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1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) |
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF SCIENCE IN GERMANY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Physics, Mathematics, Poetry, and Philosophy; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notes / Works Cited; Foreword; Works Cited; Introduction; Schelling's Speculative Physics (Olaf Breidbach); ""Art is the Expression of Eternal Being"": Achim von Arnim's Poetics of Nature (Roswitha Burwick); Mathematics around 1800 (Judith V. Grabiner); Goeth's Wahlverwandtschaften and Contemporary Physics around 1800 (Helmut Hühn); The Collision between Physics and Metaphysics in England around 1800 (Kathleen Lundeen) |
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Abraham Gottlob Werner Money, Romance, Classification (Andre Wakefield)The Physics of Coleridgean Romanticism (Dometa Wiegand Brothers); Jakob Friedrich Fries on Inference Types in the Natural Sciences (Temilo van Zantwijk); Notes on the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Many books have looked at early nineteenth century science through the lens of the whole of Europe. This book takes a solidly Germanic view of natural science, depicting a view of natural science. It dismantles the well-worn cliché of a speculative philosophy and an empirical natural science that began to move further and further away from each other, ultimately becoming irreconcilable. Such an interpretation of the physical-philosophical discourse into different disciplines imposes the dualistic viewpoint of our own time onto an era where erecting such categorical boundaries between knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Social aspects -- 19th century
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science
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Science -- Philosophy
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Science -- Social aspects
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Breidbach, Olaf.
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Burwick, Roswitha.
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| ISBN |
9780773445376 |
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0773445374 |
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9780773418172 |
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0773418172 |
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