While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on s
Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North
At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the fu
While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on s