This text focuses on the social and intellectual world of 19th-century German physics. In providing a biography of Hertz and his scientific community, Buchwald aims to reconstitute the tacit knowledge - the shared, unwritten assumptions, values and understandings - that shapes the work of science.
Über den Autor Jed Z. Buchwald
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Jed Z. Buchwald is associate professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of "From Maxwell to Microphysics," also published by the University of Chicago Press.
