Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Thomas S. Kuhn

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912


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Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 Thomas S. Kuhn
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In 1894 Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation. Http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD33-2/TAD33-2-fnl-pg8-24-pdf.pdf. Missouri Western State University. Thomas Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity: 1894-1912 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978). His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution. For an excellent history of this sort of thing see "Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912" by Thomas S. Kuhn, the philosophy and history of science better known for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn, Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity 1894-1912, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity:1894-1912 is a book by Thomas S. A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912, Clarendon Press, Oxford and Oxford University Press, New York, 1978. Kuhn had attacked my Whiggish use of the term “displacement current. Kuhn had taken a leave of absence from Princeton to write the book “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912.” We began arguing.