Author: Olesko, Kathryn M.
Title: Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Koenigsberg Seminar for Physics
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xviii, 488 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Discipline: Educational Reform & the Natural Sciences; Quantification in Physics Teaching & Research; Shaping a Pedagogical Physics; Mechanics & the Besselian Experiment; Successes & Realizations; Error Analysis & Measurement; Interpolation & Certainty; Error over Truth; Practice: The Workaday World of 'Physiklehrer'; The Ethos of Exactitude; Epilogue; Appendices: Provisional Statutes of the Seminar for Mathematics &Physics at the University of Königbserg; Neumann's Cycle of Lecture Courses; Directory of Identified Seminar Students.

Keywords: History of Science, German University, Universities, Physics Teaching, Education, Educational, Koenigsberg, Franz Ernst Neumann, Physicists