
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1998
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048148813
ISBN (eBook): 9789401588553
Full citation:
Davis Baird, Hughes, Alfred Nordmann (eds), Heinrich Hertz, Berlin, Springer, 1998
Heinrich Hertz
Contents
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
Gregor Schiemann
25-38
Heinrich Hertz's experiments and experimental apparatus
his discovery of radio waves and his delineation of their properties
John H. Bryant
39-58
Hertz's study of propagation vs. Rutherford's study of structure
two modes of experimentation and their theoretical underpinnings
Giora Hon
59-72
"Everything could be different"
the principles of mechanics and the limits of physics
Alfred Nordmann
155-171
The reception of Heinrich Hertz's principles of mechanics by his contemporaries
Joseph F. Mulligan
173-181
Heinrich Hertz's mechanics
a model for Werner Heisenberg's april 1925 paper on the anomalous zeeman effect
Klaus Hentschel
183-223
Heinrich Hertz's picture-conception of theories
its elaboration by Hilbert, Weyl, and Ramsey
Ulrich Majer
225-242