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Russell K. McCormmach Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
Morrow/Avon 1983 0380562839 / 9780380562831 Paperback Very Good
0380562839 0380562839 Sunned spine and cover. Some staining to edge. "Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist" is an artful experiment in writing the history of science. The book is a sort of prose poem, consisting of the ruminations--part memory, part dream--of the fictional Victor Jakob, an elderly theoretical physicist at a minor Prussian university, who in September 1918 broods over his career through the nights preceding his death. In passages of luminous simplicity, Jako Y contemplates the intellectual upheavals in science from the creation of the German Empire in 1870 to its collapse in 1918, from the reign of classical physicists to the revolutions produced by the relativity and quantum theories...
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