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5(Mis-)Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity – Considerations on How They Arise and How to Analyze ThemIn Chiara Russo Krauss & Luigi Laino (eds.), Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity: The Early Philosophical Reception of the Relativistic Revolution, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-33. 2023.During Einstein’s lifetime, the special and general theories of relativity were quite frequently interpreted by philosophers. Most of these interpretations actually were misinterpretations. Even today interpretative statements about relativity theory are often false or highly misleading. Why is this so? In my Ph.D. dissertation (Hentschel 1990a), I analyzed (mis)interpretations by 10 different philosophical schools active in the early twentieth century which widely differed in their approaches, …Read more
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3Philosophical Interpretations of Relativity Theory: 1910-1930PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (2): 169-179. 1990.This paper is a summary of my doctoral dissertation on philosophical interpretations of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity, submitted to the Dept. for History of Science, Univ. of Hamburg, in 1989, which was recently published in the Series Science Networks at Birkäuser.2 After a brief overview of its content I will focus on a discussion of the method employed to analyse philosophical interpretations of a physical theory.My analysis is based- firstly on about 2500 contemporary…Read more
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12Die Relativitatstheorien (RT) Einsteins gehoren zu den meistdiskutierten Theorien der Physik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Nach der Formulie rung der sog. 'speziellen Relativitatstheorie' (SRT) im Jahr 1905 nah men zunachst nur einige Spezialisten von ihr Kenntnis, bis mit ungefiihr fiinf Jahren Verspatung dann auch zunehmend Nicht-Physiker sich mit ihr zu beschaftigen begannen, angeregt durch populiirwissenschaftliche, all gemeinverstiindliche 'Einfiihrungen' von Kollegen Einsteins wie z. B.…Read more
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2Rezensionen (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 8 (1): 48-64. 2000.
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3Rezensionen (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 7 (1): 176-192. 1999.
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3Rezensionen/reviews (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 9 (1): 51-63. 2001.
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2Reviews (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 6 (1): 175-192. 1998.
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8RezensionenNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 10 (4): 267-272. 2002.
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4RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 7 (1): 176-192. 1999.
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4RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 4 (1): 56-64. 1996.
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10Rezensionen/ReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 9 (1): 51-63. 2001.Name der Zeitschrift: Behemoth Jahrgang: 6 Heft: 1 Seiten: 118-129
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4RezensionenNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 12 (1): 60-64. 2004.
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5RezensionenNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 10 (1-3): 53-64. 2002.
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5RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 8 (1): 48-64. 2000.
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4Zur Geschichte der MaterialforschungNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (1): 1-3. 2011.
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5RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 6 (1): 175-192. 1998.
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1Zur Rolle Hans Reichenbachs in den Debatten um dieIn Stephen Everson (ed.), Language: Companions to Ancient Thought, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press. 1994.
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Reviews (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 7 (1): 45-64. 1999.
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8Wissenschaftliche Photographie als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und Dokumentation von Spektren†Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 28 (3): 193-214. 2005.This paper discusses facets of 19th-century scientific photography as a visual culture. The example of spectral research and documentation is particularly well suited, because prismatically diffracted light from the sun or from luminous gases was one of the most frequently examined phenomena of that century. The results were significant not only for physics but also for analytical chemistry and astrophysics. The spectrum also served as an ideal test object for checking the effectiveness of a wid…Read more
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12Wissenschaftliche Photographie als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und Dokumentation von SpektrenBerichte Zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte 28 (3): 193-214. 2005.
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43Why not one more imponderable? John William Draper's tithonic raysFoundations of Chemistry 4 (1): 5-59. 2002.This paper reconstructs what may have led the American professorof chemistry andnatural philosophy John William Draper to introduce a new kind ofradiation, whichhe dubbed `Tithonic rays''. After presenting his and earlierempirical findings onthe chemical action of light in Section 3, I analyze his pertinentpapers in Section 4with the aim of identifying the various types of argumentshe raised infavor of this new actinic entity (or more precisely, this newnatural kind of raybesides optical, therma…Read more
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12Ursula Klein , tools and modes of representation in the laboratory sciences. Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 222. Dordrecht, boston and London: Kluwer academic publishers, 2001. Pp. XV+259. Isbn 1-4020-0100-2. £59.00, $89.00, 95.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (1): 87-127. 2003.
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8Wissenschaft für den Krieg: Die geheimen Arbeiten der Abteilung Forschung des Heereswaffenamtes (review)Isis 104 859-860. 2013.
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11Von der Werkstoffforschung zur Materials ScienceNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (1): 5-40. 2011.The manipulation of materials, and to some extent also their systematic classification, form an integral part of the skills and culture of all societies. Yet it took long for proper sciences to develop out of many processing procedures, tapping the accumulated knowledge about specific material characteristics. In the late 20th century an overarching science of workable materials emerged: materials science. This concept and term originated from major boosts in materials research during WWII and t…Read more
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16The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950: Making the Invisible Hands VisibleSpontaneous Generations 6 (1): 182-191. 2012.The main features of a new online database of scientific illustrators are portrayed. We list illustrators of scientific publications of all genres (especially atlases, articles, textbooks) who were active between 1450 and 1950, thus excluding illuminators of medieval manuscripts as well as illustrators still active. Currently (Sept. 26, 2012), we already have more than 3,461 entries, with particular emphasis on anatomy, dermatology, botany, zoology, mineralogy, astronomy, and general natural his…Read more
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