The transformation of science in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century : physics, mathematics, poetry, and philosophy /
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 b...
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
c2013
Lewiston, N.Y. : ©2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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)
- 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