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Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911

Selected Essays

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Arthur I. Miller

    1. Departments of Philosophy and History, University of Lowell, Lowell, USA
      Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. On Electrodynamics Without Relativity: 1892–1911

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. 5. On Some Other Approaches to Electrodynamics in 1905

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 2-28

    3. A Study of Henri Poincaré’s “Sur la Dynamique de l’Électron”

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 29-150

  3. A Technological Interlude

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Unipolar Induction: a Case Study of the Interaction between Science and Technology

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 153-187

  4. Special Relativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. On Einstein’s Invention of Special Relativity

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 191-216

  5. On Some Contemporary Approaches to Special Relativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. On Lorentz’s Methodology

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 219-235

    3. Postscript: Further Comments on what Einstein, Lorentz, Planck, and Poincaré Did — circa 1905

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 237-251

    4. Introduction

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 253-293

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 294-294
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P. W. Bridgman and the Special Theory oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati< him" (1962) for the reader "who feels the need to stand back a little for a critical scrutiny of what he has really got" (SP, p. 3). * This was his personal trademark as physicist and philoso­ pher and it is present everywhere in Bridgman's precis of special relativity theory. The reissue of Sophisticate's Primer is particularly wel­ come for it exhibits a quest for clarity in foundations in the style of Ernst Mach and Henri Poincare, in whose philo- • N.B. Papers and books are here cited as follows. Bridgman (1927) refers to Bridgman's book The Logic of Modern Physics in the bibliography. Cross-references to Sophisticate's Primer are indicated with the code (SP, p. "'). Bridgman's extant manuscripts are on deposit at the Harvard University Archives, and here cited by date, for example (MS 2 August 1959, p .... ). Some of the manuscripts were written over a period of days, with sequential paging, with the actual dates indicated. Full citations are given in the bibliography. I am grateful to the Harvard University Archives for permission to quote from these materials, and to Bridgman's daughter, Mrs. Jane Koopman, for permitting me to quote from the draft manuscripts of Sophisticate's Primer, which will be deposited in the Harvard Archives. Reprinted from P. W. Bridgman. Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity, Second Edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Departments of Philosophy and History, University of Lowell, Lowell, USA

    Arthur I. Miller

  • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Arthur I. Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays

  • Authors: Arthur I. Miller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0548-4

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston, Inc. 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3203-8Published: 01 January 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-0548-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 294

  • Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Physics, general

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