附註:Book cover; Half-Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Sir Nevill Mott; Foreword: Sir John Meurig Thomas; Philosophical Magazine: An Abbreviated History; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note to the Reader; Plate Section; Part One Early Papers; Part Two Electricity Discovered: The Voltaic Pile to the Electric Motor; Part Three Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday; Part Four Miscellany; Part Five On the Nature of Light and Matter; Part Six Electricity and Magnetism; Part Seven James Prescott Joule.
Includes bibliographical references.
摘要:A celebration, in four volumes, of the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine", covering the history of scientific development as chronicled in its pages. Volume One 1798-1850 reproduces many celebrated papers of Davy, Faraday and Joule.
