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Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature; Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics, 1800–1870; Vol. 2, The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870–1925. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1986), xxviii + 350 pp., $55.00; xx + 435 pp., $65.00.

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Paul Forman
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Smithsonian Institution and New York University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © 1991 The Philosophy of Science Association

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McCormmach, R. (ed.) (1969–1979), Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Vol. 1–3, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; Vol. 4–7, Princeton: Princeton University Press; Vol. 8–9, edited with L. Pyenson, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; Vol. 10, edited with L. Pyenson and R. S. Turner, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar
McCormmach, R. (ed.) (1982), Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar