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Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist - Russell McCormmach, Hardcover, DJ
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674624602
ISBN-13
9780674624603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
630031
Product Key Features
Book Title
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, History
Publication Year
1982
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
7.6 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
81-006674
Dewey Edition
20
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I should like to recommend [this book] to a large audience...for its charm, its intensity, and its scholarship., Night Thoughts is an interdisciplinary adventure, designed to entice the reluctant general reader into the unfamiliar terrain of physics; to lure the wary specialist out of the laboratory and away from the blackboard, into the world of fantasy...[McCormmach's] prose acquires an emotional breadth and intellectual depth seldom achieved by the novelist...An innovative and often lyrical book, written with a physicist's precision and a poet's intensity., Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist is an artful experiment in writing the history of science. The book is a sort of prose poem, consisting of the ruminations--part memory, part dream--of the fictional Victor Jakob, an elderly theoretical physicist at a minor Prussian university, who in September 1918 broods over his career through the nights preceding his death. In passages of luminous simplicity, Jakob contemplates the intellectual upheavals in science from the creation of the German Empire in 1870 to its collapse in 1918, from the reign of classical physicists to the revolutions produced by the relativity and quantum theories...[This] is a sensitive and compelling work about the confrontation of a classical spirit with the raw disorders of the modern scientific age.
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Table Of Content
The Town The Study The Institute The World-City The World The Mountains Afterword Sources Acknowledgements
Synopsis
It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.
LC Classification Number
QC7.M35
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