Hans Christian ØRsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices

ISBN-13: 9789402404500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 442 str.

Robert M. Brain; Robert S. Cohen; OLE Knudsen

Opis

By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Orsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism.

Spis treści

Foreword * Gerald Holton Introduction * Robert Michael Brain List of Contributors * 'The Way from Nature to God' * Andrew D. Wilson The Other Side of Ørsted: Civil Obedience * Karen Jelved & Andrew D. Jackson The making of a Danish Kantian: science and the new civil society * Arne Hessenbruch Phrenology and Danish Romanticism * Anja Skaar Jacobsen Natural Ends and the End of Nature * Paul Guyer The Influence of Kant’s Philosophy on the Young H. C. Ørsted * Keld Nielsen & Hanne Andersen Ørsted’s Concept Of Force & Theory Of Music * Dan Charly Christensen Kant – Naturphilosophie – Electromagnetism * Michael Friedman Steffens, Ørsted and the Chemical Construction of the Earth * Ernst P. Hamm Culture of science and experiments in Jena around 1800 * Olaf Breidbach The Romantic Experiment as Fragment * Robert Michael Brain Ørsted and the Rational Unconscious * Lorraine Daston Romanticism and Resistance * Michael Dettelbach Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: The case of Dr. Thomas Beddoes * Trevor H. Levere Ørsted’s Presentation of Others’–and His Own–Work * Kenneth L. Caneva Ørsted, Ritter and Magnetochemistry * Roberto de Andrade Martins Ørsted’s Work on the Compressibility of Liquids and Gases, and His Dynamic Theory of Matter * Ole Knudsen Hans Christian Oersted’s Spiritual Interpretation of Natural Science * Frederick Gregory The Spiritual in the Material * D.M. Knight Index