Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature /

Two seemingly contradictory tendencies have accompanied the development of the natural sciences in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural sciences have been instrumental in effecting a thoroughgoing transformation of social structures and have made a permanent impact on the conceptual worl...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schiemann, Gregor. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Archimedes, 17
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