Erkenntnis und Irrtum. Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung. Von E. MACH Emer. Professor an der Unlversltlt Wlen. LEIPZIG Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth 1905. INTRODUCTION XIII On a number of occasions Mach expressed the sentiment, especially in his correspondence, that America was the land of intellectual freedom and opportunity, the coming frontier for a new radical empiricism that would help to wash metaphysics out of philosophy. In 1901 he sponsored the German edition of Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics (1881) 2 by J. B. Stallo, Cincinnati lawyer and philosopher. Mach warmly...

Erkenntnis und Irrtum. Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung. Von E. MACH Emer. Professor an der Unlversltlt Wlen. LEIPZIG Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth 1905. INTRODUCTION XIII On a number of occasions Mach expressed the sentiment, especially in his correspondence, that America was the land of intellectual freedom and opportunity, the coming frontier for a new radical empiricism that would help to wash metaphysics out of philosophy. In 1901 he sponsored the German edition of Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics (1881) 2 by J. B. Stallo, Cincinnati lawyer and philosopher. Mach warmly...

xi should hope for "first and foremost" from any historical investigation, including his own, was that "it may not be too tedious. " II That hope is generally realized in Mach's historical writings, most of which are as lively and interesting now as they were when they appeared. Mach did not follow any existing model of historical or philosophical or scientific exposition, but went at things his own way combining the various approaches as needed to reach the goals he set for himself. When he is at his best we get a sense of the Mach whom William James met on a visit to Prague, the Mach whose...

"Mach war seiner geistigen Entwicklung nach nicht ein Philosoph, der sich die Naturwissenschaften als Objekt seiner Spekulationen wahlte, sondern ein vielseitig interessierter, emsiger Naturforscher, dem die Erforschung auch abseits vom Brennpunkt des allgemeinen Interesses gelegener Detailfragen sichtlich Vergnugen machte." (Albert Einstein) Der Physiker, Philosoph und Wissenschaftstheoretiker Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916) entwickelt in diesem Buch eine detaillierte Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung der Prinzipien der Warmelehre und bereichert diese um seine eigenen, eng an der sinnlichen...

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (1838-1916) war ein osterreichischer Physiker, Philosoph und Wissenschaftstheoretiker. Nachdruck des Originals von 1905. Er verband die verschiedenen Disziplinen, die er vertrat, sehr eindrucksvoll. Dieses Buch ist ein wertvoller Beleg seiner Arbeiten.

Ernst Mach (1838 1916), the first scientist to study objects moving faster than the speed of sound, propounded a scientific philosophy which called for a strict adherence to observable data. He maintained that the sole purpose of scientific study is to provide the simplest possible description of detectable phenomena. In this work, first published in German in 1883 and here translated in 1893 by Thomas J. McCormack (1865 1932) from the 1888 second edition, Mach begins with a historical discussion of mechanical principles. He then proceeds to a critique of Newton's concept of 'absolute' space...