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Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998 1997 ed. Hardcover Very good 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Ex-library copy, cover labels neatly removed. Stamping to front endpaper and textblock edges. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 318 pp.
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Dordrecht Springer 1998 1997 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Contains: Unspecified. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 198.
ISBN10: 079234653X, ISBN13: 9780792346531, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The sub-title of this symposium is accurate and, in a curious way, promises more than it states: Classical Physicist, Modem Philosopher. Heinrich Hertz, as the con summate experimentalist of 19th century technique and as brilliant clarifying critic of physical theory of his time, achieved one of the fulfilments but at the same time opened one of the transition points of classical physics. Thus, in his 'popular' lecture 'On the Relations Between Light and Electricity' at Heidelberg in the Fall of 1889, Hertz identified the ether as henceforth the most fundamental problem of physics, as the conceptual mystery but also the key to understanding mass, electric ity, and gravity. Of Hertz's demonstration of electric waves, Helmholtz told the Physical Society of Berlin: 'Gentlemen! I have to communicate to you today the most important physical discovery of the century. ' Hertz, philosophizing in his direct, lucid, pithy style, once wrote 'We have to imagine'. Perhaps this is metaphysics on the horizon In the early pages of his Principles of Mechanics, we read A doubt which makes an impression on our mind cannot be removed by calling it metaphysical: every thoughtful mind as such has needs which scientific men are accustomed to denote as metaphysical. (PM23) And at another place, concerning the ...
ISBN10: 079234653X, ISBN13: 9780792346531, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The sub-title of this symposium is accurate and, in a curious way, promises more than it states: Classical Physicist, Modem Philosopher. Heinrich Hertz, as the con summate experimentalist of 19th century technique and as brilliant clarifying critic of physical theory of his time, achieved one of the fulfilments but at the same time opened one of the transition points of classical physics. Thus, in his 'popular' lecture 'On the Relations Between Light and Electricity' at Heidelberg in the Fall of 1889, Hertz identified the ether as henceforth the most fundamental problem of physics, as the conceptual mystery but also the key to understanding mass, electric ity, and gravity. Of Hertz's demonstration of electric waves, Helmholtz told the Physical Society of Berlin: 'Gentlemen! I have to communicate to you today the most important physical discovery of the century. ' Hertz, philosophizing in his direct, lucid, pithy style, once wrote 'We have to imagine'. Perhaps this is metaphysics on the horizon In the early pages of his Principles of Mechanics, we read A doubt which makes an impression on our mind cannot be removed by calling it metaphysical: every thoughtful mind as such has needs which scientific men are accustomed to denote as metaphysical. (PM23) And at another place, concerning the ...
Baird, D (Editor), and Hughes, R I (Editor), and Nordmann, A (Editor)
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Dordrecht Springer 1998 1997 ed. Hard cover New. C. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Contains: Unspecified. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 198.
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