The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves

by Jed Z. Buchwald

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This book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge--the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings--that shapes the work of science. Jed Z. Buchwald uses as his focus the social and intellectual world of nineteenth-century German physics.

Drawing on the lab notes, published papers, and unpublished manuscripts of Heinrich Hertz, Buchwald recreates Hertz's 1887 invention of a device that produced electromagnetic waves...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226078884

ISBN13:9780226078885

Release Date:September 1994

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:496 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Physics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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