electricity in England after Gray -- pt. IV. The age of Franklin. The invention of the condenser -- Benjamin Franklin -- The reception of Franklin's views in Europe -- The atmospheres attacked -- pt. V. Quantification. The atmospheres destroyed -- Two fluids or one? -- Quantifiable concepts -- Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | J.L. Heilbron. |
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