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
Laguens, Florian
Agnes Bolinska
Tuboly, Adam Tamas
Renate Falkner
Gernot Falkner
Stanley, Matthew
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Physics Education
Philosophia Naturalis
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
University of Maryland, College Park
Temple University
Roderer
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
University of Washington
Harvard University
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Astrophysics
Science
Philosophy of science
Epistemology
People
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Whitehead, Alfred North
Jeans, James Hopwood
Stebbing, Lizzie Susan
Joad, C. E. M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)
Watson, James Dewey
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Great Britain
Institutions
Physical Society
Mathematical Association, London
Royal Astronomical Society
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
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