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No Truth Except in the Details

Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. A. J. Kox

    1. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      Einstein Papers Project, Boston University, USA

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  2. Daniel M. Siegel

    1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 167)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Foundations of Physics, Experimental and Mathematical

    1. The Last Experiment of Henry Cavendish

      • Russell McCormmach
      Pages 1-30

    2. Reading Mathematics, Constructing Physics: Fourier and His Readers, 1822–1850

      • Elizabeth Garber
      Pages 31-54

  4. Thermodynamics and Matter Theory, Physical and Biological

    1. Gibbs and the Energeticists

      • Robert J. Deltete
      Pages 135-169

    2. Heinrich Hertz’s Attempt to Generate a Novel Account of Evaporation

      • Jed Z. Buchwald
      Pages 171-189

    3. Crystals and Carriers: The Chemical and Physiological Identification of Hemoglobin

      • Frederic L. Holmes
      Pages 191-243

  6. Further Perspectives

    1. Text and Context in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory

      • Daniel M. Siegel
      Pages 281-297

    2. Prediction and Theory Evaluation in Physics and Astronomy

      • Stephen G. Brush
      Pages 299-318

    3. The Power of the Word

      • Abraham Pais
      Pages 319-332

    4. The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics at the Crossroads

      • Roger H. Stuewer
      Pages 333-362

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 363-382
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    A. J. Kox

  • Einstein Papers Project, Boston University, USA

    A. J. Kox

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

    Daniel M. Siegel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: No Truth Except in the Details

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein

  • Editors: A. J. Kox, Daniel M. Siegel

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0217-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3195-7Due: 30 June 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4097-6Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0217-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 382

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History, general, History of Medicine, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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