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Author:   Jaume Navarro (Ikerbasque Research Professor, Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780198797258

ISBN 10:   0198797257
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   02 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro: Introduction: Ether-The Multiple Lives of a Resilient Concept 2: Imogen Clarke: The Ether at the Crossroads of Classical and Modern Physics 3: Micharl H. Whitworth: Transformations of Knowledge in Oliver Lodge's Ether and Reality 4: Connemara Doran: Poincarés Mathematical Creations in Search of the 'True Relations of Things' 5: Scott A. Walter: Ether and Electrons in Relativity Theory (1900-11) 6: Richard Noakes: Making Space for the Soul: Oliver Lodge, Maxwellian Psychics and the Ethereal Body 7: Arne Schirrmacher Jaume Navarro: Lenards Ether and Its Vortex of Emotions: Between Accommodating and Fighting Modern Physics with Äther and Uräther in the German Political Context 8: Jaume Navarro: Ether and Wireless: An Old Medium into New Media 9: Roberto Lalli: Hunting for the Luminiferous Ether: The American Revival of the MichelsonMorley Experiment in the 1920s 11: Linda Dalrymple Henderson: Umberto Boccionis Elasticity, Italian Futurism and the Ether of Space 12: Aaron Sidney Wright: An Ether by Any Other Name? Paul Diracs Æther Index 10: Richard Staley: Ether and Aesthetics in the Dialogue between Relativists and Their Critics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Jaume Navarro is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. Trained in Physics and in Philosophy he has developed a career in the History of Science in institutions like the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He has written numerous research articles in the history of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth physics.

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