Concepts of Mass: in Classical and Modern Physics

Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1961. First paperback edition. viii, 230 pages; 22 cm; bibliographical references and index. Near fine(+) copy with very minor external wear and no reading creases to spine. Tight and clean. Paperback.

Contents: The etymology of the word mass -- Did ancient thought have a concept of mass -- The neoplatonic concept of inertia -- Quantitas materiae in medieval thought -- The conceptualization of inertial mass -- The systemization of mass -- Philisophical modifications of the Newtonian concept -- The modern concept of mass -- The concept of mass in axionatized mechanics -- The gravitational concept of mass -- The electromagnetic concept of mass -- Mass and energy -- The concept of mass in quantum mechanics and in field theory.

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Originally published in hardcover: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.