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  title info:
    title: Mechanistic images in geometric form
    sub title: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of mechanics
  name:
    name part: Lützen, Jesper
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This book presents an analysis of Heinrich Hertz's posthumously published 'Principles of Mechanics' in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context. It is the first book to comprehensively examine Hertz's important ideas on mechanics and the author draws on the original manuscripts to reveal the creative process of Hertz throughout the writing of his book. - ;This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context. In a period of heated debates about the true foundation of physical sciences, Hertz's b.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aim and structure of the book; 1.2 General outline of Hertz's Mechanics; 1.3 What is new in this book?; 1.4 The publication of Hertz's book and the preserved drafts; 1.5 Notation, quotes, references, etc; 2 The principles of mechanics before Hertz; 2.1 Principles and laws; 2.2 Foundations of mechanics; 2.3 Basic notions; 2.4 Novel expositions and critical works; 3 Mechanization of physics; 3.1 The decline of the mechanistic world view; 4 Problematization of the concept of force; 4.1 Forces and atoms; 4.2 The problematization of distance forces. Field theory
  table of contents: 4.3 Rejections of atomism4.4 Energetics; 5 A biographical survey; 5.1 Childhood and student years (1857-1883); 5.2 Privat Dozent in Kiel (1883-1885); 5.3 Professor in Karlsruhe (1885-1889); 5.4 Professor in Bonn (1889-1894); 6 Hertz's road to mechanics; 6.1 Hertz's electromagnetic work as a background for his mechanics; 6.1.1 Axiomatization; 6.1.2 Mechanization; 6.1.3 The elimination of distance forces; 6.2 Research on gravitation; 6.3 Ether; 6.4 An energetic beginning; 6.5 Chronology of the drafts; 7 Images of nature; 7.1 A comparison of Hertz's and Helmholtz's signs and images
  table of contents: 7.2 Correctness7.3 Logical permissiblity; 7.4 Appropriateness; 7.4.1 Distinctness; 7.4.2 Simplicity; 7.5 The relation among the criteria; 8 Hertz's earlier ideas about images; 8.1 Images in the Kiel Lectures; 8.2 The parable of the paper money; 8.3 The colorless theory and the gay garment; 8.4 Comparison of the 1894 images with earlier concepts; 8.5 Concepts in the Mechanics related to images; 9 Images of mechanics; 9.1 Principles of mechanics; 9.2 The Newtonian-Laplacian image; 9.3 The energetic image; 9.4 Hertz's image; 9.5 Conclusion of the comparison
  table of contents: 10 Kantianism. A-priori and empirical elements of images10.1 Scientific representations; 10.2 A Kantian division; 10.3 A metaphysics of corporeal nature; 10.4 Kantianism in the first draft of Hertz's Mechanics. Existence problems; 10.5 The division between kinematics and dynamics; 11 Time, space and mass; 11.1 Space; 11.1.1 Pure geometry; 11.1.2 Applied geometry; 11.2 Time; 11.3 Mass. The constitution of matter; 11.3.1 The constitution of matter. Book one; 11.3.2 The constitution of matter. Book two; 12 The line element: The origin of the Massenteilchen; 12.1 Hertz's line element
  table of contents: 12.2 Vanishing identical material points rejected12.3 Massenteilchen appear; 12.4 A matter of space; 12.5 The Massenteilchen shrink and become matter free; 12.6 Conclusion; 13 Hertz's geometry of systems of points; 13.1 Geometrization of mechanics; 13.2 Why the geometric form?; 13.3 Direction, angle, and curvature in the printed book; 13.4 Direction, angle, and curvature in Hertz's manuscripts; 14 Vector quantities and their components; 14.1 Introduction; 14.2 Components and reduced components of a displacement; 14.3 Vector quantities; 14.4 Kinematic concepts
  note: Jesper Lützen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics, Analytic
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Mécanique analytique
  subject:
    topic: Géométrie
  subject:
    topic: geometry
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: Solids
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics, Analytic
  classification: QA805 .L85 2005
  classification: 531/.01/51636
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