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The Second Physicist - On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Second Physicist - On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Archimedes, 48
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This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century
Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German
universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal
standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann
von Helmholtz, and Max Planck are among the great German
theoretical physicists whose work and career are examined in this
book. Physics was then the only natural science in which
theoretical work developed into a major teaching and research
specialty in its own right. Readers will discover how German
physicists arrived at a well-defined field of theoretical physics
with well understood and generally accepted goals and needs. The
authors explain the nature of the work of theoretical physics with
many examples, taking care always to locate the research within the
workplace. The book is a revised and shortened version of
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to
Einstein, a two-volume work by the same authors. This new edition
represents a reformulation of the larger work. It retains what is
most important in the original work, while including new material,
sharpening discussions, and making the research more accessible to
readers. It presents a thorough examination of a seminal era in
physics.
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