Article ID: CBB000012556

A statistical survey of gases: Maxwell's social physics (1981)

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Description Social factors in the development of Maxwell's statistical mechanics.


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Authors & Contributors
MacKenzie, Donald A.
D'Agostino, Salvatore
Harman, P. M.
Locqueneux, Robert
Pourprix, Bernard
Maitte, Bernard
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Foundations of Science
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Cultura e Scuola
Publishers
Edinburgh University Press
Cornell University Press
Manchester University Press
Harvard University
Green Lion Press
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Optics
Mechanics
Science
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Experiments and experimentation
People
Maxwell, James Clerk
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Herschel, John Frederick William
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Meyer, Oskar Emil
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Cambridge University
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