The Growth of Physical Science /
James Jeans.
- Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1947. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- 1 online resource (408 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Cambridge library collection. Physical Sciences .
- Cambridge library collection. Physical Sciences. .
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The Growth of Physical Science is a detailed but very accessible survey of what began as natural philosophy and culminated in the mid-twentieth century as quantum physical science. From the earliest physical investigations of nature made by the various civilisations of Babylonia, Phoenicia and Egypt (a period covering 5000-600 BC), through the remarkable mathematical and philosophical achievements of the ancient Greeks, to the ages of Newton and then Einstein, Rutherford and Bohr, Jeans has written a comprehensive history of this tremendous advancement in our understanding of the universe, one that will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in this subject.