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The authors discuss the history of physical science, from the ancient Greeks until modern times.
Greek Physics.
Greek Astronomy.
Pre-Galilean Science.
The Physics of Galileo.
Newton and His Physics: The Nature of Theory.
Newton' s Law of Gravity and His Contemporaries.
The Post-Newtonian Era: Dynamic Conservation Principles.
The Post-Newtonian Era: Minimal Principles and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics.
The Growth of Optics, Electricity, and Magnetism.
The Faraday-Maxwell Era Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory of Light.
The Broadest Laws of Physics: Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Mechanics.
Origin of the Quantum Theory.
Planck's Black-Body Radiation Formula and Einstein's Photon.
Experimental Physics at the Close of the Nineteenth Century.
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity.
Atomic Theory: The Bohr Atom.
Quantum Mechanics.
Nuclear Physics.
Partide Physics.
Cosmology