Tag: Physics Quanta

• The Temperature of History

  (The title is borrowed from Stephen Brush’s excellent history of 19th century thermodynamics, The Temperature of History.) At the same 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science where Thomas H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce famously tangled over Darwin’s new theory of evolution, a Scottish physicist named James Clerk Maxwell presented…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 9, 2012

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  Physics Quanta