Drawing Physics: 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs
Don S. Lemons
Abstract
Drawing Physics is a collection of 51 essays each one organized around a simple, informative, line drawing that conveys a key idea in the history of physics. The essays, each approximately 1000 words long, are chronologically ordered from Thales, who around 600 BCE explained and used the principles of triangulation, to Peter Higgs, who received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his prediction of the Higgs boson. The essays expand on the science conveyed in each drawing and place that science in a broader cultural context. The essays are grouped into five sections: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Moder ... More
Keywords: Physics, history of science, intellectual history, popular physics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262035903 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262035903.001.0001 |
