Ether and modernity : the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century
Record details
- ISBN: 0198797257
- ISBN: 9780198797258
- ISBN: 0191838756
- ISBN: 9780191838750
- ISBN: 0192517791
- ISBN: 9780192517791
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introdcution -- The ether at the crossroads of classical and modern physics -- Transformations of knowledge in Oliver Lodge's Ether and Reality -- Poincare's mathematical creations in search fo the 'true relations of things' -- Ether and electrons in relativity theory (1900-11) -- Making space for the soul -- Lenard's ether and its vortex of emotions -- Ether and wireless -- Hunting for the luminiferous ether -- Ether and aesthetics in the dialogue between relativists and their critics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Umberto Boccioni's elasticity, Italian futurism and the ether of space -- An ether by any other name? |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 5, 2018). |
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Subject: | Ether (Space) -- Philosophy Object (Aesthetics) Éther (Espace) -- Philosophie Objet (Esthétique) SCIENCE -- Energy SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General SCIENCE -- Physics -- General Ether (Space) |