The Science of Energy: Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

by Crosbie Smith (Author)

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  1998

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  Between Isaac Newton in the 17th century and Albert Einstein in the 20th century, few innovations in science have had such wide-ranging effects as energy . Traditional accounts of the energy concept have tended to emphasize its discovery , an inevitable product of the advancement of science in the 19th century. By contrast, this new history places the construction of the concept firmly in its social, economic and political context.