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The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt
Booksplease Price: $52.00James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted... -
The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt 9780801426414
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.09James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted... -
Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire by Bruce J. Hunt
Booksplease Price: $50.72In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the first time, cities around the world were... -
Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire by Bruce J. Hunt 9781108830669
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $166.66In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the first time, cities around the world were... -
Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein by Bruce J. Hunt 9780801893599
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.55In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics-the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic... -
Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein by Bruce J. Hunt 9780801893582
Booksplease Price: $95.97In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics-the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic... -
Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain by Richard Noakes
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $58.78This is the first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between Victorian physical sciences and the study of the controversial phenomena broadly classified as psychic, occult and... -
Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London by Iwan Rhys Morus
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $130.41During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the... -
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P. M. Harman 9780521561020
RRP: $239.40Booksplease Price: $220.06This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and worldview. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes which shaped... -
From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature by Bruce Clarke
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08This book offers an innovative examination of the interactions of science and technology, art, and literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars in the history of art, literature,... -
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P. M. Harman
Booksplease Price: $50.72This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and worldview. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes which shaped... -
Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place (PBK) J.M Thomas 9780750301459
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $131.54A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century... -
Coal, Steam and Ships: Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas by Crosbie Smith
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $75.54Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these... -
The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain by Guy Ortolano 9781107402706
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $86.06Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two... -
The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain by Guy Ortolano 9780521892049
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics by Jed Z. Buchwald
Booksplease Price: $128.48The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day... -
Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Ben Marsden 9780333772782
RRP: $202.65Booksplease Price: $190.18Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of...