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)

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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.

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