Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Pais, Abraham

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Oxford University Press, 1986-04-24. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Oxford University Press, 1986. first edition, first printing, with the complete number row, xiv, 666 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1986. 1st Edition. Thick 8vo 666pp . Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. DJ lightly rubbed. Groundbreaking volume that undertakes a history of the physics of matter and of physical forces since the discovery of x-rays .

Oxford : Clarendon, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 666p ; 24cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and index.Contents: Purpose and plan -- pt. 1. 1895-1945 : a history: New kinds of rays ; From uranic rays to radioactivity ; The first particle ; Interlude : earliest physiological discoveries ; Radioactivity's three early puzzles ; Pitfalls of simplicity ; [Beta]-spectra, 1907-1914 ; ""It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity"" ; Nuclear physics' tender age ; Quantum mechanics, an essay ; First encounters with symmetry and invariance ; Nuclear physics : the age of paradox ; Quantum fields, or how particles are made and how they disappear ; Battling the infinite ; In which the nucleus acquires a new constituent, loses an old one, reveals new forces with new symmetries, and is explored by… Read More