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Author:   Jesper Lützen (, Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.742kg
ISBN:  

9780198567370

ISBN 10:   0198567375
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   12 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: The principles of mechanics before Hertz 3: Mechanization of physics 4: The concept of force 5: A biographical survey 6: Hertz's road to mechanics 7: Images of nature 8: Hertz's earlier ideas about images 9: Images of mechanics 10: Kantianism. A priori and empirical elements of images 11: Time, space and mass 12: The line element: the origin of the Massenteilchen 13: Hertz's geometry of systems of points 14: Vector quantities and their components 15: Connections. Material systems 16: The fundamental law 17: Free systems 18: Cyclic coordinates 19: Unfree systems. Forces 20: Cyclic and conservative systems 21: Integral principles 22: A history of non-holonomic constraints 23: Hertz on the Hamiltonian formalism 24: Mathematicians on the geometrization of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism 25: Hertz on the domain of applicability of his mechanics 26: Force-producing models 27: Reception, extension and impact 28: List of conclusions A: Appendix

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...the book is very well-written and well-presented...the book is the best thing ever written on Hertz's mechanics and, as such, is strongly recommended to all philosophers and historians of science. J. Preston, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 38 (2007) 260-267. ... very clearly written and well organised. Jeremy Gray, Open University ... interesting, thorough, well-documented and well-presented. Leo Corry, Tel Aviv University

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Jesper Lützen is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.

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