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Ether and modernity : the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century /
This book is a snapshot of the ether qua epistemic object in the early twentieth century. It shows that the ether was not necessarily regarded as the residue of old-fashioned science, but often as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays. Instrumental...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introdcution
- The ether at the crossroads of classical and modern physics
- Transformations of knowledge in Oliver Lodge's Ether and Reality
- Poincare's mathematical creations in search fo the 'true relations of things'
- Ether and electrons in relativity theory (1900-11)
- Making space for the soul
- Lenard's ether and its vortex of emotions
- Ether and wireless
- Hunting for the luminiferous ether
- Ether and aesthetics in the dialogue between relativists and their critics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Umberto Boccioni's elasticity, Italian futurism and the ether of space
- An ether by any other name?