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Language English Originally published 1978 Page count 356 Country United States of America | 4.4/5 Goodreads Pages 356 Subject Quantum mechanics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) ISBN 0-19-520091-8 (first edition)
0-226-45800-8 (second edition) Similar Thomas Kuhn books, Quantum books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 (1978; second edition 1987) is a book in which Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher and historian of science known for his work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), surveys the development of quantum mechanics. The second edition has a new afterword.
Contents
Summary
Kuhn surveys the development of quantum mechanics by Max Planck at the end of the 19th century. He argues that Planck misread his own earlier work.
Reception
Author Alexander Bird describes Kuhn's book as "masterly", writing that it "differs from traditional history of science less in the kind of explanation offered and more in the vast erudition and scholarly attention to detail displayed."
References
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA