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Representing Electrons : a Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities.
Both a history and a metahistory, Representing Electrons focuses on the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s to 1925 and the methodological problems associated with writing about unobservable scientific entities. Using the electron--or rather its repres...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contens; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Methodological Preliminaries; Chapter 2: Why Write Biographies of Theoretical Entities?; Chapter 3: Rethinking "the Discovery of the Electron"; Chapter 4: The Birth and Infancy of the Representation of the Electron; Chapter 5: The Genesis of the Quantum Electron; Chapter 6: Between Relativity and Correspondence; Chapter 7: "How the Electrons Spend Their Leisure Time": The Chemists' Perspective; Chapter 8: Forced to Spin by Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit; Chapter 9: Identifying the Electron: Meaning Variance and the Historicity of Scientific Realism.