Gerrit L Verschuur

Hidden Attraction

The Mystery and History of Magnetism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Boasting many informative illustrations, this is an adventure of the mind, using the specific phenomenon of magnetism to show how we have moved from an era of superstitions to one in which the Theory of Everything looms on the horizon.

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Long one of nature's most fascinating phenomena, magnetism was once the subject of many superstitions, including a lodestone's supposed power to attract gold. Hidden Attractions traces the history of our fascination with magnetism, from the mystery and superstition that propelled the first alchemical experiments to the more tangible works of Faraday and Maxwell. 28 illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780195106558
• ISBN-10: 0195106555
• Artikelnr.: 22176809

Autorenporträt

Gerrit L. Verschuur is Research Professor of Astronomy at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, and contributing editor of Air and Space Magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Of mystery and magnets
2: Clearing the debris
3: On the magnetical philosophy
4: Let the experimentation begin
5: Oersted and Ampere: The birth of electromagnetism
6: Michael Faraday: The era of discovery
7: Fields and Faraday
8: Maxwell sees the light
9: Heinrich Hertz's grand adventure
10: Curioser and curioser
11: What if?
12: Magnetic fields in space
13: The spark that bridge the universe
14: The era of creativity
Appendix: The pattern of progress