The 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 36 (German Essays on Science in the 19th Centiry, also edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher), represents the sciences in a comprehansive way: Physics, Biochemistry, Ecology, Ethology, Social Sciences, Law and Culture. Writers and scientists represented include: Robert Bosch, Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Konrad Lorenz, Lise Meitner, Max Planck, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and many others.
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Introduction: Wolfgang Schirmacher
Translated by Virginia Cutrufelli
Physics as Scientific World View
ERNST MACH
Philosophical and Scientific Thought
Translated by Paul Foulkes
HERMANN WEYL
Knowledge as Unity
Translator unknown
ERWIN SCHRODINGER
Science, Art, and Play
Translator unknown
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Principles of Research
What Is the Theory of Relativity?
Translated by Alan Harris
MAX PLANCK
The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics
Translated by W.H. Johnson
WERNER HEISENBERG
Quantum Theory and the Structure of Matter
Language and Reality in Modern Physics
Translator unknown
OTTO HAHN
Reminiscences from the History of Natural Radioactivity
Translated by W. Gaade
LISE MEITNER
The Atom
Translated by Daniel Theisen
The Status of Women in teh Professions
Translator unknown
KURT GODEL
About the Relationship between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy
Translator unknown
Life Sciences: Biochemistry, Ecology, Ethology
ADOLF BUTENANDT
Life as an Object of Chemical Research
Translated by Daniel Theisen
ROBERT KOCH
On Bacteriological Research
Translated by Daniel Theisen
JAKOB VON UEXKULL
Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men
Translated by Claire H. Schiller
KONRAD LORENZ
Habit, Ritual, and Magic
Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson
MANFRED EIGEN with RUTHILD WINKLER-OSWATISCH
What Is Life?
Translated by Paul Wooley
Social Sciences, Law, and Culture
MAX WEBER
Science as a Vocation
Translated by Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills
KARL VOßLER
Language and Science
Translated by Oscar Oeser
GEORG SIMMEL
Money and the Pace of Life
Translated by Tom Bottomore and David Frisby
GUSTAV RADBRUCH
The Concept of Law
Translated by Kurt Wilk
ROBERT BOSCH
How Can We Achieve Economic Harmony?
Aphorisms
Translated by Daniel Slager
CARL FRIEDRICH VON WEIZSACKER
Public Consciousness: Culture
Translated by Daniel Theisen
Biographies
Translated by Virginia Cutrufelli
Bibliography
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The German Library is a series of the major works of German Literature and thought from Medieval times to the present. Convenient and accessible in format, the volumes of the German Library will form the core of any growing library of European Literature for years to come.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780826407474
Publisert
1997-12-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Vekt
300 gr
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
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