Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Many Faces of Unity
- 2 Unification, Realism and Inference
- 3 Maxwell's Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics
- 4 Gauges, Symmetries and Forces: The Electroweak Unification
- 5 Special Relativity and the Unity of Physics
- 6 Darwin and Natural Selection: Unification versus Explanation
- 7 Structural Unity and the Biological Synthesis
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Many Faces of Unity
- 2 Unification, Realism and Inference
- 3 Maxwell's Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics
- 4 Gauges, Symmetries and Forces: The Electroweak Unification
- 5 Special Relativity and the Unity of Physics
- 6 Darwin and Natural Selection: Unification versus Explanation
- 7 Structural Unity and the Biological Synthesis
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Unifying Scientific TheoriesPhysical Concepts and Mathematical Structures, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000