From Copernicus to Einstein – Hans Reichenbach (1942) (1st ed)

S$56.00

From Copernicus to Einstein – Hans Reichenbach (1942) (1st ed)

S$56.00

Title: From Copernicus to Einstein

Author: Hans Reichenbach, Ralph B. Winn (trans.)

Publisher: Philosophical Library, New York, 1942. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Slight wear, rubbing and bumps to cover. Stamp to ffep. Text clean, binding tight. 123pp., app 9.5″ by 6.5″.

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Contents:

The Copernican View of the World

Ether

The Special Theory of Relativity

The Relativity of Motion

Space and Time

About the author (from Wikipedia):

Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the “Berlin Circle”. Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle. He authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. In 1930, Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis (Knowledge). He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.