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Ether and Modernity
Author | : Jaume Navarro |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780192517791 |
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Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays, and not simply as the stubborn residue of an old-fashioned, long-discarded science. The prestige and authority of scientists and popularisers like Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington in Britain, Phillip Lenard in Germany or Dayton C. Miller in the USA was instrumental in the preservation, defence or even re-emergence of the ether in the 1920s. Moreover, the consolidation of wireless communications and radio broadcasting, indeed a very modern technology, brought the ether into audiences that would otherwise never have heard about such an esoteric entity. The ether also played a pivotal role among some artists in the early twentieth century: the values of modernism found in the complexities and contradictions of modern physics, such as wireless action or wave-particle puzzles, a fertile ground for the development of new artistic languages; in literature as much as in the pictorial and performing arts. Essays on the intellectual foundations of Umberto Boccioni's art, the linguistic techniques of Lodge, and Ernst Mach's considerations on aesthetics and physics witness to the imbricate relationship between the ether and modernism. Last but not least, the ether played a fundamental part in the resurgence of modern spiritualism in the aftermath of the Great War. This book examines the complex array of meanings, strategies and milieus that enabled the ether to remain an active part in scientific and cultural debates well into the 1930s, but not beyond. This portrait may be easily regarded as the swan song of an epistemic object that was soon to fade away as shown by Paul Dirac's unsuccessful attempt to resuscitate some kind of aether in 1951, with which this book finishes.
ETHER AND MODERNITY
Author | : NAVARRO. |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0191838756 |
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Biographies in the History of Physics
Author | : Christian Forstner,Mark Walker |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-07-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030485092 |
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This book sheds new light on the biographical approach in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, institutions, and concepts. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, institutions or concepts? The respective chapters of this book discuss these controversial questions using examples from the history of physics. By approaching biography as metaphor, it transcends the boundaries between various perspectives on the history of physics, and enriches our grasp of the past.
Modern Views of Electricity
Author | : Sir Oliver Lodge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Electricity |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064468633 |
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Modern Medicine and Bacteriological Review
Author | : John Harvey Kellogg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bacteriology |
ISBN | : UOM:39015070457851 |
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Vibratory Modernism
Author | : A. Enns,S. Trower |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781137027252 |
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Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Modern surgical therapeutics
Author | : George Henry Napheys |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:24501755938 |
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Outlines of Modern Chemistry Organic Based in Part Upon Riches Manuel de Chimie
Author | : Charles Gilbert Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Chemistry, Organic |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B277814 |
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