Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher

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Preface R.S. Cohen. Hertz, Helmholtz and Their Experimental Culture. Heinrich Hertz and the Berlin School of Physics D. Hoffmann. From Helmholtz's Philosophy of Science to Hertz's Picture-Theory M. Heidelberger. The Loss of World in the Image: Origin and Development of the Concept of Image in the Thought of Hermann von Helmholtz and Heinrich Hertz G. Schiemann. Electrodynamics and the Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves. Heinrich Hertz's Experiments and Experimental Apparatus: His Discovery of Radio Waves and His Delineation of their Properties J. Bryant. Hertz's Study of Propagation vs. Rutherford's Study of Structure: Two Modes of Experimentation and their Theoretical Underpinnings G. Hon. On Hertz's Conceptual Conversion: From Wire Waves to Air Waves M. Doncel. The Principles of Mechanics. Hertz's View on the Methods of Physics: Experiment and Theory Reconciled? S. D'Agostino. Hertz and the Geometrization of Mechanics J. Lutzen. Hertz's Principles S. Saunders. `Everything Could be Different': The Principles of Mechanics and the Limits of Physics A. Nordmann. Hertz's Influence on Twentieth Century Science and Philosophy. The Reception of Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics by his Contemporaries J. Mulligan. Heinrich Hertz's Mechanics: A Model for Werner Heisenberg's April 1925 Paper on the Anomalous Zeeman Effect K. Hentschel. Heinrich Hertz's Picture-Conception of Theories: Its Elaboration by Hilbert, Weyl, and Ramsey U. Majer. Hertz's Philosophy of Nature in Wittgenstein's Tractatus G. Grasshoff. Afterword. Reflections and Reactions J. Buchwald. Bibliography. Concordance and Index of Passages. Name Index.