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The Transformation of Science in Germany At the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century [electronic resource] : Physics, Mathematics, Poetry, and Philosophy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breidbach, Olaf.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Science--Philosophy--History--19th century--Germany.
- Science.
- Science--History--19th century--Germany.
- Science--Social aspects--19th century.
- Literature and science--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Germany.
- Local Subjects:
- Mathematics.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (398 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many books have looked at early nineteenth century science through the lens of the whole of Europe. This book takes a solidly Germanic view of natural science, depicting a view of natural science. It dismantles the well-worn cliché of a speculative philosophy and an empirical natural science that began to move further and further away from each other, ultimately becoming irreconcilable. Such an interpretation of the physical-philosophical discourse into different disciplines imposes the dualistic viewpoint of our own time onto an era where erecting such categorical boundaries between knowledge
- Contents:
- THE TRANSFORMATION OF SCIENCE IN GERMANY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Physics, Mathematics, Poetry, and Philosophy; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notes / Works Cited; Foreword; Works Cited; Introduction; Schelling's Speculative Physics (Olaf Breidbach); ""Art is the Expression of Eternal Being"": Achim von Arnim's Poetics of Nature (Roswitha Burwick); Mathematics around 1800 (Judith V. Grabiner); Goeth's Wahlverwandtschaften and Contemporary Physics around 1800 (Helmut Hühn); The Collision between Physics and Metaphysics in England around 1800 (Kathleen Lundeen)
- Abraham Gottlob Werner Money, Romance, Classification (Andre Wakefield)The Physics of Coleridgean Romanticism (Dometa Wiegand Brothers); Jakob Friedrich Fries on Inference Types in the Natural Sciences (Temilo van Zantwijk); Notes on the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1817-2
- OCLC:
- 831117217
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