Publisher's Synopsis
During its 200 year history, the Philosophical Magazine has been transformed from a journal that published papers on all aspects of science to one that now specialises in physics and more latterly in condensed matter. Taylor & Francis have produced four beautiful volumes, edited by E. A. Davis from the University of Leicester, charting the course of scientific progress as recorded in the Philosophical Magazine since its first issue in 1798. This outstanding publishing achievement outlines the major developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, taking four fifty year periods.
Beginning with the period 1798 to 1850, each volume chronicles half a century of scientific progress, containing not only classic works by all the key scientists of the era, but also includes papers of an amusing and controversial nature, reflecting the thinking of the time. The four volumes are beautifully produced - the papers being reproduced in their original form and preceded by informative commentaries setting the papers in the context of their time. They include plates of historic apparatus and portraits of celebrated scientists.
This series has now become a comprehensive review of scientific thought and achievement in the physical sciences during the last two hundred years and will be an essential purchase for every serious scientific library or physics department.
Volume One: 1798-1850 includes Brewster, Faraday, Airy, Herschel, Davy, Joule, Volta and Banks.
Volume Two: 1850-1900 includes Kelvin, Foucault, Kirchoff, Bunsen, Rydberg, Zeeman, Maxwell, Rayleigh, Dewar, Hertz and J.J. Thomson.
Volume Three: 1900-1950 includes J.J. Thomson, Bohr, Rutherford, Soddy, Millikan, Mosely, Planck, Gieger, W. L. Bragg, Compton and de Broglie.
Volume Four: 1950-1998 includes Hirsch, Whelan, Brown, Cockayne, Anderson, Mott, Spear, Sadoc, van Vleck, Onsager, Pippard, Frank, Heine, Ziman, Thouless and Pepper.
