Don S. Lemons
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035903
- eISBN:
- 9780262338745
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035903.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
Drawing Physics is a collection of 51 essays each one organized around a simple, informative, line drawing that conveys a key idea in the history of physics. The essays, each approximately 1000 words ...
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Drawing Physics is a collection of 51 essays each one organized around a simple, informative, line drawing that conveys a key idea in the history of physics. The essays, each approximately 1000 words long, are chronologically ordered from Thales, who around 600 BCE explained and used the principles of triangulation, to Peter Higgs, who received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his prediction of the Higgs boson. The essays expand on the science conveyed in each drawing and place that science in a broader cultural context. The essays are grouped into five sections: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century and Beyond. Each essay stands alone and requires no background in physics or mathematics.Less
Drawing Physics is a collection of 51 essays each one organized around a simple, informative, line drawing that conveys a key idea in the history of physics. The essays, each approximately 1000 words long, are chronologically ordered from Thales, who around 600 BCE explained and used the principles of triangulation, to Peter Higgs, who received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his prediction of the Higgs boson. The essays expand on the science conveyed in each drawing and place that science in a broader cultural context. The essays are grouped into five sections: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century and Beyond. Each essay stands alone and requires no background in physics or mathematics.
Katy Price
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226680736
- eISBN:
- 9780226680750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226680750.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter analyzes three stories of Dorothy L. Sayers, an author and avid reader of popular physics. These stories include The Documents in the Case, The Image in the Mirror, and Absolutely ...
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This chapter analyzes three stories of Dorothy L. Sayers, an author and avid reader of popular physics. These stories include The Documents in the Case, The Image in the Mirror, and Absolutely Elsewhere. This chapter shows how Sayers made popular physics a symptom of the postwar male disorientation that had to be overcome in order to initiate successful modern marriage and explores her deployment of Einstein themes as a social phenomenon rooted in characters' reading habits.Less
This chapter analyzes three stories of Dorothy L. Sayers, an author and avid reader of popular physics. These stories include The Documents in the Case, The Image in the Mirror, and Absolutely Elsewhere. This chapter shows how Sayers made popular physics a symptom of the postwar male disorientation that had to be overcome in order to initiate successful modern marriage and explores her deployment of Einstein themes as a social phenomenon rooted in characters' reading habits.
