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by Sir James H. Jeans
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ISBN: 0486241173 Dover Publications Price: $10.95 |
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A noted scientist illuminates the intertwined paths of philosophy and science from Plato to the present, and examines the transition from Newtonian classical mechanics to modern relativistic physics.
Table of Contents for Physics and Philosophy
| I. What are Physics and Philosophy? | |||||||
| II. How do we know? (Descartes to Kant; Eddington) | |||||||
| III. The two voices of Science and Philosophy (Plato to the present) | |||||||
| IV. The Passing of the Mechanical Age (Newton to Einstein) | |||||||
| V. "The New Physics (Planck, Rutherford, Bohr)" | |||||||
| VI. "From Appearance to Reality (Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, Schrödinger, Dirac)" | |||||||
| VII. Some Problems of Philosophy | |||||||
| Index |