A Source Book in Physics

By William Francis Magie

Book Overview

This is the reprint of a well-known and valuable work that has been out of print and widely sought for a number of years. A volume in the series Source Books in the History of the Sciences, it consists of selections from the writings of the great physicists from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century--such figures as Galileo and Newton, Franklin and Faraday, Rowland, Hertz, and the Curies--making available to the student in English translation their most important contributions, described in their own words, together with biographical and explanatory notes by the editor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674823656
• ISBN13: 9780674823655
• Release Date: January 1935
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"