Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His books include
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs and
The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (both Princeton).
5 Ebooks von Tilman Sauer
David E. Rowe & Tilman Sauer: Beyond Einstein
This volume explores the interplay between mathematical and physical research and the interactions of twentieth-century scientists within their academic communities. Beginning with Einstein’s general …
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€149.79
Tilman Sauer & Raphael Scholl: The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies
This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science. Case studies have played a prominent role in recent history and philosophy of science. They have …
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Englisch
€106.99
Tilman Sauer & Ulrich Majer: David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1915-1927
Volume 5 has three parts, dealing with General Relativity, Epistemological Issues, and Quantum Mechanics. The core of the first part is Hilbert’s two semester lecture course on ‘The Foundations …
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€181.89
Jed Z. Buchwald: Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime …
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DRM
€44.99
Claus Beisbart & Tilman Sauer: Thinking About Space and Time
This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915. Chapters focus on the early reception of the theory in …
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Englisch
€117.69
