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A Memoir of Baron Bunsen: Volume 2
A lively and fascinating account of the political life of the nineteenth-century Prussian diplomat and scholar Baron von Bunsen.
Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics
. These papers shed light on the formation of Maxwell's ideas and theories within the structure of a professional scientific discipline, physics, that had only recently taken shape. While Maxwell responded to and relied on the work of his colleagues, his interpretations often placed his work apart from theirs, to be exploited by later generations of physicists.
Evidence and Method
What is meant by scientific evidence, and how can a definition of this concept be applied in the sciences to determine whether observed facts constitute evidence that a given theory is true? In this book, Peter Achinstein proposes and defends several objective concepts of evidence. He then explores the question of whether a scientific method, such as that represented in the four "Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy" that Isaac Newton invoked in proving his law of gravity, can be employed in demonstrating how the proposed definitions of evidence are to be applied to real scientific cases. In answering this question, he offers a new interpretation of Newton's controversial rules. Contrar...
James Clerk Maxwell
This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.
