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9780521358927

The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism

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    9780521358927

  • ISBN10:

    0521358922

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-07-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This study grew out of concerns first raised while I was a student of physics. This inadequacy of most textbook discussions of historical and epistemological issues led me back to original papers and then to the literature on history of science.

Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas S. Kuhn
Preface
Notes on sources
1. Introduction
Part II. The Introduction of Temporal Discontinuity, 1896-1905: 2. The electromagnetic impulse hypothesis of X-rays
3. The analogy between y-rays and X-rays
Part II. Ionization and the Recognition of Paradox, 1906-1910: 4. Secondary rays: British attempts to retain mechanism
5. The appeal in Germany to the quantum theory
Part III. Seeking an Electrodynamic Solution, 1907-1912: 6. Localized energy in spreading impulses
7. Problems with visible light
Part IV. Interference of X-Rays and the Corrobation of Paradox, 1912-1922: 8. Origins of X-ray spectroscopy
9. Quantum transformation experiments
Part V. The Conceptual Origins of Wave-Particle Dualism, 1921-1925: 10. Synthesis of matter and light
Epilogue: The tiger and the shark
Bibliography
Index.

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