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Second Physicist

On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvChrista Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

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The authors explain the nature of the work of theoretical physics with many examples, taking care always to locate the research within the workplace.The book is a revised and shortened version of Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, a two-volume work by the same authors.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-01
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt739 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieArchimedes
Antal sidor460
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319841908

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Chapter 1. Toward a Characterization of Theoretical Physics in Germany.- Chapter 2. Establishing Physics at the Universities.- Chapter 3. German Physicists before and around 1830.- Chapter 4. Promoting a New Physics: Earth Magnetism at Göttingen.- Chapter 5. Reforms in Teaching University Physics: Development of the Seminar and the Laboratory in the 1830s and 1840s.- Chapter 6. Physics Research in "Poggendorff's Annalen" in the 1840s.- Chapter 7. Connecting Laws: Careers and Theories in the 1840s.- Chapter 8. Mathematicians and Physicists.- Chapter 9. Kirchhoff, Clausius, Weber, and Connectedness.- Chapter 10. Physical Research in the Annalen and Other Journals around 1870.- Chapter 11. Positions in Theoretical Physics.- Chapter 12. Methods of Theoretical Physics.- Chapter 13. Ordinary Professorships for Theoretical Physics.- Chapter 14. Physical Research inthe Annalen and in the Fortschritte.- Chapter 15. Foundations and Connections.- Chapter 16. Concluding Observations.