Space and Time in Contemporary Physics; An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation - Softcover

Schlick, Moritz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 115136746X ISBN 13: 9781151367464

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... I FROM NEWTON TO EINSTEIN At the present day physical research has reached such a degree of generalization of its first principles, and its standpoint has attained to such truly philosophic heights, that all previous achievements of scientific thought are left far behind. Physics has ascended to summits hitherto visible only to philosophers, whose gaze has, however, not always been free from metaphysical haziness. Albert Einstein is the guide who has directed us along a practicable path leading to these summits. Employing an astoundingly ingenious analysis, he has purged the most fundamental conceptions of natural science by removing all the prejudices which have for centuries past remained undetected in them: thus revealing entirely new points of view, and building up a physical theory upon a basis which can be verified by actual observation. The fact that the refinement of the conceptions, by a critical examination of them from the view-point of the theory of knowledge, is simultaneously combined with the physical application which immediately made his ideas experimentally verifiable, is perhaps the most noteworthy feature of his achievement: and it would be remarkable, even if the problem with which he was able to grapple by using these weapons had not happened to be gravitation--that riddle of physics which so obstinately resisted all efforts to read it, and the solution of which must of necessity afford us glimpses into the inner structure of the universe. The most fundamental conceptions in physics are those of Space and Time. The unrivalled achievements in research, which in past centuries have enriched our knowledge of physical nature, left these underlying conceptions untouched until the year 1905. The efforts of physicists had always been dire...

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Johannes Friedl,

geb. 1972, Studium der Philosophie in Wien und Graz, Mag.phil. 2001. Arbeit an einer Dissertation A1/4ber Moritz Schlick und den Wiener Kreis.

Heiner Rutte,

geb. 1945, ist a.o.Univ.-Prof. fA1/4r Philosophie an der UniversitAt Graz. 1965-1971 Studium der Philosophie und Geschichte an der UniversitAt Graz, 1971 Dr.phil. und Univ.-Assistent, 1981 Habilitation, 1989 tit.a.o.Univ.-Professor daselbst. Publikationen zum Wiener Kreis, zu Schlick, Neurath, Popper, Brentano, Zilsel, H. Gomperz, Freud und zu allgemeinen Problemen der empiristischen Philosophie.

Edition details

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 115136746X
• ISBN 13: 9781151367464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28