Hailed by the Journal of the History of Astronomy as charming and witty, this chronicle by a renowned physicist traces the development of scientific thought fro... » 

Hailed by the Journal of the History of Astronomy as charming and witty, this chronicle by a renowned physicist traces the development of scientific thought from the works of the founding fathers: Galileo, Huygens, and Newton, to the more recent discoveries of Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs. Dover unabrudged republication of the edition published by Freeman in 1984. «