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When a ship's surgeon during a routine
episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in
the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of
energy.
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When a young boy tried to visualize what a beam of light would look
like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along
lines that eventually changed our views of space and time.
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When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he
started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the
stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history
of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930.
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Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in
that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the
thinking of the creators of what is now called "modern physics" is
revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book
also includes many personal incidents.
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![]() QUIPS, QUOTES AND QUANTA
An Anecdotal History of Physics
(2nd Edition)
by Anton Z Capri (University of Alberta, Canada)
252pp (approx.)
978-981-4343-47-3(pbk): US$38 / £25 US$26.60
/ £17.50
"While many of the quotations are
available in some of the earlier books, the virtue of the present one
is that all of them are in one place and easy to find ... While this
book will be enjoyed most by those who are familiar with modern
physics, it will certainly constitute delightful reading for students
as well as discriminating public interested in modern science."
-- Current Science
This second edition has been revised to include new material:
a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photographs as well
as additional quotes and anecdotes.
Contents:
- Thermodynamics: Founders and Flounderers
- Cracks Appear in Classical Physics
- It's About Time and Space
- Space Becomes Curved
- Kilns and Quanta
- The Hydrogen Atom: Plum-Pudding or Planet
- Action in Physics: The Old Quantum Theory
- Particles are Waves are Particles
- Schrödinger Makes Waves
- Boys' Physics and Quantum Jumping
- Matrix Mechanics is Born
- The Purest Soul's Beautiful Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics is Complete
- The Electron Spins
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