Popular Scientific Lectures
by Ernst Mach
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916
- Title
- Popular scientific lectures
- Credits
- Produced by Anna Hall, Albert László and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Physics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39508
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39508
- Release Date
- April 22, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LECTURES.
- 2.BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
- 3.AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 4.TRANSLATOR'S NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
- 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 6.THE FORMS OF LIQUIDS.
- 7.THE FIBRES OF CORTI.
- 8.ON THE CAUSES OF HARMONY.
- 9.THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT.
- 10.WHY HAS MAN TWO EYES?
- 11.ON SYMMETRY.
- 12.ON THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF ELECTROSTATICS. [26]
- 13.ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. [39] — I. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EXCLUDED PERPETUAL MOTION. — II. MECHANICAL PHYSICS. — III. THE PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY IN PHYSICS. — IV. THE CONCEPTIONS OF HEAT. — V. THE CONFORMITY IN THE DEPORTMENT OF THE ENERGIES. — VI. THE DIFFERENCES OF THE ENERGIES AND THE LIMITS OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY. — VII. THE SOURCES OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY.
- 14.THE ECONOMICAL NATURE OF PHYSICAL INQUIRY. [60]
- 15.ON TRANSFORMATION AND ADAPTATION IN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. [69]
- 16.ON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPARISON IN PHYSICS. [80]
- 17.THE PART PLAYED BY ACCIDENT IN INVENTION AND DISCOVERY. [81]
- 18.ON SENSATIONS OF ORIENTATION. [93]
- 19.ON SOME PHENOMENA ATTENDING THE FLIGHT OF PROJECTILES. [110]
- 20.ON INSTRUCTION IN THE CLASSICS AND THE SCIENCES. [113]
- 21.APPENDIX. — A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF ACOUSTICS. [134] — REMARKS ON THE THEORY OF SPATIAL VISION. [147]
- 22.INDEX.
- 23.THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. — TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 24.PRESS NOTICES.
- 25.TESTIMONIALS OF PROMINENT EDUCATORS.
- 26.POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LECTURES. — TITLES OF THE LECTURES.
- 27.PRESS NOTICES.
- 28.THE ANALYSIS OF THE SENSATIONS — CONTENTS.
- 29.CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS
- 30.The Religion of Science Library.
- 31.THE OPEN COURT
- 32.THE MONIST
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