Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics

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MIT Press (1987)
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In 1884 Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) delivered a significant series of lectures on physics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This book presents the twenty lectures in their original form for the first time.

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"How My Model Was Right": G. F. FitzGerald and the Reform of Maxwell's Theory.Bruce J. Hunt
Mathematics and reality in Maxwell's dynamical physics: The natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell.  (pages 267--297)P. Harman
After the Baltimore Lectures: some philosophical reflections on the subsequent development of physics.  (pages 375--398)Howard Stein
Space-time as a physical quantity.  (pages 425--448)Paul Teller
With complacency or concern: Solving the quantum measurement problem.  (pages 491--505)Arthur Fine
From natural philosophy to metaphilosophy of science.  (pages 507--541)Thomas Nickles

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