Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198797258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Jaume Navarro

Opis

How was ether, an epistemic object largely accepted in the 19th century, regarded in the early 20th century? An older generation of philosophers saw the end of the ether as a paradigmatic case of falsification in science; but far from being unproblematically rejected, the ether was for many one element of modern physics and modernist culture.

O autorze

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.