Can’t tell your joules from your kelvins? Physics in the Nineteenth
Century, by Robert Purrington, is a physicist’s account of that heroic but
neglected era in which classical physics came of age before relativity and
quantum mechanics stole the show. Published by Rutgers University Press,
$25, ISBN 0813524423.
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