A Source Book in Physics

by William Francis Magie

This is the reprint of a well-known and valuable work that has been out of print and widely sought for a number of years. A volume in the series Source Books in the History of the Sciences , it consists of selections from the writings of the great physicists from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century―such figures as Galileo and Newton, Franklin and Faraday, Rowland, Hertz, and the Curies―making available to the student in English translation their most important contributions, described in their own words, together with biographical and explanatory notes by the editor.

636 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

William Francis Magie (1858–1943) was an American physicist, a founder of the American Physical Society (president from 1910–12) and the first professor of physics at Princeton University, where he had graduated (class valedictorian, 1879) and where he served for two decades as dean of the faculty. His papers on the contact angle of liquids and solids and on the specific heat of solutions were notable, as was his text Principles of Physics.