No Truth Except in the Details

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Foundations of Physics, Experimental and Mathematical

   1. The Last Experiment of Henry Cavendish

      • Russell McCormmach

      Pages 1-30

   2. Reading Mathematics, Constructing Physics: Fourier and His Readers, 1822–1850

      • Elizabeth Garber

      Pages 31-54

3. Electricity and Magnetism

   1. Electromagnetic Energy and the Early History of the Energy Principle

      • Ole Knudsen

      Pages 55-78

   2. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Maxwell Found There

      • Peter M. Harman

      Pages 79-93

   3. Electric Discharge in Rarefied Gases: The Dominion of Experiment. Faraday. Plücker. Hittorf

      • Erwin N. Hiebert

      Pages 95-134

4. Thermodynamics and Matter Theory, Physical and Biological

   1. Gibbs and the Energeticists

      • Robert J. Deltete

      Pages 135-169

   2. Heinrich Hertz’s Attempt to Generate a Novel Account of Evaporation

      • Jed Z. Buchwald

      Pages 171-189

   3. Crystals and Carriers: The Chemical and Physiological Identification of Hemoglobin

      • Frederic L. Holmes

      Pages 191-243

5. Einstein

   1. Einstein, Specific Heats, and Residual Rays: The History of a Retracted Paper

      • A. J. Kox

      Pages 245-257

   2. From Periphery to Center: Einstein’s Path from Bern to Berlin (1902–1914)

      • Robert Schulmann

      Pages 259-271

   3. Einstein and Books

      • Gerald Holton

      Pages 273-279

6. Further Perspectives

   1. Text and Context in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory

      • Daniel M. Siegel

      Pages 281-297

   2. Prediction and Theory Evaluation in Physics and Astronomy

      • Stephen G. Brush

      Pages 299-318

   3. The Power of the Word

      • Abraham Pais

      Pages 319-332

   4. The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics at the Crossroads

      • Roger H. Stuewer

      Pages 333-362

7. Back Matter

   Pages 363-382

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Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry. Moving on to the beginning of the twentieth century, a set of three articles on Albert Einstein deal with his early career and various influences on his work. Finally, a set of historiographical issues important for the history of physics are discussed, and the chronological conclusion of the volume is an article on the Solvay Conference of 1933.
For physicists interested in the history of their discipline, historians and philosophers of science, and graduate students in these and related disciplines.

• Albert Einstein
• History of physics
• electricity
• experiment
• magnetism
• science
• thermodynamics

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  A. J. Kox

• Einstein Papers Project, Boston University, USA

  A. J. Kox

• University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

  Daniel M. Siegel

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