No Truth Except in the Details: Essays in Honor of Martin J. KleinA.J. Kox, D.M. Siegel Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 M12 6 - 382 pages Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry. Moving on to the beginning of the twentieth century, a set of three articles on Albert Einstein deal with his early career and various influences on his work. Finally, a set of historiographical issues important for the history of physics are discussed, and the chronological conclusion of the volume is an article on the Solvay Conference of 1933. For physicists interested in the history of their discipline, historians and philosophers of science, and graduate students in these and related disciplines. |
Contents
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ELIZABETH GARBER Reading Mathematics Constructing | 31 |
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM | 53 |
HARMAN Through the LookingGlass | 79 |
ROBERT J DELTETE Gibbs and the Energeticists | 135 |
JED Z BUCHWALD Heinrich Hertzs Attempt to Generate | 171 |
The History of a Retracted Paper | 245 |
GERALD HOLTON Einstein and Books | 273 |
SIEGEL Text and Context in Maxwells | 280 |
STEPHEN G BRUSH Prediction and Theory Evaluation | 299 |
ABRAHAM PAIS The Power of the Word | 319 |
vii | 332 |
Appendix List of Publications of Martin J Klein | 363 |
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