The Science of Mechanics - Couverture souple

Mach, Ernst

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1435110676 ISBN 13 : 9781435110670

Editeur : BookAnnex, 2009

Synopsis

“I believe even that those who consider themselves as opponents of Mach are hardly aware of how much of Mach’s way of thinking they imbibed, so to speak, with their mother’s milk.” – Albert EinsteinErnst Mach’s Science of Mechanics(1883) remains one of the classics in the history and the philosophy of science. In this scholarly masterpiece Mach wished to eliminate all “metaphysical” concepts and to construct science with as few and as simple postulates as possible, explicating these solely in terms of experience. This ideology behind Science of Mechanics, known also as “Mach’s Principle” when applied to the notion of Newtonian absolute space, was acknowledged by Einstein as the inspiration that led him to his general theory of relativity. The book has had an enormous influence on generations of scientists, historians, and philosophers, within the domains of physics and even outside it, and some of the twentieth century’s most important ideas, such as positivism, behaviorism, empiricism, conventionalism, and pragmatism, can be traced to its pages.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ernst Mach was a physicist, a physiologist, a historian of science, and a philosopher. Within physics, his interests spanned acoustics, optics, and mechanics, and the history thereof. But his influence extended much beyond physics, just as beyond the borders of his homeland Austria.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BookAnnex
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1435110676
• ISBN 13: 9781435110670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
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