Energy and Empire
Author | : Crosbie Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1989-10-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521261732 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521261739 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Energy and Empire by : Crosbie Smith
Download or read book Energy and Empire written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.