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The concepts and theories of modern physics

J. B. Stallo
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  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION BY PERCY W. BRIDGMAN (page vii)
  • THE CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF MODERN PHYSICS
    • PREFACE (page 3)
    • INTRODUCTION AND PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (page 9)
    • I. INTRODUCTORY (page 49)
    • II. FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE (page 58)
    • III. THE PROPOSITION THAT THE ELEMENTARY UNITS OF MASS ARE EQUAL (page 62)
    • IV. THE PROPOSITION THAT THE ELEMENTARY UNITS OF MASS ARE ABSOLUTELY HARD AND INELASTIC (page 71)
    • V. THE PROPOSITION THAT THE ELEMENTARY UNITS OF MASS ARE ABSOLUTELY INERT (page 82)
    • VI. THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL POTENTIAL ENERGY IS IN REALITY KINETIC — EVOLUTION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY (page 95)
    • VII. THE THEORY OF THE ATOMIC CONSTITUTION OF MATTER (page 111)
    • VIII. THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES — CONDITIONS OF THE VALIDITY OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES (page 129)
    • IX. THE RELATION OF THOUGHTS TO THINGS — THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTS — METAPHYSICAL THEORIES (page 152)
    • X. CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF THE MECHANICAL THEORY — ITS EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE FIRST AND SECOND RADICAL ERROR OF METAPHYSICS (page 169)
    • XI. CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF THE MECHANICAL THEORY (CONTINUED) — ITS EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE THIRD RADICAL ERROR OF METAPHYSICS (page 189)
    • XII. CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF THE MECHANICAL THEORY (CONTINUED) — ITS EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE FOURTH RADICAL ERROR OF METAPHYSICS (page 200)
    • XIII. THE THEORY OF THE ABSOLUTE FINITUDE OF THE WORLD AND OF SPACE — THE ASSUMPTION OF AN ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE AS A NECESSARY COMPLEMENT TO THE ASSUMPTION OF THE ATOM AS ITS ABSOLUTE MINIMUM — ONTOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS — THE REIFICATION OF SPACE — MODERN TRANSCENDENTAL GEOMETRY — NON-HOMALOIDAL (SPHERICAL AND PSEUDO-SPHERICAL) SPACE (page 222)
    • XIV. METAGEOMETRICAL SPACE IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN ANALYSIS — RIEMANN'S ESSAY (page 259)
    • XV. COSMOLOGICAL AND COSMOGENETIC SPECULATIONS — THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS (page 280)
    • XVI. CONCLUSION (page 301)
  • INDEX OF NAMES (page 315)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ISIS 53.2 (Jun. 1962): 275-276 http://www.jstor.org/stable/228069
BJPS 18.4 (Feb. 1968): 346-348 http://www.jstor.org/stable/686368
MIND 8.30 (Apr. 1883): 276-284 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2246742
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Published: c1960
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674864832 (ebook)
Series
  • The John Harvard Library
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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