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The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by Robert Golub; Steve Keith Lamoreaux is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The purpose of this book is to take a step back and attempt to retrace the devel-opment of the theory by investigating original sources, the original published papersand letters, of the participants. This is the path by which humanity learned quantummechanics and following it might hopefully lead to an improved understanding. Ofcourse, the attempt by physicists themselves to approach the history of their subjectis an exercise fraught with difficulties, as has been recognized by several practitioners.For example, Silvan Schweber, a theoretical physicist turned historian of science, rec-ognizes4 that “the history of science cannot escape some form of whiggism. The datais so rich that some selection must be made.” A whig history of science is the viewof the scientific winners who write as if their triumph was an inevitable result of thecorrectness of their ideas. Whig history of science displays the historical developmentas proceeding from a past ruled by ignorance to a glorious present without takingaccount of the actual state of knowledge in the past.We can see the result of trying to overcome the limitation mentioned by Schwe-ber and include all relevant publications along with bio
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Golub; Steve Keith Lamoreaux
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198822196
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Physics