Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles

Werner Heisenberg

ISBN 10: 0691024332 / ISBN 13: 9780691024332

Published by Princeton University Press October 1989, 1989

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Pages are very crisp, clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Trivial shelving wear. Overall in excellent condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles
• Publisher: Princeton University Press October 1989
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691024332
• ISBN 13: 9780691024332
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

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In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century - and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines.