Quips, quotes and quanta: an anecdotal history of physics (2nd edition)

Quips, Quotes and Quanta When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy. This title contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Thematic and biographical in nature, it also includes many personal incidents. Full description