Book ID: CBB000030812

Ernst Mach--A deeper look: Documents and new perspectives (1992)

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Blackmore, John T. (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: xix + 463 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: Chapter 1: Some biographical documents. Chapter 2: Ernst Mach in Prague. Chapter 3: Ernst Mach as a historian of science as seen in book reviews and notes (1896-1932). Chapter 4: Mach correspondence. Chapter 5: Some philosophical documents. Chapter 6: The Mach-Planck polemics. Chapter 7: Mach and Einstein. Chapter 8: Mach's relativity vs. Einstein's relativity. Baatz, Ursula: The scientist as a Buddhist. Cekic, Miodrag: Mach's phenomenalism as a link between physics and psychology. Haller, Rudolf: Poetic imagination and economy: Ernst Mach as theorist of science. Noé, Keiichi: Mach's relativism vs. apriorism and the mechanistic world view. Bunge, Mario: Mach's critique of Newtonian mechanics. Holton, Gerald: More on Mach and Einstein. Itagaki, Ryoichi: Three batches of reasons for Mach's rejection of Einstein's theory of relativity. Tanaka, Setsuko: Mach, Einstein, and Kuwaki. Santone, Michael A.: Ernst Mach's influence on four Japanese thinkers. Stadler, Friedrich: The “Verein Ernst Mach”: What was it really? Cekic, Miodrag: The influence of Mach's philosophy in Yugoslavia. Visser, Henk: Mach, Utrecht, and Dutch philosophy.


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Review Ferrari, M. (1996) Review of "Ernst Mach--A deeper look: Documents and new perspectives". Rivista di Storia della Filosofia (pp. 235-36). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Norton, John D.
Kaiser, Walter
Feyerabend, Paul K.
Holton, Gerald James
Hentschel, Klaus
Heller, Michael
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Proceedings of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Publishers
Harvard University Press
Pavia University Press
Concepts
Science
Mechanics
Philosophy of science
Physics
Relativity
Human physiology
People
Mach, Ernst
Einstein, Albert
Planck, Max
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Müller, Johannes Peter
Loeb, Jacques
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Ancient
Modern
Places
Germany
Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
United States
Austria
Institutions
Deutsches Museum, Munich
Vienna Circle
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