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Disciplinary Connections uncovers the intertwined origins of two fields that shaped nineteenth-century thought: history and physics. Offering the first combined perspective on their development, Sjang ten Hagen reveals a time when these disciplines were seen as parallel modes of knowledge rather than as opposites within the “sciences” and “humanities.” Focusing ...

The Many Voices of Modern Physics follows a revolution that began in 1905 when Albert Einstein published papers on special relativity and quantum theory. Unlike Newtonian physics, this new physics often departs wildly from common sense, a radical divorce that presents a unique communicative challenge to physicists when writing for other ...