At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., 27 December 1966, a symposium was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernst Mach, the physicist who was vitally concerned about philosophical foundations. It was arranged by Section B on Physics, and co-sponsored by Section L on the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as by the History of Science Society. Dr. Allen W. Astin, Vice-President of the Association and Director of the National Bureau of Standards, presided. Representing the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Ernst Lemberger, a few opening remarks on his behalf were made by Dr. Walter Hietsch. Also present was Dr. Ernest A. Lederer, a grandson of Ernst Mach. The contributors, to the symposium, mostly physicists, represented different backgrounds and differing points of view; they presented their review of Mach's work primarily in the light of subsequent developments. They all, however, share a common interest in the life and works of Ernst Mach. Two of them, Otto BlUh and Peter G. Bergmann, received their doctoral degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Prague. Karl Menger received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Vienna (he is responsible for the latest edition [1960] of Mach's celebrated The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of its Development, for which he prepared a new Introduction).
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Ser, v.6, Dordrecht :, 1975

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, 1970

Place of publication not identified, 2010

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2013

1970 edition, Dordrecht, 1975

Netherlands, Netherlands

1970, 2010-12-30

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Front Matter....Pages N3-VIII
Ernst Mach — His Life as a Teacher and Thinker....Pages 1-22
On Mach’s Contributions to the Analysis of Sensations....Pages 23-41
Mach’s Contribution to the Development of Gas Dynamics....Pages 42-59
On Mach’s Curiosity about Shockwaves....Pages 60-68
Ernst Mach and Contemporary Physics....Pages 69-78
The Genesis of Mach’s Early Views on Atomism....Pages 79-106
Mathematical Implications of Mach’s Ideas: Positivistic Geometry, the Clarification of Functional Connections....Pages 107-125
Ernst Mach: Physics, Perception and the Philosophy of Science....Pages 126-164
Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality....Pages 165-199
Mach’s Principle and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation....Pages 200-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-298

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