American Physics in Transition: A History of Conceptual Change in the Late Nineteenth CenturySpringer Science & Business Media, 1983 M01 1 - 218 pages |
Contents
STALLOS CRITIQUE | 3 |
REACTIONS OF REVIEWERS | 17 |
THE LAWYERS REBUTTAL | 26 |
THE ORTHODOXY OF MAYER AND DOLBEAR | 35 |
TROWBRIDGE AND ROWLAND CAUTIOUS MECHANISTS | 46 |
EXPERIMENTATION AND EDUCATION | 59 |
MESSAGES FROM EUROPE | 68 |
NEWCOMBS OPERATIONAL OUTLOOK | 83 |
REALIGNMENTS WITHIN THE OLD GUARD | 121 |
RETRENCHMENT | 134 |
THE ST LOUIS CONGRESS FOREIGN DELEGATES | 142 |
AMERICANS AT ST LOUIS | 153 |
FRANKLINS OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE | 162 |
ADAMS FROM UNITY TO MULTIPLICITY | 167 |
NOTES | 173 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 189 |
GIBBSS PHENOMENALISTIC LEANINGS | 97 |
LANGLEY AND NIPHER SKEPTICS | 106 |
A REAPPRAISAL OF STALLO AND HIS CRITICS | 114 |
INDEX | 209 |
Common terms and phrases
AAAS Albert Michelson Alfred Mayer American physical scientists American physicists Amos Dolbear Arts and Science atomo-mechanical physics atomo-mechanical theory atoms Baltimore Lectures Bridgman century Charles Peirce Concepts and Theories Congress of Arts critics Dolbear earlier Edited Edwin Hall elastic Electrical Conference energy experiments Franklin Gibbs's heat Henry Adams Henry Rowland hypothesis J. J. Thomson John Trowbridge Journal of Science kinetic theory Langley later logical luminiferous ether MacAlister mathematical matter Maxwell Maxwell's mechanical models mechanical physics metaphysical Michelson Millikan Modern Physics molecules motion Nichols nineteenth-century operational outlook P. G. Tait phenomena phenomenalistic Philosophical Phys Physical Papers physical science physicists Poincaré Popular Science Monthly principles professor proposition reprinted in Rowland Robert Millikan scientific Simon Newcomb skepticism Speculative Science Stallo Stallo's book Stallo's critique statistical mechanics Tait Theories of Modern theory of gases theory of light thermodynamics tion Trowbridge Tyndall Willard Gibbs William Thomson Wright York