Energy and Empire

Energy and Empire
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 906
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ISBN-10 : 0521261732
ISBN-13 : 9780521261739
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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.


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