The Creation of Scientific Effects - Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves

In this first detailed scientific biography of Heinrich Hertz, Jed Z. Buchwald examines Hertz's work on electromagnetic waves in the context of the social and intellectual world of nineteenth-century German physics. By situating Hertz's work within the larger scientific community of his day, Buchwald demonstrates how the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings of scientific practice can be recovered.

Summary

This text focuses on the social and intellectual world of 19th-century German physics. In providing a biography of Hertz and his scientific community, Buchwald aims to reconstitute the tacit knowledge - the shared, unwritten assumptions, values and understandings - that shapes the work of science.

Product details

• Authors: Jed Buchwald, Jed Z. Buchwald, Jed Z. (California Institute of Technology) Buchwald, Buchwald Jed Z., Jed Z. Buckwald
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1994
• EAN: 9780226078885
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07888-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 737 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Germany, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, Physics