Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics (2nd Edition)
Samenvatting
When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy. This title contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Thematic and biographical in nature, it also includes many personal incidents.