Concepts of Mass: In Classical and Modern PhysicsHarvard University Press, 1961 - 230 páginas Prize-winning exposition of the historical development of the concept of mass analyzes such topics as the ancient concept of mass, the neoplatonic concept of inertia, the conceptualization of inertial mass, the modern concept of mass, mass and energy, the concept of mass in quantum mechanics and field theory, and much more. |
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INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
OF MASS? | 16 |
THE NEOPLATONIC CONCEPT OF INERTIA | 30 |
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