Author: MACH, ERNST
Title: Die Prinzipien der Physikalischen Optik. Historisch und erkenntnispsychologisch entwickelt ...
Description: Leipzig, Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1921. 8vo. W. 279 textfigs. and 10 (portr.) pls. Cont. publ. cl. gilt (X, 443, I (Errata), II (Bookseller's cat.) pp.). DSB VIII, 595: In 1864 Mach accepted a full professorship in mathematics at the University of Graz. In 1895 he moved to the University of Vienna to assume a teaching position in philosophy, with the title professor of the history and theory of inductive sciences. Mach's critique of Newtonian mechanics, interpreted by Einstein within the context of Riemannian field theory, served as one of the strongest incentives for the development of Einstein's gravitational theory. As Einstein wrote in the year of Mach's death: 'I even believe that those who consider themselves to be adversaries of Mach scarcely know how much of Mach's outlook they have, so to speak, absorbed with their mother's milk.'

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