Abstract
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction 2. Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Newton - the origin of Newton's law of gravitation 3. The origin of Maxwell's equations 4. How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism 5. Approaches to mechanics and dynamics 6. Simple thermodynamics 7. The kinetic theory of gases and the origin of statistical mechanics 8. Black body radiation up to 1895 9. 1895-1900: Planck and the spectrum of black body radiation 10. Planck's theory of black body radiation 11. Einstein and the quantisation of light 12. The story concluded - a further classical paper by Einstein 13. Special relativity - a study in invariance 14. An introduction to general relativity 15. Cosmology 16. Epilogue References and further reading Index.
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