Weber's Electrodynamics by K H Wolff, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Great progress has been made in electrical science, chiefly in Germany, by cultivators of the theory of action at a distance. The valuable electrical measurements of W. Weber are interpreted by him according to this theory, and the electromagnetic speculation which was originated by Gauss, and carried on by Weber, Riemann, F. and C. Neumann, Lorenz, etc. , is founded on the theory of action at a distance, but depending either directly on the relative velocity of the particles, or on the gradual propagation of something, whether potential or force, from the one particle to the other. The great success which these eminent men have attained in the application of mathematics to electrical phenomena, gives, as is natural, additional weight to their theoretical speculations, so that those who, as students of electricity, turn to them as the greatest authorities in mathematical electricity, would probably imbibe, along with their mathematical methods, their physical hypothesis. These physical hypotheses, however, are entirely alien from the way of looking at things which I adopt, and one object which I have in view is that some of those who wish to study electricity may, by reading this treatise, come to see that there is another way of treating the subject, which is no less fitted to explain the phenomena, and which, though in some parts it may appear less definite, corresponds, as I think, more faithfuHy with our actual knowledge, both in what it affirms and in what it leaves undecided.389.951389.95Andre Koch Torres Assis210C5F62-4C85-4C74-A659-E314C7345DF1978079233178097807923317890007115, 126.67TCHardcoverCouverture rigideK9789048144785SpringerSpringer2240.69961.190.6996111995-06-30T04:00:00ZA Case of Surrender-and-CatchTransformation in the WritingP10102Community & CultureCULSTUD01ACultural ConversationsPHI018000, SOC022000, SOC023000PhenomenologyBooks > Philosophyhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0792331788.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=enhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0792331788.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=frhttps://www. indigo. ca/en-ca/transformation-in-the-writing-a-case-of-surrender-and-catch/9780792331780.htmlhttps://www. indigo. ca/fr-ca/transformation-in-the-writing-a-case-of-surrender-and-catch/9780792331780.htmlKurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogni­ tive forms. He published Trying Sociology in 1974, which contains his writings on sociology, and Surrender and Catch: Experience and Inquiry Today in 1976, which contains his writings on surrender-and-catch. In more recent years, he has published two books, 0 Loma! Constituting a Self (1977-1984) in 1989 and Survival and Sociology: Vindicating the Human Subject (1991). Both of the more recent books add a third vein which is autobiographical and which moves back and forth between the previously established approaches in the earlier works. Transformation in the Writing is the most ambitious to date, because, as Wolff points out in the beginning, it contains writings that "fall quite obviously into three classes: autobiographical; sociology of knowledge, sociology, poetry, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory; and our time and its sociological analysis. " The task of this book is to illuminate the connections among these three classes. Wolff has engaged in autobiographical writing his entire life, though this approach to writing has only in recent years grown closer to his intel­ lectual preoccupations with sociology and philosophy. | Weber's Electrodynamics by K H Wolff, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters