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Heinrich Hertz: Classical physicist, modern philosopher (1998)

Baird, Davis (Editor)
Hughes, R. I. G. (Editor)
Nordmann, Alfred (Editor)

Kluwer Academic

Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xi + 318 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Description Contents: Hoffmann, Dieter: Heinrich Hertz and the Berlin School of physics. Heidelberger, Michael: From Helmholtz's philosophy of science to Hertz's picture-theory. Schiemann, Gregor: The loss of world in the image: Origin and development of the concept of image in the thought of Hermann von Helmholtz and Heinrich Hertz. Bryant, John H.: Heinrich Hertz's experiments and experimental apparatus: His discovery of radio waves and his delineation of their properties. Hon, Giora: Hertz's study of propagation vs. Rutherford's study of structure: Two modes of experimentation and their theoretical underpinnings. Doncel, Manuel G.: On Hertz's conceptual conversion: From wire waves to air waves. D'Agostino, Salvo: Hertz's view on the methods of physics: Experiment and theory reconciled? Lützen, Jesper: Hertz and the geometrization of mechanics. Saunders, Simon: Hertz's principles. Nordmann, Alfred: “Everything could be different”: The Principles of mechanics and the limits of physics. Mulligan, Joseph F.: The reception of Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics by his contemporaries. Hentschel, Klaus: Heinrich Hertz's Mechanics: A model for Werner Heisenberg's April 1925 paper on the anomalous Zeeman effect. Majer, Ulrich: Heinrich Hertz's picture-conception of theories: Its elaboration by Hilbert, Weyl, and Ramsey. Grasshoff, Gerd: Hertz's philosophy of nature in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Buchwald, Jed: Reflections on Hertz and the Hertzian dipole. Nordmann, Alfred: Heinrich Hertz: A bibliography.

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Review Janik, A. (2000) Review of "Heinrich Hertz: Classical physicist, modern philosopher". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 166). unapi

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