Presents a history of physics, examining the theories and experimental practices of the science.

"The entries follow an elaborate organizational plan, which amounts to a new classification of knowledge, its institutional settings, and its applications. This

Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics approaches its

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have

The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introducti