Article ID: CBB000072414

The clothbound universe: Popular physics books, 1919-39 (1996)

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Description Presents in detail the history of three books: A.N. Whitehead's Science and the modern world (1926), A.S. Eddington's The nature of the physical world (1929), and James Jeans's The mysterious universe (1930).


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Authors & Contributors
Arias Avila, Nelson
Baracca, Angelo
Batten, Alan H.
Beer, Gillian
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Gorham, Geoffrey
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Nauka
Concepts
Physics
Stars; stellar astronomy
Astrophysics
Quantum mechanics
Astronomy
Relativity
People
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Jeans, James Hopwood
Einstein, Albert
Planck, Max
Born, Max
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Institutions
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Royal Astronomical Society
Mathematical Association, London
Physical Society
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