Popular Scientific Lectures
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
- Author: Ernst Mach
- Translator: Thomas J. McCormack
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108066518
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The Austrian scientist Ernst Mach (1838–1916) carried out work of importance in many fields of enquiry, including physics, physiology, psychology and philosophy. Many significant thinkers, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, benefited from engaging with his ideas. Mach delivered the twelve lectures collected here between 1864 and 1894. This English translation by Thomas J. McCormack (1865–1932) appeared in 1895. Mach tackles a range of topics in an engaging style, demonstrating his abilities as both a researcher and a communicator. In the realm of the physical sciences, he discusses electrostatics, the conservation of energy, and the speed of light. He also addresses physiological matters, seeking to explain aspects of the hearing system and why humans have two eyes. In the final four lectures, he deals with the nature of scientific study. The Science of Mechanics (1893), Mach's historical and philosophical account, is also reissued in this series.
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108066518
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- contains: 44 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Translator's note
1. The forms of liquids
2. The fibres of corti
3. On the causes of harmony
4. The velocity of light
5. Why has man two eyes?
6. On symmetry
7. On the fundamental concepts of electrostatics
8. On the principle of the conservation of energy
9. On the economical nature of physical inquiry
10. On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought
11. On the principle of comparison in physics
12. In instruction in the classics and the mathematico-physical sciences
Index.
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