The History Of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.

• | By (Author): J.L. (Professor Of History, Emeritus, University Of California, Berkeley) Heilbron
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 25, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 019968412X
• | ISBN-13: 9780199684120