Hans Christian Ørsted
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 May 2013
- ISBN 9780199669264
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages764 pages
- Size 253x181x40 mm
- Weight 1642 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 89 b/w illustrations, 79 colour illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is the narrative of the Scandinavian scientist, Hans Christian Ørsted, the discoverer of electromagnetism. Ørsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age, making significant contributions to aesthetics, philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion.
MoreLong description:
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time. At the centre of an international network of scholars, he was instrumental in founding the world picture of modern physics. Ørsted was the physicist who brought Kant's metaphysics to fruition. In 1820 his discovery of electro-magnetism, a phenomenon that could not possibly exist according to his adversaries, changed the course of research in physics. It inspired Michael Faraday's experiments and discovery of the adverse effect, magneto-electric induction. The two physical phenomena were later described in mathematical equations by J.C. Maxwell. Together these discoveries constitute the prerequisites for the overwhelming development of modern technology. But Ørsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age (together with Grundtvig, Kierkegaard, and Hans-Christian Andersen, his protegé), and made significant contributions to aesthetics, philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion. Ørsted remarkably bridged the gap between science, the humanities, and the arts.
In this powerhouse of a biography-cum-science-history, historian Dan Charly Christensen reveals Ãrsted as a brilliant, multifaceted figure - scientist, post-Kantian philosopher, educator and physical aesthetician.
Table of Contents:
I. THE STUDENT
Prologue: Hans Christian Ãrsted and Dualism in the Golden Age
A Childhood without Playing
A University without Science
Two Philosophical Minds
Hans Christian's Gold Medals
Anders's Gold Medal
Editors for Kant
Doctoral Thesis on the Dynamical System
Pharmacy-Manager and Fiancé
Galvanism
II. THE COSMOPOLITAN
First Grand Tour. Tourist far away from Sophie
Ritter and Winterl
Jena Romanticism, Salons and Societies
Post-revolutionary Paris
Ritter and the Napoleon Prize
The Double Game
III. THE RESEARCHER AND TEACHER
Alone and Abandoned in Copenhagen with a Collection of Instruments
Rivalry and Love
Textbook Writer and Professor
Napoleon's Imperialism and Fichte's Idealism
Sonorous Figures
The Art of Music
The Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters
Family and Friends
Dialogue on Mysticism. Ritter's Death
IV. THE SPOUSE
Career and Brothers Working Together
Second Journey Abroad. Berlin and Paris
The Major Work
The Controversy on Pantheism
Love and Marriage
The Prime Mover of Science. Gitte's First-born Child
Dynamical Research. A.S. Ãrsted's Dissent
Funerals. Expedition to Bornholm
V. THE TRIUMPHATOR
The Happiest Year
A Discovery by Chance?
Domestic and Foreign Reactions
The Triumphal Progress. Germany
The Triumphal Progress. Paris
The Triumphal Progress. Britain
VI. THE ORGANIZER
The Society for the Dissemination of Science in Denmark
The Ãrsted Brothers in the Howitz-Controversy
Aluminium - Priority and Nationalism
The Downfall of A.S. Ãrsted, the Millennium of Christianity, and the Tercentenary of the Reformation
Family Life and Conferences Abroad
The Polytechnic Institute
The Literary Critic
The Awakening of Political Life
VII. FAME & TRIBULATIONS
Technology and Industry
The Natural Laws of General Education
Scandinavian Science Conferences
Politics and Nationalism
The Centenary of the Royal Danish Society, Magnetischer Verein, Henrik Steffens. The Concept and Conservation of Fundamental Forces
Homage in Berlin
Aesthetics of Nature
Polytechnic Criticism
Polytechnic Criticism
Civil War and Free Constitution
The Soul in Nature
Big and Little Hans Christian's Modern Turning Point
Jubilee and Death
Epilogue: Hans Christian Ãrsted and the Golden Age in a Wider Perspective
