Overview
- First English comprehensive contribution to one of the leading German physicists in the 19th century
- An informative account of a highly important part of the history of science and a reconstruction of a conception of science that is greatly widespread to this day
- Profound analysis of the interaction between classical physics and philosophy of nature
- New insights into the impact of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of science and metaphysics of nature on the philosophy of physics
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 17)
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Mechanism Between the Classical and the Modern Conception of Science
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hermann von Helmholtz’s Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty
Book Subtitle: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature
Editors: Gregor Schiemann
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5629-1Published: 09 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7413-3Published: 17 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5630-7Published: 11 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 284
Topics: Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics