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Autore del libro : katzi
Titolo del libro: mundane history, some more beginnings, new beginnings

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Autore: Shaul Katzir
Titolo: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity - A Study in Mundane Physics
Editore: Springer; Springer Netherland
273 Pagine
Anno di pubblicazione: 2010-11-22
Dordrecht; NL
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Lingua: Inglese
106,99 € (DE)
109,99 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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XIV, 273 p.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Philosophie/Allgemeines, Lexika; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie; Verstehen; crystal; crystallography; elasticity; philosophy of science; science; scientific practice; Philosophy of Science; History of Science; Condensed Matter Physics; Spectroscopy; Crystallography and Scattering Methods; Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy; Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften; Physik der kondensierten Materie (Flüssigkeits- und Festkörperphysik); Spektroskopie, Spektrochemie, Massenspektrometrie; Werkstoffprüfung; Physik; BB

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development. The beginnings of piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how these diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they shaped its subsequent research until the consolidation of an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the field circa 1895. It studies a particular subdiscipline representative of many similar ‘mundane’ branches of physics that did not bear revolutionary consequences beyond their field. Although most research is of this kind, such branches have rarely been studied by historians of science. Shaul Katzir’s historical account shows that this mundane science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved, among other things,originality, surprises and controversies. Thereby, it displays the fruitfulness of studying such a field.

Employing exceedingly rich material Katzir gains interesting insights into the nature of scientific development from this history. Among the themes raised here are: the sources of a discovery, the interplay between molecular-atomistic and phenomenological approaches and between scientific practice and protagonists’ philosophy of science, the role of thermodynamic formulation, the interaction of different levels of theories with experiment, the use and design of qualitative versus precise quantitative experiments, the employment of symmetry in physics and the role of national and local experimental and theoretical traditions. Observations regarding these and other issues in this book portray an unexpected picture of turn of the century physics.

2: The Road to the Descriptive Theory

5: Empirical work in the 1890s

Appendix 2.  Mathematical Works on Voigt's General Theory

Appendix 3.  Voigt's Concepts of Electric Charge

Appendix 4. Tables

Bilbliography

Index

Shaul Katzir is a historian of science.  He teaches history of science [and general history] at Bar Ilan, Ben Gurion, and Tel Aviv universities, at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and at the Academic College of Tel Aviv Jaffa.

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development. The beginnings of piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how these diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they shaped its subsequent research until the consolidation of an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the field circa 1895. It studies a particular subdiscipline representative of many similar ‘mundane’ branches of physics that did not bear revolutionary consequences beyond their field. Although most research is of this kind, such branches have rarely been studied by historians of science. Shaul Katzir’s historical account shows that this mundane science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved, among other things,originality, surprises and controversies. Thereby, it displays the fruitfulness of studying such a field.

Employing exceedingly rich material Katzir gains interesting insights into the nature of scientific development from this history. Among the themes raised here are: the sources of a discovery, the interplay between molecular-atomistic and phenomenological approaches and between scientific practice and protagonists’ philosophy of science, the role of thermodynamic formulation, the interaction of different levels of theories with experiment, the use and design of qualitative versus precise quantitative experiments, the employment of symmetry in physics and the role of national and local experimental and theoretical traditions. Observations regarding these and other issues in this book portray an unexpected picture of turn of the century physics.