Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, Institutions – PDF

Biographies in the History of Physics, (PDF) sheds new gentle on the biographical methodology in the historical past of physics by together with the biographies of scientific objects, ideas, and establishments. What is a biography? Can biographies even be written for non-human topics like scientific devices, ideas, or establishments? The respective chapters of this ebook focus on these controversial questions utilizing examples from the historical past of physics. By approaching biography as a metaphor, it surpasses the boundaries between varied views on the historical past of physics and enriches our understanding of the previous. NOTE: The product only contains the ebook, Biographies in the History of Physics in PDF. No access codes are included.