Hans Christian Ørsted and the romantic legacy in science : ideas, disciplines, practices

The Resource Hans Christian Ørsted and the romantic legacy in science : ideas, disciplines, practices
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Hans Christian Ørsted and the romantic legacy in science : ideas, disciplines, practices
Title remainder
ideas, disciplines, practices
Statement of responsibility
edited by Robert M. Brain, Robert S. Cohen and Ole Knudsen
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Language
eng
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Cataloging source
GW5XE
Dewey number
306.4509409034
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QC515.O37
LC item number
H36 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Boston studies in the philosophy of science
Series volume
v. 241
Summary expansion
The relations between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century remain one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Oersted 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. They show how Oersted, an intrepid traveller and cosmopolitan from the periphery of enlightened Europe, mediated between the great scientists of Germany, France, and Britain and profoundly shaped post-kantian philosophy and the emerging new energy physics of the nineteenth-century
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