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      The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London

      Robert D. Purrington

      A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific revolution, faded…

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      Physics in the Nineteenth Century

      Robert D. Purrington

      Robert Purrington captures an extraordinary era in this survey of nineteenth-century physics. Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, he traces the main…

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      Frame of the Universe: A History of Physical Cosmology

      Frank Durham,Robert D. Purrington

      Durham and Purrington approach the history of the universe by exploring the frontiers of physics, while maintaining a long-standing interest in astronomy and cosmology. They stress that man can not…

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      Some Truer Method: Reflections on the Heritage of Newton

      Frank Durham,Robert D. Purrington

      Through the lens of Chinese food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in…

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      The Heroic Age: The Creation of Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1940

      Robert D. Purrington (Professor Emeritus of Physics, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Tulane University)

      Presents a detailed look at the period between 1925 and leading up to WWII, in which quantum theory was created and then quickly applied to nuclear, atomic, molecular, and solid…

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