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The creation of scientific effects : Heinrich Hertz and electric waves / Jed Z. Buchwald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchwald, Jed Z.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric waves.
- Hertz, Heinrich, 1857-1894.
- Hertz, Heinrich.
- Physicists--Germany.
- Physicists.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1994]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-478) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226078876
- 0226078884
- OCLC:
- 29256963
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