The Science of Mechanics
A Critical and Historical Exposition of its Principles
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 24 October 2013
- ISBN 9781108066488
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages556 pages
- Size 216x140x32 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 235 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
The 1893 English translation of the 1888 second German edition of Ernst Mach's historical and philosophical account of mechanics.
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Ernst Mach (1838-1916), the first scientist to study objects moving faster than the speed of sound, propounded a scientific philosophy which called for a strict adherence to observable data. He maintained that the sole purpose of scientific study is to provide the simplest possible description of detectable phenomena. In this work, first published in German in 1883 and here translated in 1893 by Thomas J. McCormack (1865-1932) from the 1888 second edition, Mach begins with a historical discussion of mechanical principles. He then proceeds to a critique of Newton's concept of 'absolute' space and time, reflecting Mach's rejection of theoretical concepts in the absence of definitive evidence. Although historically controversial, Mach's ideas and attitudes informed philosophers as influential as Russell and Wittgenstein, and his insistence upon a 'relative' idea of space and time provided much of the philosophical basis for Einstein's theory of general relativity decades later.
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Translator's preface; Author's preface to the translation; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; 1. The development of the principles of statics; 2. The development of the principles of dynamics; 3. The extended application of the principles of mechanics and the deductive development of the science; 4. The formal development of mechanics; 5. The relation of mechanics to the departments of knowledge; Appendix; Chronological table; Index.
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The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of its Principles
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