Encounters with Einstein : And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles (Science Library) (SCIENCE, PHYSICS, HISTORY OF SCIENCE)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press. New. 1989. Paperback. 0691024332 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 141 pages-- Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. Remainder mark to upper fore-edge; very light soiling to small portions of all fore-edges; minor curling and one small bump to bottom of back cover. From the description of the book on the back cover: " In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples." Titles of the nine essays are: "Tradition in Science"; "Development of Concepts in the History of Quantum Mechanics"; "The Beginnings of Quantum Mechanics in Gottingen"; "Cosmic Radiation and Fundamental Problems in Physics"; "What is an Elementary Particle?"; "The Role of Elementary Particle Physics in the Present Development of Science"; "Encounters and Conversations with Albert Einstein"; "The Correctness-Criteria for Closed Theories in Physics"; and "Thoughts on the 'The Artist's Journey into the Interior' ". The bookk concludes with an epilogue by Hans-Peter Durr. -- with a bonus offer--; .