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The Creation of Scientific Effects - Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves (Hardcover, New)
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The Creation of Scientific Effects - Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves (Hardcover, New)
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This book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge--the
shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings--that
shapes the work of science. Jed Z. Buchwald uses as his focus the
social and intellectual world of nineteenth-century German physics.
Drawing on the lab notes, published papers, and unpublished
manuscripts of Heinrich Hertz, Buchwald recreates Hertz's 1887
invention of a device that produced electromagnetic waves in wires.
The invention itself was serendipitous and the device was quickly
transformed, but Hertz's early experiments led to major innovations
in electrodynamics. Buchwald explores the difficulty Hertz had in
reconciling the theories of other physicists, including Hermann von
Helmholtz and James Clerk Maxwell, and he considers the complex and
often problematic connections between theory and experiment.
In this first detailed scientific biography of Hertz and his
scientific community, Buchwald demonstrates that tacit knowledge
can be recovered so that we can begin to identify the unspoken
rules that govern scientific practice.
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