A Short History of Physics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from A Short History of Physics

Considerations such as the above have determined the form of this book in which the object has been to present the theories of modern physics as illustrative Of scientific thought and as essentially developments from the successes and failures of earlier investigators, for only very rarely have they leaped full grown and full armed from the brain of any one worker. To do this in the space of a small volume has entailed the omission of much which some might regard as essential, and suppression Of detail in order that a view of the whole might be obtained. In spite of this it is hoped that the picture presented is fairly complete, and that in the attachment of credit to individuals, a thorny problem at certain points, no great injustices have been committed.

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