A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics

Chapter 1 A Consideration on the Changing Role of Mathematics in Ampère’s and Weber’s Electrodynamics

Chapter 2 A Survey of Theories of Units and Dimensions in Nineteenth-Century Physics

Chapter 3 A Historical Role for Dimensional Analysis in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory of Light

Chapter 4 Problems of Theoretical Physics in the Second Half of Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5 German Electrodynamics in the 1870’s

Chapter 6 Hertz’s Experiments on Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 7 Hertz’s 1884 Theoretical Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 8 A Foundation for Theoretical Physics in Hertz’s Introduction to Die Prinzipien der Mechanik

Chapter 9 On Boltzmann’s Mechanics and His Bild-Conception of Physical Theory

Chapter 11 Einstein’s Life-Long Doubts on the Physical Foundations of the General Relativity and Unified Field Theories

Chapter 12 Correspondence and Complementarity in Niels Bohr’s Papers: 1925–1927

Chapter 13 From the 1926 Wave Mechanics to a Second-Quantisation Theory: Schrödinger’s New Interpretation of Wave Mechanics and Microphysics in the 1950’s

Chapter 14 Conclusions