The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction
- 184 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Pick up a copy to get to grips with the 2500-year history of physics. Tushna Commissariat, Physics World
John Heilbron Book order (chronological)
March 17, 1934 – November 5, 2023
Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks
- 228 pages
- 8 hours of reading
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.