Written in the electric first years of the twentieth century, Lucien Poincaré’s The New Physics and Its Evolution surveys a science in mid-earthquake: X-rays and radioactivity, the electron, the ether under strain — the discoveries that were dismantling classical physics even as he wrote, reported with a Frenchman’s clarity and a physicist’s judgement.
Cousin to Henri Poincaré, Lucien caught the revolution in real time. Download the free EPUB for the new physics as breaking news.