The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
PHYSICS

PHYSICS in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro antedates 1920. It may be obsolete or incorrect. For information about the history of physics in general or after 1920, please see the page History.

WARNING:
Experimental projects described in old scientific papers are frequently unsafe. This is especially true of projects described as "suitable for amateurs" or "suitable for children"; such projects are rarely suitable for children or amateurs in the Twenty-first Century.

• General: GANOT'S PHYSICS: The most important introductory textbook of the period 1860-1930, existing in numerous variants and translated into many languages (including Marathi). It deserves a page of its own.

• General: Introductory:
  • The Experimental Philosopher by Wm. Mullinger Higgins [London: Whittaker, 1838]
  • Traité de Physique Théorique et Expérimentale avec les Applications a la Météorologie et aux Arts Industriels by P. A. Daguin Volume I --- Volume II --- Volume III [Toulouse: É. Privat, 1861]
  • Traité de Physique Élémentaire by Ch. Drion and É. Fernet [Paris: Masson, 1869]
  • An Elementary Textbook of Dynamics and Hydrostatics by R. H. Pinkerton [London: Blackie, no date, perhaps 1890s]
  • A Text-Book of Physics, Largely Experimental by Edwin H. Hall and Joseph Y. Bergen [New York: Holt, 1891]
  • Mechanics, Molecular Physics, and Heat: A Twelve Weeks' College Course by R. A. Millikan [Boston: Ginn, 1903]
  • A First Course in Physics by R. A. Millikan and Henry Gordon Gale [Boston: Ginn, 1906]
  • Practical Physics by R. A. Millikan and Henry Gordon Gale [Boston: Ginn, 1922]

• General:
  • Cours de Physique by H. Pellat Volume I -- Volume II [Paris: SILAC, 1883-5]
  • Cours de Mécanique by J. M. C. Duhamel Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1853-63]
  • Meccanica Razionale by Roberto Marcolongo Volume I --- Volume II [Milan: Hoepli, 1905]
  • A Text-Book of Physics by J. H. Poynting and Sir J. J. Thomson Volume I: Properties of Matter --- Volume II: Sound --- Volume III: Heat --- Volume IVa: Electricity and Magnetism, Parts I and II [London: Griffin, 1906-1920]
  • Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell [London: SPCK, 1920]. Reprint of 1877 edition, with new notes by Larmor.

• General: EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]

  • Die physikalische Technik by J. Frick [Brunswick: Vieweg, 1872] English translation of an earlier edition: Physical Technics, or Practical Instructions for Making Experiments in Physics and the Construction of Physical Apparatus with the Most Limited Means [Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1861]
  • Katalog mathematischer und mathematisch-physikalischer Modelle, Apparate und Instrumente by Walther von Dyck [Munich: Wolf, 1892]

• General: LABORATORY MANUALS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Practical Physics by R. T. Glazebrook and W. N. Shaw [London: Longmans, Green, 1889]
  • A Text-Book of Physics, Largely Experimental, including the Harvard College Descriptive List of Elementary Exercises in Physics by Edwin H. Hall and Joseph Y. Bergen [New York: Holt, 1891]
  • Laboratory Exercises in Elementary Physics by Chas. R. Allen [New York: Holt, 1892]
  • A First Course in Laboratory Physics for Secondary Schools by R. A. Millikan et al. [Boston: Ginn, 1914]
  • Physical Laboratory Experiments (Mechanics, Optics and Heat), printed for the use of students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by H. M. Goodwin [Boston: Geo. Ellis, 1917]

• General: PROBLEM SETS FOR STUDENTS

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS --- Retro