Titlebook: Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher; Robert S. Cohen,Raymond J. Seeger Book 1970 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1970 History

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,On Mach’s Curiosity about Shockwaves,rsity of Vienna (1895) he announced in his inaugural lecture, “I shall remain a natural inquirer.” . Ten years later, in the Preface to ., he claimed, “I am not a philosopher at all, but only a scientist.” . At the very beginning of his professional career (1865), indeed, in a popular lecture at Gra

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Ernst Mach and Contemporary Physics,otographs of rifle bullets in flight and of the shock waves accompanying them, photographs that were still on exhibit in the hallways of the physics institute whose director he had been in his time. These photographs had been taken in the light of spark discharges triggered by the bullets themselves

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Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality, a philosophy of science in which sensationism and empiricism were at the center, to one in which the basis was a rational realism. This essay,* a portion of a more extensive study., is concerned with Einstein’s gradual philosophical reorientation, particularly as it has become discernible during th

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,Mach’s Principle and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation, suggestion concerning a relation between inertial forces and distant stars. There has been, however, no accord on the mathematical formulation of Mach’s ideas and on their meaning in General Relativity. My purpose is to review, in the framework of the present-day understanding of Einstein’s theory,

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