The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves

by Jed Z. Buchwald

Book Overview

This book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge--the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings--that shapes the work of science. Jed Z. Buchwald uses as his focus the social and intellectual world of nineteenth-century German physics.

Drawing on the lab notes, published papers, and unpublished manuscripts of Heinrich Hertz, Buchwald recreates Hertz's 1887 invention of a device that produced electromagnetic waves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226078884
• ISBN13: 9780226078885
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"