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Particles and waves : historical essays in the philosophy of science
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- Creator
- Peter Achinstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
- Physical Details
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- 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195065473, 0195345053, 1280525495, 9786610525492, 0197731201, 0198023006, 019506755X, 0195065476
- OCLC
- ocm21376942, ocn960165897
- Theories of light : particles versus waves. Newton's corpuscular query and experimental philosophy ; Light hypotheses ; Hypotheses, probability, and waves -- Maxwell and the kinetic theory of gases. Theoretical derivations ; Maxwell's analogies and kinetic theory ; Scientific discovery and Maxwell's kinetic theory ; The only game in town -- Cathode rays and the electron. Theory, experiment, and cathode rays