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Autore |
Buchwald Jed Z |
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Titolo |
The creation of scientific effects : Heinrich Hertz and electric waves / / Jed Z. Buchwald |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-226-07891-4 |
1-283-05812-X |
9786613058126 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electric waves |
Physicists - Germany |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-478) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ONE. Introduction: Heinrich Hertz, Maker of Effects -- TWO. Forms of Electrodynamics -- THREE. Realizing Potentials in the Laboratory -- FOUR. A Budding Career -- FIVE. Devices for Induction -- SIX. Hertz's Early Exploration of Helmholtz's Concepts -- SEVEN. Rotating Spheres -- EIGHT. Elastic Interactions -- NINE. Specific Powers in the Laboratory -- TEN. The Cathode Ray as a Vehicle for Success -- ELEVEN. Frustration -- TWELVE. Hertz's Argument -- THIRTEEN. Assumption X -- FOURTEEN. A Novel Device -- FIFTEEN. How the Resonator Became an Electric Probe -- SIXTEEN. Electric Propagation Produced -- SEVENTEEN. Electric Waves Manipulated -- EIGHTEEN. Conclusion: Restraint and Reconstruction -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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