Three quarters of a century elapsed between Ampere's definition of electrodynamics and Einstein's...

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth...

Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to exp...

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth...

This book is the fourth in a series of lectures of the S´ eminaire Poincar´ e,whichis directed to...

This fourteenth volume in the Poincare Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational ...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could c...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could c...

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian p...

Motion is always relative to some thing. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an a...

Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as ...