Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century / edited by P.M. Harman.

Manchester, UK ; Dover, N.H., USA : Manchester University Press, [1985], ©1985.

viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Essays based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cambridge

Includes index

The educational matrix / David B. Wilson -- Geologists and mathematicians / Crosbie Smith -- Mathematics and mathematical physics from Cambridge, 1815-40 / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Integral theorems in Cambridge mathematical physics, 1830-55 / J.J. Cross -- Mathematics and physical reality in William Thomson's electromagnetic theory / Ole Knudsen -- Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Daniel M. Siegel -- Edinburgh philosophy and Cambridge physics / P.M. Harman -- Modifying the continuum / Jed Z. Buchwald.

Bibliography: p. 242-256