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‘To reason by means of images’: J. J. Thomson and the mechanical picture of nature

David R. Topper Department of History, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada
Pages 31-57 | Received 20 Mar 1979, Published online: 22 Aug 2006

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Michael Chayut. (1991) J. J. Thomson: The discovery of the electron and the chemists. Annals of Science 48:6, pages 527-544.
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Jaume Navarro. 2015. Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 327 344 .
Stefano Bordoni. (2011) Beyond Electromagnetic and Mechanical World-views: J. Larmor's Models of Matter and Energy in the Early 1890s. Centaurus 53:1, pages 31-54.
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JAUME NAVARRO. (2010) Electron diffraction chez Thomson: early responses to quantum physics in Britain . The British Journal for the History of Science 43:2, pages 245-275.
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Jaume Navarro. (2005) J. J. Thomson on the Nature of Matter: Corpuscles and the Continuum. Centaurus 47:4, pages 259-282.
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