Book ID: CBB000067922

From obscurity to enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889 (1995)

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Yavetz, Ido (Author)


Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: ix + 334 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Hunt, B.J. (1996) Review of "From obscurity to enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 379-80). unapi

Review Darrigol, O. (1998) Review of "From obscurity to enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 162-63). unapi

Review Puchta, S. (1997) Review of "From obscurity to enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 197-99). unapi

Review Grattan-Guinness, I. (1996) Review of "From obscurity to enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 529). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hunt, Bruce J.
Gossick, B. R.
Mahon, Basil
Nahin, Paul J.
Baber, Robert L.
Bolotovsky, Boris M.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
DVT, Dějiny věd a techniky
European Review
History of Technology
Publishers
C.A.M. Publishing
IEEE Press
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Prometheus Books
Concepts
Calculus
Physics
Electrical engineering
Biographies
Electricity; magnetism
Philosophy of science
People
Heaviside, Oliver
Canard, Nicolas-François
Fitzgerald, George Francis
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Griffiths, John Willis
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
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