Title | Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher [electronic resource] / edited by Davis Baird, R. I. G. Hughes, Alfred Nordmann |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8855-3 |
Descript | XI, 324 p. online resource |
Hertz, Helmholtz and Their Experimental Culture -- Heinrich Hertz and the Berlin School of Physics -- From Helmholtzโs Philosophy of Science to Hertzโs Picture-Theory -- 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 -- Electrodynamics and the Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves -- Heinrich Hertzโs Experiments and Experimental Apparatus: His Discovery of Radio Waves and His Delineation of their Properties -- Hertzโs Study of Propagation vs. Rutherfordโs Study of Structure: Two Modes of Experimentation and their Theoretical Underpinnings -- On Hertzโs Conceptual Conversion: From Wire Waves to Air Waves -- The Principles of Mechanics -- Hertzโs View on the Methods of Physics: Experiment and Theory Reconciled? -- Hertz and the Geometrization of Mechanics -- Hertzโs Principles -- โEverything could be differentโ: The Principles of Mechanics and the Limits of Physics -- Hertzโs Influence on Twentieth Century Science and Philosophy -- The Reception of Heinrich Hertzโs Principles of Mechanics by His Contemporaries -- Heinrich Hertzโs Mechanics: A Model for Werner Heisenbergโs April 1925 Paper on the Anomalous Zeeman Effect -- Heinrich Hertzโs Picture-Conception of Theories: Its Elaboration by Hilbert, Weyl, and Ramsey -- Hertzโs Philosophy of Nature in Wittgensteinโs Tractatus -- Postscript -- Reflections on Hertz and the Hertzian Dipole -- Heinrich Hertz: A Bibliography -- Concordance and Index of Passages -- Index of Names