A World on Paper: Studies on the Second Scientific Revolution

by Enrico Bellone

Book Overview

This profound philosophical argument analyzes the mental processes and opinions of such physicists as Maxwell, Kelvin, Tait, Fourier, Boltzmann, John Herschel, Poisson, Laplace, Joule, Ostwald, Mach, Ampere, Nollet, Coulomb, and Cavendish who, between 1750 and 1900, considered the relationship between mathematics and experience, causing a revolution which questioned the universal applicability of Newtonian "mechanism."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262520818
• ISBN13: 9780262520812
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 233 Pages